Zac arrested for expired visa
 

Poor, hapless, Zac Blunderland's supposed to be sailing around the world but
he's now been in South Africa for over two months and he just got arrested
for having an expired visa.


Wilbur Hubbard

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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...
Poor, hapless, Zac Blunderland's supposed to be sailing around the world
but he's now been in South Africa for over two months and he just got
arrested for having an expired visa.

Seems unlikely: he's only been in SA since 12 December (less than 2 months);
visitors' visas are valid for 90 days and besides, US Citizens don't need
visas to visit South Africa.

Apart from that he seemed to be in good spirits when I met him in Cape Town
on Friday. Said he was planning to leave on Wednesday.
John.

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On Feb 9, 8:11*am, "John Seager" wrote:
"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message

anews.com...

Poor, hapless, Zac Blunderland's supposed to be sailing around the world
but he's now been in South Africa for over two months and he just got
arrested for having an expired visa.

Seems unlikely: he's only been in SA since 12 December (less than 2 months);
visitors' visas are valid for 90 days and besides, US Citizens don't need
visas to visit South Africa.

Apart from that he seemed to be in good spirits when I met him in Cape Town
on Friday. Said he was planning to leave on Wednesday.
John.

John,

Neal is crushed that Zac makes him look like the contents of his
cedar bucket....daily.
It kills him everytime anyone sets sail. Just ignore him.

Have you seen this boat?
https://vanimages.yachtworld.com/1/0...?1161068400000

Its there in Cape Town.

Joe

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"Joe" wrote in message
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Have you seen this boat?
https://vanimages.yachtworld.com/1/0...?1161068400000

Its there in Cape Town.

Joe

Haven't noticed it on any of my travels around here and it's certainly big
enough to notice. That's a lot of money to have tied up in an unfinished
project!
J

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"Joe" wrote in message
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snipped some here

John,

Neal is crushed that Zac makes him look like the contents of his
cedar bucket....daily.

Yah, right. Poor Zac has already blown his chance to be youngest around the
world. He's so slow and he dallies so much at every port socializing and
constantly having to get things fixed that he broke because he doesn't know
what he's doing that he's already had a birthday. He's failed in his quest
to be youngest around the world. But, as a failure yourself, you have a
vested interest in marginalizing failure. Makes you feel better the more
company you have, huh?

It kills him everytime anyone sets sail. Just ignore him.


On the contrary. I love it when somebody sets sail provided that somebody
knows what he or she's doing and their voyage doesn't end up being little
more than a soap opera comedy of errors as they blunder their way from port
to port needing a cast of hundreds to accomplish what a lone man can and has
many a time accomplished on his own.

What kills me is how sailing and cruising have become *******ized to the
point of absurdity by modern-day 'sailors' who are an embarrassment to the
trade. These failures have adopted the ignorant liberal philosophy that "to
try is to succeed." There is no longer any "try then succeed" there is only
"try because to try is to succeed." This is a warped reality. This is
pathetic. One of the last bastions of manhood is success at lone-handed
ocean voyaging. Success at voyaging is not some committee of hundreds
enabling parents living vicariously through their pimple-faced brat to
accomplish something there is NO WAY said brat could accomplish alone while
attempting to claim some false record of sailing "alone" around the world.
It's a farce and a travesty.


Wilbur Hubbard

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"Joe" wrote in message
...
Have you seen this boat?
https://vanimages.yachtworld.com/1/0...?1161068400000

Its there in Cape Town.


Forget it, Joe. That one will sink under your unsteady hand just as easily
as "Red Cloud."

--
Gregory Hall

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On Feb 9, 9:06*am, "John Seager" wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message

...
*Have you seen this boat?https://vanimages.yachtworld.com/1/0...?1161068400000

Its there in Cape Town.

Joe

Haven't noticed it on any of my travels around here and it's certainly big
enough to notice. That's a lot of money to have tied up in an unfinished
project!
J

Ok thanks. It is a lot of boat.
I just wondered if it looked as good in person as the pictures.
It's been setting unfinished a few years, with no ports or wheelhouse
windows it could be going downhill fast.


Joe

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What it it that you are trying to try here, Wilbore?

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"cavelamb" wrote in message
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What i(s) it that you are trying to (say) here, Wilbore?

It's time for a dose of reality in a world of girly-men to whom mediocrity
is to be applauded because the girly-men are so pathetic themselves and have
no aspirations to better their sorry lot.

Wilbur Hubbard

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Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
...
What i(s) it that you are trying to (say) here, Wilbore?

