Comments on: Broken-hearted boat-builder seeks garage

By: liquidstar

liquidstar — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:56:00 +0000

Totally thought of a scene from Ghostdog when I saw this.

By: Susan Carley Oliver

Susan Carley Oliver — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:40:00 +0000

@openid-83417:disqus , I want to hit “Liked” a million times, just for “Outstandingly Perpendicular” alone! “Lifeboat Downhearted” is also a thing of beauty. These spam illustrations would make a great series.

By: HorsePunchKid

HorsePunchKid — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Hah! This reminds me of a funny subject line in a piece of spam I received, "lifeboat downhearted". I decided to illustrate it for some reason, along with a couple of others.

By: parfae

parfae — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:20:00 +0000

Seems legit.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:31:00 +0000

I’m sure this isn’t a hoax. He’s on a boat, and that’s as real as it gets.

By: RoofusKit

RoofusKit — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:03:00 +0000

Yes, but I would rather assume it’s a beautiful broken hearted woman who wants me to help her build a boat. So my forward thinking is not without motive.

By: kmoser

kmoser — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:03:00 +0000

Hipster alert!

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:48:00 +0000

Huh?

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:47:00 +0000

(vomits)

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:45:00 +0000

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/05/24/male-as-the-neutral-default/
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/09/16/rulers-of-science-and-male-as-default/
http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2008/06/the_male_defaul
http://thehathorlegacy.com/the-white-male-default/

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:41:00 +0000

WTF on so many levels.

By: Shiawase

Shiawase — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:45:00 +0000

The characters are similar to those based on Francis D.K. Ching’s lettering. Ching wrote a number of hand lettered books on architecture. Very popular when I studied it in the 80′s. Everyone tried to emulate the style. It became the basis for the Tekton font from Adobe (for those who no longer hand letter!).

By: Stephen Zilko

Stephen Zilko — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:31:00 +0000

Run ladies. Needy free-loader!

By: Michael Gates

Michael Gates — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:44:00 +0000

The one person I knew who tried to build a boat in a garage spent five years at it, got the amas done and fiberglassed, and then died.

I never found out what his family did with the boat bits.

By: David Neil

David Neil — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:06:00 +0000

For the folks curious to know where this is, click the link underneath the picture and it will take you to the Flickr page where it will show you a street map to exactly where in Hayes Valley, San Francisco it was found.

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:59:00 +0000

Sukkaz! Viral marketing. It’s for a new brand of dental floss, if my hunch is right.

By: snoproblem

snoproblem — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:42:00 +0000

Simple. The actor portraying him used to be a carpenter.

By: Mike List

Mike List — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:09:00 +0000

never understood why a former marine would build a boat.

By: Kingazaz

Kingazaz — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:50:00 +0000

I’m a little surprised at all the suspicion in the comments. If I were in that area and had a garage, I would absolutely go for this.

I’m envisioning this person quietly working in the garage. I occasionally bring out some food and drink, waiting for them to speak, if they do, and marking their progress. Slowly words would come and I would listen when they happened, commenting only if prompted, letting them work out their thoughts.

Eventually they would finish the boat and we would test it to see if it was water-worthy before grabbing our packs and setting off to float along the river. We’d camp at night and tell stories and grow to be great friends, then tell the story of how we came to be such to others over the years to come.
…

Or they’d stay one evening, steal all my tools and split.

Either way, I’m sure I’d learn something from the experience.

By: Hilary Lannan

Hilary Lannan — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:47:00 +0000

Architects and many graphic designers have very good handwriting like this. I suspect he’s an architect because this looks like the type of lettering you’d see on blue prints. That doesn’t rule out gay or crazy though.

By: Red Pill Junkie

Red Pill Junkie — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:31:00 +0000

How are they going to decide where to sail?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:42:00 +0000

Sincerely,

Dexter Morgan

I would totally let Dexter use my garage. He makes me feel quite safe.

By: rtresco

rtresco — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:39:00 +0000

Wasn’t Kon Tiki also the result of a post-breakup bender? Poor chap/chapette. Hope they get we’re they’re going.

By: Stas' Wiatrowski

Stas' Wiatrowski — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:31:00 +0000

A trip on the River Styx perhaps?

By: grimc

grimc — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:20:00 +0000

Sincerely,

Dexter Morgan

By: CCinBmore

CCinBmore — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:20:00 +0000

Am I the only one who is curious where this person is? I’ve built a small boat or three and would be game to take them up on the offer.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:18:00 +0000

Mine spins.

Anyway, I’d totally take him/her up on it if my garage weren’t overflowing with crap. A Series III XJ6 sits on jackstands awaiting a new transmission seal. Drums, amps, musical gear and furniture clogs the other half, awaiting the renovation of my music studio next door. And my Cougar shamefully gathers dust & rust outside in the driveway.

Maybe next year, if the heart remains broken and the boat unfinished.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:04:00 +0000

but I have a carpenter aunt!

By: Wowbagger_Infinitley_Prolonged

Wowbagger_Infinitley_Prolonged — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:02:00 +0000

Well, there was that one he built in Mexico that came back to him full of dead bodies…

By: Alvis

Alvis — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:02:00 +0000

Seriously? How do you know it’s a dude?

Because we’re talking about woodworking. Duh. Don’t be so obtuse.