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Peter

"...as brash and clumsy as an overgrown puppy,..."  I feel we are kindred
spirits, or at least enjoy the same post tone and intellectual honesty; but
let's stick to nav talk and leave prose to poet wannabes ;-)

Bill

> Ahh Frank.  Such wisdom.  And such sensitivity to our fragile ears, sparing
> us that dreadful 'dick' word.
>
> I can remember, way back in the good ole days of the former nav list,
> shortly after you bounced up, as brash and clumsy as an overgrown puppy,
> what controversies you stirred up, and how irritating those who had become
> accustomed to thinking of themselves as the front bench, the gurus of
> navigational wisdom, did find you (not least as you had the annoying habit
> of often being right).
>
> How long ago those days seem now !   *Sigh.
>
> *Now you have assumed so well the mantle of the wise and tolerant father of
> us all, skilfully and yet gently admonishing us when need calls for such
> kindly correction.  Doing your level best to keep this unruly mob more or
> less at peace with itself and focused on the subject, rather than the
> choleric personalities.
>
> How you have grown and matured.  And how lucky we are to have you.  Long may
> you lead us out of this sinfully self-indulgent path of prideful personality
> and back onto the straight and narrow one of sober and mutually respectful
> navigational discussion.
>
> Amen
>
> >
>


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