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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:12:15 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


"Peter Charles" wrote in message
.. .


Come, come now, "Choose any rod, reel, and line combination." That
was just too delicious a setup to let it slip by without comment -- ya
gotta admit that one. Just one little admission -- it won't hurt that
much -- I promise.

If you saw that much then you doubtless saw both what preceded it and what
followed. This is getting very sad. For the first time ever (I believe),
EOT for me.

Wolfgang


That's a shame, I wasn't taking this seriously at all, neither should
you.

Peter

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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...
Ever read Zinsser's "Rats, Lice, and History"? If not, you should.
Originally published back in the early thirties, if memory serves. Dated,
but delightful. One of my favorite books of all time.

Wolfgang

Yes, I have. It is dated, but is excellent. I don't have my copy at home
(for some stupid reason I left it in my office), but there is one passage
that describes his fascination with insects and microbes. I used to read to
my class it as part of my opening lecture when I taught med-vet entomology,
sort of to explain my bizarre interest in this area.

Tim Lysyk
timlysyk at telus dot net

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Wolfgang wrote:
Ever read Zinsser's "Rats, Lice, and History"? If not, you should.
Originally published back in the early thirties, if memory serves. Dated,
but delightful. One of my favorite books of all time.

Wolfgang



read minimal parts in high school. you're right wolf, a classic.
i'll have to find a copy in the stacks and read in its
entirety.... hopefully after i finish my latest read... r.w.
mcfarlane's - a stillness in the pines: the ecology of the
red-cockaded woodpecker

wally

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"Tim Lysyk" wrote in message
news:P7bzb.927$d35.746@edtnps84...
"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...
Ever read Zinsser's "Rats, Lice, and History"? If not, you should.
Originally published back in the early thirties, if memory serves.
Dated,
but delightful. One of my favorite books of all time.

Wolfgang

Yes, I have. It is dated, but is excellent. I don't have my copy at home
(for some stupid reason I left it in my office), but there is one passage
that describes his fascination with insects and microbes. I used to read
to
my class it as part of my opening lecture when I taught med-vet
entomology,
sort of to explain my bizarre interest in this area.

Bizarre? Hm.....malaria, influenza, yellow fever, dengue, typhus, typhoid,
the plagues, cholera.....pick any two from the (woefully incomplete)
list....add up the numbers, and a LACK of interest is truly bizarre. Hell,
the first two alone have killed more people in some individual decades than
all of the patriots in the history of the world combined.

Wolfgang

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"walt winter" wrote in message
...
Wolfgang wrote:
Ever read Zinsser's "Rats, Lice, and History"? If not, you should.
Originally published back in the early thirties, if memory serves.
Dated,
but delightful. One of my favorite books of all time.

Wolfgang



read minimal parts in high school. you're right wolf, a classic.
i'll have to find a copy in the stacks and read in its
entirety.... hopefully after i finish my latest read... r.w.
mcfarlane's - a stillness in the pines: the ecology of the
red-cockaded woodpecker

Mmmmm.....birrrrds!

"The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck"--Rory Nugent

"65290" from "A Sand County Almanac"--Aldo Leopold

"The Water Ouzel" chapter 13 of "The Mountains of California"--John Muir

Wolfgang
o.k., mcfarlane goes on the list......****! :(

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"steve sullivan" wrote in message
Are you sure about that? Really Really sure? I was sold a sth im c2
6-8 weight for stealhead and salmon fishing on the feather. A salmon
took my glo bug, and went for a run. The cassette came off and fell
into the water. I lost the fish, had to wait till all the line was out
so I could pull up the cassette from the bottom of the river.

I wouldn't necessarily chalk that up as a faulty reel. In my case, I used
that same undersized STH on a 9 wt. for salmon for a few years, and it
performed quite well. On the screaming runs, the drag was sometimes less
than silky smooth, but the cheapo reel really did the job, even under what
was extreme conditions for that reel. When I eventually upgraded, it wasn't
because the old one didn't work.

Joe F.

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In article Ykazb.759$d35.229@edtnps84, Tim Lysyk
wrote:

Which book about mosquitoes??


While we're on that, there's a terrific book I bought in Scotland :
George Hendry, "Midges in Scotland" about the way these pesky
no-see-ums have affected the entire history of the Highlands. Anyone
who has ever fished there in the summer will realize how important they
are. They are very, very sensitive to light levels. Above 260 W/m2
sunlight suppresses them. Biting activity peaks at 100 to 130 W/m2
(that two means squared)

Of condiderable interest and use to fisherfolk. Published by the Mercat
Press of Edinburgh.

Lazarus

--
Remover the rock from the email address

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Greg Pavlov:
Isaac Babel, a Russian writer who disappeared in the Stalin purges.

Thanks for the excerpt, Greg. I'll have to look around and see if I can
find his work in the local library.

That molasses sunset must be a high latitude event. Here it sort of looks
like it begins to accelerate when it's about 10 degrees of arc above the
horizon.
--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

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Bizarre? Hm.....malaria, influenza, yellow fever, dengue, typhus, typhoid,
the plagues, cholera.....pick any two from the (woefully incomplete)
list....add up the numbers, and a LACK of interest is truly bizarre. Hell,
the first two alone have killed more people in some individual decades than
all of the patriots in the history of the world combined.
Wolfgang

So what do you suggest we do to arouse public interest? Having experienced
malaria, I'm quite interested in preventing it. Having been vaccinated for
Yellow Fever, Typhus, Plague, Cholera, and repeatedly for Typhoid and
Influenza, I've subjected my body to preventative mechanisms. Yet public
health funding and practice is not only a back burner item but often
willfully resented as intrusive. Even physicians still resist filing the
necessary communcable STD reports that local health departments need to
accurately treat and track these and other diseases.

Add to this the politics which erupted and delayed the treatment of HIV
infection as a communicable disease, the failure of people everywhere to
practice those actions which might lessen the impact of HIV, and suddenly a
localized war, or two, becomes a minor reaper.

I'm trying to recall who wrote a book called "Man, Microbes and Morality."
I read it while still in high school. Would be interesting to see how it
reads today.

We'll see how many people this years influenzae outbreak harvests.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69

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