It's time for a dose of reality in a world of girly-men to whom mediocrity
is to be applauded because the girly-men are so pathetic themselves and have
no aspirations to better their sorry lot.

Wilbur Hubbard



Are you trying to be the dose of reality? (hehehe)
Or one of the girly men?

I mean, for Pete Sake, Wilbur, grow the **** up!
(said with all due respect)

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"cavelamb" wrote in message
...
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
...
What i(s) it that you are trying to (say) here, Wilbore?

It's time for a dose of reality in a world of girly-men to whom
mediocrity is to be applauded because the girly-men are so pathetic
themselves and have no aspirations to better their sorry lot.

Wilbur Hubbard

Are you trying to be the dose of reality? (hehehe)
Or one of the girly men?

I mean, for Pete Sake, Wilbur, grow the **** up!
(said with all due respect)


You need to think about what you wrote for a few minutes. Then come back and
finish reading this.

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Does a real man slobber over some inept, pimple-faced teenager getting
shoved around the world by a committee? Does a real man feel proud of
himself living vicariously through a kid? Does a real man primp and preen
and have orgasms because he associates with those who go about doing things
ineptly as in failing to meet schedules and dilly-dallying around ashore and
coming up with every imaginable excuse to stay ashore for extended periods
of time when the mission is to sail around the world?

Is this what men are proud of these days? Judging from the responses in
these groups it seems highly likely this is, indeed, the case. Why is that,
I wonder.

The answer has a lot to do with the way people are educated these days and
how they are brainwashed into thinking one must never utter a disparaging
word because such a thing is not politically correct. No! One must never
tell anybody that they failed. Nobody can be allowed to fail. There must be
a bail-out for all failures.

The bail-out seems to be in the thinking that trying is all that matters. If
you try then you are a man. Never mind what happens after you try. If you
fail miserably that should be forgotten and you should be praised for
trying. If you succeed then you can't brag about it or even mention it
around people who have failed because that will make them feel bad about
themselves and their failures. You are supposed to assist them with their
false beliefs that all that counts is you try.

Well, I reject that kind of thinking outright. When I try and fail I have
FAILED. It's that simple. The failure is noted, the methodology that caused
failure revised, a new plan is hatched and another try is in the offing.
None of this girly-man crap about trying is succeeding for me. It's success
or shame on me for failing.

That's how the world is supposed to work, at least. How it used to work.
When it gets to the point where people equate trying with success all is
lost as there never will be any success because why bother to try hard. Any
half-hearted try is a try, after all, and that's a success, right? The very
most feeble of tries is success. Therefore, if your goal is sailing alone
around the world as the youngest person to do it, as long as you try you
should receive accolades. You should be heaped with praise. You should be
treated like a celebrity. Never mind that you had three birthdays trying and
you're well past the age of the record, it hardly matters. Never mind that
you accepted tows into and out of ports. Never mind that you had a multitude
of people working on your boat and people have spend thousands of dollars
flying all over the world and delivering parts to repair breakages caused by
stupidity. Never mind that you motored so much that you've worn out three
motors so far. Never mind that your telephone bill costs as much as most
yachts.

None of this matters as long as you tried.

Wilbur Hubbard

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Gregory Hall wrote:

None of this matters as long as you tried.

Wilbur Hubbard




so which are you today, stud muffin?

Are you Gregory?

Or are you Wilbur?

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cavelamb wrote:
Gregory Hall wrote:

None of this matters as long as you tried.

Wilbur Hubbard



so which are you today, stud muffin?

Are you Gregory?

Or are you Wilbur?

So now he either has to admit what everyone already knew, or he can get
out of it by confessing that the two of them are having a chocolate
train love affair.

Either way, it's pretty funny.

Stephen

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:01:36 -0600, cavelamb
wrote:

Gregory Hall wrote:

None of this matters as long as you tried.

Wilbur Hubbard




so which are you today, stud muffin?

Are you Gregory?

Or are you Wilbur?


As they say, a rose by any other name is still a rose and Neal by any
other name is still an horses arse....
Cheers,

Bruce

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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...
snip
What kills me is how sailing and cruising have become *******ized to the
point of absurdity by modern-day 'sailors' who are an embarrassment to the
trade. These failures have adopted the ignorant liberal philosophy that
"to try is to succeed." There is no longer any "try then succeed" there
is only "try because to try is to succeed." This is a warped reality. This
is pathetic. One of the last bastions of manhood is success at lone-handed
ocean voyaging.

