Hmmm. "Lewis" is still conspicuously absent from this thread.

Edited by tradguy2 - 21 Jan 2009 at 10:31am

 As the person who rescued "lewis" I believe that our tradition is good and just. The River Gods demand that  justice prevail here.  The nectar of the booty must be consumed,   if wine is needed, then so be it,  by this point he probably owes a wine barrel worth anyway.  
One could conclude, that because the booty is always neglected by this particular person,   swims will happen more often to him as a result.  Obey tradition!  Bottoms up!   

So was that what happened... Lewis Ran over Dave in BD...
http://professorpaddle.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7758
Its all making sense now!!!!

ok ok.....   I gots to weigh in on this one....


There is no depth of water that can be called a NON swim.  So if your skirt is pulled....  either by you or other natural factors....   CONGRATS.... you swam!!!  matter of fact.....  even if you don't have a skirt and are using a canoe, or a IK and you fall out in ankle deep, you are swimming.

Ankle deep....2" deep, 100' deep....   you exit boat...   you swimming!

Some people love to swim....   I tend to call them dangerous...or maybe just masochistic....  Then there are others like Michael Phelps who could prolly happily swim some really nasty stuff....   Still I would personally consider that dangerous/borderline masochistic.

I myself think that if you have not swam in class III water then maybe you should consider doing it.  REALLY.  When was the last time you swam a class III rapid?  it's actually quite exhilarating, even kinda fun.
 
OK....so if you are getting out of your boat....slip, and fall in the water.....  you don't owe booty beer, and maybe you didn't even swim(unless you had to paddle to make it to shore....cause then you were swimming).   Some people purposefully jump off high rocks to swim.

OK....so....   Booty beer.....   Hmmm, if you have a fungal anomaly on your feet....maybe booty beer is not a good idea for you.  In fact, what I suggest for someone like that is to carry an extra booty that is clean......   Otherwise...  I am a fan of the booty gods getting what they need.  
 
I got a great game based on this actually.

Lastly, sorry James...but you know how much I like beating on dead horses(there are some old posts about it...kinda morbid actually).

AND.....I am going to change my signature to better reflect my feelings after this article.

"we are only boaters between swimms"  Matty

Like thats what happened..... 

I think it was more like a WWF ring on the old BHW... and I am pretty sure we both qualified for a bootie beer that day!!!  Ahh the good old days

Hey James, I was just posing a "what if?"  Not like anything like that would ever happen. But that was some good WWF action on the BHW.

I would not want to re-enact the whole debauckle but it is still funny to re-call that day...

What a bunch of goons we are!!! And quite honestly after a stunt like that if someone pushed me into the river right from the bank... I would say I owe a booty beer for that too!!!!

  King of the Wave!!!!