Mea culpa!

         So many fox paws and a peck of dildos, but I couldn't contain my
desire to have a friend who had dived Easter Island.  As I age, I find
myself basking in the accomplishments of others, so with Easter Island in
da Feeeeesh's near future, I hate to admit that Sr. Feeeeesh's distant past
didn't contain any chain saw diving in Lake Michigan's solid winter
waters.  Until I read da Feeeeesh's post, I had no inkling that there was
any land closer to Easter Island than Henderson  Island or one of Chile's
out islands, but it doesn't matter, I certainly won't let any new
information stand between my fabrication of a dive tale and a free
drink.  Maybe I'm a whisper pushy, but my fins are wet with anticipation
about the potential of a hyperbolic expansion on the large Nassau Grouper's
confrontation with the great sharks of the Pacific in the remoteness of
Easter Island.

         About the use of the word "pristine," well, having been published
in the world's best on-line dive magazine, it is now "de rigeur" for me to
use the word "pristine" whether it's appropriate or not.  Moreover, I
aspire to use the word "pristine" and the term "gin clear" with the
frequency of Geri Murphy in her annual updates of her Cayman Island story
for the now defunct <Skin Diver>.  So if anyone comes to visit Rockford, I
can promise diving in "pristine" waters shaded by the rotting bodies of
carp and catfish that have failed to survive in the oxygen depleted
mud..  Am I eager to tell stories about da Feeeeesh.diving Easter Island;
you bet I am.  If da Feeeeesh will handle the reality of Easter Island
diving, I'll do my best with the myths.  Remember, Sr. Feeeeesh, just
beneath my outer layer of adipose tissue is a solid core of b.s.


DPTNST,


John

At 01:12 AM 9/3/2004, you wrote
>On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:00:19 -0500, John Nitrox <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>When senor Shumate speaks, it seldom errs.
>
>Thus, it came as a major shock to da Feeesh, as if fish-bombed by the
>Philippine fishermen, to find so many faux pas and piccadillos (sp?)
>in one post as to require correctional comments.
>
>
> >Anyway, if I were to get a chance to dive Easter Island, I'd do
> >it no matter what.
>
>Keeping in mind that our friend Strike still hasn't forgiven me for
>passing up diving in Shelly Beach for reasons of frigidity, I have
>to think about how to justify diving in the more frigid waters of
>Easter Island.
>
>
> >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.
>
>Alas, it was several years AFTER I left the U. of Chicagah before I
>even heard of the term "scuba". :-)
>
>
> >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
>
>Aha!  Just because it's in the middle of nowhere doesn't necessarily
>imply that the water is pristine, or even clear, as in high vis.  In
>fact, the scuba coordinator Trixie has already said that current may
>be treacherous and the visibility LOW, and probably even worse than
>Shelly Beach (which is very hard for me to imagine)!  :-))
>
>
> >(and at 2000 miles from the nearest land, they must be pristine)
> >just for the joy of it.
>
>Actually it's only a couple hundred miles from the nearest land --
>as I learned today, because one of the passengers has to be AIR
>evacuated tomorrow.  Not only that, but this little piece of land
>in the middle of nowhere has an AIR STRIP for airplane to land!
>Otherwise, helicopters will not be able to make the trip to the
>cruiseship and back.
>
>
> > If you don't dive Easter Island now, when will you.  Bon chance!
>
>Don't be surprised that there will be an airplane landing strip in
>Easter Island soon.  :-)   Besides, it would not be difficult for
>anyone having been THERE to make up a Tall Tale about diving in
>the devilish current of the Fakarava Pass type, seeing whales,
>whale sharks, white and tiger sharks everywhere.
>
> >DPTNST,
> >
> >
> >John
>
>I still have several days to explore the myths and reality of
>Easter Island before arriving there on September 7.
>
>Da Feeeesh.