We just needed you here to set us straight.

choad wrote:

There were four separate school shootings this week. Darwin was busy.

See, the way to get these kids to stop their martydom is to have public ass-raping of their corpses.  You want to be a pussy and shoot yourself?  Well we get to have fun with the body and post the pictures on the internet as a warning.  I don't think too many people would want to be remembered that way.

4 shootings in one week during times of high political activity. This happens always. Ever notice that there is always at least one "follow up shooting" there is never just a single event.CONSPIRACY thinks I.

Bigcat wrote:

4 shootings in one week during times of high political activity. This happens always. Ever notice that there is always at least one "follow up shooting" there is never just a single event.CONSPIRACY thinks I.

Yeah, I'm convinced that it's Obama - he's trying keep Clinton's recent win out of the headlines.

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tojo2000 wrote:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2073/princessbg2.gif

BRILLIANT!  Could you do something sparkly with the 'cold sores'?

I would, but if I spend one more second on blingee.com I'm afraid it will permanently damage my IQ.

We can now safely add "perfect eyebrows" to the long list of items used to profile school shooters....
White boy: check
Bad skin: check
likes shitty music by whiney artists: check
Angst ridden: check
Perfect eyebrows: check

tojo2000 wrote:

Come to the Gun Source, your source for crazed rampage supplies on the Internet!

You have to have a niche in today's economy.  See, the free market does work!

Roger_That wrote:

Ok.  Someone point me to the other 3 shootings.  I was too busy watching the BF molest the statue of Queen Beatrix in Aruba...

With her feet in the sand and her head in Amsterdam...

Roger_That wrote:

Don't you know it.  There's nothing better than alarming the locals by humping a huge statue of their queen...

You are in Aruba now?

Find out if they hate Americans yet for sending them that little amatur night Holloway tart and then trash talking them.

RT wrote:

Those old ships were beauties at one time.   I sailed on one years ago.  I hope someone buys them up if even for personal use.

The missus and I had a great time on a Windjammer cruise aboard the Yankee Clipper (pictured below).  There were so many single young women on the vessel that I was in constant temptation and always close to being in big trouble.  Definitely recommended for single men.

the Polenysia/Argus was the last working  Porteguise Grand Banks schooner. A true classic that might be worth saving although it is so costly to retrofit modern amenaties into these old fishhold hulls. I have the old National Geographic spread on her that shows all these crewmen still handlining in 1952 for Cod from little dorys


Shame about Windjammer. I have never been but I did go on the more staid Sea Cloud cruises of what was once the largest private sailboat in the world. The former custom built yacht of  E. F. Hutton and  Marjorie Merriweather Post. Even after WW 2 duty it still has all the robber baron touches.



Some old boats are worth saving although one often runs up against limits in the integriy of the hull materials. Many of the old boats were never designed to last more than 30 years or so. Luckily interest is strong enough that with the recent economic boomtimes an astonishing amount of replicas and old style rigs have been built.

And then some afficianados  have done amazing things synthesizing the old with the new. A number of colleagues have been tapped by modern bay area robber barons to help on design elements of these current size queens.













I have always been a sailor at heart but I can see the appeal of a stinkpot. This is what your enslavement to microsoft reaps for moguls who decide to take early retirement.

tojo2000 wrote:

One time, at boat camp...







                                                    ....and then I stuck the mast up my pussy!

You really need to quit "mast"urbating.  You'll put your eye out.

Roger_That wrote:

OMG.  That last stinkpot's cockpit looks like it walked right out of Star Wars!!!!!

That scares the bejesus out of me. 

Tojo is right.  Some of those boats are fine fodder for masturbation.

As well it should RT as well it should. Given that this monstrosity was brought to you by the evil empire of Microsoft. I think Paul Allen fancies the more James Bond conotations as it is named Octopus.

Even before he got done building his other 300 foot yacht he decided he didn't like it that much and could do better if he forced the designers to conform to his ideas of what he wanted. The end result was the largest private yacht at about 400 feet.. At least until the UAE arabs decided that such a thing would not do and they had to have the biggest ones on the block.

I am not sure if you were referring to this Helm I posted above though:




The above is not a stinkpot helm but the Helm of the Maltese Falcon which is Tom Perkin's one of a kind modern square sailer. Which is the world's largest sailboat. He is the venture capitalists that funded many of the biggest tech success, including Google.  What makes it innovative is that the carbon composit masts are unstayed. The yards are fixed in place and the mast itself rotates.

Perkins specified the ultramodern interior design although it show typical Italian Peirni Navi elements even on the bridge. If it is not your cup of tea RT, keep in mind that he also did own and refurbish one of the great Herreshoff woodies. With which he was tried and aquitted for murder in France when a parparazi impaled his chase boat on its bowsprit during a classics race:



Beyond the need to have powered automated contols to handle the windforces on the sails the advanced electronics are neccesary as no one had ever built such a rig so there are hundreds of sensors embedded in the mast to monitor its stresses. So far it has worked like a chram and should be able to sail through a small hurricane. I have done work for him on his previous Perini yacht's systems. He is so happy with this one that he has sold off his other 4 yachts and his Marin estate and pretty much moved aboard as the yacht constantly sails the world.

















The stinkpot Octopus on the other hand also has some truely innovative design elements. I have been onbaord briefly with contrators but did not get the interior tour. It was immaculate, complex but attractivaly designed. Even the systems were pleasingly laid out. Altogether stunning in the amount of custom engineering.  They situated the machinery and exhausts so that the lower aft third of the hull is an enclosed drydock that can be flooded to release a 65 foot speedboat, a 6 passenger mini-sub, various tenders and small sailboats. On the sides of the hull are  flip down panels that open with little docks and sport lounges. On the stack is a pod on an elevator which contains controls and nav/com to drive the yacht. The helocopter deck includes a fully enclosed hanger for 2 choppers. The hanger deck converts into a dance hall with outside tented bars where he has rock acts on for party entertainment.

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Oh, and btw, the guy that owns Comcast had his yacht in port in Baltimore about a year or so ago.  It is reputably the 3rd or 4th biggest cruiser owned in the US (or so I was told).  I made friends with the ships cook and took her out on a little Sonar for the day.  She in turn gave me a tour of the ship.  Apparently Mr. Comcast wasn't on board until arrival in the Carribean.  That was one amazing boat...even for a cabin cruiser stinkpot.  Even the slave's quarters were nice.

Jesus Christ!  That brings new meaning to the word "dingy".

har har.

My friends and I can often be quoted saying the following (while aloft on a bosun's chair with a bucket in hand):  "Pine tar is like a fine wine..."