riverman wrote:

Anyone else had experience with hand injuries or strains from fly
casting?

"Single malt elbow" doesn't count?

That's all I got on the subject of your post, Myron, so to hijack it a
bit, I guess you've probably already heard this math education joke:

*****

Little Zachary was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried
everything: tutors, software programs, flash cards, special learning
centers; in short, everything they could think of.

Finally, as a last resort, they took Zachary and enrolled him in the
local Catholic school.

After the first day, Zach came home with a very very serious look on his
face. He didn't even kiss his mother hello. He went straight to his
room and started studying. Books and papers spread out all over the
room, and little Zach working like a demon.

His mother was amazed. She called him to dinner. To her shock, the
minute he was done, he marched back to his room without a word and hit
the books as hard as before.

This went on for some time, day after day. His mother didn't understand
what had made the difference. Then one day, Zach brought home his
report card. He laid it on the table, went up to his room and hit the
books. His Mom looked at it and to her great surprise, saw that Zachary
had gotten an A+ in math.

She went to his room and said, "Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?"
Zachary shook his head.

"Well, then, was it the books, the discipline, the structure, the
uniforms? WHAT WAS IT???"

Zachary looked at her and said, "Well, you know, on the first day of
school, when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew these people
weren't fooling around."


--
John Russell aka JR