[Rhodes22-list] The Sound and The Fury !: Pure Sailing Subject Matter

[Jim White]

It's been one tough week ya'll. I've had my own equivalent of Hurricane 
Ivan here.

Think I'll head down to le Menagerie with a bottle of 25 year old Flor de 
Cana rum (Yes Rummy...it's the good stuff), and see if I can grease my 
relative bearings this evening.
jw

At 01:42 PM 09/17/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I just gotta ask......What is this internet obsession with one trick (one 
>subject) ponies. Why is it not possible to have "general" discussions 
>about stuff on any mailing list/bulletin board without having to hear from 
>the subject police. It *clearly* states in the charter for this list that 
>the discussion will follow whatever is of interest to it's members. It 
>says nothing about sticking to sailing or even boat topics.....except that 
>it won't. Want to turn this list boring?????? Just restrict the subject to 
>boats/sailing only. Most of the members of this list have been "friends" 
>for quite some time. We talk about stuff, between boat/sailing questions. 
>Got a boat/sailing question??? Fire away, we are happy to talk about that 
>too, but in between, we talk about other stuff. If you don't like other 
>stuff, that's why you have a delete button.
>
>Frank, you're certainly welcome here, but you must understand the nature 
>of *this* list, If you are looking for pure sailing subject matter, you 
>are in the wrong place.
>
>Rik
>
>
>At 12:43 PM 9/17/2004, you wrote:
>>"Toil, toil, toil and trouble, cauldron's burn and cauldron's bubble," 
>>all hail ..........?"  Politics has become the opiate of the people and 
>>maybe this is a good thing because there is a new interest in the process.
>>
>>Whoever "wins" is not looking at a cakewalk as the issues of the times 
>>are complex such as the "Middle East" which is one of the many conundrums.
>>
>>But here's my message folks, soon the election will be a distant memory 
>>and we will all be unified in one thing, "We are Rhodies," and we can get 
>>back to what we love and what we enjoy, talking to one another about our 
>>great boats !
>>
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