He Hate Me

Not that I care, but Bruce Nelson is never going to be my best friend. And its safe to say I'm not on his Christmas card list either. He thinks I'm an idiot and I think he's an uptight douchebag. I think we're probably both right with me, as usual, being more right.
Here's the latest in a seemingly never-ending saga of mutual dislike that I thought you might enjoy. -Ed.

So I'm minding my own business (for once) a couple of weeks back, and while checking e-mail, I see one from the local Dago Lehman 12 fleet. For some reason I'm on their mailing list (although I bet not after this), and I check out their bulletins about what they are up to. There was an e-mail from one of them about a birthday celebration at a Lehman event and a reference to the birthday boy getting dunked… "so maybe he needs a good dunking" was the phrase used.

I didn't pay much attention to it, until I noticed this reply (to all of us on the mailing list) from Nelson:

Nelson: Careful people ...(the birthday boy) might threaten to sue you for assault, or try to trash you on his website. (I've changed the boy's name to birthday boy to protect the innocent - Ed)

WTF? I haven't said a word at this point, but I'm not letting that go unnoticed, so I respond, also to all:

Tempesta: Yeah, careful (birthday boy), you might get punked. Because we all know how cool it is to shove somebody in the water when they're not looking.

Here's Nelson's response, again to everyone on the list:

Nelson: Not looking??? We were talking face-to-face at the time - try to get your story straight, for once, moron.

At this point I'm not only amazed that he has even started this bout of stupidity, I of course feel I have to set the record straight.

Tempesta: Well, now that you've seen fit to include everybody on this list in on your angry little session, let's set the facts straight, shall we Nelson?

The truth is that you pushed me in the water as I was looking at the Blusail 24 that you walked down the dock to ask me about. Of course, we all now know that you didn't care about the Blusail 24, but that you set me up to push me in the water when I wasn't ready. A chump move, no matter how you try to sell it.

So, you can try to spin that I was somehow ready for you to push me in the water, and I think we all understand that you want to tell everybody that I knew that you were going to chump me like that. You know, the whole "face to face" thing, right Nelson? I mean after all, one wouldn't expect such a move out of the great Bruce Nelson, would one?

C'mon Nelson, don't you have anything better to do? Aren't there customers standing in line to get a Bruce Nelson design? And the "moron" name calling? Why, I think someone's a little cranky today!

There, doesn't it feel better when the truth is told? Oh and from here on out, if you want to continue this fascinating dialogue, write me personally.

No further response from Nelson or anybody after my last reply. I think he has perhaps decided that wasn't his brightest PR move, and maybe he's back to designing boats. Be sure to check out his site for his latest work. Good times.

04/14/2004