The Elsmar Cove "Humour Thread" - CAUTION - 'Big Kid' Content

[willytheweeper]

Bumper Stickers - Saw this one here in the uk yesterday:

If you dare to overtake me - I'll follow you home and sh*t in your slippers!

 

[tarheels4 - 2007]

Yes but an absolutely hilarious one. Completely politically incorrect but funny none the less. Guess those guys from Ohio do have more to do than watch corn grow.

I am not actually from Ohio Mr. Geek, I just have to live here. I guess I would make a bad politician, especailly since I have no karma.

 

[IEGeek - 2006]

I am not actually from Ohio Mr. Geek, I just have to live here. I guess I would make a bad politician, especailly since I have no karma.

No Karma???? Everybody has Karma, good bad or otherwise.

 

[tarheels4 - 2007]

No Karma???? Everybody has Karma, good bad or otherwise.

I think it is only good if you have those green things.

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

I think it is only good if you have those green things.

Here it is: (broken link removed) .

/Claes

 

[ralphsulser]

No Karma???? Everybody has Karma, good bad or otherwise.

Yea but, we don't have the big boat

 

[tarheels4 - 2007]

With diesel engines.

 

[Wes Bucey]

Boats:
Boat fuel charges seem to be running 150% of what truckers pay at the big truckstop near the Wisconsin border (plus truckers are paying taxes included in their price to maintain the roads - do boats pay taxes to maintain the ocean?) My personal opinion is that boaters are getting screwed on their fuel costs unless the fuel sellers are providing a heck of a lot of free services for dropping $1500+ to fill a 500 gallon tank.

(Some of my acquaintances who fish for marlin down off Cabo San Lucas and Cabo San Jose tell me that west coast Americans actually put their boats on big ocean freighters because the cost to ship a boat back and forth to the Cabos is cheaper than running it down the Baja. Is this true, IEGeek?)

Karma:
If you give some good advice to a newbie over in the "business" Forums, tarheels4, (no Karma available in the Coffee Break Chatter forum), I'll give you a big dose of karma. When and if I give you the karma, I'll include an explanation of why I think you earned it.

 

[IEGeek - 2006]

Boats:
Boat fuel charges seem to be running 150% of what truckers pay at the big truckstop near the Wisconsin border (plus truckers are paying taxes included in their price to maintain the roads - do boats pay taxes to maintain the ocean?) My personal opinion is that boaters are getting screwed on their fuel costs unless the fuel sellers are providing a heck of a lot of free services for dropping $1500+ to fill a 500 gallon tank.

(Some of my acquaintances who fish for marlin down off Cabo San Lucas and Cabo San Jose tell me that west coast Americans actually put their boats on big ocean freighters because the cost to ship a boat back and forth to the Cabos is cheaper than running it down the Baja. Is this true, IEGeek?)

I have heard of guys (and gals) who have shipped their boats down to Cabos, however, IMHO, it is not a regular practice. The insurance to ship a boat is outrageous. My better half's uncle shipped a 68' sailboat from Alameda (San Francisco) to Croatia and it cost him more in insurance than the actual shipping charges. I will ask some people I know around here and see what they think. There are huge marinas all up and down the Mexican coast that make the trip pleasurable (expensive, but pleasurable) Most of these marinas were set up so people could buy their boats in CA, take them down to Mexico and then if they kept them docked down there for 120 days, they paid no taxes on the purchase to the state of CA. As for fuel charges..... Well what can I say? You got to pay to play. Everything for a boat costs more. Fuel, electronics, hoses, diesel engine parts, you name it, if it is on a boat it costs more (something like supply and demand, I fell asleep in Econ 101).
B = Broke
O = Or
A = About
T = To

OR

B = Break
O = Out
A = Another
T = Thousand

 

[Wes Bucey]

Everything for a boat costs more. Fuel, electronics, hoses, diesel engine parts, you name it, if it is on a boat it costs more (something like supply and demand, I fell asleep in Econ 101).
B = Broke
O = Or
A = About
T = To

OR

B = Break
O = Out
A = Another
T = Thousand

When I was enamored of sail versus stinkpots, I asked a friend who kept a beautiful 50 or 60 foot sailboat in the harbor off the Chicago Yacht Club what it was like to own a sailboat in Chicago.

His answer:
"Put on a rain suit and boots. Stand in an ice cold shower with the water full blast in your face. Tear up $100 bills. Watch the pieces float down the drain. That's exactly what it is like to own a sailboat in Chicago, except we owners don't call them sailboats, we call them holes in the water."