And what is your own record, Wilma, which qualifies you to take the **** out
of people who do actually try?
(I won't hold my breath waiting for an answer from the world's greatest
bul****ter)
--
Duncan Heenan

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:40:03 -0800, Stephen Trapani
wrote:

cavelamb wrote:
Gregory Hall wrote:

None of this matters as long as you tried.

Wilbur Hubbard



so which are you today, stud muffin?

Are you Gregory?

Or are you Wilbur?

So now he either has to admit what everyone already knew, or he can get
out of it by confessing that the two of them are having a chocolate
train love affair.

Either way, it's pretty funny.

Stephen

He's performed this exasct blunder quite a few times, Stephen.

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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:36:20 -0000, "Duncan Heenan"
wrote:



"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
tanews.com...
snip
What kills me is how sailing and cruising have become *******ized to the
point of absurdity by modern-day 'sailors' who are an embarrassment to the
trade. These failures have adopted the ignorant liberal philosophy that
"to try is to succeed." There is no longer any "try then succeed" there
is only "try because to try is to succeed." This is a warped reality. This
is pathetic. One of the last bastions of manhood is success at lone-handed
ocean voyaging.

And what is your own record, Wilma, which qualifies you to take the **** out
of people who do actually try?
(I won't hold my breath waiting for an answer from the world's greatest
bul****ter)

He got a response out of you, so he got what he came for. He'll be
glad to know he's found a barrel of cooperative fish he can come back
to whenever he gets the urge.

Congratulations on a job well done!

Zac arrested for expired visa
 

--
Duncan Heenan
wrote in message
...
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:36:20 -0000, "Duncan Heenan"
wrote:



"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
ctanews.com...
snip
What kills me is how sailing and cruising have become *******ized to the
point of absurdity by modern-day 'sailors' who are an embarrassment to
the
trade. These failures have adopted the ignorant liberal philosophy that
"to try is to succeed." There is no longer any "try then succeed" there
is only "try because to try is to succeed." This is a warped reality.
This
is pathetic. One of the last bastions of manhood is success at
lone-handed
ocean voyaging.

And what is your own record, Wilma, which qualifies you to take the ****
out
of people who do actually try?
(I won't hold my breath waiting for an answer from the world's greatest
bul****ter)

He got a response out of you, so he got what he came for. He'll be
glad to know he's found a barrel of cooperative fish he can come back
to whenever he gets the urge.

Congratulations on a job well done!

Thanks, I deserve it.
Wilma and I go back a long way, don't we Wilma?
--
Duncan Heenan

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"cavelamb" wrote in message
...
Gregory Hall wrote:

None of this matters as long as you tried.

Wilbur Hubbard


so which are you today, stud muffin?

Are you Gregory?

Or are you Wilbur?



He's Gregory Hall, of course. He likes to mock me. Been doing it for months,
now. Pay attention.

Wilbur Hubbard

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wrote in message
...
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:40:03 -0800, Stephen Trapani
wrote:

cavelamb wrote:
Gregory Hall wrote:

None of this matters as long as you tried.

Wilbur Hubbard



so which are you today, stud muffin?

Are you Gregory?

Or are you Wilbur?

So now he either has to admit what everyone already knew, or he can get
out of it by confessing that the two of them are having a chocolate
train love affair.

Either way, it's pretty funny.

Stephen

He's performed this exasct blunder quite a few times, Stephen.


Duh! Try paying attention. Gregory Hall enjoys mocking me by going on some
long rant and then signing my name. I think he's jealous of my vast
knowledge and experience.

Wilbur Hubbard

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"Duncan Heenan" wrote in message
...


--
Duncan Heenan
wrote in message
...
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:36:20 -0000, "Duncan Heenan"
wrote:



"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
. octanews.com...
snip
What kills me is how sailing and cruising have become *******ized to
the
point of absurdity by modern-day 'sailors' who are an embarrassment to
the
trade. These failures have adopted the ignorant liberal philosophy that
"to try is to succeed." There is no longer any "try then succeed"
there
is only "try because to try is to succeed." This is a warped reality.
This
is pathetic. One of the last bastions of manhood is success at
lone-handed
ocean voyaging.

And what is your own record, Wilma, which qualifies you to take the ****
out
of people who do actually try?
(I won't hold my breath waiting for an answer from the world's greatest
bul****ter)

He got a response out of you, so he got what he came for. He'll be
glad to know he's found a barrel of cooperative fish he can come back
to whenever he gets the urge.

Congratulations on a job well done!

