Vic Smith wrote in
:

No alcohol, and the women were recognizable only by imputation - they
were the ones scurrying about covered head-to-toe in burlap or some
such. Never saw a pair of female eyes. The men had a neutral
countenance at best. But nobody cut my throat.


When I lived in Iran (late 77 to 79) the women were quite "Westernized"
until towards the end when it became apparent the mullahs were going to
take over and a purge of whoring females might become reality. After
that, it looked like Jeddah, all of them in burkas.

While in both Iran and later in Bahrain, my Iranian and Arab friends
would invite me to their homes and, at first, I was quite astonished at
what their women were wearing UNDER those "burlap" burkas! Spike heel
shoes, French cut clothes any Paris prostitute would have been very proud
to own! That's why they had 'em covered up....to hid them from the REST
of us!...(c;

In Tehran, once in a while I'd get a raised eyebrow in the company of my
New Zealand girlfriend, Ann, whos departure from my life was the absolute
worst stupid thing I ever did....not following her home in '79 from
Tehran. If anything New Zealand comes on the screen, I fell awful for
hours over "what could have been". We lived together, but kept it
discreet in Tehran under the Shahanshah. We would have been stoned to
death (I have many recent stoning videos from Iran) now. They beat a
twenty-something couple to death with big stones after burying both of
them up to their chests and packing the dirt in so they could not escape.

I don't want "Freedom of Religion". I want "Freedom FROM Religion"....

Larry
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http://www.spp.gov/
The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:58:49 +0000, Larry wrote:


In Tehran, once in a while I'd get a raised eyebrow in the company of my
New Zealand girlfriend, Ann, whos departure from my life was the absolute
worst stupid thing I ever did....not following her home in '79 from
Tehran. If anything New Zealand comes on the screen, I fell awful for
hours over "what could have been".

Even if it's just a kiwi fruit?
But I know what you mean.

--Vic

Was having a discussion with cruising friends when the subject of a dock
neighbor came up. Seems he's likely to need someone to return his boat
from Maine back to Conn. in Long Island Sound. We were curios as to what
licensed captains would normally charge to do that trip.

Red

Just realized I hit the reply button instead of compose to post my question.

Red wrote in :

Was having a discussion with cruising friends when the subject of a
dock
neighbor came up. Seems he's likely to need someone to return his boat
from Maine back to Conn. in Long Island Sound. We were curios as to
what
licensed captains would normally charge to do that trip.

Red



Why do you need a licensed captain? Grab some of the sailors off your
dock, load up the boat and GO! Some of my best Florida vacations were
delivering someone's yacht back to Charleston with a bunch of guys from
the docks.

It's nice if the guy whos boat you're delivering provides the food, fuel
and beer...(c; We pretty much clean out their liqour cabinets of dusty
old Scotch before landfall...

Tell him to fill up the gas bottles on the grill, too!

Larry
--
http://www.spp.gov/
The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP