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Hi JT- I see you are up to your usual antics and "spreading the word according to JT." You can't answer a straight-forward question can you? Instead, you go off on a tangent and try and bait someone else to take the focus off you. Well okie-dokie. I guess the year I first saw you come into the shop was '97 or so (I can call up there tomorrow to see when I started working part-time at the shop). However, I believe I first saw you at a Norfolk dive club meeting when I first moved into the area in '96. You were peddling charters on that POS (POS: piece of shit) bassboat of yours. In any case, the bottom line is you are again FOS (FOS: full of shit). I bought my first set of doubles right after moving into the area from Mike Boring in early '96. I had been diving them about a year or so before the shop in question even opened. I knew how to fill doubles. If I seemed like I didn't want to fill yours, it is because I didn't. No one in the shop wanted to. No one could stand you. You would swagger in with your charter groupies yapping non-stop, and crowd around the fill station trying to impress everyone with your heroic tales of nabbing monster lobsters or whatever other nonsense spewed from your mouth. Do you recall that chain going up just past the bathrooms? That was the "JT chain" - it would allow us to relax amidst the peace and quiet of the running compressor and away from your jabbering noise. Let's get real JT. While you were annoying, one of the big reasons I came to dislike you was the day you called everyone in the shop to come out to see the critters you rounded up on one of your dive trips. Do you recall this, and do you remember who was in the parking lot? You whip out a nice sized lobster from your cooler -- a dead lobster with a big spear hole in its head. You stated something along the lines of "well, that's the only way I could have got him." We pretty much called you a moron and walked away, leaving you holding that lobster in the parking lot by yourself. Then there were the stories of you scrubbing berried lobsters on your dives. Call me a fish-hugger all you want, but it beats being an ignorant redneck. Anyway, you never came back to the shop after that parking lot episode. I wonder why? Oh yeah, it was because I didn't know how to fill up your doubles. r-i-g-h-t. I guess you also saw me smoking cigarettes back then too? Again, instead of answering a question you have to turn it on someone else. That is your modus operandi. If you don't like someone or something, you insult and belittle them. Good for you tough guy. You know what though, in the scheme of things, I am very much a neophyte (just so you don't have to waste your time trying to "expose" me: while I did all the air/air BS for a couple of years, I didn't get mix certified until early '99; did the PADI IDC in '98 - moved before the IE; rescue back in '94 [I think? - ask my instructor Joey Dituri or fellow student John Rose as they were there too]; and oh, I first got scuba certified in '90). JT, until my years of technical diving activity surpass a decade or two, and until my technical dives easily exceed four or five digits, I will still consider myself a neophyte. It'll be a while. I don't try to fool myself and think otherwise. Unfortunately, there are a lot of fools out there, and you are trying to be their king. For example, only a fool would think that depth and/or time alone is a measure of competency. However, if you want to play this out to the bitter end, I would be happy to tally up the few technical dives I have done since '99 (since I had to log my exact number of dives - not rounded off - to stay proficient in the NDP), and then I will compare that to the numerous dives you have done in your long and illustrious technical diving career. Let me get back to you, as it may take a while to do all the higher math when calculating your technical diving resume. Just so I don't cheat you out of a couple precious feet, what was the *exact* depth on that 490fsw accomplish-nothing, waste-of-helium, sand dive? JT, you baited me to try and take the attention off you. However, I am not the one yapping about how no one can measure up to me, or calling people neophytes to avoid the truth. So go ahead, consult your word-of-the-day toilet paper and think up some witty comeback. Go ahead and talk about all the cover-ups and how I am nothing but a punk. Go ahead and try and convince everyone that you only tell the "truth", and never lie or contort things all out of shape. I expect nothing less of you. JT, the *real* truth hurts doesn't it? Game on jackass. Oh, be sure to have a real nice day. All my love, Mike Michael C. Barnette Association of Underwater Explorers Because it's there...somewhere...maybe. http://www.mikey.net/aue _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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