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Once again there are signs of unrest,
and some are still doing their best,
to fracture a skull,
with the meaning of "cull"
and most of the rest are depressed.

Some things are quite hard to define,
no reason for folk to repine,
one should try to reach peace,
whether catch and release,
or snapping the poor fishes spine.

Newsgroups can be fairly tight places,
when they talk about wide open spaces,
some manage with ease,
and some try to please,
and still others **** in their faces.

One sees most remarkable antics,
from erudite men and pedantics,
Tuna it seems,
is the fish of their dreams,
or maybe for some it´s Atlantics?

Some positions are hotly defended,
olive twigs are but rarely extended,
the battles rage on,
it seems there´s noone,
who has heard "least said, soonest mended!".

TL
MC

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"Mike Connor" wrote...
Once again there are signs of unrest,
and some are still doing their best,
to fracture a skull,
with the meaning of "cull"
and most of the rest are depressed.

It would be easiest just to cull file the offenders.
--
TL,
Tim
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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Nicely stated, well phrased observation. While the limerk may not be
accepted as the finest form in poetry, it can be quite expressive.

It's quite clear, personalities clash
Without e'en lubrication by mash.
With much conflict between
People never yet seen,
Written phrases become far too rash.

Would a drop of the craythur help out?
Would it it temper the anger some spout?
Or does this gathering need
A more mellowing weed,
To change us to giggles from shouts?


--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

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

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On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:24:21 GMT, "slenon"
wrote:

With much conflict between
People never yet seen,

What makes you think the conflicts are only between people who have
never met?
--
Charlie...

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What makes you think the conflicts are only between people who have never
met?
Charlie...

I don't think that to be the case, Charlie. Both cases are true. I merely
used one case.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

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

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"slenon" wrote in message
om...
What makes you think the conflicts are only between people who have never
met?
Charlie...

I don't think that to be the case, Charlie. Both cases are true. I
merely
used one case.

poor boy; don't you begin to get it? it's *so* easy to **** up around
here. judgments, opinions, and condemnations are our stock in trade.

yfitons
wayno (it gets more tiresome every day)

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Wayne Harrison wrote:

poor boy; don't you begin to get it? it's *so* easy to **** up around
here. judgments, opinions, and condemnations are our stock in trade.

I cannot believe how goddamn stupid that is. :-)

yfitons
wayno (it gets more tiresome every day)

Maybe you should cull your inbox with some message filters. I'll
volunteer to be first in line.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

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"rw" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Wayne Harrison wrote:

poor boy; don't you begin to get it? it's *so* easy to **** up
around
here. judgments, opinions, and condemnations are our stock in trade.

I cannot believe how goddamn stupid that is. :-)

i thought you might like that.

wayno

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poor boy; don't you begin to get it? it's *so* easy to **** up around
here. judgments, opinions, and condemnations are our stock in trade.
yfitons
wayno

All too well, Wayno. Yet I persevere where the thinner skinned pack up and
leave. For I was well prepared for this group by surviving my first
marriage and subsequent divorce. Despite the exclusive nature of this
august body, there remain some of you whom I would eventually like to meet
and fish with and others I'd not.
--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

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

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"slenon" wrote in message
. com...
All too well, Wayno. Yet I persevere where the thinner skinned pack up
and
leave.

"thinner skinned pack up and leave"? I think it's more like "rational folk
decide to better allocate their time".

--
Stan Gula
http://gula.org/roffswaps

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"thinner skinned pack up and leave"? I think it's more like "rational folk
decide to better allocate their time".
Stan Gula

You may have a point there, Stan.
--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

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

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Stan Gula wrote:

"slenon" wrote in message
. com...

All too well, Wayno. Yet I persevere where the thinner skinned pack up

and

leave.


"thinner skinned pack up and leave"? I think it's more like "rational folk
decide to better allocate their time".


Ya know Stan, I agree with this. I've been part of the kind of **** I
don't like on this newsgroup.

But lately, I wonder what it is the "rational folks" want to talk about.
Take out the politics, name calling, and infighting and there's some
slim picking on ROFF over the last couple of months. Stuff always
degenerates during the Winter, but Winter is over.

Willi

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On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:31:32 -0600, Willi wrote:

Stuff always
degenerates during the Winter, but Winter is over.

Now you've gone and insulted Walt. g
--
Charlie...

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"Willi" wrote in message
Stuff always
degenerates during the Winter, but Winter is over.

Down into the 20's last night with 30 kt winds. WTF is up with this **** in
April? I'm south of the M-D Line fer chrissake. Somebody tell them damned
Canucks to stop sending this stuff down here; I wanna go fishing. g

Joe F.

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Willi wrote in
:



Stan Gula wrote:

"slenon" wrote in message
. com...

All too well, Wayno. Yet I persevere where the thinner skinned pack
up

and

leave.


"thinner skinned pack up and leave"? I think it's more like
"rational folk decide to better allocate their time".


Ya know Stan, I agree with this. I've been part of the kind of **** I
don't like on this newsgroup.

But lately, I wonder what it is the "rational folks" want to talk
about. Take out the politics, name calling, and infighting and there's
some slim picking on ROFF over the last couple of months. Stuff always
degenerates during the Winter, but Winter is over.

Willi



Let's face it Willi. We've probably been getting 100 to 200 messages per
day for a decade. How much of this can you really expect to be all about
fly fishing without boring the irregulars present to tears? We're here,
because at some level we like it, or we wouldn't be doing it.

