"katysails" wrote:
Tight...skimpy yank top...like I said, you know what to do while lying on
your back...

Yes, I do! If I'm not sleeping or star-gazing, I'm doing 125 stomach
crunches at the gym, like I did today.

LP

"katysails" wrote:
Hey, I'm all for you learning to sail...go for it....one word of
advice...have your manicurist trim your nails to not more than 1/4 inch
past your fingertips or you will be ripping nails off like crazy...

I've been doing that for years, my dear. My manicurists cringes everytime I
go in and make her cut off my long natural nails. She tells me people pay
her all day long to put fake ones on, and I go in to have mine cut off.

LP

OzOne wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:32:09 -0600, "Lady Pilot"
scribbled thusly:
Jeez LP, Ya can't play all the time, a man's gotta earn a buck ya
know.
And with the Reserve putting up interest rates by 0.25% this morning,
the money go round has gone nuts!

True, but you had time to make this post. :-)

Of course, I have 3 computers running all day when the market is open.
Watching and waiting gets boring at times so I fill in the boredom
with this little NG.

Only three? I thought you were in it bigtime!

We have 5 computers and a server, not to mention a test box and a wireless
router hook-up for a laptop and a hub to hook-up 17 more desktops.

LP (Not counting the dozen or so outdated computers in the garage to be used
for my new mooring ;-))

OzOne wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:45:01 -0600, "Lady Pilot"
scribbled thusly:


OzOne wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:17:11 -0600, "Lady Pilot" scribbled thusly:

I believe that the Cappy has a far better understanding of women than
he is given credit for.

Well, understanding and acting on your knowledge is two different
things.

LP

Geez LP, what do you expect from an old guy living on a clapped out
old boat eating some sort of glutinous gunk over caramel every night?

A miracle? :-)

LP

I believe you need to be on you knees for that to happen.

Oz1...of the 3 twins.

guffaw Or a prayer closet...

LP

Aren't all opera singers really fat, like 300 pounds?

katysails wrote:
Nope...that's a misconception...Erica VonStade, Kathleen Battle, Denyce
Graves...but then, a déclassé person would be ignorant of anything that has
to do with opera so why explain to you?

Is "déclassé" a high class word for low class?



I have several friends that are ballerinas...I met them when I was still
singing with the opera....

rolls eyes That's supposed to impress whom?

When was the last time you sang with the opera? Or anywhere outside the
shower? For that matter, when was the last time you took a shower?

DSK

OzOne wrote:
I thought you might have got the reference.

No, but thank you for the story. Sounds like he would have been a good
man to know. I like the names he put on his boats, especially 'Once More
Dear Friends'.

DSK

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Peter Kurts, Businessman, sailor, 1924-2005

Peter Kurts, who has died at 80, was a successful self-made property
developer and property investor and one of Australia's great
ocean-racing identities. In later years he was also a producer of fine
wool from his two properties in NSW and Tasmania.

Kurts, who was responsible for building thousands of homes in
Queensland and the development of many Brisbane suburbs, described
himself as "basically an unsophisticated, uncomplicated person" who
liked a beer. Colleagues would describe him as a rugged individualist
who believed in an honest day's pay for an honest day's work.

Peter Kurts, brother to Phillip, Paul and Marea, was born in Sydney to
Ashton and Madeleine Kurts. His father was later mayor of Vaucluse.

Young Peter's passion for the water emerged as a boy when he crossed
Sydney Harbour alone in a canoe. He went briefly to Waverley College,
then to Christian Brothers College at Rose Bay, but left at the age of
14 with four Bs. His father was desperate to get him on the right
track and helped him find a job with NSW Railways.

When war broke out he joined the air force, trained as a pilot and was
stationed in India for the duration. On his return, he took a job with
Breville as a travelling salesman. The company transferred him to
Brisbane - his introduction to Queensland. He met his future wife,
Beverley, on a blind date at Brisbane's famous dance hall, Cloudland,
in 1951 and married her the following year.

Twenty-two years later he bought Cloudland, but demolished it in 1982,
citing safety reasons. However, he said his company's purchase of
Cloudland was badly timed and made without a feasible development
plan, despite its magnificent site.

