Jim wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
ps.com...

Jim, you have to be kidding?

changing a title to a thread, doesn't get rid of the origional post of
the thread. cross threading is more manipulative than anything else.

No Tim. I am not kidding.

Harry Krause wrote:
On 12/28/2006 8:07 AM, Jim wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ups.com...
One of the problems with many boat shoes is that all sorts of nasty
things can stick to them and get tracked back into the boat.

I know of people who insist that all shoes be removed before anybody
comes aboard.
If I were that uptight about it, I think I'd wear separate shoes on the
boat and keep another pair for the outside world.





Good grief. Chuck needs to check in to the Betty Ford Center.

Is this the kind of information you like to post in your other boating
forums?

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
On 12/28/2006 8:07 AM, Jim wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ups.com...
One of the problems with many boat shoes is that all sorts of nasty
things can stick to them and get tracked back into the boat.

I know of people who insist that all shoes be removed before anybody
comes aboard.
If I were that uptight about it, I think I'd wear separate shoes on the
boat and keep another pair for the outside world.





Good grief. Chuck needs to check in to the Betty Ford Center.

Is this the kind of information you like to post in your other boating
forums?

Krause would be kicked out of any moderated boating form within minutes
of his first post.

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ups.com...
One of the problems with many boat shoes is that all sorts of nasty
things can stick to them and get tracked back into the boat.

I know of people who insist that all shoes be removed before anybody
comes aboard.
If I were that uptight about it, I think I'd wear separate shoes on the
boat and keep another pair for the outside world.


Great advice Chuck.

Here is another you would probably appreciate:

One of the problems with boat towels is that they get wet after using them
to dry off after a shower or swimming.

I know of people who insist that all boat towels be completely dry before
allowing them aboard.

If I were that uptight about it I think I would have a separate boat towel
on the boat and keep another to dry off with.

JimH wrote:

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ups.com...

One of the problems with many boat shoes is that all sorts of nasty
things can stick to them and get tracked back into the boat.

I know of people who insist that all shoes be removed before anybody
comes aboard.
If I were that uptight about it, I think I'd wear separate shoes on the
boat and keep another pair for the outside world.



Great advice Chuck.

Here is another you would probably appreciate:

One of the problems with boat towels is that they get wet after using them
to dry off after a shower or swimming.

I know of people who insist that all boat towels be completely dry before
allowing them aboard.

If I were that uptight about it I think I would have a separate boat towel
on the boat and keep another to dry off with.


One of my dock neighbors at the marina made dates take off all their
rings so they would not scratch the fiberglass......needless to say, he
didn't have many second dates. :-)

"Animal" wrote in message
...


One of my dock neighbors at the marina made dates take off all their rings
so they would not scratch the fiberglass......needless to say, he didn't
have many second dates. :-)

One of my dock neighbors made dates remove a lot more than their rings.

Eisboch

RCE wrote:

"Animal" wrote in message
...



One of my dock neighbors at the marina made dates take off all their rings
so they would not scratch the fiberglass......needless to say, he didn't
have many second dates. :-)


One of my dock neighbors made dates remove a lot more than their rings.

Eisboch


LMAO...we have a few of those too.

The oddest character is a cop who lives aboard his 27 ft year round.
For a good part of the summer, he had the boat cover on and could be
seen crawling under the back end with dates to get into the
cabin......very strange person.....his dates were not much better.

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ups.com...
One of the problems with many boat shoes is that all sorts of nasty
things can stick to them and get tracked back into the boat.

I know of people who insist that all shoes be removed before anybody
comes aboard.
If I were that uptight about it, I think I'd wear separate shoes on the
boat and keep another pair for the outside world.


And those who walk around barefoot when at the beach should bring a separate
clean pair of feet with them for use when on the boat.

Tim wrote:
Jim wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
ps.com...

Jim, you have to be kidding?

changing a title to a thread, doesn't get rid of the origional post of
the thread. cross threading is more manipulative than anything else.

No Tim. I am not kidding.