Scott

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In article , fleischman608
@NOSPAMverizon.net says...
"Willi" wrote in message
Stuff always
degenerates during the Winter, but Winter is over.

Down into the 20's last night with 30 kt winds. WTF is up with this **** in
April? I'm south of the M-D Line fer chrissake. Somebody tell them damned
Canucks to stop sending this stuff down here; I wanna go fishing. g


Sounds like a typical spring day to me.

Kevin

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"Willi" wrote in message
...
Ya know Stan, I agree with this. I've been part of the kind of **** I
don't like on this newsgroup.

But lately, I wonder what it is the "rational folks" want to talk about.
Take out the politics, name calling, and infighting and there's some
slim picking on ROFF over the last couple of months. Stuff always
degenerates during the Winter, but Winter is over.

Hell if I know. In winter my thoughts go to looking up and trying new fly
patterns and such - not much to talk about. It snowed here yesterday...
Just enough to make everything feel cold and damp again. I'm dying to get
my canoe on the ponds. Hey Timmay! Let's pick an afternoon this week.

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Well, I wish you all in more northern environs a rapid return to fishable
days. I've been on the water about once a week but hampered by winds that
average 15-20 mph each day.
--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

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

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Scott Seidman wrote:



"thinner skinned pack up and leave"? I think it's more like
"rational folk decide to better allocate their time".


Let's face it Willi. We've probably been getting 100 to 200 messages per
day for a decade. How much of this can you really expect to be all about
fly fishing without boring the irregulars present to tears? We're here,
because at some level we like it, or we wouldn't be doing it.


(Maybe I misread your post but I took it as a dig on what's been going
on here)

Although I agree with your "We're here, because at some level we like
it, or we wouldn't be doing it." statement, but the "fly fishing only"
part of your response is the typical cop out and isn't the point made by
most people when they're critical of ROFF. There is a whole world of
topics between "fly fishing" and personal attacks.

Your response is very similar to something Wayne H. would have made in
the past. It sounds to me that even he's singing a different tune lately.

Willi
goldens@frii./com

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"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
. com...

"slenon" wrote in message
om...
What makes you think the conflicts are only between people who
have never
met?
Charlie...

I don't think that to be the case, Charlie. Both cases are true.
I
merely
used one case.

poor boy; don't you begin to get it? it's *so* easy to **** up
around
here. judgments, opinions, and condemnations are our stock in
trade.

Well, some things never change:

"The [Roffians]cannot love their [newsgroup] without hating a good
part, if not the majority, of their compatriots. Without having
injured, disqualified, incarcerated, deported, or massacred enough to
satisfy the exigencies of their zeal, they accuse themselves of
moderation and tepidity. A good [Roffian] looks on himself as such
only if he has caused death during harsh periods, caused sufficient
shame and ruin...amid a number of his compatriots to calm his dread
that he has not given all of his love to his [newsgroup]. Unless
avarice or personal or family egoism has not already made him
indifferent to the public cause, his lack of fervor leads to
self-loathing if he has not delivered other [Roffians] to the
inquisition, to the police, to the executioners, to the
grave-diggers."*¹


yfitons
wayno (it gets more tiresome every day)

Perhaps, but no one has actually died of it yet, and the fish still
rise......well, on a good day, anyway.

Wolfgang
*from Emmanuel Berl "La Fin de la IIIe République", Gallimard Press,
1968, quoted in "The Debacle", Francine Du Plessix Gray; "The American
Scholar", Volume 71, no. 3, Summer 2002.
¹Berl was actually speaking of the French in the aftermath of the
armistice of 1940.....but the message is universal, ainna?

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Wolfgang
¹Berl was actually speaking of the French in the aftermath of the
armistice of 1940.....but the message is universal, ainna?

Sadly, not only universal but likely eternal as well.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

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

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rb608 wrote:
"Willi" wrote in message

Stuff always
degenerates during the Winter, but Winter is over.


Down into the 20's last night with 30 kt winds. WTF is up with this **** in
April? I'm south of the M-D Line fer chrissake. Somebody tell them damned
Canucks to stop sending this stuff down here; I wanna go fishing. g

Joe F.


Been quite warm of late in southern Alberta, by our standards. We have
highs of 15 - 20 C the past couple of weeks, (thats about 58 - 69 F). I
guess we have been sending the cold air south, becuase it has been nice
and warm here.

Tim Lysyk

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"Stan Gula" wrote...
"Willi" wrote in message
...
Ya know Stan, I agree with this. I've been part of the kind of **** I
don't like on this newsgroup.

But lately, I wonder what it is the "rational folks" want to talk about.
Take out the politics, name calling, and infighting and there's some
slim picking on ROFF over the last couple of months. Stuff always
degenerates during the Winter, but Winter is over.

Hell if I know. In winter my thoughts go to looking up and trying new fly
patterns and such - not much to talk about. It snowed here yesterday...
Just enough to make everything feel cold and damp again. I'm dying to get
my canoe on the ponds. Hey Timmay! Let's pick an afternoon this week.

Uhhhh, okay, but I've yet to buy some paddles and life jackets. Wanna share?
Better yet, wanna share and test my canoe for two human capacity?
--
TL,
Tim
Aw, **** - I've still gotta get a fishing license, too. Thanks goodness for
online purchasing. :)
http://css.sbcma.com/timj