Quote of the year

[Seajet]

I was on a chum's boat last week, sitting on a borrowed mooring in Chichester harbour when a gaggle of Optimist dinghies, as usual sailed by 6-10 year olds, went past.

The super-confident little girls said ' hello ' while passing an inch from our transom, but a little boy hadn't quite got the hang of it, stalled the sail and clanged up against the boat behind us...

" Dad, Dad, Dad, This boat doesn't work ! "

We have kept this phrase on file for future use.

 

[ronsurf]

Is that phrase exclusively for Andersons?

 

[Seajet]

Is that phrase exclusively for Andersons?

Not if you can read, in which case why are you typing and why am I replying ?!

 

[25931]

I was on a chum's boat last week, sitting on a borrowed mooring in Chichester harbour when a gaggle of Optimist dinghies, as usual sailed by 6-10 year olds, went past.

The super-confident little girls said ' hello ' while passing an inch from our transom, but a little boy hadn't quite got the hang of it, stalled the sail and clanged up against the boat behind us...

" Dad, Dad, Dad, This boat doesn't work ! "

We have kept this phrase on file for future use.

Thanks, I'll file that.

 

[RichardS]

I was on a chum's boat last week, sitting on a borrowed mooring in Chichester harbour when a gaggle of Optimist dinghies, as usual sailed by 6-10 year olds, went past.

The super-confident little girls said ' hello ' while passing an inch from our transom, but a little boy hadn't quite got the hang of it, stalled the sail and clanged up against the boat behind us...

" Dad, Dad, Dad, This boat doesn't work ! "

We have kept this phrase on file for future use.

Just like my family. If something doesn't work it's always Dad's fault!

Richard

 

[dancrane]

"This boat doesn't work!"

Wow! I had exactly that same problem last week. My mast-track wouldn't work, the mainsail wouldn't work, nor would the roller-forestay, and the battens were definitely giving trouble. Glad to know it wasn't ME.

 

[rob2]

That child shows "Management Potential" (incompetent prat).

Rob

 

[NickRobinson]

He might have said 'Dad, Dad, what shall I do, some b**er's nicked our mooring!'

 

[NickRobinson]

That child shows "Management Potential" (incompetent prat).

Rob

I worked with a guy who's quotable quote when asked to actually do some work in areas he'd boasted about was to say. 'I have the experience, but not the expertise'....

 

[Seajet]

I have no doubt that boy will grow up to be a solicitor or similar, ie not a designer or anything useful to UK Itd ...

 

[Seajet]

I have no doubt that boy will grow up to be a solicitor or similar, ie not a designer or anything useful to UK Itd ...

 

[AngusMcDoon]

I have no doubt that boy will grow up to be a solicitor or similar, ie not a designer or anything useful to UK Itd ...

Legal services are a major contributor to foreign earnings for the UK and help our balance of payments. They contribute over 3 billion pounds a year to our export earnings. London is one of, if not the, major centres of international law.

 

[Seajet]

Angus,

I just thought you were a stroppy prat with a wierdo boat and was beginning to warm to you - now hearing you defend bankers, watch out for a broadside !

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Angus,

I just thought you were a stroppy prat with a wierdo boat and was beginning to warm to you - now hearing you defend bankers, watch out for a broadside !

A lawyer is not a banker. I'm not aware of anything the UK's international lawyers have done to upset you. The practising of international law is something we as a nation excel at and I can see no reason why they should not be wholeheartedly supported.

 

[Seajet]

Thanks for your malicious attitude trying to bugger up what I'd hoped to be a fun little thread; hopefully people will read post # 1 and smile....

Andy

 

[dancrane]

I think the kiddie's instinctive criticism of the boat, is a common response when equipment on board doesn't oblige us by doing what we hope it will. I really was convinced there's something wrong with my mast-track...it's only since reading this thread that I've begun considering how my hoisting-technique may be at fault.

 

[Floyd Raser]

Took two of my many Grandchildren to Symmons Yat about 3 weeks ago. One of the tourist trip boats motored past and the 5 year old lad noticed something:

"Grandad, you see that water coming out the back of that boat? That's what keeps the river filled up."

Engineer.

 

[oldharry]

My eldest at age of three walking through a wood on a run ashore noticed a large puddle: "Dad, Dad, this woods got a leak in it."

A reflection on the elderly wooden boat we had at the time....

 

[Skylark]

..............................what I'd hoped to be a fun little thread; hopefully people will read post # 1 and smile....

Andy

I heard a story of a Merchant Banker and his International Lawyer pal sailing a Discovery 55 with their kids when they came across a down-and-out sailing an Anderson 22. The lawyer said to his kid "look, that's what you'll have to contend with if you fail your entrance exam to Oxbridge".

 

[salar]

A lawyer is not a banker. I'm not aware of anything the UK's international lawyers have done to upset you. The practising of international law is something we as a nation excel at and I can see no reason why they should not be wholeheartedly supported.

Good to see the stereotypes are not being disrupted. If this were a Personal Ads page it would have NSOH. I think it is a fun thread, but then I have a healthy disregard for professions that maintain their elitism based on the money they make.