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Stately pleasure domes
Mary Malmros typed:
(Oci-One Kanubi) writes: On the up-side, if you build a rodeo hole in an already-trashed urban stretch of river (the rodeo dudes need convenience, eh?) it will keep the squids all concentrated in one place where they won't trash up pristine mountain rivers. Richard, this is really beneath you. It really, truly is. I have always thought better of you than as someone who seizes on a few superficial features and stereotypes an entire category of paddler as "trash". That's the comment of a sour, bitter old curmudgeon -- not the Oci-One I know. Heh heh. Yer figger of speech and mine have collided violently here, evidently. By my usage I wasn't characterizing the *people* as trash, but what they do to a river by planting themselves in one place and becoming obstacles, rather than just passing through leaving no trace, that I refered to as "trash"ing. Not to mention rearranging river beds to make better playspots, though in a way this doesn't bother me so much as it might; after all, after the next hurricane comes through Kennon's little droogies will have to rebuild their playspot from scratch. In fact, the pro boaters I know are fine folks. Hell, I sent Joe Stumpfel and Seth Chapelle $200 each to help get them to Graz for the Worlds, and if she'd qualified for the team I'da sent Heather Chapelle $200 too; not something I'd do for someone I don't like, and an insight into how black-and-white this issue is not, for me. -Richard, His Kanubic Travesty -- ================================================== ==================== Richard Hopley, Winston-Salem, NC, USA rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net 1-301-775-0471 Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll. rhopley[at]wfubmc[dot]edu 1-336-713-5077 OK, OK; computer programming for scientific research also matters. ================================================== ==================== |
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