Thanks, I deserve it.
Wilma and I go back a long way, don't we Wilma?
--
Duncan Heenan


Yup, some of these newbie people just don't get it. Like they refuse to
understand that trying and failing is failing. Look at salty dog, for
example. After a very cogent argument from Greg about trying and failing is
failing (I happen to agree with him) here comes salty asking what I, Wilbur
Hubbard, have "tried." Pretty lame.

If you sit down to take a crap and all that issues forth is a fart or two
you have failed to take a crap. Yet, the salties of this world actually
think that you didn't fail to take a crap. Rather you succeeded in "trying"
to take a crap. This is such warped thinking based on liberalism. It's too
bad this type of lunacy has lately crept into sailing and voyaging.

Wilbur Hubbard

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Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
...
Gregory Hall wrote:
None of this matters as long as you tried.

Wilbur Hubbard

so which are you today, stud muffin?

Are you Gregory?

Or are you Wilbur?



He's Gregory Hall, of course. He likes to mock me. Been doing it for months,
now. Pay attention.


peace, Out!

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"Duncan Heenan" wrote in message
...
"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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" 666" wrote in message
...
A girl circumnavigating alone made also her pitstop right now in Cape
Town:
http://nataszacaban.com/Trasa.html
JaC


She's very pretty but already a failure as far as I'm concerned

The Panama Canal??? That alone should disqualify her. You can't "sail"
through the Panama Canal.

Any sailing alone around the world must be done via the three great
capes, IMO, for it to be a valid circumnavigation. What's next? Putting
your boat on a truck and shipping it across the USA as one leg of the
voyage?

Wilbur Hubbard
What route did you use to sail around your bathtub, Wilma?
--
Duncan Heenan


Bath tub??? Never get near those things. Them's for lubbers. Us sailors soap
up (actually detergent as soap doesn't work in salt water) in the cockpit
and sluice ourselves with buckets full of salt water. Good for the
complexion.

Wilbur Hubbard

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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...
Bath tub??? Never get near those things. Them's for lubbers. Us sailors
soap up (actually detergent as soap doesn't work in salt water) in the
cockpit and sluice ourselves with buckets full of salt water. Good for the
complexion.

Wilbur Hubbard


Washed and rinsed with Harbor Water. Wonderful aroma, that. Just be sure to
comb the little brown floaty chunks out of your hair afterwards.

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"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
et...

"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...
Bath tub??? Never get near those things. Them's for lubbers. Us sailors
soap up (actually detergent as soap doesn't work in salt water) in the
cockpit and sluice ourselves with buckets full of salt water. Good for
the complexion.

Wilbur Hubbard


Washed and rinsed with Harbor Water. Wonderful aroma, that. Just be sure
to comb the little brown floaty chunks out of your hair afterwards.


Hair? What hair? I'm bald as Capt.Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) but
every bit as handsome and distinguished looking. And there's no floaters in
the water around here. Clean as a whistle.

Wilbur Hubbard

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KLC Lewis wrote:

Washed and rinsed with Harbor Water. Wonderful aroma, that. Just be sure to
comb the little brown floaty chunks out of your hair afterwards.

Please stop feeding the troll,, he gets enough attention talking to
himself,,, someday, if you and everyone else stops replying, he may go
away.

Cheers
Martin

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"Marty" wrote in message
...
KLC Lewis wrote:

Washed and rinsed with Harbor Water. Wonderful aroma, that. Just be sure
to comb the little brown floaty chunks out of your hair afterwards.

Please stop feeding the troll,, he gets enough attention talking to
himself,,, someday, if you and everyone else stops replying, he may go
away.

Cheers
Martin


Perhaps the 'troll' is more interesting than some simple-minded rube who
goes around blathering "don't feed the troll!" because he has nothing better
to contribute to any discussion?

Wilbur Hubbard

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"Marty" wrote in message
...
KLC Lewis wrote:

Washed and rinsed with Harbor Water. Wonderful aroma, that. Just be sure
to comb the little brown floaty chunks out of your hair afterwards.

Please stop feeding the troll,, he gets enough attention talking to
himself,,, someday, if you and everyone else stops replying, he may go
away.

Cheers
Martin

Puh-leeeez! I post one reply him in three weeks and it's my fault the group
is a tomb? For nearly a week all we had was Neal talking to himself via
fifty-seven puppets.

Cheers back, but I'll monitor my own posting habits, thank you.

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KLC Lewis wrote:


Puh-leeeez! I post one reply him in three weeks and it's my fault the group
is a tomb? For nearly a week all we had was Neal talking to himself via
fifty-seven puppets.

Cheers back, but I'll monitor my own posting habits, thank you.

