Several weeks ago, Shortwave, you said you were going to be absent from
the group until September or so. Many people opined that your absence
would be a loss, and few would have disagreed with them.

So in your first emergence, in early June, you post an OT and
controversial topic "just to see if certain people would react as I
predicted they would" (and are you surprised?) and you then proceed to
fan the flames while the thread wanders off into a variety of other
controversial and political subjects and the tone gets progessively
more "meaner-neener".

I guess that in those weeks that you weren't here you were unable to
notice that most posters (no, certainly not all) are making a
deliberate effort to avoid trolling through the group.

So welcome back. I'm personally looking forward to the insightful
comments on boating issues that are generally more typical of your
contributions to rec.boats.

I suppose that throwing gasoline on a fire is good practice if what you
hope to create is an increase in flame. From you, that's surprising and
somewhat disappointing.

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:05:41 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On 6 Jun 2006 17:44:55 -0700, "
wrote:

I suppose that throwing gasoline on a fire is good practice if what you
hope to create is an increase in flame. From you, that's surprising and
somewhat disappointing.

You know something Chuck - you are absolutely right.

I was wrong - no excuses. It just seemed like the right thing at the
time and I was clearly influenced by the darker side of my
personality.

Not that it's that dark you understand, but sometimes the evil twin
takes a peek at the world and things happen. This place can sometimes
affect people that way you know?

Anyway, not to worry - I'm feeling better and I have a ton of things
to attend to now that I can move a little more betterererer. And I
have a proposal to go over and clients later this week, so I'm back on
"busy" mode.

To put paid to this, I apologize to you and anyone else who may have
been slighted by the OT nonsense and I promise that I will wait ten
minutes before I hit the "send" icon again - just to give myself time
to rethink it through.

See you guys later.

Peace. Out.

Don't be gone long. We need your form of (in)sanity around here!
--
John H

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I suppose that throwing gasoline on a fire is good practice if what you
hope to create is an increase in flame. From you, that's surprising and
somewhat disappointing.


And?

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
You know something Chuck - you are absolutely right.

I was wrong - no excuses. It just seemed like the right thing at the
time and I was clearly influenced by the darker side of my
personality.


Yeah, but your posts were among the more entertaining.



To put paid to this, I apologize to you and anyone else who may have
been slighted by the OT nonsense and I promise that I will wait ten
minutes before I hit the "send" icon again - just to give myself time
to rethink it through.


Always a good idea.

For my own part, should I apologize? I don't think so. It's
the most non-boating posts I've made in months, and all were
brief (relatively), factual, and to-the-point. Probably not
as funny to others, but what the heck, I'm not getting paid
to entertain anybody here.

Regards
Doug King