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I been thinkin I am so glad I dont live in one o those silly yachty
places where ppl wear designer clothes and boat shoes. When I look 'round, Carabelle, Fl has character. The shrimp boat just down river has a huge hole in the side patched with a sheet of 4'x8' plywood screwed in place with drywall screws. It has a psuedo-Danforth anchor made from plate steel welded to what looks to be truck axle and has 3 brake drums for weight and is covered with about 1/4" of rust. All the trucks around here have Confederate flags in the windows. The old guy fishing on the dock has no teeth. For culture, there is always the magazine rack at the IGA store. None of the kids wear shoes and ppl think a double wide is high class living. Around here a yacht is an oyster boat and a six pack. Unfortunately, my piece of paradise is being ruint by rich yankees from up north and escapees from the south Florida hell. They close the beaches in front of their condos and beach houses as if they really own it and expect my tax dollars to pay for a new bridge to what is now THEIR island. Screw em, I am prayin fer a good hurricane to clean this place out again so us locals can have it again. |
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You related to NOYB in the wreaked boats newsgroup??
Parallax wrote in message om... I been thinkin I am so glad I dont live in one o those silly yachty places where ppl wear designer clothes and boat shoes. When I look 'round, Carabelle, Fl has character. The shrimp boat just down river has a huge hole in the side patched with a sheet of 4'x8' plywood screwed in place with drywall screws. It has a psuedo-Danforth anchor made from plate steel welded to what looks to be truck axle and has 3 brake drums for weight and is covered with about 1/4" of rust. All the trucks around here have Confederate flags in the windows. The old guy fishing on the dock has no teeth. For culture, there is always the magazine rack at the IGA store. None of the kids wear shoes and ppl think a double wide is high class living. Around here a yacht is an oyster boat and a six pack. Unfortunately, my piece of paradise is being ruint by rich yankees from up north and escapees from the south Florida hell. They close the beaches in front of their condos and beach houses as if they really own it and expect my tax dollars to pay for a new bridge to what is now THEIR island. Screw em, I am prayin fer a good hurricane to clean this place out again so us locals can have it again. |
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Last year we motored an Endeavour 35 sloop up the ICW from Daytona
Beach to Mayport where we put to sea for Charleston. One of the great things to see on the ICW is that there are still lots of Cracker familes, yards full of junk, old trucks that don't run, and 8 kids jumping off the dock into the water as Mom and Dad sit watching them from their lawn chairs....RIGHT NEXT DOOR to the millionaire Yankee's mansion with its Lawn-O-Green manicured lawn noone ever sits on pouring out from its immaculate patio noone ever uses because the patio furniture looks like noone ever sat in it. There's 4 old boat, well used boats, tied up at the Cracker's house. They ENJOY their waterway. The Yankees, on the other hand, don't even have a dock, much less a boat. If they have a dock, it's one of what I call the "Property Enhancement Docks" used to boost up the reselling price of it all at the realtor's listing. Charleston is full of them. I got lots of neighbors, here on the Ashley River about 8 miles upriver, that have them. Noone ever goes out on them. They're just there blocking traffic on the waterway. If I had my way the only way they'd be allowed to put a dock on the water is IF THEY NEEDED IT TO DOCK THEIR BOAT!....dammit. All other docks would be removed, making navigation much safer, especially at night when the UNLIT dock just waits for the unsuspecting..... You don't know how much I wanted to stop and go shake that Cracker's hand. He looked like the most contented person on Earth, sitting there watching his kids jumping off that old rickety dock....something to be really envied in this whirlwind world we live in. By the way, I live in an old trailer in an old trailer park on the Ashley, the only one left. A hodge-podge of a house around the corner on the water will cost you $800K. I get to live here for $195/month....