Monday, March 8, 2010

Profiles in Color

(Commercial fishing has more than it's share of colorful characters,
and they typically sport equally colorful nicknames.)

#1.Offshore Bobby. Mr 11/64.

"Offshore Bobby" is well-known
for talking on the radio,
and one thing he doesn't lack
is braggadocio.

He's not shy about tooting
his own horn,
and anyone who sounds like a newbie
will get a full measure of scorn.

Sometimes Bobby talks too much
and goes too far.
Then he is challenged to meet someone
in a shore-side bar.

You don't need a Mensa-like
IQ score
to realize that Godzilla could be
coming through the bar-room door.

It is not a wise choice
to show up for these affairs.
and Bobby has had to undergo
several bodily repairs.

So has Bobby learned to tone down
his rhetoric on the radio?
Guess what?
The answer is no.

Bobby has a government card saying
that he is part Native American
by the fraction of 11/64.
When you cipher that out
it comes to 17 percent,
leaving 83 percent unaccounted for.

Had the Native Americans
been tallying the score,
they would have counted him a Gringo by 53/64.
For his game plan is as bad
as Custer's,
and we know who lost that war.

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