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Skriven 2011-04-11 13:09:14 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 16442 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me...
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06 Apr 11 17:01, Stewart Arnett wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> We have something in common, I went partners with a guy in a
 RW>> life-boat that we attempted to make into a sail-boat. He was German
 RW>> and had spent more time in Italy (sailing in much nicer weather I'll
 RW>> bet) than he had in Germany. We both worked at Boeing and on the
 RW>> boat, after. When we left Seattle, it wasn't quite finished and the
 RW>> investment was very little, so I told him he could have my half of
 RW>> the boat.

 SA> I've seen some very good converted lifeboats, the ship I bought off
 SA> the canadian was a 62 1/2 foot steel Ketch rigged motor sailer I had
 SA> it for a decade (1990 - 2000)

This was an ex-Navy lifeboat, probably one that was used to transport
sailors out to the anchorage. We saw some of them with half-cabins,
engines and a drivers' seat, but they wanted too much for them.

 SA>  and exchanged it for a house and land on an Island just off Auckland
 SA> 5 hectares of hill top with 360 degree views. It wasn't worth much
 SA> then but now it is worth in six figures several times.

Man! That would be an ideal spot for a HAM to build a DX station.

 SA> Big boat prices were at a premium then because of the America's cup.
 SA> Dale the canadian guy drowned in a kayaking accident in 2003 when he
 SA> found a water fall he didn't know was there and didn't stop in time.

We had an episode similar to that here on the Guadalupe river. Two guys
were body surfing with tubes down the river and went over a dam. One was
saved but the other drowned. Both of them young men in their early
twentys.

 SA>>> The other was a very arrogant French Canadian, 2IC of our
 SA>>> security at my University. He looked down on any one who didn't
 SA>>> speak French or understood it until one morning he got on the
 SA>>> wrong side of Dutch man who managed one of the other departments
 SA>>> and got a jolly good telling off in French from the guy who was
 SA>>> fluent in French, English, Dutch, and German. If I remember he
 SA>>> left a short time after the exchange.

 RW>> The Scot I had to work with when I got to San Diego was one of those
 RW>> guys and he was the leader in our job. He'd get mad when I
 RW>> continously asked him to repeat himself. Then his mood changed from
 RW>> good to bad and I couldn't understand anything he said. Eventually I
 RW>> took my que from the owner who translated what the Scot had said.

 SA> He needed sub titles then.

He needed a teleprompter to tell him the right word pronunciation.

 RW>>>> PS - I've never heard anyone in the south pronounce roof as
 RW>>>> ruff. That would confuse everyone because there is a word we
 RW>>>> use; rough - that is pronounced like that.

 SA>>> In England we say Roof like woof (doggy talk) ruff is a bit rough
 SA>>> I never heard of a roof before I landed in New Zealand where they
 SA>>> say Roof as in Boot.

 RW>> Boot, Roof, Woof, Zoo, all sound alike here.

 SA> Sounds like you have effeminate dogs then :)

Yeah, but they sometimes use the floor rather than the flour (bed).

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