Psst, Tim:

Jim's upset because he is a staunch ultra conservative. He believes
that when people post
"I think my steer is a liberal because he has no balls" (from earlier
in this thread) or "Illegal aliens and their supporters dare attack the
real Americans" those threads should be left on the rec.boats subject
board in the interest of "freedom of choice" about
what to read. Although Jim and I *agree* that everybody should be free
to post and read what they want- we disagree that in a newsgroup
universe composed of dedicated sites for different interests each and
every newsgroup must then function as a dumping ground for every
political message, all the hateful propaganda, etc, that happens along.
I believe that if you want to read the latest messages from Al Gore,
Hillary Clinton, the ACLU, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, or the KKK
there are plenty of sites where that material is freely available and
where posts of the same sort of material would be appropriate. It also
makes sense that people seeking out a boating newsgroup are doing so
with a reasonable expectation of finding boating related material, not
the rare boating related item buried among piles of chatroom nonsense,
political cut 'n pastes, and years-long peeing contests between the
same 2-3 individuals.

I overestimated either the readership of the NG or the cleverness of
turning these OT, cross-posted, disruptive and divisive propagada items
into boating related subjects having to do with 1) dealing with sewage,
2) taking care not to track things back to the boat on your shoes.
(Some of the participants in this group apparently engage or support
these crossposters on other forums, which is how rec.boats gets added
to the multiple cross post list for disseminating propaganda).
Obviously at least a few people missed it. So "Whoosh", big time, but
perhaps the fault was my own.

Anyway, I do plan to continue harrassing the crossposters. If that
upsets a few people who would prefer to see the cross-posted stuff on
rec.boats, so be it. Plenty of people consider me a major a-hole as it
is, so a few more voices in the "Gould's an a-hole" choir are
meaningless.

And it's not like I don't have some empathy. For a group of people who
aren't really very interested in boating the major attraction of the NG
has long been "it's a good place to go pick a fight about politics, or
engage in a personal peeing contest". It's easy to see how discouraging
the OT political stuff "ruins" the group as far as they are concerned.

Those who believe that changing a cross-posted political or hate
message to a boating related topic, (even if it's a silly one), does
more "damage" to the NG than the cross-posting itself are entitled to
their opinions. I'm entitled to mine. Nobody is expected to agree all
the time, and I have never been one to form an opinion based upon how
many people happen to agree with me.

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
oups.com...

Jim's upset because he is a staunch ultra conservative. He believes
that when people post
"I think my steer is a liberal because he has no balls" (from earlier
in this thread) or "Illegal aliens and their supporters dare attack the
real Americans" those threads should be left on the rec.boats subject
board in the interest of "freedom of choice" about
what to read. Although Jim and I *agree* that everybody should be free
to post and read what they want- we disagree that in a newsgroup
universe composed of dedicated sites for different interests each and
every newsgroup must then function as a dumping ground for every
political message, all the hateful propaganda, etc, that happens along.
I believe that if you want to read the latest messages from Al Gore,
Hillary Clinton, the ACLU, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, or the KKK
there are plenty of sites where that material is freely available and
where posts of the same sort of material would be appropriate. It also
makes sense that people seeking out a boating newsgroup are doing so
with a reasonable expectation of finding boating related material, not
the rare boating related item buried among piles of chatroom nonsense,
political cut 'n pastes, and years-long peeing contests between the
same 2-3 individuals.

I overestimated either the readership of the NG or the cleverness of
turning these OT, cross-posted, disruptive and divisive propagada items
into boating related subjects having to do with 1) dealing with sewage,
2) taking care not to track things back to the boat on your shoes.
(Some of the participants in this group apparently engage or support
these crossposters on other forums, which is how rec.boats gets added
to the multiple cross post list for disseminating propaganda).
Obviously at least a few people missed it. So "Whoosh", big time, but
perhaps the fault was my own.

Anyway, I do plan to continue harrassing the crossposters. If that
upsets a few people who would prefer to see the cross-posted stuff on
rec.boats, so be it. Plenty of people consider me a major a-hole as it
is, so a few more voices in the "Gould's an a-hole" choir are
meaningless.

And it's not like I don't have some empathy. For a group of people who
aren't really very interested in boating the major attraction of the NG
has long been "it's a good place to go pick a fight about politics, or
engage in a personal peeing contest". It's easy to see how discouraging
the OT political stuff "ruins" the group as far as they are concerned.

Those who believe that changing a cross-posted political or hate
message to a boating related topic, (even if it's a silly one), does
more "damage" to the NG than the cross-posting itself are entitled to
their opinions. I'm entitled to mine. Nobody is expected to agree all
the time, and I have never been one to form an opinion based upon how
many people happen to agree with me.

While I admire Chuck Gould's generosity in volunteering to be the newsgroup
shepherd, I think his services are not needed, unless we're the idiots he
thinks we are.