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Posted October 14, 2010 4:45 PM
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10/14/2010 5:23 PM

Cap'n Crunch goes boating....

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10/14/2010 5:37 PM

Okay, everyone remember: We are parked on Green Level 3.

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10/14/2010 6:31 PM

Come in number three your time is up!
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10/14/2010 10:00 PM

Geez, how could you not see that post sticking out of the water?!

You'd have to be the victim of Temporary Insanity to not... ohhh... never mind.

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10/14/2010 10:53 PM

I have a fibreglass tub that I want to get rid of. It would be difficult to carry out in one piece, so I intend to break it into smaller pieces in-situ.

The accepted method seems to be applying a sledge-hammer. Suitable safety precautions need to be taken ( Flying bits of fibre/ razor sharp steel edges etc). The noise would also be considerable. One method I am considering is to ........................

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10/14/2010 11:42 PM

Okay, no clever caption, but just considering what must have been the velocity of the impact, I wonder where the passenger(s) must have ended up ... and hoping no one was below deck.

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10/14/2010 11:50 PM

Only a 3 for this? I think it rates at least a 9.
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10/14/2010 11:57 PM

How embarrassing ..

"Temporary Insanity II"

...they tied off on the wrong post!?

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10/15/2010 1:07 AM

Not all stop signs are red apparently!
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10/15/2010 3:27 AM

Wile E Coyote reversed away from the pole at full throttle not realizing that Roadrunner had secured the prow to the pole with Acme's finest rubber cord.
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10/15/2010 3:33 AM

"After the #3 Buoy Stabilization test using the craft named "Temporary Insanity II" the pilot seriously considered changing it's name"
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10/15/2010 3:36 AM

"After positively field verifying the existence of stand pipe [3], a rope was quickly tied to the pipe to prevent the "Temporary Insanity II" from sinking."
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10/15/2010 3:57 AM

Looks like the operator might have cleared the pole as he flew by due the the sudden stop but if there was a passenger, bad news!

Maybe that is not a number three but the passenger's scrotum on a green background?
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10/15/2010 4:06 AM

Salesman.
"And so that's why we make 'em so long at the font end".

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10/15/2010 6:06 AM

Temporary Insanity or POST Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

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10/15/2010 6:07 AM

"I told you where your glasses! Can you read it now?!"

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10/15/2010 7:53 AM

Marty McFly forgot to switch on the flux capacitor when trying out their new speed boat time machine.

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10/15/2010 7:55 AM

BOAT FOR SALE, CHEAP

Very Powerful. Needs minor repairs to bow.

Contact: Ocean Mercy Hospital, Room 419. Ask for 'Blinky'.

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10/15/2010 8:00 AM

You see the trick to boating is to not accelerate too fast...SQUIRREL!
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10/15/2010 8:46 AM

Captain, I think we have a solution for the Dynamic Positioning drift AND our fuel consumption problem

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10/15/2010 8:57 AM

Honest officer that pole came out of nowhere.

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10/15/2010 9:25 AM

And for those prospective buyers of our high speed, bi-hulled runabout concerned about safety, our rigorous testing demonstrates it is unsinkable!
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10/15/2010 9:26 AM

The perils of BWI.

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10/15/2010 9:42 AM

"Temporary Insanity"; it certainly was.
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10/15/2010 10:22 AM

Well, we finally figured out how to get the ladies to come to the boat,

now if we could only get them to stop laughing at us...

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10/15/2010 10:32 AM

"Ok, everyone, wait until the boat comes to a complete and final stop before disembarking!"

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10/15/2010 10:39 AM

Keep your seat belts fastened until the captain has turned off the seat belt sign?
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10/15/2010 10:45 AM

Well, it was a boat, dammit!

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10/15/2010 10:55 AM

If there was a passenger I bet they wished they had a seat belt!
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10/15/2010 11:07 AM

Playing boat archery and pulled a Robin Hood.

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10/15/2010 11:08 AM

"Bob's new design for lateral drift prevention was roughed in manually"
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10/15/2010 11:08 AM

The newest and hippest way to anchor your boat.

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10/15/2010 11:11 AM

We parked the boat on in lot 3.

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10/15/2010 11:18 AM

Lenny tied his boat off at the pier so it would not float away, but where did the dock go???
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10/15/2010 11:33 AM

Okay, sir, your new boat is ready. I just finished stenciling on 'Temporary Insanity III'.

By the way, what did you do with 'Temporary Insanity II'?

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10/15/2010 12:03 PM

I don't know about Temporary Insanity... looks kind of permanent to me.

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10/15/2010 3:39 PM

Boating safety's 3rd law of attraction

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10/15/2010 4:23 PM

Harley was disappointed to learn that, after successfully completing the previous tasks described in the race manual, he now had to ram his boat into the pole not once, not twice, but three times in order to avoid that nasty statistic, "DNF".
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10/15/2010 4:45 PM

"Should've gone to Specsavers."

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Tee-hee

Should've got a pre-nup !

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10/15/2010 4:48 PM

"The new geomagnetic autopilot guidance system was working beautifully at 40 knots within 2 miles of the shoreline. But at 60 knots near the 3 mile marker things went horribly wrong as it homed in on the marker itself. However, the automatic mooring device did activate upon reaching zero knots"
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10/15/2010 4:54 PM

"I split at 3:00" or "Should have stopped at 3".
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10/15/2010 6:44 PM

In a race between Japan, France, and Poland, Polowski steered himself into spot number 3.

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10/15/2010 8:16 PM

temporary insanity gets a lobotomy!
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10/16/2010 12:01 AM

I'd rather have a bottle in fronta me than a frontal lobotomy.

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Or the full version.
I'd rather have a full bottle in fronta me than a full frontal lobotomy.

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10/16/2010 9:17 AM

I've heard it as:

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.

(Though if you're a Kennedy from Massachusetts, you're entitled to both.)

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Thought they automatically had the procedure done at birth?
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10/16/2010 8:39 AM

"SKIPPER"

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10/17/2010 12:47 PM

This oil slick on the gulf sure makes it a lot more difficult to maneuver.
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10/17/2010 1:00 PM

So this guy files a complaint against BP?

Most likely he could even find a lawyer to go along with it.
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10/18/2010 7:16 PM

maybe the skipper is a lawyer who couldn't get his head out of his ...

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10/22/2010 1:41 PM

Gilligan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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12/17/2010 12:28 AM

I'll jist hitch my o'l has here while I goin fo another drink...
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