Re: Heard it through the grapevine

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:33:41 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
<wilburhubbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Heard it through the grapevine that Skippy had a nervous breakdown. They
used to call it a nervous breakdown in my day but now they have a new name
for it - episodic acute depression. I knew the boy just didn't have it in
him to become a successful cruising sailor. Like too many other wanabe's he
needed to be around people and/or he needed to be the center of attention.
Simply overly dependent upon society. For people like Skippy, it takes a
village. Sad but true.

Let this be a lesson to all of you other pretenders. Leave the
voyaging/cruising to us real sailors who scorn the hustle and bustle of the
modern-day world and live to be off by ourselves cruising and surviving by
our own devices. An audience is the last thing on our minds. You weenie,
liberal, girly men can HAVE your stinking village. I'll take the deep blue
sea and a deserted anchorage any day

Wilbur Hubbard

Translation:

Leave the
voyaging/cruising to us real sailors who scorn the hustle and bustle of the
modern-day world

i.e., the other jetty jerks who hang around the dock and give out
free, albeit erroneous, advice.

and live to be off by ourselves cruising and surviving by
our own devices.

Because no one that knows them will have anything to do with them.

An audience is the last thing on our minds.

An unusual statement as it is obvious that what Hubie wants most IS
and audience. Otherwise he wouldn't be posting, he'd be sailing.

You weenie,
liberal, girly men can HAVE your stinking village.

i.e., he can't find a trailer park in town.

I'll take the deep blue sea and a deserted anchorage any day

Take it! Take it!
Bruce-in-Bangkok
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