krj wrote in news:tp11i.3529$ya.477
@bignews8.bellsouth.net:

Licensing is not the ultimate answer. Common sense and good judgment is
what is needed. At any age!


Licensing is simply taxation. TESTING is the problem on the roadways. The
tests are stupidly easy so even the dumbest humans can pass them. That's
wrong. Once cursory tested, the only thing they test for is cursory vision
until they are senile. That's what the problem is on the
roads...inadequate standards that need to be REtested, especially after
they reach retirement when things start to fall apart....where I am, now.

Larry
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Larry wrote:
krj wrote in news:tp11i.3529$ya.477
@bignews8.bellsouth.net:

Licensing is not the ultimate answer. Common sense and good judgment is
what is needed. At any age!


Licensing is simply taxation. TESTING is the problem on the roadways. The
tests are stupidly easy so even the dumbest humans can pass them. That's
wrong. Once cursory tested, the only thing they test for is cursory vision
until they are senile. That's what the problem is on the
roads...inadequate standards that need to be REtested, especially after
they reach retirement when things start to fall apart....where I am, now.

Larry


How about a mental stability test for you, Larry? Should nice guys like
you who are as nutty as a fruitcake be allowed on the waterways?

HK wrote:
Larry wrote:
krj wrote in news:tp11i.3529$ya.477
@bignews8.bellsouth.net:

Licensing is not the ultimate answer. Common sense and good judgment
is what is needed. At any age!


Licensing is simply taxation. TESTING is the problem on the
roadways. The tests are stupidly easy so even the dumbest humans can
pass them. That's wrong. Once cursory tested, the only thing they
test for is cursory vision until they are senile. That's what the
problem is on the roads...inadequate standards that need to be
REtested, especially after they reach retirement when things start to
fall apart....where I am, now.

Larry


How about a mental stability test for you, Larry? Should nice guys like
you who are as nutty as a fruitcake be allowed on the waterways?

Harry,
It appears that this is the only reason you come to rec.boats so you can
throw out one line insults.

Your wife, who as a social worker, has helped numerous people with all
kinds of problems should have given you a little more respect for those
with mental illness. I am not commenting whither or not Larry has a
mental problem, but on your habit of using mental illness as a insult.
It would be similar to making fun of someone because they had type 1
diabetes.

"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
. ..
HK wrote:
Larry wrote:
krj wrote in news:tp11i.3529$ya.477
@bignews8.bellsouth.net:

Licensing is not the ultimate answer. Common sense and good judgment is
what is needed. At any age!


Licensing is simply taxation. TESTING is the problem on the roadways.
The tests are stupidly easy so even the dumbest humans can pass them.
That's wrong. Once cursory tested, the only thing they test for is
cursory vision until they are senile. That's what the problem is on the
roads...inadequate standards that need to be REtested, especially after
they reach retirement when things start to fall apart....where I am,
now.

Larry


How about a mental stability test for you, Larry? Should nice guys like
you who are as nutty as a fruitcake be allowed on the waterways?

Harry,
It appears that this is the only reason you come to rec.boats so you can
throw out one line insults.

Your wife, who as a social worker, has helped numerous people with all
kinds of problems should have given you a little more respect for those
with mental illness. I am not commenting whither or not Larry has a
mental problem, but on your habit of using mental illness as a insult. It
would be similar to making fun of someone because they had type 1
diabetes.

I really don't think that Harry intended to deliver a psychiatric diagnosis
and then insult people with mental illness. I think, rather, he meant to
comment on Larry's fruitcakiness in terms of socio/political ideology.

Personally, I think that Larry finds himself "falling part" (his own words)
and uses his own state as grounds for limiting the liberty of others.
Perhaps because he thinks that his own liberty is going to be sacrificed
anyway, so it's not much of a loss if others lose theirs as well? Who knows?

Typical nannyism.

On May 12, 12:20 am, "KLC Lewis" wrote:

Personally, I think that Larry finds himself "falling part" (his own words)

I think Larry just fell off of the wagon...

A fellow just pulled into the adjacent finger just now got back from
21 years of cruising with his wife. I think he said he's 71.
But this is a bit of a ghetto dock, I suspect Larry is in a Swank
Country Club type marina...
right Larry?
tom
=-==

On May 14, 1:11 am, tlindly wrote:
On May 12, 12:20 am, "KLC Lewis" wrote:



Personally, I think that Larry finds himself "falling part" (his own words)

I think Larry just fell off of the wagon...

A fellow just pulled into the adjacent finger just now got back from
21 years of cruising with his wife. I think he said he's 71.
But this is a bit of a ghetto dock, I suspect Larry is in a Swank
Country Club type marina...
right Larry?
tom
=-==

You haven't been reading Larry very long, have you ?

He's not in a marina - he just goes to lots of them, and gets free
rides in exchange for electronics know-how. Not a bad deal, at all,
and keeps his ownership and membership costs to nothing :{))

L8R

Skip, still working...

Skip Gundlach wrote in
oups.com:

He's not in a marina - he just goes to lots of them, and gets free
rides in exchange for electronics know-how. Not a bad deal, at all,
and keeps his ownership and membership costs to nothing :{))



I've even had offers from Florida!.....(c;


Larry
--
Grade School Physics Factoid:
A building cannot freefall into its own footprint without
skilled demolition.

"Skip Gundlach" wrote in message
oups.com...
On May 14, 1:11 am, tlindly wrote:

You haven't been reading Larry very long, have you ?

He's not in a marina - he just goes to lots of them, and gets free
rides in exchange for electronics know-how. Not a bad deal, at all,
and keeps his ownership and membership costs to nothing :{))

L8R

Skip, still working...

I did the same thing for years, getting a berth in exchange for work. Then I
made the mistake of buying the boat when the owner decided to sell.

Leanne

On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:46:05 -0400, HK wrote:

Larry wrote:
krj wrote in news:tp11i.3529$ya.477
@bignews8.bellsouth.net:

Licensing is not the ultimate answer. Common sense and good judgment is
what is needed. At any age!


Licensing is simply taxation. TESTING is the problem on the roadways. The
tests are stupidly easy so even the dumbest humans can pass them. That's
wrong. Once cursory tested, the only thing they test for is cursory vision
until they are senile. That's what the problem is on the
roads...inadequate standards that need to be REtested, especially after
they reach retirement when things start to fall apart....where I am, now.

Larry


How about a mental stability test for you, Larry? Should nice guys like
you who are as nutty as a fruitcake be allowed on the waterways?

Harry, you *are* a neat guy and all, but do you think you could keep from
cross-posting your name-calling crap? Or do you believe that somehow helps
the group?