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[Bear Islander]

I agree

We can all agree that swimming to Stonedam is stupid. Unfortunately some people think that if he gets run over it's his own fault. He has every right to swim across the lake. A boater has an absolute responsibility to keep a look out. That includes looking out for swimmers, even in the middle of the broads.

There could be a perfectly innocent reason for a swimmer being in the water anywhere at anytime. It's the "get out of my way" attitude of some boaters that is the underlying problem.

[hazelnut]

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

I agree

We can all agree that swimming to Stonedam is stupid. Unfortunately some people think that if he gets run over it's his own fault. He has every right to swim across the lake. A boater has an absolute responsibility to keep a look out. That includes looking out for swimmers, even in the middle of the broads.

There could be a perfectly innocent reason for a swimmer being in the water anywhere at anytime. It's the "get out of my way" attitude of some boaters that is the underlying problem.

AGREE! 100% It may be stupid to be out in the Broads swimming but as an operator of a vessel one needs to be aware of any and all objects live or inanimate in the water, for everyone's safety including those on board.

[VtSteve]

Originally Posted by hazelnut

AGREE! 100% It may be stupid to be out in the Broads swimming but as an operator of a vessel one needs to be aware of any and all objects live or inanimate in the water, for everyone's safety including those on board.

I'll agree 100%. Although it's certainly not my first choice for comment. It's even more important to pay attention nowadays, there are all kinds of stupid people out there, and not just on the lake either.


BTW, do the Burnhams and Hills still have camps over on Bear? Been many moons since I was over that a way

[Bear Islander]

Originally Posted by VtSteve

I'll agree 100%. Although it's certainly not my first choice for comment. It's even more important to pay attention nowadays, there are all kinds of stupid people out there, and not just on the lake either.


BTW, do the Burnhams and Hills still have camps over on Bear? Been many moons since I was over that a way

Sure, behind Penny Island.

[EricP]

Great post thank you for the humurous perspective.

[alsadad]

Thanks to all who offered kind words about my first post. I must say I’m surprised at how quickly the thread degenerated into name calling, backpedaling, he said/she said, etc. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. Oh, the irony!

And can BI, or someone else for that matter, explain how I can be wrong (according to BI) when I copied and pasted his own words, including the “up to 130 mph” language, and then quoted him, correctly I thought, as denying he ever said that there were boats actually going 130 mph? And who said anything about camp directors going 130? Where did that come from?

[Gilligan]

Originally Posted by alsadad

Thanks to all who offered kind words about my first post. I must say I’m surprised at how quickly the thread degenerated into name calling, backpedaling, he said/she said, etc. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. Oh, the irony!

And can BI, or someone else for that matter, explain how I can be wrong (according to BI) when I copied and pasted his own words, including the “up to 130 mph” language, and then quoted him, correctly I thought, as denying he ever said that there were boats actually going 130 mph? And who said anything about camp directors going 130? Where did that come from?

It didn't take you long to fall victim to Bear Speak "reality" spin. Must be a communications malfunction . I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that tactic during your laborious hours of reading his flood of posts. Let us know if you get private mail from him calling you names or begging you to stop putting words in his mouth or some other sob story.

Thanks again alsadad. Post again.

[Bear Islander]

Originally Posted by Gilligan

It didn't take you long to fall victim to Bear Speak "reality" spin. Must be a communications malfunction . I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that tactic during your laborious hours of reading his flood of posts. Let us know if you get private mail from him calling you names or begging you to stop putting words in his mouth or some other sob story.

Thanks again alsadad. Post again.

Ok, That is way over the line.

I think you are gutless. You make snide comments and semi accusations. When I call you on it you send me PMs that say something else. Then you post that I am doing the very things you are doing.

Don't send any more PMs

[SteveA]

I have no dog in this fight.. I REALLY don't care which side wins the battle over speed limits. We pick and choose our times on the lake based on weather and general boat traffic. Speed limits, yes or no, won't change the way we use the lake.

but curious minds just had to know..

What exactly is "nit picking..." ?

