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Subject: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 20 Oct 10 - 09:55 PM Well, well, well... Seems that ol' hillbilly is in fir an adventure... My poor brother, bless his heart, wouldn't be happy if his life wasn't a pickle... About 3 years ago he took his 43 foot twin-Cat boat up to a mall town in the upper Cheseapeake Bay to have the bottom cleaned and repainted and kinda forgot exactly where it was... You'd have to have lived a lifeitme around him to understand... Actually, he knew it was there but poor 'ol brother goes thru periods where he has lots of money and periods where he doesn't... Very interesting how that happens??? So, in the 3 years that the boat has been where it is it has racked up alot of storage charges, been repossessed and the "usaul" for my poor brother... During the time it has been there the Cat (bigass deisle engines) locked up from inactivity and this and that and thast and this but he has been going over faithfully every weekend and after 6 months has the boat seaworthy (hopefully) and running again... Well, my poor brother laso owns a beat up, run down marina in Deale, Marland where he would love nuthin' more than to get his boat back to before winter sets in and so... ...the two of us are going to the boat on Friday night and try to get it back to Deale on Saturday... Now I'm a purdy decent 1st mate/deck hand but I can kinda see us either broke doen in the middle of the Bay or under arrest for no registration but, hey... ...no guts, no glory... So I'm in... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: maeve Date: 20 Oct 10 - 10:09 PM Glory be, Bobert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 20 Oct 10 - 10:12 PM My family motto, Bobert: Sine Virtus, Sine Laus. (No guts, no glory) I can't imagine you being locked up -- it ain't yer boat. Hope yer bro has bail money, just in case, though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bill D Date: 20 Oct 10 - 10:35 PM ♫Waterbound, and I can't get home Down in North Carolina.♫ well, Maryland....sheesh, you sure know how to have fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Ebbie Date: 20 Oct 10 - 10:38 PM hehehahah Good luck! hehahhahhahahhehheh |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 20 Oct 10 - 10:40 PM Wanta go, Bill??? I mean, brother say he has bail money and a day with him is like winning the lottery... Never a dull moment... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 20 Oct 10 - 10:51 PM Wow, Eb... I just wrote a lon post about my brother's life which didn't post and I mentioned in it that you wrote that my life is interesting but compared to my poor ol' brother's life mine is a tad on the boring side... Man, he lives right on the edge... We was like in our early 20s and he's got a beat up old Cesna and we're like purdy high, maybe 'round 7500 feet where the air thins out and he just up' n' pulls back on the yoke and put the nose up toward the sky, stalls the sumabich and then preceeds to drop the nose and fly that beat up Cesna toward the ground at an amazing clip before pullin' up on the yoke and finally leveling off at about 300 feet over the Potomac River... The boy ain't right... No matter, I did get even but that's another story... You in, Bill??? If so, I'll make sure that bro has bail-4-3... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Amos Date: 20 Oct 10 - 11:27 PM Check the fire extinguishers and the peanut butter supply before you cast pff, amigo. Lifejackets, too. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: open mike Date: 21 Oct 10 - 04:00 AM you sho' nuff know how to have adventures! wish i could be there and just dangle a fishing line off the back as you put put along... how abouts you take along a gps machine and plot your course on a map and send up updates along the way so's we can follow y'all?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Beer Date: 21 Oct 10 - 07:22 AM Bring a plug of chewing tobacco for when you get sea sick. ad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: olddude Date: 21 Oct 10 - 07:29 AM I would bring Kendall with ya ... you will most likely get back safe being how the Captain knows all about the ship stuff and seas and that sort of things .. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Noreen Date: 21 Oct 10 - 07:33 AM I'd come too- but I'm working Friday :( Hope all goes well! |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Noreen Date: 21 Oct 10 - 07:39 AM I fear the brother and Kendall might not hit it off... possibly... |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Leadfingers Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:05 AM Sounds like it COULD be FUN Bobert ! If I was your side of the pond I'd come along ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:07 AM Bro get along fine with everyone he meets... That might be part of his problem... As fir navgatin' 'round the bay... No problem on a clear day fir the boy... He did, however, find himself in a resricted miliatry base one night in a terrible storm but even that ended up fine as he quickly made friends and ended up having a few beers and swapping lies with the Navy guys that night before heading back out the following morning... Sea sick??? Nah... I've crewed a couple times on a racing sailboat in the Bay... I got me sea legs... The only thing that concerns me is the boat itself... He says it's gonna make it but the operative phrase here is "he says"??? That in itself is a scarey proposition... Ya' see, brother "says" lots of stuff that sounds like it could be true... I mean, he got some secret little lfe goin' behind the scenes that I am clueless about but... ...that's what makes these things all that much more fun... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: greg stephens Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:10 AM The Boat Band would be there with a sack full of cans beer if we could get there in time....but alas... |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: SINSULL Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:12 AM Time to sing a chorus of The Hydrogen Peroxide Blues, I think. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:16 AM Huh??? No, I understand the beers but hydrogen peroxide??? Musta missed that day in school... |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: greg stephens Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:24 AM Bobert: my advice, based on years of experiience, is make sure you have a little dinghy with you, tied on top or towed behind. Then when the big boat sinks, get in the dinghy with the beer and await developments. I don't understand the hydrogen peroxide bit either, what's that about? It bleaches your hair, or blows you up, but neither seem relevant. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory..& Lyric Correction From: maeve Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:49 AM Lyrics for Gordon's "Old Fat Boat" (aka Mattapoisett Harbor Blues aka Hydrogen Peroxide Blues) are in the DT, here: @displaysong.cfm?SongID=4398 I've pasted in full lyrics anyway- there are some problems with the DT version, so here they are from Gordon's own site: Old Fat Boat Be sure to read the story of how the song came to be. ***************************************** Old Fat Boat Here I am, man, all alone again Anchored away the hell and gone again Another mile from another town Wind Northeast and the rain coming down. Home is the sailor, home from the sea; A home for the mildew, friend to the flea – I don't care, man, I'm happy. I got an old fat boat, she's slow but handsome Hard in the chine and soft in the transom I love her well; she must love me But I think it's only for my money No more tobacco, no more cheese; I'm sprung in the back and lame in the knees. It's a damned good thing I'm easy to please; There ain't nothing in town on a Sunday. You know, I got milk and I got ice; I got home-made bread, a little old, but nice. Everybody puts their cooking hat on When you tell 'em you're leaving in the morning. Yes, I got coffee, I got tea, I got the beans and the beans got me. I got tuna fish, I got rum, I got a two-pound splinter in my thumb. So I'll take my toddy and my vitamin C And the radio for my company. Oh, me. I got the hydrogen peroxide blues. Well mercy, mercy, I do declare If half the fun of going is the getting there, Mercy, Percy, you better start rowing, 'Cause the other half of getting there is going. Old Fat Boat was recorded on the album "A Rogue's Gallery of Songs for the 12-String" and is also in the songbook "One to Sing, One to Haul" |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: maeve Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:57 AM Read the lyrics, listen to the song- hydrogen peroxide was to prevent infection from the 2 pound splinter in his thumb. and the first "aka" above should read "Mattapoisett Harbor Inventory". A correction would be appreciated. Maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 21 Oct 10 - 09:23 AM Hydrogen Peroxide (a/k/a H2O2) has been used as an oxidizer in liquid rocket fuels. Take a bunch of alcohol along, Bobert, and I'll betcha that if you add the hydrogen peroxide to it something will happen! You'll git where you're goin' faster, anyway. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bill D Date: 21 Oct 10 - 11:18 AM Me? In a boat with TWO crazy guys who probably will be drinking Iron City? Why sure....except I gotta help Rita with her craft show all weekend. You know how it is.... **grin** |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 21 Oct 10 - 06:51 PM Well okay, maeve... I'm stayin' at my sister in law's tonight so I'll have to listen when I get home... But I like the lyrics, except the splinter... Geetar players hate splinters... Getting kinda excited to see how this one is going to play out... Poor brother has a knack fir gettin' in and out of pickles... "Small dinghy", my butt, gregster... Just ask the P-Vine!!! (it's a boat, Boberdz...) Nevermind... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: maeve Date: 21 Oct 10 - 06:59 PM Gordon Bok wasn't too happy with the splinter, either. Between rowing and playing his guitar, it was not a welcome visitor. I haven't found good online sound file for the song yet, Bobert. The trip sounds like it might be kind of fun. Have a nonfatal adventure, and return hale and hearty to P-Vine. Maeve |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: gnu Date: 21 Oct 10 - 07:29 PM Just make sure ya steer clear of the warden's bales a hay and the nets... oh... youse likely don't have salmon poachers down there. Carry on. But, strap yer vest on tight and stay seated at all times... put the cooler close! If ya gotta piss, use a bucket or throttle down or throw it out over the side while seated... if ya kin do that, congrats! |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:06 PM You gotta be shittin' me, gn-ze... I mean, we'll be out in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay!!! If I wanta pea take you a guess where I'm gonna do it??? Clue: rhymes with' bover the dide... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Amos Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:58 PM Check her for leaks before you take off, and test the effing bilge pump, man. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 21 Oct 10 - 09:15 PM Don't they still hang pirates who ply the Chesapeake? |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 21 Oct 10 - 09:28 PM Here's the deal, Amos... I fully expect the boat to sink... But, knowin' my brother, it will sink as the Coast Guard is askin' him questions about registration and the like... That's kinda like why I ain't sayin' where we are departing from 'cause there's folks here who would more than likely make a call tippin' the authorities off... But sink??? Yeah, it's a definate possibility... I mean, bro knows all about boats... He should... He's owned at least a dozen of them... One did sink... It was a wood boat that he bought from the Virgina State Police at auction... About 30 foot boat... Twin 454's and a purdy badass fir a wood boat... The cops used it to run down drug smugglers... I named it the "Wooden Eye" 'cause it was a drug survalence boat but his wife at the time didn't like that name so... ...it kinda sunk... Didn't do much damage... Little clean up after pumpin' it out... He should have kept that boat but since them days he ahs been tradin' boats and airplanes and wives and careers and cars and, and... But, yeah, I expect that this boat will sink Saturday... Why else would I want to be on it??? I mean, fun is fun... Ain't like the Titanic... Kinda hard to explain... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 21 Oct 10 - 09:28 PM Save the Bay! Don't take any piss off of Bobert! |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 22 Oct 10 - 10:30 AM Well, Rap... The Bay has been used as the DC area's ceptic system going back to the days of George Washington... I mean, if it was good enough for George Washington to pea in than it oughta be okay fir me... Just waitin' fir my bro now... As per usual he's waited until the last minute to to line up a ride back to pick up his Suburban so we can actually get home tomorrow night... BTW, latest Vegas odds are 3-5 on it sinking... 2-5 on poor bro gettin' busted... 4-7 that one of the engines won't start... 2-7 that neither will start 2-3 that my bro will call me and say that somethin' else came up... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 22 Oct 10 - 10:37 AM Just take the damned boat, Bobert. Hide it somewhere along the shore. I'll tell you where you can get cannon for it, so when they're installed let me know and we'll go looting, plundering and burning (in that order). We can enlist a crew just from the Down Easters alone here on the Cat. Then we can liberate Skarpi and go plunder Europe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 22 Oct 10 - 10:45 AM Good idea, Rap... |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Ebbie Date: 22 Oct 10 - 10:58 AM I will pray for you, Beaubear. *bg* |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 23 Oct 10 - 07:44 AM DID HE DO IT? Were Bobert and Bro. successful in liberating the boat? Did they avoid the maritime police, the Coast Guard, and the sea monsters who winter over in Chesapeake Bay? Or will they hang in chains between two tides as a warning to others? Stay tuned.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: frogprince Date: 23 Oct 10 - 09:33 AM Was it Bobert That bluesman Bobert What got drownded In the deep blue sea? |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: GUEST,Ebbie Date: 24 Oct 10 - 12:35 AM In and on the seething waves in the trenches, on the towers now the blue and then the gray Beaubie fought for bloody hours |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: maeve Date: 24 Oct 10 - 05:58 AM Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Is the boat reduced to rubble? Bobert had better be buoyant Because, because,because... Because of the wonderful things he does. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 24 Oct 10 - 11:50 AM Bobert stood on the heaving deck Heaving lunch up by the peck. Do not worry or grieve for him Stealing boats is still a sin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Richard Bridge Date: 24 Oct 10 - 11:55 AM Damn, I was so hoping for a happy ending... |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: GUEST,Ebbie Date: 24 Oct 10 - 12:32 PM lol |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 24 Oct 10 - 05:37 PM Well, as advertised, the trip was full of supense, and surprises (some okay and others purdy crappy) but both brother and I are alive... Well, I'm alive... Haven't seen poor brother since about noon today so I really can't attest to anything on his part... Grusome and less grusome details later after I'm had a hot bowl of chili and see if I can gather in those details in a manner that folks might understand them... BTW, poor brother might even stick his head in as a Guest to collaborate the bizarre trip... