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"Top Ten Reasons to Buy a Boat"
#10 - You enjoy having strangers call you "Captain".from Joe Breunig, BLO Webmaster #9 - Drinking alcohol all day on a boat means "you're living life to its fullest"; doing that activity elsewhere means you're "just a lush". #8 - You now have a legitimate excuse to learn "knot tying". #7 - You consider the following tasks to be entirely therapeutic: refueling, scraping, painting, waxing, teaking, cleaning, prop and part replacements. #6 - Somebody has to support OPEC and the greedy gas/oil companies. #5 - You prefer the term "Head" over "Toilet". #4 - Boat ownership is the acceptable method for gambling away the family fortune. #3 - You become very popular with all relatives during the "Boating Season". #2 - Why spend time "not catching fish" ashore when you can do the same aboard a boat. #1 - A zillion, world-wide "captains" can't be all wrong! |
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Actual radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations Radio Operator #1: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Radio Operator #2: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to South to avoid a collision. Radio Operator #1: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. Radio Operator #2: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course. Radio Operator #1: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ENTERPRISE; WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW! Radio Operator #2: This is a lighthouse. Your call. |
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