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BTW @Cecil_Adams , no need to wait for solicitation, on my part. Just send me my personal message ’ over the transom’ , I’ll get it😌. (yeah, you kinda walked right into that one)
I have contributed to the longtermism thread, and endorse anything that brings in new posters who are rational and can communicate with opinions and facts that do not involve immediate flaming or links to easily falsifiable ‘facts’.
Seriously, more people here would be great for a host of reasons! We need people to shake us out of our habits of the same 3-5 posters digging into their own very specific ruts on certain subjects.
And more knowledgeable people can give us a wider range of skills to share.
And cats. More cats. And snakes and lizards for me, but also more cats. Some dogs I guess are fine too.
I thought “over the transom” was a nautical phrase. I’ve sailed a lot, especially on old wooden boats. The transom is generally the top of the stern of the boat. It is usually a strong solid piece to reinforce the hull.
A following wave can be pretty awful on a low boat like the Tuckerton Garveys and Skipjacks I’ve done most of my sailing on. One of the reasons these are mainly river and bay boats.
TBH, I visualize this as more like whether Doctor Manhattan can summon enough interest in the frail, fallible, and largely irrelevant unwashed masses to continue to share his insight and wisdom.
Supposedly, the German word for transom is vas ist das, because Germans traveling to France would point at the transom and deman to know, “What is that?”
That would be an excellent urban legend to as the Master about.
