On Oct 5, 5:36*pm, watersprite
wrote:
Hello Jay, you wrote:
Remember when you could go to RBP and...

Yes, I remember, and I'm sad to see how RBP has pretty much faded
away. *As the few of us reading this know, some of us do still show
symptoms of terminal optimism and pop in now and again; just to see
if something interesting is happening.

Aside from the very occasional flame war, RBP was always one of the
more enjoyable and informative paddling discussion groups around
(amongst newsgroups, email lists, and website message boards). *By
the way, has anyone seen any new stories from Ken Strickland? *I miss
those too, and I wonder how he's doing, and what he's up to.

--
Melissa

Rec.Boats Paddle posters are a cult; while not denying that the
Darlington School boys and over 200 other American children died in
terror and agony, being denied the proven means to get out of the
water and stay out, to live, like any two ten year old girls with 50
cent sponsons, enabling anyone without expensive and fraudulent
American Canoe Association instruction to get out of the deadly water
in 5 seconds: http://www.sponsonguy.com

Rec.boats paddle posters attempt to blame deaths on foolishly paddling
down rivers with rocks and trees to trap victims underwater until they
down. The Darlington school boys were not trapped and drowned under
any river. They died just like over 200 American children; they died
because they were deprived of any means to get out of the water, and
stay out, and paddle to sho 50 cent, 5 second sponsons.

Some rec.boats.paddle posters first attempt to say canoe over canoe
rescues would have saved these kids. Then they cease when it is
pointed out that ACA Hall of Fame instructors (Cliff Jacobson et al.)
state the canoe over canoe can't work in real life, and "rescuing"
canoes will only be capsized as well, without 5 second emergency
sponson stability. In desperation the truly stupid or crazy posters
will state: "These deaths are necessary for the public to know canoes
and kayaks are dangerous." In fact these canoes and kayaks are
deliberately designed for fraudulent "rescues" that are as dangerous
as possible; despite public knowledge that canoes and kayaks with
sponsons have crossed both Atlantic and Pacific oceans (Lindemann
1956, 1957, Gillett 1992) This deliberate intention to torture and
kill innocent American children and adults, shown here on
rec.boats.paddle, imitates the results of the original Milgram
experiments at Yale, where 65% complied with inflicting very painful,
even fatal levels of electric shock to the screaming actor, hired for
the Yale University experiment, the most famous experiment in social
psychology, and replicated throughout the world in dozens of
university labs.

Tim Ingram