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Old September 7th, 2009, 06:02 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Todd[_2_]
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Giles wrote:

Depends on the intended goal.


Catch and release. Unless I injure one too
badly, then you eat what you kill. (Bait
does not count.)


Maybe the Lord
wants me to eat a few of them every so often.


You'll have to ask the Lord.....or her spokespersons.....about that.


In English, "he" is both masculine and neuter. So, if I can put up with
being called an "it" ... Anyway, I doubt the Lord has a gender.
so in English, "he" would be the proper title. Unless you just
want to be politically correct or quarrelsome.

You would love German. A girl is referred to in the neuter (Das
Mädchen) until she gets married (Die Frau). I can see the
steam coming off the foreheads of the politically correct crowd
right now.


He did make them awfully yummy after all.


She didn't make them at all, after all. She just has some effective
press agents.....which is to say that she has an acutely credulous
audience.


Have you looked at a trout really closely lately? This is
my father's (and yours) doing. It breaks my heart when others
look into the eyes of nature and do not see or are not
humbled by enormity and wonder of the lord's hands. It
breaks my heart.

-T