O/T: About Beer

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:47:16 -0400, FrozenNorth
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 3/28/11 9:25 AM, Robatoy wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>>> [email protected]:
>>>
>>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>>> wedding?"
>>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>>
>>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out again?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards
>>> Han
>>> email address is invalid
>>
>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>
>We bought this house in 97, all harvest gold appliances, and orange shag
>in the livingroom. Carpet was gone before any of our stuff entered the
>house. Appliances we just replaced as they died, all gone now.

Our first house had an avocado 'fridge, harvest gold stove, and yellow
bathroom fixtures. Every room was a different color shag, red living room,
blue master bedroom, orange guest room, and my son's room was green. The
carpeting was replaced soon enough but the appliances were still there when we
moved out.

On Mar 28, 9:05=A0pm, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Robatoy" wrote:
> > Good thing you used a smiley. These 'lakes' are actually more like
>
> inland oceans.
> Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,820 square miles (82,413 km2),
> [1] which is approximately the size of South Carolina.
> I remember having a pint (ON topic) with the skipper of a Monrovian
> bulk carrier who made a voyage from Thunder Bay to Sault St Marie
> during a bit of 'weather' in December... his face was still as white
> as the cheeks of my ass. (We didn't actually compare as such, but....)
> He told me in no uncertain terms that he had never seen anything like
> it.
> Big waves with a short wavelength pounded the shit out of his ocean
> going boat, stuff broke, crew panicked.
> It's one thing to ride a 40ft wave, another if there are three in a
> row within the length of your ship. Those waves are called Three
> Sisters and will mess you up real good.... you know snap 25,000+ ton
> ships in half like The Edmund Fitzgerald.
> Water like that gets to have beaches, shorelines stop being shorelines
> if you can't see the other side.
> ---------------------------------------
> Lake Erie, being the most shallow (the western third only averages
> about 30 ft) of the Great Lakes, is also the nastiest one to sail.
>
> There are more wrecks on the bottom of Lake Erie that all of the other
> lakes combined.
>
> Lew

You made Miller's day, Lew. He found something to argue about.

On Mar 29, 12:00=A0am, "Lobby Dosser" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Josepi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]...> Learn to read more closely "nonsense=
" boy
>
> > How many are still on the bottom, as he stated?
>
> All of them. That's why they're called shipwrecks.

A salvaged shipwreck is no longer a shipwreck?

Also...in Lew's example of Lake Erie wrecks, I'm sure he's included
the hundreds of pleasure craft that drunk 'sportsmen' have strewn
about the lake bottom. How big a ship does it have to be to make The
List?

In article <[email protected]>,
Just Wondering <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 4/1/2011 10:11 AM, Luigi Zanasi wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 6:25 am, Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>>>> [email protected]:
>>>
>>>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>>>> wedding?"
>>>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>>
>>>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out again?
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Han
>>>> email address is invalid
>>>
>>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>>
>> You making fun of my house???
>>
>> Luigi
>> who still has shit-brown toilet bowls and sinks (a6t least you can't
>> see the stains). Orange shag came out as soon as we moved in in 1990
>> to be replaced by oak (OBWW)
>
>How about a woodworking group that makes bathroom fixtures from
>hardwood? We could call it the Birch John Society.

Actually, you couldn't. there is already a business (in Appleton, Wisconsin)
registered under that name. The "Birch John Society, Inc." is apparently
a book/magazine distributor.

There is also an unincorporated entity of the same name in Plano, Tx.

"willshak" wrote:
> Yes, I was joking.
> Back in the late 60s, I visited Canada and went down to Lake Erie.
> It wasn't Summer and there was no one at the Beach, but the dead
> fish smell was terrible. I hope they cleaned it up.
===========================
A funny thing happened.

Betty Cleric, a reporter for the old Cleveland Press went on a crusade
about 1965.

I remember collecting petitions for her.

Her crusade got people fired up getting the "movers & shakers"
involved.

Phosphates were eliminated from laundry detergents over the vigorous
objections of Proctor & Gamble.

Cities were required to build waste water treatment facilities and
stop direct waste water discharge into Lake Erie.

Steel mills had to stop direct discharge of pickle liquor into the
rivers that discharged into Lake Erie.

Most of the steel mills went out of business rather than comply.

It was an amazing transition.

Lake Erie was being declared a "dead lake" in the mid 1960s.

By 1980, Erie was clean, something nobody had been able to forecast.

