Daily Keno Snarky comment thread

Bingo baitkiller. This thing has legs

Why not just say there are a lot of knowledgeable people here on the site with a mix of personalities and that keeps things interesting?.

You can try to name people but the list is never complete.

Myself I think that Australian guy Lewy is as good with a GT40 as anybody

And every now and then a new or relatively new guy comes up with some really enlightening information that makes you say Wow

The number of posts you have means nothing really, so you new guys shouldn't be afraid to post 'cause you might get questioned

We were all that new guy once

And for Pete's sake .................QUIT USING ME AND PETE IN THE SAME SENTENCE

He's better looking, smarter, has sexier legs although they are a little boney and wears a monogrammed shirt much better than I do

I'm developing a complex

Larry makes great points. Still, this site has been a ton of fun and the go-to for info for a long time, far longer than most sites. As for FB, I'm not on it, not joining, and so will miss out on that banter, oh well.

Guys like Pete and Keno and Joe and Tim etc. make sites like this go, people know they can get their problems solved. A diesel site I'm on has a few like them, without the trusted knowledge you don't know who to believe. I know if someone suggests I lap my prop in with a body grinder that Pete will jump in to tell me not to, Ken will back him up, and Jbear will ask what a prop is.

Brett wrote: So...I think I may have un-earthed the only known picture of Ken and Pete, I believe they are discussing coast guard approved parts here.. However, I am unsure who is who...I have some clues but they could go either way... The mate-he was a mighty sailor man could be either... The skipper- brave and sure. Again could be either...

Brett

It's becoming intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer that you are a rookie here who doesn't have clue how to search on the site or what you're talking about

Anybody that's been around here a while knows we're the Odd Couple aka Lemmon and Matthau.

Do a search and you'll find some pictures

There's one of Pete flogging me with a fish.

Orlando76 wrote: I think Larry kinda hit a home run.

Who is Larry??

I too enjoy all the info shared by KENO and Pete. Not that I understand any of it...but I sure like how they say it.

Over the years....and I have been on here as long or longer than most....I have found most of the friends I hang out with.....visit...entertain in our home...ski with......do favors for such as pick up boats or trailers.

Larry......you said it so well...

I miss 79 at times. He was a lot of fun in person.

I cant imagine where I would be without the friends made here...




john

I'll probably never be at an event cause I'd be hanging out with this guy, having way too much fun

You guys missed most of the real fun shame 79Nautique is no longer around. Quite often he did not play well with others but he sure was entertaining.

Together there could have been some extra "snarkasm" with KENO

Ken and Pete are great assets to this site. Ken helped me keep the Tique going on multiple occasions, through guidance and even some parts donations to the cause, always much appreciated. Pete is equally knowledgable, tho you have to pass his screening questionnaire to get his support. Questions typically include:

Why do you want to do that?
How do you know its broken?
Why did you buy one of those?
Why did you do that?
Did you check it with your VOM?
Why dont you fix it yourself?
Why dont you just chuck it up in the lathe and make a new one? (distributor, propeller, shaft, headlights, engine mounts.....) Kudos to him for being able to do that, but some of us fall short in that department.

If you can answer those to his satisfaction, he is happy to help. If you fail to answer his question, he will copy and paste it into fresh posts until you do.


On a related topic, I was talking to another long timer at Gregs back in October, who was sort of musing on how the character of the site has changed over the years. I guess that is likely to happen after as many as 15 years, which is how long I and some others have been around. On the upside, 15 years is a long time. Survived longer and a whole lot more successfully than Myspace or the HotBot or Jeeves search engines. That longevity is attributable to a great webmaster (Keith) who has kept it going and great people who have become friends on line and in person. I just retold the story at Gregs how several years ago I told my wife an on-line friend (JBear) and 3 complete strangers I have never met before (Scott and Gene Monahan and Bill Berry) are coming to spend the night at our house. That common bond of loving these old boats and a passing but not extreme/too intense interest in watersports has kept it going.

On the downside, through the years, it may have come to feel a little bit like high school and got a little clique-y. Remember table 1 in the cafeteria, the one where the cool kids sat. Back in the day, they got in there and mixed it up with the rest of us. These days, doesnt seem like quite so much. Just an observation. But it seems a lot goes on "behind the scenes" these days. Things we used to see on here and enjoyed seeing or learning from, but dont show up any more. That part is too bad. Again, just an observation. I guess time passes. Kind of sad to have to go over to Facebook   (not my favorite retreat) CC page to get some of that banter back. Plus, over at the FB CC page, although the posters know an awful lot, most of it is cringe-worthy wrong.

I still don't understand why the Navy didn't wait to name the SSN 666 the Sea Devil. LOL. There were handful of guys who came over to my boat after the Sea Devil was decom'd, although it was a few years after you left.
SSN 637 89 - 93

To you and all those who serve in uniform -- THANK YOU for your service.
(A special "shout out" to my son, Lieutenant Davidson, USAF)

I have an uncle who served on a diesel boat and then on a boomer. After his stories, I have all the respect in the world for those who earned their "dolphins".

JQ

KENO:

Surface ship? Boomer? or fast attack?

Ken is not his real name.You won't find any pictures of him or see him at an event. The government spent alot of your tax dollars placing him in the witness protection program so they are not about to start all over

I believe both studied at the Nacy Pelosi school of Charm, Grace & Beauty. If you look carefully on CNN, you can often catch a glimpse of KENO disassembling a video camera or Pete conferring with Anderson Cooper about the proper interval to change a raw water impeller.

Well there it is...Keno-Pete...
Where did you all learn what you know...fill in some blanks boys.
I know I would love to hear your backgrounds.
This is the part where Keno asks for a pic then sends me a link to Keno's knowledge post.