"Don White" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:
snip usual c*ap...

Notice that it goes, Bert's post, Harry's response to Bert's post, then
Don comes along and attempts to pile on.
Hee hee...I was wondering when your girlfriend JimH would break his own
peace accord and attack me again. This is the 3rd or 4th truce he's broken
since the New Year. You two make a good couple.

You do you hang around elementary school playgrounds? You are picking up
their habits!

Bert Robbins wrote:


It was called USMCR.


What did the 'R' stand for.... Reject??

Bert Robbins wrote:


You do you hang around elementary school playgrounds? You are picking up
their habits!


I have no idea what their 'habits' are Bertie...why don't you tell us?

"Don White" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:


You do you hang around elementary school playgrounds? You are picking up
their habits!

I have no idea what their 'habits' are Bertie...why don't you tell us?

I'll ask my 8 year old daughter, you have about the same intelligence and
desires.

"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:
snip usual c*ap...

Notice that it goes, Bert's post, Harry's response to Bert's post, then
Don comes along and attempts to pile on.
Hee hee...I was wondering when your girlfriend JimH would break his own
peace accord and attack me again. This is the 3rd or 4th truce he's
broken since the New Year. You two make a good couple.


Sorry Donny but you are the one who decided the *truce* was broken several
weeks ago. Shortly after that you went into my bozo bin with Krause and
company. I have not replied to one of your posts since I killfiled you,
until now that is. And this is the first time since then that I have
replied directly to you.

Yes, it was a personal attack. The truth hurts, doesn't it Don?

Good article on cost of gas. Look at the Weds, 4/13 column
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/columns/walters/



wrote in message
oups.com...
If fuel gets to $5-6 a gallon, it might have some effect.

People go boating knowing full well that the entire activity is
expensive and cannot be justified financially from *any* perspective.
If $100 a day for fuel becomes $150 a day, or even $200- very few
people will stop boating as a result. After all, with $1000/month boat
payments going out 12 months a year who is going to let a few hundred
extra per month for fuel keep them ashore during the prime boating
season?

I do believe that high fuel prices will have some effect on the *type*
of boats that people will buy. For the last decade or so, the only
thing peole have cared much about is "how fast will it go?" I think
more buyers are likely to begin considering fuel economy as well as
speed when choosing boats, engines, etc.

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:53:44 GMT, "Bill McKee"
wrote:

Good article on cost of gas. Look at the Weds, 4/13 column
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/columns/walters/

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The wholesale cost of gasoline is widely quoted in financial papers
such as the Wall Street Journal, usually price per gallon based on
some large quantity like a tanker load. Last time I looked it was
around $1.60 net of any highway or local sales tax. Not surprising
that it's well over $2 at the pump given that wholesale level. Nor is
the wholesale price surprising when the unrefined feed stock (crude
oil) is over $1 per gallon. Everyone who touches the product along
the way has to make some money on the transaction in order to stay in
business.

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:10:27 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

From Oakland County, Michigan


Will gas prices dock boats?
Enthusiasts may keep craft out of water, but businesses doubt it

While I find gasoline prices alittle anoying, it will not effect me
and my boating at all. I am very wealthy, thus, the prices dont bother
me as much.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
Hopefully, it'll keep some of the stink boat yahoos home. Probably the
ones who are stretched thin financially to begin with. They're easy to
spot. They're the ones in a $50,000.00 floating Camaro, which come to the
dock with a 5 foot piece of plastic rope at each end of the boat. "That
real rope's purty expensive".



"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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From Oakland County, Michigan


Will gas prices dock boats?
Enthusiasts may keep craft out of water, but businesses doubt it

As the weather warms and boat owners begin putting their craft in the
water, the businesses that cater to them are speculating how record gas
prices will affect the sport.



Plastic rope? What? There's a replacement for manilla?

Remember manilla rope? Man, that stuff was easy to splice, not like
today's "plastic rope," even the good plastic rope. Had a nice hand to it.

You know the plastic rope I'm talking about? The stuff that's so light, you
can't throw it? Gets all kinked within days of bringing it home, and holds
the shape forever? It's so much fun to watch some boaters attempting to dock
with that stuff on a windy day.

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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Yeah, the yellow crap. Floats. I hate it.

--

But it does have a useful purpose. The plastic, floating, brightly
colored
line is recommended (or maybe even required) for use with a life ring or
other mob floatation device.

Or as a waterski tow line.

Eisboch

Yeah, but not as docking line. If rope's not heavy enough to throw, it's
useless. Sometimes, you can simply drop that plastic crap and it'll defy
gravity & land in the wrong place. Too light & springy.