(c;....less than that homeowner's TAXES. On 15 Oct 2003 20:04:35 -0700, (Parallax) wrote: (Larry W4CSC) wrote in message ... On 15 Oct 2003 09:12:09 -0700, (Parallax) wrote: I been thinkin I am so glad I dont live in one o those silly yachty Hmm...didn't know Crackers had a telephone, much less broadband internet service! From his IP: 68.46.227.178 My WHOIS query shows him to be in Tallahassee: 10/15/03 18:58:23 IP block 68.46.227.178 Trying 68.46.227.178 at ARIN Trying 68.46.227 at ARIN Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. JUMPSTART-1 (NET-68-32-0-0-1) 68.32.0.0 - 68.63.255.255 Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. TALLAHASSEE-2 (NET-68-46-224-0-1) 68.46.224.0 - 68.46.239.255 He's be real easy to find at Comcrap with that IP....(c; Stupid Comcrap posts everyone's IP to give the kiddie krackers something to target..... Larry W4CSC 3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right? Larry: I admit, I am a 5th generation cracker. I guess like most ppl once you realize you really like your home you hate to see it get screwed up. I often sail to Dog Island across from Carabelle and until recently they had no phone service and had to use VHF but with the new cell tower in Carabelle theres just too much communicatin goin on. I think we oughta burn John Gorrie in effigy in Apalach every year cuz when air conditionin was invented, it was all downhill fer Florida. Larry W4CSC US Supports Apartheid! Vetoes UN resolution condemning Apartheid Wall. http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h052103.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...917478560.html Can apartheid at home be far away?.... Apartheid NOW! Wall off Mississippi! |
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Hey, if it weren't for AC in FL, my parents would have moved in with me! And my 82 year
old father-in-law still supports himself with making AC parts. Thank you, John Gorrie! "Parallax" wrote in message om... (Larry W4CSC) wrote in message ... On 15 Oct 2003 09:12:09 -0700, (Parallax) wrote: I been thinkin I am so glad I dont live in one o those silly yachty Hmm...didn't know Crackers had a telephone, much less broadband internet service! From his IP: 68.46.227.178 My WHOIS query shows him to be in Tallahassee: 10/15/03 18:58:23 IP block 68.46.227.178 Trying 68.46.227.178 at ARIN Trying 68.46.227 at ARIN Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. JUMPSTART-1 (NET-68-32-0-0-1) 68.32.0.0 - 68.63.255.255 Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. TALLAHASSEE-2 (NET-68-46-224-0-1) 68.46.224.0 - 68.46.239.255 He's be real easy to find at Comcrap with that IP....(c; Stupid Comcrap posts everyone's IP to give the kiddie krackers something to target..... Larry W4CSC 3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right? Larry: I admit, I am a 5th generation cracker. I guess like most ppl once you realize you really like your home you hate to see it get screwed up. I often sail to Dog Island across from Carabelle and until recently they had no phone service and had to use VHF but with the new cell tower in Carabelle theres just too much communicatin goin on. I think we oughta burn John Gorrie in effigy in Apalach every year cuz when air conditionin was invented, it was all downhill fer Florida. |
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You are actually the wacko that was in Marsh Harbor in February
aren't you? Droning your diatribe about about everything you have yet to achieve. "Parallax" wrote in message om... I been thinkin I am so glad I dont live in one o those silly yachty places where ppl wear designer clothes and boat shoes. When I look 'round, Carabelle, Fl has character. The shrimp boat just down river has a huge hole in the side patched with a sheet of 4'x8' plywood screwed in place with drywall screws. It has a psuedo-Danforth anchor made from plate steel welded to what looks to be truck axle and has 3 brake drums for weight and is covered with about 1/4" of rust. All the trucks around here have Confederate flags in the windows. The old guy fishing on the dock has no teeth. For culture, there is always the magazine rack at the IGA store. None of the kids wear shoes and ppl think a double wide is high class living. Around here a yacht is an oyster boat and a six pack. Unfortunately, my piece of paradise is being ruint by rich yankees from up north and escapees from the south Florida hell. They close the beaches in front of their condos and beach houses as if they really own it and expect my tax dollars to pay for a new bridge to what is now THEIR island. Screw em, I am prayin fer a good hurricane to clean this place out again so us locals can have it again. |
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Parallax wrote:
... Unfortunately, my piece of paradise is being ruint by rich yankees ... T'aint just yankees, it's addle-brained (sub)urbanites in general. They move to get away from a culture they hate, then bust ass to impose it on us. Too much crime? Find a place where there isn't any then whine for city type gun laws. Tired of gummymint interference? Move to the country and lobby for zoning laws. No privacy? Build a nice secluded home but call the sheriff every time they hear a gunshot 'cuz it might be a neighbor killing (sob) Bambi. Buy a "ranch" (anything over a half acre), fence it and post "No Trespassing" signs, then wonder why the natives shun them. Finally, fear of being 'alone in the woods' drives them into "neighborhoods" exactly like the ones they just fled; there to demand laws to 'protect the children' from learning where meat comes from and privacy fences around farms to keep them from seeing animals having sex! Might turn them into perverts y'know. .... My theory is that (sub)urban folks breath so much carbon monoxide as kids that it ruins their brains. Why else would *anyone* think that living cheek to jowl in a tenement, condo or neighborhood is *better* than a doublewide on 100 acres? But the real problem is they think gotta "save" sane happy people like us from having to live like we do!! That's why so many of them voted for Al Gore. )c:| |
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Vito and Larry,
This was so funny to read because you described most of my neighbors to a tee!! I moved to NC from NH two years ago because I love boating and hated to see the boat laid up on the hard for 6 months and snow,,,,,,,well,,,,,snow just sucks! I bought into a "boating community" and I am the only one that ever uses my boat! All that my neighbors do are bitch about rules and regulations and sit their fat asses on their lawnmowers circling their "half acre" for four days! I really did screw up moving into a development and think about it every time I walk out the front door and hear the guy yell from accross the street telling me what time my shades went up in my house. I can't fart without breaking a rule! Screw it. In three weeks we will be off for a month or two on the boat. Just us and the cat......I can't wait. Phil "Vito" wrote in message ... Parallax wrote: ... Unfortunately, my piece of paradise is being ruint by rich yankees .... T'aint just yankees, it's addle-brained (sub)urbanites in general. They move to get away from a culture they hate, then bust ass to impose it on us. Too much crime? Find a place where there isn't any then whine for city type gun laws. Tired of gummymint interference? Move to the country and lobby for zoning laws. No privacy? Build a nice secluded home but call the sheriff every time they hear a gunshot 'cuz it might be a neighbor killing (sob) Bambi. Buy a "ranch" (anything over a half acre), fence it and post "No Trespassing" signs, then wonder why the natives shun them. Finally, fear of being 'alone in the woods' drives them into "neighborhoods" exactly like the ones they just fled; there to demand laws to 'protect the children' from learning where meat comes from and privacy fences around farms to keep them from seeing animals having sex! Might turn them into perverts y'know. .... My theory is that (sub)urban folks breath so much carbon monoxide as kids that it ruins their brains. Why else would *anyone* think that living cheek to jowl in a tenement, condo or neighborhood is *better* than a doublewide on 100 acres? But the real problem is they think gotta "save" sane happy people like us from having to live like we do!! That's why so many of them voted for Al Gore. )c:| |
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:14:47 GMT, "Phil" wrote (with
possible editing): Vito and Larry, This was so funny to read because you described most of my neighbors to a tee!! I moved to NC from NH two years ago because I love boating and hated to see the boat laid up on the hard for 6 months and snow,,,,,,,well,,,,,snow just sucks! I bought into a "boating community" and I am the only one that ever uses my boat! All that my neighbors do are bitch about rules and regulations and sit their fat asses on their lawnmowers circling their "half acre" for four days! I really did screw up moving into a development and think about it every time I walk out the front door and hear the guy yell from accross the street telling me what time my shades went up in my house. I can't fart without breaking a rule! Screw it. In three weeks we will be off for a month or two on the boat. Just us and the cat......I can't wait. Phil Phil, You oughta move up to the REAL New Hampshire! Unfortunately we get a lot more snow, but we don't have many rules, no condo associations, none of that crap! Of course there isn't any salt water up here, but there are plenty of lakes and there aren't many boats on them. Best, -- Larry Email to rapp at lmr dot com |
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