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Wolfgang wrote:
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Wolfgang wrote:

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...The difference between flyfishing and tennis (or at least one
difference) is that performance is not only measurable, but unavoidably
obvious...


Stupid. Just plain stupid. The difference is that fly fishing isn't
about winning.......well, not for most of us anyway.

I was talking about performance of the equipment, stupid.


But of course. And this is why your life's ambition of being a winner is
forever doomed.

Someone (I don't know who -- you'll have to Google it) once said
(paraphrasing) that the mark of intelligence is the ability to entertain
two opposed concepts at the same time.

That was Lennie Richardson, April 8, 2004.......and he was speaking of
me......and I didn't have to Google it......I've got it hanging on the wall
next to me as I type this......suitably framed......and notarized.

You failed.

Talk to Lennie.

Flyfishing isn't about winning. Tennis is. That's why I pointed out the
DIFFERENCE. Equipment makes a DIFFERENCE in tennis (you win or you lose),
and the difference is obvious.

Well, that's pretty funny. I doubt many people here will be shocked or
surprised that you haven't got any idea of what you are GOING to say......or
that you are equally clueless about what you are SAYING......but most would
probably have guessed that, with documentary evidence before you, you would
at least have a vague idea of what you DID say.

Draw your own conclusions.

Looks to me like I already have.

I prefer to use equipment that performs well, requires little maintenance,
and is economical.

I'm sure even Kennie won't mind my speaking for all of ROFF in declaring
that you have our permission to do so.

If someone wants to delude themselves about the mystical, soulful
superiority of their bamboo flyrod, that they recently dropped a
wheelbarrow of bucks on, and that they love to fondle in the firelight
below the mantle holding their other antiques, that's fine with me, but
it's a crock.


Ah, well, you see, a very wise man once said that an intelligent person can
sometimes hold to two or more antithetical propositions at the same time.
For example, one could simultaneously recognize that one material might in
some way be technically superior to another for the construction of a
particular implement, prefer, nevertheless, the supposedly inferior material
for personal reasons, be extremely dubious about the existence of what
theologians are pleased to refer to as a "soul", AND without contravening
natural law or good sense be perfectly justified in thinking of the use of
the allegedly inferior instrument as a soul-satisfying experience.

We've been over this before, Stevie.......as long as you cleave unto those
Dawkins comic books, you WILL be subject to the same crippling deficiency as
their author......an absolute and crippling lack of imagination.

Wolfgang