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-----Original Message----- From: Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 1997 16:55 To: Jim Cobb Subject: RE: TO BE HOGARTHIAN OR NOT BE HOGARTHIAN, OR TO SIMPLY.... So far, I have not conveyed one aspect of my configuration & I certainly have not advocated using my configuration. How come you know so much about how I configure & what gear I use? I don't use independents, helmet or any of the other crap. Your system and mine are probably very much the same except for a few minor differences. i) I wear 4. Yes 4 D rings on my chest. One for each reg and one for each stage. I find it reduces the clutter. What's wrong with that? ii) I don't use a bit of crappy rope secured by one hose clamp on my stages. I use two clamps and D rings. This doesn't wear and break like the rope. What's wrong with that? iii) I don't run my hose under my light and around my neck. It's bungied to the side of my "manifolded twins" & run under my right arm. A terrible sin I know but again what's wrong with that. Your not going to convince me or any other level headed diver that this deviation from purist principles makes anybody a liability. I reiterate what I said before. Would you call Bill Main all the names you mention for deviating from the norm in the first instance? You are the perfect example of the name calling, tunnel vision purist I am referring to in my first post. You're not just a hard headed mother as you put it. I seems you are more of an empty headed foul mouthed mother. You obviously have not read or comprehended a thing I have said. I am not canning or laughing at the system at all. You simply make it up as you go and enjoy the sound of your own rhetoric. If you and all these other fools are so one eyed and egotistical as to believe you are the only person on the planet who has it right, then pity help you. Not only in your diving but life in general. Truth be known, if you were all lined up together in your gear and we played spot the difference, not one would be configured exactly the same. Put your verbose emotions aside and let your commonsense prevail and maybe then you can agree or disagree on a rational basis. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cobb Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 1997 11:07 To: Garry Gillette Subject: RE: TO BE HOGARTHIAN OR NOT BE HOGARTHIAN, OR TO SIMPLY.... No, YOU miss the point. Every person I know who has tried hogarth stumbled into it half-assed, including me. When you try the system, you think, naaaaa, I want my light canister over here. Then your long hose get out of hand. So you tuck it in. Then you try to hang the light around your neck, the cord gets tangled. Suddenly the fucking light bulb come on, and you realize theres a REASON to put the damn thing on the right. Bits and pieces, misspent money, fucked up dives. I am a hard-headed mother, and what did I wind up doing? Reading up on it and finally doing it right. People go hogarth because they are a) overpowered by the logic of the system, b) are overwhelmed by the improvement in their dives. So, I guess the point of your message is to laugh at a proven superior system. I hope you got your jollies. And you can dive any way you want, I won't give a shit, but I resent being called a KKK member, you stupid, half-assed pussy. I see that you took this private, you sissy fagot, whats the matter, can't stand the heat, motherfucker? I would like to see you take a martial arts class, and tell the sensei that "naaaa, I don't wanna do it that way, I saw the ninja turtles the other night, and I think I'll do it THIS way". He'd kick your scrawny little worthless ass and throw you out of the fucking class. So go ahead, dive your mls, superwings, transpac, helmet, independent doubles. Say "HI" to Parker and Palmer for me. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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