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[Brad Haslett]

Rummy,

Nah!  I save apologies for when they involve $$$$.  A student wrote me up a
couple of months ago for swearing in the classroom.  He was playing "stump
the professor" with engine operation and I'd had enough so I explained
engines with the suck/squeeze/bang/blow theory  and a couple of other choice
words. I knew at the time he was setting me up and was going to run it up
the PC flagpole but couldn't resist taking the bait.  This list is one of
the few places where you ignore the PC police and speak freely.  If we lose
that, we've lost period.

Brad



On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:23 PM, <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:

> Brad,
> That almost sounded like an apology. What gives?
>
> Rummy
>
>
> In a message dated 7/23/2008 12:24:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> flybrad at gmail.com writes:
>
> "A more  perfect Union"
>
> The search of perfection will always result in  frustration.  A former
> client
> of mine gave me a plastic bound copy of  "Chairman Malcom's Little Green
> Book", published a few years later than my  wife's first grade reader was
> published (Little Red Book from Chairman Mao  for those of you who suffer
> from ADHD like me).  One of points from  Forbes "little book" that I repeat
> to myself every day is this:  "look  in the mirror, if you find perfection
> there, seek it in  others."
>
> How's this for a concept?  Sailing has it's  dangers.  You can fall of the
> boat, the weather can kick your ass, the  boom can hit you in the head,
> etc.,
> etc., etc. An e-mail list on same said  boat can excite you, piss you off,
> challenge you, and inform you all at the  same time.
>
> Forgive me for being the designated 'a-hole' on the list,  but life isn't
> always fair - the winds don't always blow at the optimum  speed for your
> sail
> plan, the water isn't always a gazillion feet deep, and  mechanical
> thingies
> don't always perform as designed.
>
> If you buy a  sailboat thinking it will be Nirvana, you'll be sorely
> disappointed.   If you're looking for the Nirvana of sailboats, Stan did a
> damn good  job!
>
> Your mileage may vary!
>
> Brad
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at  11:01 AM, John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com>
> wrote:
>
> > At 10:50  AM 7/23/2008 -0400, R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> > >You are correct,  communities change. People come and people go, but
> > >this list has a  charter. It's kinda like the constitution .....  The
> > >founding  fathers  were brilliant people.
> >
> > Hmmm, as long as we're  using that analogy, I might point out that the
> > United States  Constitution has 27 amendments.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > John  Lock
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> >  Lake Sinclair, GA
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
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