The fact that Lake Erie is rather shallow probably had something to do
with it.

Fishing tournaments returned, the commercial fishing left US waters,
but remained in Canada for a few years.

Ohio tax coffers filled with tourist $, fishing equipment tax $, etc.

New marina facilities were built not only on the US side but also on
the Canadian side.

Amazing what happens when man stops mucking up his nest.

Global warming anyone?

Lew

"Robatoy" wrote:

> Good thing you used a smiley. These 'lakes' are actually more like
inland oceans.
Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,820 square miles (82,413 km2),
[1] which is approximately the size of South Carolina.
I remember having a pint (ON topic) with the skipper of a Monrovian
bulk carrier who made a voyage from Thunder Bay to Sault St Marie
during a bit of 'weather' in December... his face was still as white
as the cheeks of my ass. (We didn't actually compare as such, but....)
He told me in no uncertain terms that he had never seen anything like
it.
Big waves with a short wavelength pounded the shit out of his ocean
going boat, stuff broke, crew panicked.
It's one thing to ride a 40ft wave, another if there are three in a
row within the length of your ship. Those waves are called Three
Sisters and will mess you up real good.... you know snap 25,000+ ton
ships in half like The Edmund Fitzgerald.
Water like that gets to have beaches, shorelines stop being shorelines
if you can't see the other side.
---------------------------------------
Lake Erie, being the most shallow (the western third only averages
about 30 ft) of the Great Lakes, is also the nastiest one to sail.

There are more wrecks on the bottom of Lake Erie that all of the other
lakes combined.

Lew

On 4/1/2011 10:11 AM, Luigi Zanasi wrote:
> On Mar 28, 6:25 am, Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>>> [email protected]:
>>
>>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>>> wedding?"
>>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>
>>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out again?
>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards
>>> Han
>>> email address is invalid
>>
>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>
> You making fun of my house???
>
> Luigi
> who still has shit-brown toilet bowls and sinks (a6t least you can't
> see the stains). Orange shag came out as soon as we moved in in 1990
> to be replaced by oak (OBWW)

How about a woodworking group that makes bathroom fixtures from
hardwood? We could call it the Birch John Society.

On 4/2/2011 2:50 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> In article<[email protected]>,
> Just Wondering<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 4/1/2011 10:11 AM, Luigi Zanasi wrote:
>>> On Mar 28, 6:25 am, Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>>>>> [email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>>>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>>>>> wedding?"
>>>>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>>>
>>>>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out again?
>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> Han
>>>>> email address is invalid
>>>>
>>>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>>>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>>>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>>>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>>>
>>> You making fun of my house???
>>>
>>> Luigi
>>> who still has shit-brown toilet bowls and sinks (a6t least you can't
>>> see the stains). Orange shag came out as soon as we moved in in 1990
>>> to be replaced by oak (OBWW)
>>
>> How about a woodworking group that makes bathroom fixtures from
>> hardwood? We could call it the Birch John Society.
>
> Actually, you couldn't. there is already a business (in Appleton, Wisconsin)
> registered under that name. The "Birch John Society, Inc." is apparently
> a book/magazine distributor.
>
> There is also an unincorporated entity of the same name in Plano, Tx.
>

1. I's so sorry to learn you've broken your funnybone. It's a PUN,
spoilsport. You're supposed to laugh, or groan, not act like an
armchair lawyer.
2. IF those businesses do exist, that doesn't necessarily make the name
unavailable. Intellectual property law is a fair bit more complicated
than that.

On Mar 29, 2:03=A0pm, [email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Swingman <k..=
[email protected]> wrote:
> >On 3/29/2011 6:44 AM, Robatoy wrote:
>
> >> Also...in Lew's example of Lake Erie wrecks, I'm sure he's included
> >> the hundreds of pleasure craft that drunk 'sportsmen' have strewn
> >> about the lake bottom. How big a ship does it have to be to make The
> >> List?
>
> It has to be a *ship*. Pleasure craft aren't ships, they're boats.
>
>
>
> >Not a sailor by any stretch, but when I was working on an offshore
> >seismograph crew in my younger days the real sailors, who crewed our
> >motor vessels, always made it known that it was a "boat" if it would fit
> >on the deck of a "ship".
>
> I've known a few ex-submariners who might disagree with that... (For what=
ever
> reason, in the Navy, surface vessels are ships, and submarines are boats.=
)

So a boat causes a boat wreck? The art of sinking a vessel causes a
shipwreck.

