You are on a cattle boat and some "dude" with a tongue ring tells you that your "old" gear is "like" way cool and asks you if your related to that "guy" in the old TV show that plays on ancient rerun channels. Now, normaly I would think you would have figured that I would have considered that as a compliment as well you fellows certainly would --- huh? Then he yells over to his gf, I assume, and tells her to look at all the old guages with needles. Thing is, I did not have my vintage gear on, in fact I was in my finest and most modern rig!!! It was about that time that I considered that the newest piece of gear on my person was bought in 1988 and that I was the only one without a computer. Hmmm, maybe it is time for some new gear--nah. I was gonna ask him if he was a DIR guy and if he wouldn't mind if I clipped my bug bag to his tongue D-ring but his lady friend seemed awfully pleasent so I decided to let him live, you know, for her. N (all in jest and teasing--no actual "dudes" were harmed in the stated ocurrence above)