>Da Feeeeesh wrote:


>Touch old NED roots??  That sounds disgusting!  FUC 6.1.

         Well certainly it is, but don't get me going about my
prostate.  Anyway, if I were to get a chance to dive Easter Island, I'd do
it no matter what.  Frigid waters???, I think you've forgotten your years
at the University of Chicago where even the nearby tepid(?) diving still
involves a chain saw and endless lines - the kind attached to your bc, not
the kind you give to strange women and drinking buddies.  As you no doubt
recall, viz, here is a measurement of thickness and not of viewing
opportunities.  As old and fat as I am, if I were you, I'd still drop my
wrinkly lard ass into the pristine  waters of Easter Island (and at 2000
miles from the nearest land, they must be pristine) just for the joy of
it.  If you don't dive Easter Island now, when will you.  Bon chance!

         Also, you're right; I think Doug quit posting well before the
"troubles," but before I start sounding too Irish, I'll just mention that
we spend far too much time with the unimportant work of this world, and not
nearly enough time with the important liquids, water and ethyl alcohol.  We
should learn to follow Strike's example and bring them all a bit close
together.


DPTNST,


John