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: greg stephens Date: 24 Oct 10 - 05:43 PM Well done my hearties: Drake, Hawkins and John Paul Jones wopuld be proud. Come on Miss Nancy put your best dress on Come on Miss Nancy 'fore that steamboat's gone. The banjos are strumming the same old tune Up on the deck there's a place to spoon Settle down close 'neath the silvery moon Sailing on the Chesapeake bay. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Desert Dancer Date: 24 Oct 10 - 05:46 PM I didn't think her name was Nancy, I thought it was something like "P-Vine" -- ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: gnu Date: 24 Oct 10 - 06:01 PM "supense, and surprises"? And now more suspense. I hope it's worth the surprises. Overall, glad you are able to post. |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 24 Oct 10 - 06:33 PM Engines out in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, the port side awash from the waves as they lash over the taffrail, Bobert aloft trying to rig a sail in the teeth of the storm, and a revenue cutter in sight.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Bobert Date: 24 Oct 10 - 06:37 PM Wel, gn-ze... This one is definately worth the price of admission... And I gotta go back to see what the final odds were on various scenerios to see who the boys in Vegas made out... Okay, I might not have had the entire story in thinkerator but I can now divulge certain corrections that should be considered... Fiorst of all, seem that my poor brother and the bank that was fiancing the boat weren't seein' eye to eye and so the bank repo'd it about 3 years ago and took it to _________, Md. where the bank, in it's infanite wisdom, just let it sit and sit and while it was sittin' both deisel engines kinda, ahhhhh, locked up from no being run... It's way too convoluted a story, which BTW has nuthin' to do with the events of this pasy weekend, on how my poor brother got it back so we'll just leave that alon... Suffice to say, he did get it back and there it was having been sittin' in a Marina for closew to three years with locked up engines... Fast forward to the this summer and my poor brother having to drive almost 3 hours to get to the boat... P.B. (poor brother) finally got the engines unlocked afer spending weekend after weekend oiling, pounding, pleadin' the sumabiches to run... That kinda where "The Trip from Hell" story begins... So we' got to the boat Friday night with the goal of wirng the "field" side of the two rebuild alternators to "hot" for the trip the following morning... Got the first one wired and got it fired up and accordin' to the voltmeter it wasn't workin'... So we wired the second one hoping that if that alternator worked that we'd be fine if we just didn't run anything much that leeded 'lectricty but... ...that engine wouldn't fire... Bad starter motor... I mean, he swears it had run the last time it ran which was a couple weeks ago but it wouldn't start so we basicly said, "Screw it" 'cause it was late and there wasn't much light down the engine compartment and we hadn't eaten or got drunk yet... I mean, man gotta have his priorties, right??? Next morning I climb down the engine hole and put a box heater on the starter motor and engine to get things warm and left it there fir about hour 'er so before tryin' to crank it... Well, on the 3rd or 4th attempt it fired and that was good... Also good was the alternator on it was workin'... The bad thing was that the internal voltage regulator wasn't so it was chargin' balls to wall... Then we fired the one that had fired the night before so there we were with two running Cummings deisel engines, one alternator not charging and the other charging too much... So after alot of head scrtaching and several coin flips we decided, "Ahhhhhh, screw it, let's go" and so go we did... Now I told ya'll that there was some good stuff and we made it over to the marina that sells fuel and P.B. was prepared to stcik about $300 worth in the two tanks but it only took half that much to fill 'um while we didn't dare shut them engines off... Fols at them marinas don't like ya' to do that but luck had it there was like some high school girl running the marina and I kinda kept her distracted... So, here we were with two running engines, two full tanks a working bilge pump and a chart of where we ***hoped*** to go... Well, I have to say that the first half of the trip went as smooth as we could have hoped for... We didn't sink... We didn't get lost... We didn't get arrested,,, The boat didn't get impounded... All in all, things were going real okay... Well ya'll ever watch a football game where everything goes right in the first half but no so in the second??? (To be continued...) B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: Rapparee Date: 24 Oct 10 - 06:57 PM That's when her father caught you in the beam ends, so to speak, huh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: No guts, no glory... Bobert to... From: GUEST,Ebbie Date: 24 Oct 10 - 07:23 PM Since you are able to write you did make it back but we son't know yet if you made it on your own power of if you were escorted and supported by the stalwart arms of the law. Hurry back, Bobert. |
