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John Russell
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Initially Posted - 02/02/2009 : 18:20:54

I'm bored. Lets see how many references to sailing and sailboats we can come up with. Allow others to cite the source.

"... we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor."

Who said it?

John Russell
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Bay Village, Ohio
Sailing Lake Erie
Don't Postpone Joy!

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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 02/02/2009 : 20:18:19

Hint: Supremes

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 02/02/2009 21:54:53

Deric
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Response Posted - 02/02/2009 : 20:31:08

With Google.. this is too easy.

Let's see who else can give a hint.

Deric

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Ed Cassidy
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Response Posted - 02/02/2009 : 21:18:11

Green Acres.....

Another hint.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/02/2009 : 21:47:50

"Football... combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings."

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 02/02/2009 21:49:32

JimB517
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Response Posted - 02/03/2009 : 15:36:08

Alright, find this quote:

What is the difference between being in a sailboat and being in jail?

In the jail there is more room, better food, and commonly, better company!

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/03/2009 : 15:47:48

The same guy that said:

"...for, being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

For those that didn't get Dave's hints, mine was [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr."]The Honorable Oliver Wendell Holmes[/url], U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1902-1932.

Edited by - John Russell on 02/03/2009 15:53:28

Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/03/2009 : 15:57:07

I'm thinking that was a old riverboat pilot...

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 02/03/2009 : 17:35:39

OK, I'll play, here's my favorite, but it's an easy one:
<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Old riverboat captains indeed...

Edited by - delliottg on 02/03/2009 17:36:02

John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/03/2009 : 21:08:54

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by delliottg
 OK, I'll play, here's my favorite, but it's an easy one:
<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Old riverboat captains indeed...
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">In bold letters above the desk in my office. This one is the old riverboat pilot but, Jim's isn't from the Connecticut Yankee.

Edited by - John Russell on 02/03/2009 21:12:46

bren737
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Response Posted - 02/03/2009 : 21:39:15

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed. . ."

Always been one of my favorites, too. In fact, as I recall, it was on the cover of the West Marine catalog about four years ago! I get all of my fine literary knowledge from there.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/03/2009 : 22:07:44

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">...but, Jim's isn't from the Connecticut Yankee.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Ah yes... a Brit!

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Deric
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Response Posted - 02/04/2009 : 18:07:42

Who said, "I stab at thee?"

Deric

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 02/04/2009 : 18:17:51

Star Trek or big whale version? Although Star Trek's quoting the latter, so it's moot.

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Deric
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Response Posted - 02/05/2009 : 17:38:40

Heh. Dave, you got it!

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Gloss
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Response Posted - 02/05/2009 : 18:16:58

Here's some of my favorites:

"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for"
Will Rogers

"Everything in moderation, including moderation"
Benjamin Franklin"

Do Be Do Be Do
Sinatra

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Response Posted - 02/05/2009 : 21:16:51

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave Bristle
 "Football... combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings."

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

George Will

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/05/2009 : 21:50:58

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Gloss
 "Everything in moderation, including moderation"
Benjamin Franklin"<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Great line, but apparently it wasn't Ben's. "Moderation" was one of his 13 virtues, but there's no evidence he proposed "meta-moderation". I tried to find some attribution for that line once... Nothing.

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 02/06/2009 : 08:09:56

From friend's email Signature:

"Sailing is a good sport. You don't have to beat up the other guy like you do in boxing and football; you just try to outsmart him, and then you go out and have a beer with him"

Another from the Same Friend:
"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk".

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