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bajalera
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Way to go, Osprey! I'm gettihg set to b-tchabout the dumbasses who have converted Margaritas into Slushies.
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by morgaine7
So could Pass-Out.
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Cute. 
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Osprey
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Dennis, Dano, I do talk to myself sometimes but not on this thread, not on something serious like this.
Here's more on the guy. You can't make this stuff up.
Bud
Bud came down to Baja California some years ago on Spring Break. Had a blast in San Felipe, wound up in the calabozo and finally spent 34 days in the
lockup in Mexicali. He told me he learned a lot of Spanish in there but the words didn’t do him much good when he got out and tried again later for a
safer, saner Baja experience.
He said he thought he could have been back on the street the next day because he believed the charge was just drunk in public but a guy in the tank
with him died from internal bleeding and somehow that changed everything. There might have been more to it because Bud never talked about that long
lost episode except one night when we were both way out there on some Los Mochis gold.
If he reads this he’s probably gonna take my head off but Bud’s a Tennessee boy so as you might expect he’s a Jack and coke head. When we camped at
Concepción I sometimes had to move my sleeping sack way the hell down the beach because behind that stuff he becomes a moon-howler – you would think a
big old redbone had waltzed into a moonlit clearing surrounded by a dozen coons in the puckerbrush.
When it happened it brought me to a state of personal danger because that bay, those beaches, something, used to give me a case of the wobblies and it
was not a good time for me to be moving around in the semi, demi dark alone and unsure of my purpose or my plan. Some hours later the morning sun
seemed to blaze with a punishing brightness but if truth be told I felt some relief in it.
When he worked in the states (off and on, mostly off) he went from hall to hall hiring out as a “Cowboy”, a grader operator. Eventually that trade
molded his social character and capabilities because the language of the dirt trade is narrow and sometimes exclusive. I needed some translation from
time to time. Once, in a bar in La Paz there was a very attractive young thing at the bar I was admiring but Bud said “Zoned Commercial”. Translation:
working girl.
Another time when I tore up the front end of my Toyota pickup way out in the boonies he said “We’re gonna need some Obtainium for this one.”
Tranlation: Obtainium is the perfect material to fix the broken part – it is from another planetary system.
He always seemed to have pockets full of money but in a bar he most generally would only buy the drinks for us by proxy – that is, when he went to the
men’s room I would order the drinks and slide his money to the bartender. He was very reluctant to allow that to happen often and eventually he
developed some semi serious bladder problems.
Bud treated any new female companion of mine as though she was property held in common and sometimes I was so busy protecting my territory and options
the prize was lost to both of us. It was like a game to him. He could never imagine the terrible things that could happen to him if he broke the rules
of the game (such as they were).
He is probably the most patient fisherman I’ve ever known. Even today I bet if we were out there trolling right now he would be snoring away until and
unless one of the reels went off, then he would bolt upright and grab the one singing before I could move a muscle.
Bud is really a great guy and tries hard to hold up his end no matter what the deal is. When he stayed with me last year he washed my dog, Tino (he
took him to the beach), he painted a small patio end table (he threw my new brush in the trash when he was finished) and he filled up the car for our
trip to San Jose (used my boat gas).
He’s always thinking. He thinks way outside the box. You’ll see if you meet him in some bar in Loreto or Mulege one of these days. Bud’s a character
alright. See if he goes to the men’s room. You’ll know what to do.
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vandenberg
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Osprey
Are you the reason the rumor is going around that Doug is contemplating a per post fee, starting July 1st ?
Nothing as steep as Bud's, but still, the freebee is gone. And likely a much higher post fee for non residents, which would be nothing but fair.
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Barbarosa
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Wow! What is that, 50 years old? Damn close. It's just so cool to have archives like that now.
Barbarosa
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krafty
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Great story, Osprey-I wanna meet Bud!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
You can't make this stuff up.
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Now you're quoting Hemmingway. 
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Gypsy Jan
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If the New York Times
Can't figure out how to not lose money, even with a forced online subscription service, how is this guy going to get people to pay $50 U.S. for an
online subscription that will only appeal to a very narrow market pool?
Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire in his twenties because Facebook subscription is free and his business model is the broadest of all, providing a
convenient outlet for horny teenagers; that is what brought in the dollars.
But, what do I know?
[Edited on 4-24-2011 by Gypsy Jan]
[Edited on 4-24-2011 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Osprey
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Jan, do you really want to start the Osprey thinking about any potential involving money and horny teens?
Bud's deal is only for gen yu wine charities.
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Gypsy Jan
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Disculpame, Osprey
I had no intention to insert impure thoughts in your mind. 
[Edited on 4-24-2011 by Gypsy Jan]
[Edited on 4-25-2011 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Osprey
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Thanx for that Jan. All my filters are down when I go on the Nomad forum and I'm very vulnerable. Who knows what could happen?
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bajaking76
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No thanks, I'll pay to go live my own life than read about someone else's on a forum. Besides...$50 of gas..that'll get me to San Quintin from San
Diego right?
\"That\'s my thing, that\'s what I do\"
\"Gene Police: You!! Out Of The Pool!\"
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Osprey
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King, a look at your past posts show that you asked for a lot of information from board members and got it. What's that worth?
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bajaking76
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
King, a look at your past posts show that you asked for a lot of information from board members and got it. What's that worth?
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well, I thanked them....or should I send them a check?...I want to believe that helping others FREE OF CHARGE when it comes to information, in this
case BAJA and blood lines would be a positive experience for the individuals involved. I know I would help if asked; FOR FREE....honestly you are
annoying; I say good day to you sir....
[Edited on 4-25-2011 by bajaking76]
\"That\'s my thing, that\'s what I do\"
\"Gene Police: You!! Out Of The Pool!\"
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Osprey
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Okay, here's your chance to help me. FOR FREE. Tell me how you can tell us you have a life and we don't, then when I call you on it, you say I'm
ANNOYING YOU.
There's a helluva lot more than just information flowing back and forth between Nomads -- how about friendship and caring and aid of every kind,
caring and sharing and group cooperation that brings good and helpful things to members and deserving Mexican kids and others in need.
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bajaking76
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
Okay, here's your chance to help me. FOR FREE. Tell me how you can tell us you have a life and we don't, then when I call you on it, you say I'm
ANNOYING YOU.
There's a helluva lot more than just information flowing back and forth between Nomads -- how about friendship and caring and aid of every kind,
caring and sharing and group cooperation that brings good and helpful things to members and deserving Mexican kids and others in need.
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Que!? and I do have a life....your talking about friendship?...It comes with price tag....$50, right? I don't need your friendship Osprey and that of
your cronies...I will do what I do and do it my way. I will help when I can but it will come from me and my ego will stay were it has always
been....in check.
\"That\'s my thing, that\'s what I do\"
\"Gene Police: You!! Out Of The Pool!\"
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Osprey
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Too bad King. If you could reign that ego in, give, get and hold your judgemental position until you know the forum better your angry loner thing
might mello out = you might just one day say "Hey, I like being part of something special".
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by soulpatch
See, the fishing is getting better in the Sea of Cortez.
ZZZZZZZZZ! love the sound of a hook up! |
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