On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:55:39 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

K. Smith wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
thunder wrote:

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:56:07 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:


On the ship itself, is it Harry S Truman or Harry S. Truman? The first is
correct, the second is not.

Interesting, I haven't found a picture showing the name on the ship, but
according to this link it's S. You better keep it quiet, Harry. It'll
cost us a fortune to fix that mistake.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/s..._bt394-98.html



President Truman used to call the "dayside" at the KC Star on occasion
to speak with the copy chief and remind him there was no period after S,
and that he had no middle name. At least twice a year, the dayside Star
got it wrong.

Those of us on the "nightside" of the paper, the am Times, knew better.
The best copy editors worked the night shift and they beat "proper Star
style" into us. Nothing was worse than being a "newbie" on that paper,
sitting in the front row, and hearing "BOY!?" over the loudspeaker. You
looked up and there was a 70-year-old grammarian staring you down from
50 feet away. Gulp. "Don't you know there's no period after the S in
Truman's name, boy?"

BOY!? was the universal greeting for a first-year reporter. It mattered
not what gender or color you were.




Hmmm Krause trying to pretend he knows something??? anything at all???
I smell another Krause lie he-)

What you smell is your own stool dripping down your leg.




Truman did not have a middle name so I guess technically the correct
written form probably might not have a period after the "S".


You guess "technically?" Indeed.


Anal Krause has then concocted this lie around that well known, trivial
& rather boring fact. From there on in I think the story is a full on
fabrication. The bit about "President" Truman ringing (pre 1953) is very
suspect in itself (Krause was at best a toddler, I use "was" because
it's still not likely he has the brains to stand upright & walk:-)) &
it's either local paper story telling or just yet another outright
Krause fabrication; as all his other lies are.

Hmmmm. Did I write that President Truman rang up the paper pre-1953? I
don't think so. I wouldn't know, anyway, since I didn't work for the
paper until into the 1960s. I refer to Truman as President Truman,
because even after they leave office, our Presidents are referred to
with their title in appropriate form. Thus, if you had the opportunity
to meet former President Gerry Ford, or former President Jimmy Carter,
you would still as a matter of politeness address them as "Mr.
President," "Sir," or, less formally, "President Ford," or "President
Carter." Or in written form, you might refer to them as "Former
President Ford."

BTW, in checking the list of advertisers and exhibitors for some
upcoming boat shows, I found no reference to an Australian-manufactured
diesel outboard motor*. Are you holding off for the 2006 model year?



* Australian-manufactured...means a Japanese diesel motor welded on top
of a Scott-A****er lower unit, with the whole mess painted from a $1.99
can of non-rust-inhibiting off-white spray paint from the WW II surplus
store.

Harry, you were fairly caught and fairly hung out to dry. You should
stick to boating. Or, you should send your posts to basskisser to see
if they pass the lie detector test.

Where, by the way, are the 20-30 of my racist posts you felt the need
to comment on? Hmmm?

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!