On Mar 28, 7:21=A0pm, willshak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy wrote the following:
>
>
>
> > On Mar 28, 9:37 am, willshak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Robatoy wrote the following:
>
> >>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-8=
60d-
> >>>> [email protected]:
>
> >>>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
> >>>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
> >>>>> wedding?"
> >>>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>
> >>>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? =A0That syle is out a=
gain?
>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Best regards
> >>>> Han
> >>>> email address is invalid
>
> >>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
> >>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
> >>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
> >>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>
> >> I'm sorry, but I can't see calling a lake shore a beach. :-)
>
> >> --
>
> >> Bill
> >> In Hamptonburgh, NY
> >> In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
> >> To email, remove the double zeroes after @
>
> > Good thing you used a smiley. These 'lakes' are actually more like
> > inland oceans.
>
> Yes, I was joking.
> Back in the late 60s, I visited Canada and went down to Lake Erie. It
> wasn't Summer and there was no one at the Beach, but the dead fish smell
> was terrible. I hope they cleaned it up.
>
Newfoundland girls can swim where they want....

Learn to read more closely "nonsense" boy

How many are still on the bottom, as he stated?

Do you ever add information or just snipe?

-------------------------------
"Doug Miller" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Absolute nonsense.

Great Lakes shipwrecks by lake, 1679 through 1974:
Michigan, 116
Superior, 111
Erie, 107
Huron, 96
Ontario, 44
(Source: Shipwrecks of the Lakes; Bowen, Dana Thomas; Freshwater Press;
Cleveland)

------------------------

In article <[email protected]>, "Lew
Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
There are more wrecks on the bottom of Lake Erie that all of the other
lakes combined.

No thanks. There are enough scams out there without the biggest one yet.


"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Amazing what happens when man stops mucking up his nest.

Global warming anyone?

Lew

Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
[email protected]:

> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
> wedding?"
> A: So they match the other appliances.

No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out again?

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

[email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On 3/29/2011 6:44 AM, Robatoy wrote:
>>
>>> Also...in Lew's example of Lake Erie wrecks, I'm sure
>>> he's included the hundreds of pleasure craft that drunk
>>> 'sportsmen' have strewn about the lake bottom. How big a
>>> ship does it have to be to make The List?
>
> It has to be a *ship*. Pleasure craft aren't ships, they're
> boats.
>>
>>Not a sailor by any stretch, but when I was working on an
>>offshore seismograph crew in my younger days the real
>>sailors, who crewed our motor vessels, always made it known
>>that it was a "boat" if it would fit on the deck of a
>>"ship".
>
> I've known a few ex-submariners who might disagree with
> that... (For whatever reason, in the Navy, surface vessels
> are ships, and submarines are boats.)
>

The story I always heard from my buddy that spent time on a
submarine was the submarines are boats, surface vessels are
targets.

Larry

On Mar 27, 11:08=A0pm, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thought you would like to know.
>
> Lew
> --------------------------------
> Beer contains female hormones
>
> Last month, National University of Lesotho scientists released the
> results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female
> hormones in beer.
>
> Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption.
>
> The theory is that beer contains female hormones (hops contain
> phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women.
>
> To test the theory, 100 men drank 8 pints of beer each within a 1 hour
> period.
>
> It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects:
>
> 1) Argued over nothing.
> 2) Refused to apologize when obviously wrong.
> 3) Gained weight.
> 4) Talked excessively without making sense.
> 5) Became overly emotional.
> 6) Couldn't drive.
> 7) Failed to think rationally.
> 8) Had to sit down while urinating.
>
> No further testing was considered necessary.

Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
wedding?"
A: So they match the other appliances.