Sorry if I offended you, I'm sick of his crap. The group is not yet a
tomb, and won't become one if we don't let it, there indeed a few
sailing/cruising related threads underway.

I'll be sailing down the St. Lawrence a ways this summer, going to stay
at Singer Castle for a night, should be fun running all over the place
looking for secret passages and hidden treasure!

Did you get a boat yet?

Cheers
Martin

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"Marty" wrote in message
...
Sorry if I offended you, I'm sick of his crap. The group is not yet a
tomb, and won't become one if we don't let it, there indeed a few
sailing/cruising related threads underway.

I'll be sailing down the St. Lawrence a ways this summer, going to stay at
Singer Castle for a night, should be fun running all over the place
looking for secret passages and hidden treasure!

Did you get a boat yet?

Cheers
Martin

No offense taken. I have a boat, but it's on the hard until at least the end
of April when the ice breaks. I intend to actually launch this year -- last
year I was on the road 14 days, home 3, back out again for another 14, etc.
etc. and it just didn't pay to put the boat in the water. Green Bay has some
excellent sailing grounds, nice anchorages and pretty little towns to visit
if you get down this way. A bit of a sail from the Seaway, though. :-)

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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...

"Duncan Heenan" wrote in message
...
"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...

" 666" wrote in message
...
A girl circumnavigating alone made also her pitstop right now in Cape
Town:
http://nataszacaban.com/Trasa.html
JaC


She's very pretty but already a failure as far as I'm concerned

The Panama Canal??? That alone should disqualify her. You can't "sail"
through the Panama Canal.

Any sailing alone around the world must be done via the three great
capes, IMO, for it to be a valid circumnavigation. What's next? Putting
your boat on a truck and shipping it across the USA as one leg of the
voyage?

Wilbur Hubbard
What route did you use to sail around your bathtub, Wilma?
--
Duncan Heenan


Bath tub??? Never get near those things. Them's for lubbers. Us sailors
soap up (actually detergent as soap doesn't work in salt water) in the
cockpit and sluice ourselves with buckets full of salt water. Good for the
complexion.

Wilbur Hubbard
Would account for the nasty smell accompanying your posts?
--
Duncan Heenan

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What, the complexion of the horse's ass?

BTW I completely agree with you about success being success and failure
being failure, but what the hell has that got to do with liberals?

--
Yours Quilly,

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Quilljar wrote:
What, the complexion of the horse's ass?

BTW I completely agree with you about success being success and failure
being failure, but what the hell has that got to do with liberals?

Success is to succeed, and failure is to fail, but better to try and
fail than never to try at all!!!

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"Drew" wrote in message
net...
Quilljar wrote:
What, the complexion of the horse's ass?

BTW I completely agree with you about success being success and failure
being failure, but what the hell has that got to do with liberals?

Success is to succeed, and failure is to fail, but better to try and fail
than never to try at all!!!

But what about someone who succeeds without even trying? Wilma is a perfect
example - he succeeds in making a complete prat of himself every time he
comes on URN, without even trying.
--
Duncan Heenan

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I like Wilma, he usually makes my day as it's not that often that someone
tries and then succeeds in making me feel superior.

--
Yours Quilly,



"Duncan Heenan" wrote in message
...
"Drew" wrote in message
net...
Quilljar wrote:
What, the complexion of the horse's ass?

BTW I completely agree with you about success being success and failure
being failure, but what the hell has that got to do with liberals?

Success is to succeed, and failure is to fail, but better to try and fail
than never to try at all!!!

But what about someone who succeeds without even trying? Wilma is a
perfect example - he succeeds in making a complete prat of himself every
time he comes on URN, without even trying.
--
Duncan Heenan

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Wilbur,

I did a quick Google and didn't see anything about this arrest. Please
post a cite.

Dave M.

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"David Martel" wrote in message
...
Wilbur,

I did a quick Google and didn't see anything about this arrest. Please
post a cite.

Dave M.



Why is it so few understand sarcasm these days? Too many dullards with no
sense of humor, no reading skills, no common sense and no intelligence.

Wilbur Hubbard

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I think you mean 'irony' wilma

--
Yours Quilly,

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"Quilljar" wrote in message
...
I think you mean 'irony' wilma

--
Yours Quilly,


No, I meant sarcasm:

sar.casm \"sär-'ka-z?m\ n 1 : a cutting or contemptuous remark 2 : ironic
criticism or reproach - sar.cas.tic \sär-"kas-tik\ adj - sar.cas.ti.cal.ly
\-ti-k(?-)lÈ\ adv

Notice how sarcasm embodies irony, however.

Wilbur Hubbard