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nit1.htm

abstract from the above web page:

"But what seems a little odd is that the figurative sense of nit-picking, of petty criticism or fault finding, is modern. The Oxford English Dictionary records it first only in 1951, in the form nit-picker, in this helpful explanation from Collier’s: “Two long-time Pentagon stand-bys are fly-speckers and nit-pickers. The first of these nouns refers to people whose sole occupation seems to be studying papers in the hope of finding flaws in the writing, rather than making any effort to improve the thought or meaning; nit-pickers are those who quarrel with trivialities of expression and meaning, but who usually end up without making concrete or justified suggestions for improvement”. The first of these two slang terms has died out, with the second taking on much of its meaning."

Disclaimer..
This post is meant to inform and amuse, any nasty replies will be ignored and laughed at.. I'm not trying to be a "fly-specker"

[Gilligan]

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

Ok, That is way over the line.

I think you are gutless. You make snide comments and semi accusations. When I call you on it you send me PMs that say something else. Then you post that I am doing the very things you are doing.

Don't send any more PMs

What incredible spin. If this is a joke no one else would get it unless they read your PMs to me.

You called me on "it" in a Private Message. You initiated the Private Message exchange. That consisted of 2 PMs by each of us. Yours first and mine last.

My 2nd and last PM to you May 6 at 6:16 AM: and the PM ended with my statement:

Originally Posted by Gilligan PM to Bear Islander - Subject = DONE

{snip} Should you wish to continue please take this to the public forum. Call me a liar in public if that is your belief. Let the readers or Webmaster decide for themselves if I have violated the rules or if I am a liar. I will not defend myself to you in private messages. I find your private message to be rude. I have not been called a liar since grade school.

yours truly,
Gilligan

I do not want to hijack this thread but I'll gladly post your original PM to me, my reply, your response and then my final PM to you in a different thread. Let the readers decide who is....uh, whatever you called me.

[Rattlesnake Guy]

Tremendously funny.

It is really too bad that even a fun thread can't just be fun but has to turn into the exact thing you so brilliantly did a parody of in the first place. At first I thought he was kidding, then realized the sad reality.

I look forward to your next round of observations.
No we don't
Yes we do.....

[Bear Islander]

Originally Posted by alsadad

Thanks to all who offered kind words about my first post. I must say I’m surprised at how quickly the thread degenerated into name calling, backpedaling, he said/she said, etc. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. Oh, the irony!

And can BI, or someone else for that matter, explain how I can be wrong (according to BI) when I copied and pasted his own words, including the “up to 130 mph” language, and then quoted him, correctly I thought, as denying he ever said that there were boats actually going 130 mph? And who said anything about camp directors going 130? Where did that come from?

That was MY attempt at humor. I guess mine was to subtle however. because not everybody got it.

The thing behind it is there has been a boat on the lake that is capable of 130 mph. However, as people have pointed out, I have no way of knowing if it ever HAS gone 130 mph. That may seem like a fine point but we like to pick nits around here.

Anybody out there ever picked a nit? I have.

[ITD]

Wow, that's all I can say after reading some of these comments, wow.

Once again alsadad, you nailed it, unfortunately some don't seem to have a sense of humor. Sadly, I think this thread should be locked before it deteriorates any further. IMHO.....

[Gilligan]

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

That was MY attempt at humor. I guess mine was to subtle however. because not everybody got it.

The thing behind it is there has been a boat on the lake that is capable of 130 mph. However, as people have pointed out, I have no way of knowing if it ever HAS gone 130 mph. That may seem like a fine point but we like to pick nits around here.

Anybody out there ever picked a nit? I have.

Your "attempt at humor"? I think the 130 mph statement has been mentioned and debated before but not as humor.

If it was a joke, I didn't get it. If you really were joking then thanks for trying to lighten it up around here.

Who here got BI's 130 mph joke?

[alsadad]

Sorry about that, BI. Of all the people, I guess I should have picked up on that. Looking back, it appears that Airwaves, and perhaps others, did.