On Mar 28, 9:37=A0am, willshak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy wrote the following:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860=
d-
> >> [email protected]:
>
> >>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
> >>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
> >>> wedding?"
> >>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>
> >> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? =A0That syle is out aga=
in?
>
> >> --
> >> Best regards
> >> Han
> >> email address is invalid
>
> > LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
> > in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
> > throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
> > rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>
> I'm sorry, but I can't see calling a lake shore a beach. :-)
>
> --
>
> Bill
> In Hamptonburgh, NY
> In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
> To email, remove the double zeroes after @

Good thing you used a smiley. These 'lakes' are actually more like
inland oceans.
Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,820 square miles (82,413 km2),
[1] which is approximately the size of South Carolina.
I remember having a pint (ON topic) with the skipper of a Monrovian
bulk carrier who made a voyage from Thunder Bay to Sault St Marie
during a bit of 'weather' in December... his face was still as white
as the cheeks of my ass. (We didn't actually compare as such, but....)
He told me in no uncertain terms that he had never seen anything like
it.
Big waves with a short wavelength pounded the shit out of his ocean
going boat, stuff broke, crew panicked.
It's one thing to ride a 40ft wave, another if there are three in a
row within the length of your ship. Those waves are called Three
Sisters and will mess you up real good.... you know snap 25,000+ ton
ships in half like The Edmund Fitzgerald.
Water like that gets to have beaches, shorelines stop being shorelines
if you can't see the other side.

On Mar 28, 6:25=A0am, Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 28, 7:59=A0am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d=
-
> > [email protected]:
>
> > > Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
> > > mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
> > > wedding?"
> > > A: So they match the other appliances.
>
> > No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? =A0That syle is out agai=
n?
>
> > --
> > Best regards
> > Han
> > email address is invalid
>
> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!

You making fun of my house???

Luigi
who still has shit-brown toilet bowls and sinks (a6t least you can't
see the stains). Orange shag came out as soon as we moved in in 1990
to be replaced by oak (OBWW)

On Mar 28, 7:59=A0am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
> [email protected]:
>
> > Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
> > mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
> > wedding?"
> > A: So they match the other appliances.
>
> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? =A0That syle is out again?
>
> --
> Best regards
> Han
> email address is invalid

LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!

On Apr 1, 2:26=A0pm, Just Wondering <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/1/2011 10:11 AM, Luigi Zanasi wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 28, 6:25 am, Robatoy<[email protected]> =A0wrote:
> >> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han<[email protected]> =A0wrote:
>
> >>> Robatoy<[email protected]> =A0wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-=
860d-
> >>> [email protected]:
>
> >>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
> >>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
> >>>> wedding?"
> >>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>
> >>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? =A0That syle is out ag=
ain?
>
> >>> --
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Han
> >>> email address is invalid
>
> >> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
> >> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
> >> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
> >> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>
> > You making fun of my house???
>
> > Luigi
> > who still has shit-brown toilet bowls and sinks (a6t least you can't
> > see the stains). Orange shag came out as soon as we moved in in 1990
> > to be replaced by oak (OBWW)
>
> How about a woodworking group that makes bathroom fixtures from
> hardwood? =A0We could call it the Birch John Society.

oy oyoy oy yoy

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:17:58 -0700 (PDT), Robatoy
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mar 28, 9:37 am, willshak <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robatoy wrote the following:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>> >> [email protected]:
>>
>> >>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>> >>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>> >>> wedding?"
>> >>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>
>> >> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances?  That syle is out again?

Ah, more explanation of his wife's tastes. ;)

>>
>> > LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>> > in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>> > throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>> > rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I can't see calling a lake shore a beach. :-)
>
>Good thing you used a smiley. These 'lakes' are actually more like
>inland oceans.

I spent all my teen years in California, so the only question which
should be asked is "CAN IT BE SURFED?" If so, it's a beach.

Well, I quit surfing early on and moved to skimboarding, so my
definition reluctantly expanded to accept gulfs and large lakeshores
as beaches.

--
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole
life is "thank you," that would suffice.
-- Meister Eckhart

On 3/29/2011 6:44 AM, Robatoy wrote:

> Also...in Lew's example of Lake Erie wrecks, I'm sure he's included
> the hundreds of pleasure craft that drunk 'sportsmen' have strewn
> about the lake bottom. How big a ship does it have to be to make The
> List?

Not a sailor by any stretch, but when I was working on an offshore
seismograph crew in my younger days the real sailors, who crewed our
motor vessels, always made it known that it was a "boat" if it would fit
on the deck of a "ship".

Considering some of the super tankers afloat these days, that might have
changed.