Kurts made his career move to real estate in the early 1950s, when he
joined the Wilmore and Randall agency, selling residential land on a
commission-only basis. From there, he went to Alfred Grant Real
Estate, where he worked for Bill Bowden, who he said taught him
everything he knew about selling. He climbed the ladder at Alfred
Grant to become general manager.

The company went broke in the credit squeeze of the early '60s and
Kurts found himself unemployed. In 1964, aged 40, he started his own
business and employed some of the former Alfred Grant staff.

The Kurts family companies expanded and in 1970 were publicly listed
as Peter Kurts Properties Limited. The company's skill at picking
markets helped it to flourish even in the credit squeezes of the 1970s
and '80s.

In an industry not renowned for its management and training, Kurts was
passionate about training people he saw as potential executives. Even
when he went back into private investment at the age of 74, he took on
a 25-year-old and taught him what he knew, just as he had done with
many others before him.

Kurts was also a champion yachtsman. He was a member of the Cruising
Yacht Club of Australia for 38 years and competed in 30 Sydney to
Hobart races, winning twice on corrected times in 1974 and 1978 in his
yacht Love and War and losing a historic third victory in a
controversial protest in 1985 aboard Drake's Prayer.

Love and War provided him with his greatest joy. The undoubted
highlight was winning the 1974 Hobart race but it was almost lost at
the last stride. Sweeping into the Derwent River on a bitterly cold
December morning, Love and War was right on top of the handicap
calculations. All she had to do was finish to win this famous race -
easier said than done for the hard-driving skipper.

With 30 knot-plus squalls powering down from Mount Wellington, he
demanded the spinnaker to be set just 13 kilometres from the finish. A
look of dismay descended across the crew - there is no way a spinnaker
can be carried in such conditions - but they had learned long ago
never to argue with the skipper. Up went the spinnaker and off went
Love and War, screaming towards the shore - now just metres away - at
a million miles an hour. With victory quickly ebbing away, somehow the
crew managed to get the spinnaker down before all was lost and went on
for a famous victory.

Kurts represented Australia in six Admiral's Cup challenges at Cowes
in England, captaining the Australian team twice. He never won the cup
but came very close, finishing third in 1987 and as runner-up in 1993.
He was also trial helmsman for the 1967 Australian America's Cup
challenge in Newport, Rhode Island, skippering the trial horse
Nefertiti against Dame Pattie.

While he had a string of successful ocean racing yachts, all with
romantic names such as Vanessa, Mr Christian, Billy Budd, Once More
Dear Friends, Drake's Prayer and Madeline's Daughter (named after his
beloved sister, Marea), Love and War was his favourite and remains in
the family.

In his later years he sailed his yacht single-handed to Lord Howe
Island several times and made many voyages up the NSW coast - a
monumental effort.

This single-handed sailing produced some wonderful stories, none
better than the time he left Newcastle in a westerly gale bound for
Port Stephens, all alone. While down below making his mandatory cup of
tea, there was an almighty crash. He thought the mast had broken and
fallen over the side - not an attractive prospect. He was 76, by
himself on a yacht that normally had a crew of 10, a westerly gale
blowing him to New Zealand and the mast down around his ears, so what
did he do? He finished his cup of tea and started to write himself a
list of what needed to be done.

When he finally went on deck, with the wind howling around his ears,
the mast was still standing. The fearful crash he heard was in fact
Love and War running straight into the side of a container ship at
anchor off Newcastle. The auto pilot was not engaged and Love and War
was merrily sailing very much on her own. But the boat was wounded,
its mast and rigging severely damaged. Somehow he struggled into Port
Stephens.

As a legendary yachtsman on Sydney Harbour, he had the honour of
leading the bicentennial fleet into the harbour on Australia Day in
1988 aboard Love and War.

Illness prevented him skippering the boat in last year's Sydney to
Hobart but his son, Simon, and other friends sailed the yacht to
victory in IRC Division E and the 30-year veteran division of the
ocean classic, placing a close seventh overall among the high-tech
modern boats.