By the way, is there any truth to the rumor that the camp director's 130 mph jaunt was confirmed by a naked kayaker with a radar gun? At night? Are there pictures?

[hazelnut]

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

That was MY attempt at humor. I guess mine was to subtle however. because not everybody got it.

The thing behind it is there has been a boat on the lake that is capable of 130 mph. However, as people have pointed out, I have no way of knowing if it ever HAS gone 130 mph. That may seem like a fine point but we like to pick nits around here.

Anybody out there ever picked a nit? I have.

Future tip: Next time put this face So we get it. Now that you point it out Bravo on the humor, it reads well as a joke.

[Islander]

I got the joke right away. He was making fun of himself. Most people make fun of others!

Gilligan, posting private messages is against forum rules.

[B R]

Originally Posted by Islander

I got the joke right away. He was making fun of himself. Most people make fun of others!

Gilligan, posting private messages is against forum rules.

you are a hypocrite. On this thread on post # 69 you took a Private message from me (which was a reply to yours accusing me of trying to find out who you are) and posted it's contents. I forget; you only care about the rules when they don't apply to you.

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...ead.php?t=5030

[Bear Islander]

Originally Posted by B R

you are a hypocrite. On this thread on post # 69 you took a Private message from me (which was a reply to yours accusing me of trying to find out who you are) and posted it's contents. I forget; you only care about the rules when they don't apply to you.

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...ead.php?t=5030

You are correct about number 69. Look back a few posts and see yourself doing the same thing.

[B R]

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

You are correct about number 69. Look back a few posts and see yourself doing the same thing.

not quite. first off, i am not the one sighting rules i have already broken. secondly, she accused me of doing something i was not doing. i did not appreciate her tone in the pm. i did not want to go through a pm exchange with her, so i communicated through the forum instead of a pm. i told her that her accusation was false; i NEVER copied from her PM and posted it on the site. it is not the same thing.

[hazelnut]

Originally Posted by B R

you are a hypocrite. On this thread on post # 69 you took a Private message from me (which was a reply to yours accusing me of trying to find out who you are) and posted it's contents. I forget; you only care about the rules when they don't apply to you.

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...ead.php?t=5030

Personally with post #69 and the behavior I've seen on this and other threads I am AMAZED at Don's patience with Islander and baffled that Islander is not moderated. Just my humble opinion though.

The original post in this thread was hilarious and I point back to how funny it is when summarized in such a concise manner. It guess it has turned into a playground argument. It will be great when the vote is finally heard. Then we can all argue over whether or not the Governor will sign it.

[alsadad]

So, HB847 is scheduled for a vote in the NH Senate on Thursday. Since I've tried my hand at summarizing something that has already happened, I thought, what the heck, I’ll try summarizing something that hasn't happened yet. As Phoenix says, it's tough to make predictions especially about the future, so I'll hedge my bets:

If HB 847 is enacted:Celebratory meeting at an undisclosed island location.
Attendee #1. Kindly pass the cracked pepper water crackers.
#2. Would you care for some brie with that?
#3. Hey, this Cheez-Whiz'll really perk that up for ya. $2.99 a case at Wal-Mart
#4. These canapés are exquisite.
#5. I wonder if this champagne would lose its effervescence in outer space.
#6. If I use my telephoto lens and take a picture that's slightly out of focus while hanging from the chandelier, that wine bottle and shrimp cocktail will look like an ocean racer running down a naked kayaker at full throttle in the Weirs Channel.
#7. Stop it. We won. You don’t need to do that stuff anymore.

Chairman: the meeting will now come to order. First, I'd like to congratulate all of you. Thanks to your hard work, those rubes in the NH Senate fell for it! Now, for our first order of business, all in favor of the motion to petition the NH Legislature for a law banning black flies say "Aye."

Chorus of "Aye."

