Obsessive letterboxing

2 messages in this thread | Started on 2002-02-22

RE: Obsessive letterboxing

From: Bob Degen (legerdemaine@hotmail.com) | Date: 2002-02-22 14:26:38 UTC

I wont try to speak for the others youve mentioned, but Im not going to let you use me to corroborate your normality. Come on, Jay. You have more boxes than the combined total of all those youve mentioned. I box out of boredom, not obsession. My wife ran off with a circus dwarf a couple of years ago, and I dont like sports. Lucy has all but ruined television for me. I get queasy and short of breath when I even look at the remote. I make these as a way to wile away my free time. It keeps me out of the bars.

As a medical professional, you know that self diagnosis is a difficult thing. But certainly, you can recognize the voice of denial. Everyone who boxes has a mutant gene? Were all kind of sick? I think that it might be time to do an intervention. Because of the lack of comity generally displayed on these pages, I think that we can assume that were all friends here (after all, who can fight better than family?) so it is up to us to intercede. Ill get the ball rolling.

Jay, we love you and we care about you. You have a boxing problem. You need help.

Id ask Aili to start another letterboxing subgroup, letterboxers_anonymous, but by definition, a group has more than one person in it. Those fellas out in Ohio are suspect, though. We might have to pull the plug on the whole state. Well have to wait and see if there emerges a class of people who just cant handle their boxing. But for now, it is evident that you are sui generis. Get some help.

By the way, your daydream about the 50 year old box is myopic. Im designing mine for the hundred year lifecycle, and I imagine some of those Mapsurfer boxes will be around forever, with crusty stamps still in want of a first inking.

legerdemaine

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RE: [LbNA] RE: Obsessive letterboxing

From: Stephen Walls (steve@grndzero.demon.co.uk) | Date: 2002-02-22 17:33:05 UTC

This is all too deep for us humble boxers in Dartmoorland.

I cast my vote for a sane Jay ! I shall have to start a "Save the Drews Sub-sub group"

There is no doubt that Jay is box-standard-normal to medium on the Dartmoor Letterboxing Scale. There are some normal boxers here who put out 2 dozen boxes each weekend and as for 50 years..well we pull ours in after two years to save the "wear and tear"...But the P count of some boxers here in excess 1000 - 2000 is not rare.

So the Drews are just dandy !

But then again all Brits are known to be "A.W.O.L. in the Brains dept" (To quote Ann Robinson) ..so maybe we are not the best witnesses ! <G>

Incidentally have you seen the film "The Lord of The Rings" ? Isn't the whole place so boxious !!! Howsabout a boxing field trip to NZ sometime !

Happy Boxing !

The Moorland Wizard...hitchiking on "The Grockle on Tor's" email site !

PS..what is this thing called televisoin you are talking about ? Obviously hasn't reached here yet <LOL>

PPS as to keeping out of bars..there are about 50 stamps in bars (pubs) in Dartmoorland to my personal knowledge <hic>

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Degen [mailto:legerdemaine@hotmail.com]
Sent: 22 February 2002 14:27
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] RE: Obsessive letterboxing

     I wont try to speak for the others youve mentioned, but Im not going to let you use me to corroborate your normality. Come on, Jay. You have more boxes than the combined total of all those youve mentioned. I box out of boredom, not obsession. My wife ran off with a circus dwarf a couple of years ago, and I dont like sports. Lucy has all but ruined television for me. I get queasy and short of breath when I even look at the remote. I make these as a way to wile away my free time. It keeps me out of the bars.

     As a medical professional, you know that self diagnosis is a difficult thing. But certainly, you can recognize the voice of denial. Everyone who boxes has a mutant gene? Were all kind of sick? I think that it might be time to do an intervention. Because of the lack of comity generally displayed on these pages, I think that we can assume that were all friends here (after all, who can fight better than family?) so it is up to us to intercede. Ill get the ball rolling.

     Jay, we love you and we care about you. You have a boxing problem. You need help.

     Id ask Aili to start another letterboxing subgroup, letterboxers_anonymous, but by definition, a group has more than one person in it. Those fellas out in Ohio are suspect, though. We might have to pull the plug on the whole state. Well have to wait and see if there emerges a class of people who just cant handle their boxing. But for now, it is evident that you are sui generis. Get some help.

     By the way, your daydream about the 50 year old box is myopic. Im designing mine for the hundred year lifecycle, and I imagine some of those Mapsurfer boxes will be around forever, with crusty stamps still in want of a first inking.

legerdemaine

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