He did not see Love and War again after it set sail on Boxing Day. It
sailed back into Sydney Harbour on the day he died.

His funeral was held at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church at
Watsons Bay, where he worshipped as a boy; the service was presided
over by his brother, Father Phillip Kurts. He was buried at South Head
Cemetery alongside his mother, father and brother Paul, appropriately
overlooking his beloved Tasman Sea.

Peter Kurts is survived by Beverley, his wife of 53 years, his
children, Louise, Joanne and Simon, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren."

from The Sydney Morning Herald.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

"Lady Pilot" wrote in message
news:WctXd.5150$Ru.4393@okepread06...

"Donal" wrote:

"Lady Pilot" wrote:

"Donal" wrote:

"Capt. Neal®" wrote:

"Lady Pilot" wrote:

"Capt. Neal®" wrote:
If you can get any woman to shut up then you're a better man than
I
.
.
.

Ooooww! Maybe you should plonk me?

LP


Hmmmm, a tempting offer, but . . .

I thought you good conservative women did not plonk on the first
date?

You mean you didn't ...???????????



Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa! What a waste of a weekend!

Weekend? Bwaaaawhwahahaaa!

More acurately... nine days of pure frustration!

Ahhhh! He obviously doesn't drink enough!

Nah, that's not the problem. A case of male selective hearing... :-)

A man's urge to reproduce is not influenced by his hearing. "Sight" is far
more important in the selection of a mate. Unfortunately, a man's sight is
affected by his alcohol intake!


The advent of alcohol has led to the propogation of unattractive women.

Attractive women (like my wife), easily find a mate who will provide for
them.


Regards


Donal
--

"Donal" bragged:
Attractive women (like my wife), easily find a mate who will provide for
them.


Several mates, if what I hear is true.

CN

OzOne wrote in message ...
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:05:00 -0000, "Donal"
scribbled thusly:


OzOne wrote in message
...
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:06:17 -0600, "Lady Pilot"
scribbled thusly:

What would you do with a car like that, Donal? Park it in the garage
and
post to usenet like Ox does?

LP

Jeez LP, Ya can't play all the time, a man's gotta earn a buck ya
know.
And with the Reserve putting up interest rates by 0.25% this morning,
the money go round has gone nuts!

That's good news, isn't it? I wish that they would put up interest
rates
here!

Good news if you're on your toes.

Of course....... but you know that I am on my toes.

Market dropped substantially and I bought.
It has now recovered and I'm selling.

My eldest has been offered a place at Oxford. I've told him that he should
study "Policemanship"!


Regards


Donal
--

OzOne wrote in message ...
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:42:25 -0000, "Donal"
scribbled thusly:

I'll tell you right now that the way to a womans heart is, unlike men,
thru her taste buds.

The way to a man's heart, is "through his stomach".

You sound like a meat and 3 veg man Donal.
Australian women love to have a meal cooked for them. My Thai curries
are a sure thing...did I tell you that my sister in law owns a Thai
reestaurant here in Sydney?

The way to a woman's heart is "provision". A real man provides enough to
enable his wife to feed her family. An exceptional man will also provide
enough to allow his wife to go shopping whenever she wants to.

Ahhh, a chauvanist, some would add 'pig'.



Provision certainly is a good thing, providing such provision includes
sharing and trading of what some would call duties.

It is my duty to earn a salary. It is my wife's duty to look after the
house.

I provide.... and I don't waste our money on expensive cars!!!

It sounds like your wife is the real breadwinner in your house. My wife is
luckier than your's.

My wife isn't a dancer. She's a mother and a wife. I've managed to give
her the life that she wanted.... and she has given me the life that I
wanted.




Regards


Donal
--



In our family, no-one has 'duties', jobs are done when they are needed
to be done by whomever is in a position to do them.
My wife paints, washes cars, and mows lawn if it's required, I cook,
claen and iron, if it's required, and vce versa

I'm beginning to think that your wife has earned the money to pay for
your
boats. How humiliating?

You'd best stop thinking!



Regards


Donal



Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.