--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 4/15/2010
KarlC@ (the obvious)

Lew Hodgett wrote,on my timestamp of 28/03/2011 2:08 PM:


> --------------------------------
> Beer contains female hormones
>
> Last month, National University of Lesotho scientists released the
> results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female
> hormones in beer.
>
> Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption.
>
> The theory is that beer contains female hormones (hops contain
> phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women.
>
> To test the theory, 100 men drank 8 pints of beer each within a 1 hour
> period.
>
> It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects:
>
> 1) Argued over nothing.
> 2) Refused to apologize when obviously wrong.
> 3) Gained weight.
> 4) Talked excessively without making sense.
> 5) Became overly emotional.
> 6) Couldn't drive.
> 7) Failed to think rationally.
> 8) Had to sit down while urinating.
>
> No further testing was considered necessary.
>
>



Hehehe! Good one!
Thanks, made my day.

On 3/28/11 9:25 AM, Robatoy wrote:
> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>> [email protected]:
>>
>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>> wedding?"
>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>
>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out again?
>>
>> --
>> Best regards
>> Han
>> email address is invalid
>
> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!

We bought this house in 97, all harvest gold appliances, and orange shag
in the livingroom. Carpet was gone before any of our stuff entered the
house. Appliances we just replaced as they died, all gone now.

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In article <[email protected]>, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:

>There are more wrecks on the bottom of Lake Erie that all of the other
>lakes combined.

Absolute nonsense.

Great Lakes shipwrecks by lake, 1679 through 1974:
Michigan, 116
Superior, 111
Erie, 107
Huron, 96
Ontario, 44
(Source: Shipwrecks of the Lakes; Bowen, Dana Thomas; Freshwater Press;
Cleveland)

"willshak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Robatoy wrote the following:
>> On Mar 28, 9:37 am, willshak <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Robatoy wrote the following:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>>> news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>>>>> [email protected]:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>>>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>>>>> wedding?"
>>>>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>>>>>
>>>>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out
>>>>> again?
>>>>> --
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> Han
>>>>> email address is invalid
>>>>>
>>>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>>>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>>>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>>>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>>>>
>>> I'm sorry, but I can't see calling a lake shore a beach. :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Bill
>>> In Hamptonburgh, NY
>>> In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
>>> To email, remove the double zeroes after @
>>>
>>
>> Good thing you used a smiley. These 'lakes' are actually more like
>> inland oceans.
>>
> Yes, I was joking.
> Back in the late 60s, I visited Canada and went down to Lake Erie. It
> wasn't Summer and there was no one at the Beach, but the dead fish smell
> was terrible. I hope they cleaned it up.

That smell was coming from a Lake Erie beach near Monroe, Michigan and my
dog was rolling in the dead fish as I ran down slope screaming "NO!,&**&^%!!
NO!!). Could you hear screaming?

"Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "willshak" wrote:
>> Yes, I was joking.
>> Back in the late 60s, I visited Canada and went down to Lake Erie. It
>> wasn't Summer and there was no one at the Beach, but the dead fish smell
>> was terrible. I hope they cleaned it up.
> ===========================
> A funny thing happened.
>
> Betty Cleric, a reporter for the old Cleveland Press went on a crusade
> about 1965.
>
> I remember collecting petitions for her.
>
> Her crusade got people fired up getting the "movers & shakers" involved.
>
> Phosphates were eliminated from laundry detergents over the vigorous
> objections of Proctor & Gamble.
>
> Cities were required to build waste water treatment facilities and stop
> direct waste water discharge into Lake Erie.
>
> Steel mills had to stop direct discharge of pickle liquor into the rivers
> that discharged into Lake Erie.
>
> Most of the steel mills went out of business rather than comply.
>
> It was an amazing transition.
>
> Lake Erie was being declared a "dead lake" in the mid 1960s.
>
> By 1980, Erie was clean, something nobody had been able to forecast.
>

Particularly considering the Cuyahoga river fires ...

"Josepi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Learn to read more closely "nonsense" boy
>
> How many are still on the bottom, as he stated?
>
All of them. That's why they're called shipwrecks.

In article <[email protected]>, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 3/29/2011 6:44 AM, Robatoy wrote:
>
>> Also...in Lew's example of Lake Erie wrecks, I'm sure he's included
>> the hundreds of pleasure craft that drunk 'sportsmen' have strewn
>> about the lake bottom. How big a ship does it have to be to make The
>> List?

It has to be a *ship*. Pleasure craft aren't ships, they're boats.
>
>Not a sailor by any stretch, but when I was working on an offshore
>seismograph crew in my younger days the real sailors, who crewed our
>motor vessels, always made it known that it was a "boat" if it would fit
>on the deck of a "ship".