#8. Sorry I'm late. I had to paddle all the way over from Squam. We've got to do something to keep those big, scary, fast cars off of 25B.
__________

If HB 847 does not pass:Celebratory meeting at an unnamed beach bar.
Attendee #1: Let's get that keg tapped
#2. These Cheese Doodles rock.
#3. Did you see those wimpy kids start crying when I swamped their canoe? What are they so afraid of?
#4. Yeah, I thought the camp director was gonna wet his pants. Way cool!
#5. I heard it's supposed to rain on our poker run this Saturday.
#6. Bummer, dude. All my buddies from Lake George, Sebago and Oregon are trailering their Cigarettes here for the weekend.
#7. Some guy in a beige boat told me that 35 was inappropriate for the Channel. I said, “You're right, pal. But if you fire up those blue lights and clear some of these boneheads out of my way, I could make some real good time.”

Chairman: the meeting will now come to order. First, I'd like to congratulate all of you. Thanks to your hard work, those rubes in the NH Senate fell for it! Now, for our first order of business, all in favor of the motion to petition the NH Legislature for a law banning black flies say "Aye."

Chorus of "Aye."

#8. Sorry I'm late. My NorTech needs a full head of steam to make the jump from Squam to Center Harbor but some elderly couple in an old wooden Chris Craft kept getting in the way.
__________

Well, at least everyone agrees about the black flies.

[hazelnut]

Originally Posted by alsadad

So, HB847 is scheduled for a vote in the NH Senate on Thursday. Since I've tried my hand at summarizing something that has already happened, I thought, what the heck, I’ll try summarizing something that hasn't happened yet. As Phoenix says, it's tough to make predictions especially about the future, so I'll hedge my bets:

Well, at least everyone agrees about the black flies.

SPOT ON! Pure genius.

[Islander]

Originally Posted by B R

you are a hypocrite. On this thread on post # 69 you took a Private message from me (which was a reply to yours accusing me of trying to find out who you are) and posted it's contents. I forget; you only care about the rules when they don't apply to you.

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...ad.Phip?t=5030

You are correct, except for the hypocrite part. I posted a PM from you. A while later it was pointed out to me that it was a violation of forum rules. That is why, when Gilligan said he was going to post a PM, I gave him that reminder. I should informed him in a PM to prevent the drama.

[codeman671]

Originally Posted by Islander

You are correct, except for the hypocrite part. I posted a PM from you. A while later it was pointed out to me that it was a violation of forum rules. That is why, when Gilligan said he was going to post a PM, I gave him that reminder. I should informed him in a PM to prevent the drama.

Give it a rest. If our Webmaster thought that either of you was in any serious violation on this, I am sure he would have taken action.

[Merrymeeting]

alsadad,

Thank you for your comic whit and the most intelligent writing seen among all the posts. I hope you continue to post even after this debate wanes.

Perhaps then your humor won't be lost almost immediately in the, "yes you did., no I didn't. yes you did! no I didn't! You did! I didn't!" noise.

[chipj29]

Originally Posted by Islander

I got the joke right away. He was making fun of himself. Most people make fun of others!

Gilligan, posting private messages is against forum rules.

I doubt that posting a message, private or otherwise, that he himself wrote, is violating any rules.

[Gilligan]

Originally Posted by Islander

Gilligan, posting private messages is against forum rules.

Another one of those things that you say because it helps you and your friend BI. Me pointing out another misleading post by BI may hurt your cause but it is not against forum rules. Show me that rule Islander, Are you a self appointed forum policeman?

You speed limit proponents seem to have your own way to read rules. The forum rules forbid posting info, "...invasive of a person's privacy,..."

I sure CAN post letters sent to me. Particularly when it contradicts what Bear Islander is publicly trying to have you believe about me or proves his attempt to discredit me.

What is against the rules is posting something like this: Joe Forum Member lives ****.... That is an invasion of privacy, even if he sends it to me in PM it is private information. You, BI and a few others seem to debate by distracting from the issues that make you look bad.

Please show me the forum rule you believe I violated and prevents me from posting forum related mail I received. Or reply with spin.

[Mashugana]

alsadad, come back. You have not posted to this thread for over 2 weeks. We need your insight.

Any new predictions over the last 2 weeks? We need more intelligent posts from you.

Thank you and thanks to Webmaster.

Safe water use for everyone