On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:32:37 -0500, Reef Fish
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:26:49 +1100, David Strike <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:

>>No, no, no! :-)
>>
>>I might - inadvertently - have called Madame Jacqueline many things!  But
>>'Catfolly'?  Never!  (Anyway, I took them all back once I'd sampled her
>>cooking!)  :-)
>
>Strike, you bloody bastard!  you caught the ONE mistake I've made in
>five years, I think.   :-)   Now I have to check my BHD and see where
>I got the Catfolly name to go with your story of "crew of three left
>two divers at sea" which you corrected me several times to "crew of
>two left three divers at sea".
>
>-- Bob.

I promptly found one Catfolly reference to this tale in Scuba-SE.

I found another one, in Scuba-L.  :-)

>         Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:24:27 -0500

At 10:20 AM 2/29/00 +1100, Strike wrote:
>On Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:21 AM, Reef Fish wrote:
>
>(snip)

RF>> Then of course there was the case of Strike and another diver "lost"
RF>> by a crew of three when they were the ONLY divers on the boat.  :-)
>
Strike> That was three divers and two crew;

RF>Ah!  That certainly made a big difference! :-)  See what happened when
RF>I didn't look up the source?  It took me two minutes to find this one
RF>in one of my posts in 1998 :-)), NOT from my BHD, but Deja.com.

RF>  If I am as adventuresome as Strike and dive with Madam
RF>  Hermione Catfolly and a crew that could leave three divers in
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
RF> the open sea, I would probably stick a snorkel in every orifice
RF> I can find!  :-)

( snip )
Strike> In my case, I learned that:
Strike> 1. Language barriers are not conducive to good dive planning.
Strike> 2. Hold any thoughts of panic in check - especialy if
Strike> your 'buddies' are French - and wait for them to crack first!

< snip >

Will the REAL Madam Catfolly please stand up!   :-)))

-- Bob.