I've known a few ex-submariners who might disagree with that... (For whatever
reason, in the Navy, surface vessels are ships, and submarines are boats.)

"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:2a49579e-2244-4318-afe8-bdda65f074fa@s18g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 29, 12:00 am, "Lobby Dosser" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Josepi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]...> Learn to read more closely "nonsense"
> boy
>
> > How many are still on the bottom, as he stated?
>
> All of them. That's why they're called shipwrecks.

A salvaged shipwreck is no longer a shipwreck?
------------------------------------------------------------------
Do you know of many Entire Ships? Any salvage tends to be cargo. And getting
back on topic, a couple of lumber salvages have been made and the lumber
sold.

Robatoy wrote the following:
> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>> [email protected]:
>>
>>
>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>> wedding?"
>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>>
>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out again?
>>
>> --
>> Best regards
>> Han
>> email address is invalid
>>
>
> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>

I'm sorry, but I can't see calling a lake shore a beach. :-)

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In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

Robatoy wrote the following:
> On Mar 28, 9:37 am, willshak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Robatoy wrote the following:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>>>> [email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>>>> wedding?"
>>>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>>>>
>>>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out again?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Han
>>>> email address is invalid
>>>>
>>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>>>
>> I'm sorry, but I can't see calling a lake shore a beach. :-)
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bill
>> In Hamptonburgh, NY
>> In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
>> To email, remove the double zeroes after @
>>
>
> Good thing you used a smiley. These 'lakes' are actually more like
> inland oceans.
>
Yes, I was joking.
Back in the late 60s, I visited Canada and went down to Lake Erie. It
wasn't Summer and there was no one at the Beach, but the dead fish smell
was terrible. I hope they cleaned it up.

> Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,820 square miles (82,413 km2),
> [1] which is approximately the size of South Carolina.
> I remember having a pint (ON topic) with the skipper of a Monrovian
> bulk carrier who made a voyage from Thunder Bay to Sault St Marie
> during a bit of 'weather' in December... his face was still as white
> as the cheeks of my ass. (We didn't actually compare as such, but....)
> He told me in no uncertain terms that he had never seen anything like
> it.
> Big waves with a short wavelength pounded the shit out of his ocean
> going boat, stuff broke, crew panicked.
> It's one thing to ride a 40ft wave, another if there are three in a
> row within the length of your ship. Those waves are called Three
> Sisters and will mess you up real good.... you know snap 25,000+ ton
> ships in half like The Edmund Fitzgerald.
> Water like that gets to have beaches, shorelines stop being shorelines
> if you can't see the other side.
>


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To email, remove the double zeroes after @

In article <[email protected]>,
Luigi Zanasi <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mar 28, 6:25 am, Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>> > [email protected]:
>>
>> > > Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>> > > mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>> > > wedding?"
>> > > A: So they match the other appliances.
>>
>> > No more stainless steel or avocado appliances?  That syle is out again?
>>
>> > --
>> > Best regards
>> > Han
>> > email address is invalid
>>
>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>
>You making fun of my house???

Can you think of _anyone_ with a house more deserving of it?

Just Wondering wrote the following:
> On 4/1/2011 10:11 AM, Luigi Zanasi wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 6:25 am, Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mar 28, 7:59 am, Han<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robatoy<[email protected]> wrote in
>>>> news:a500cbbe-f36a-4231-860d-
>>>> [email protected]:
>>>
>>>>> Misogynistic claptrap. Funny as hell, but misogynistic claptrap. I
>>>>> mean, it is in the same vein as "why do women wear white at their
>>>>> wedding?"
>>>>> A: So they match the other appliances.
>>>
>>>> No more stainless steel or avocado appliances? That syle is out
>>>> again?
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Han
>>>> email address is invalid
>>>
>>> LOL... oh my.... that reminds me of an apartment I rented in Toronto
>>> in the early 70's. Dark Brown/Gold 'sunburst' appliances, orange shag
>>> throughout and blue bathroom fixtures with matching seat-cover and
>>> rug... That was some plug-ugly place, but it was in The Beaches!!
>>
>> You making fun of my house???
>>
>> Luigi
>> who still has shit-brown toilet bowls and sinks (a6t least you can't
>> see the stains). Orange shag came out as soon as we moved in in 1990
>> to be replaced by oak (OBWW)
>
> How about a woodworking group that makes bathroom fixtures from
> hardwood? We could call it the Birch John Society.
Groan....

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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @