TR Strange happening on the CT River

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 06:40:14 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:

(snipped)

Taking this to email to leave more bandwidth for the Nawth Cakalacky
ping system. ;-)


Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? If she's gone
away and not coming back, that's interesting to me in a curiosity sort
of way.

I know I'm not an ordinary person, but why am I the only woman who's
managed to get on here and stay around for more than a few months?
Have the rest, except for snake, been cross dressers doing a few posts
for fun? The New Zealand woman (who I think was a real person) never
came back. Poodles Fly (I think that was it) wasn't around long. I
think there were a couple of others in the years I've been reading
here.



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Cyli wrote:

Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? If she's gone
away and not coming back, that's interesting to me in a curiosity sort
of way.

I know I'm not an ordinary person, but why am I the only woman who's
managed to get on here and stay around for more than a few months?
Have the rest, except for snake, been cross dressers doing a few posts
for fun? The New Zealand woman (who I think was a real person) never
came back. Poodles Fly (I think that was it) wasn't around long. I
think there were a couple of others in the years I've been reading
here.

We seem to be rebrobate males. I can't explain it. My guess is that
women flyfishers are too mature and sophisticated to put up with all the
crap.

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

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:46:37 GMT, rw
wrote:
(snipped)

We seem to be rebrobate males. I can't explain it. My guess is that
women flyfishers are too mature and sophisticated to put up with all the
crap.

Could be. Maybe it's because I was brought up in a era when male
chauvinists were not just accepted, but expected to be the norm. And,
had the term male chauvinist been around, no one would have added the
word pigs to it. Not that this group exactly qualifies as MCPs. I
think most of you have outgrown most of it if you ever tended to it.
Or I am so inured to it that it doesn't get to me.

A few years ago one of the younger women I know ranted on for a long
time about how the guy running the paintball business handed her a
pistol and said, "Lock and load, little lady." I cannot imagine me
taking umbrage at that. I regarded that as some sort of (terms cut
out here) attitude with feminist chauvinist tendencies. I'd played
paintball there a several times a few years earlier. The owners were
farmers and it was rural Wisconsin. Not exactly a place where they'd
have catered to delicate female sensibilities of the modern big city
woman.

Cyli
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Cyli wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 06:40:14 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:

(snipped)

Taking this to email to leave more bandwidth for the Nawth Cakalacky
ping system. ;-)

Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? If she's gone
away and not coming back, that's interesting to me in a curiosity sort
of way.

It's all Forty's fault! ;-) While I enjoyed having Ms. Fiddler in our
midst, she tripped several bull**** detectors along her journey that
made her seem pretentious. I don't think she is (and I hope she's
reading this); just stating appearances. In roff, once someone calls you
for bull****, it's better to admit the lapse (not apologize, mind you)
than to continue the battle. The dust was just settling when she
disappeared, and hopefully she'll be back.

I know I'm not an ordinary person, but why am I the only woman who's
managed to get on here and stay around for more than a few months?

You are one of the most honest and open people to ever have posted on
roff, and you ignore most of the horse**** being thrown throughout this
place. Oh, and not being "ordinary" helps. ;-)

Have the rest, except for snake, been cross dressers doing a few posts
for fun? The New Zealand woman (who I think was a real person) never
came back.

That was Jo. She seemed a good sort, too.

Poodles Fly (I think that was it) wasn't around long. I
think there were a couple of others in the years I've been reading
here.

I doubt many women hang around in rough saloons either, but they don't
know what they're missing. Quite a lesson in human nature, wot?

Hey, snake! If you are reading this, consider yourself pinged.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

Tim J. wrote:
Cyli wrote:
Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? ...

It's all Forty's fault! ;-) ...

I think it was more a matter of her having a very short
attention span.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:03:03 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:

Cyli wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 06:40:14 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:

(snipped)

Taking this to email to leave more bandwidth for the Nawth Cakalacky
ping system. ;-)

Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? If she's gone
away and not coming back, that's interesting to me in a curiosity sort
of way.

It's all Forty's fault! ;-) While I enjoyed having Ms. Fiddler in our
midst, she tripped several bull**** detectors along her journey that
made her seem pretentious. I don't think she is (and I hope she's
reading this); just stating appearances. In roff, once someone calls you
for bull****, it's better to admit the lapse (not apologize, mind you)
than to continue the battle. The dust was just settling when she
disappeared, and hopefully she'll be back.

Yeah, she made some false steps at the start and tripped one or two of
my detectors, too, but she was fun and she seemed to really like fly
fishing a lot.

I know I'm not an ordinary person, but why am I the only woman who's
managed to get on here and stay around for more than a few months?

You are one of the most honest and open people to ever have posted on
roff, and you ignore most of the horse**** being thrown throughout this
place. Oh, and not being "ordinary" helps. ;-)

Uh, thanks.

Have the rest, except for snake, been cross dressers doing a few posts
for fun? The New Zealand woman (who I think was a real person) never
came back.

That was Jo. She seemed a good sort, too.


I doubt many women hang around in rough saloons either, but they don't
know what they're missing. Quite a lesson in human nature, wot?

The best way for a woman to hang out in saloons and not become a bar
bitch is to work there. Sometimes not even that helps, but it does
keep an arm's distance if one doesn't step into the depths.

Hey, snake! If you are reading this, consider yourself pinged.


Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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"Cyli" wrote in message
Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? If she's gone
away and not coming back, that's interesting to me in a curiosity sort
of way.

Maybe she got caught by the crocodile hunter.
-tom

Cyli wrote:

Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? If she's gone
away and not coming back, that's interesting to me in a curiosity sort
of way.
...

She is (or was) in college, so my guesses would be:
the campus server is near capacity and newsgroups are low priority (happened
here; I only got a couple posts a day until they installed the new server)
she graduated and no longer has "free" high-speed access
she is too damn busy with her dissertation, grant, etc to spend any more
time here

Whatever the reason, I bet we haven't seen the last of her.

--
Rusty Hook
Laramie, Wyoming

"Rusty Hook" wrote in message
...
Cyli wrote:

Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? If she's gone
away and not coming back, that's interesting to me in a curiosity sort
of way.
...

She is (or was) in college, so my guesses would be:
the campus server is near capacity and newsgroups are low priority
(happened here; I only got a couple posts a day until they installed the
new server)
she graduated and no longer has "free" high-speed access
she is too damn busy with her dissertation, grant, etc to spend any more
time here

Whatever the reason, I bet we haven't seen the last of her.

--
Rusty Hook

She's still around. I bumped into her the other day near the student union.
I assume she is takin' Summer classes, as she had a book-bag with her and
appeared to be heading to a class. She said her SO was havin' some medical
issues, so I imagine she'll be around, when not occupied by more important
things.

Mark

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:37:14 -0400, "Guyz-N-Flyz"
wrote:


"Rusty Hook" wrote in message
...
Cyli wrote:

Speaking of pings, what has happened to snakefiddler? If she's gone
away and not coming back, that's interesting to me in a curiosity sort
of way.
...

She is (or was) in college, so my guesses would be:
the campus server is near capacity and newsgroups are low priority
(happened here; I only got a couple posts a day until they installed the
new server)
she graduated and no longer has "free" high-speed access
she is too damn busy with her dissertation, grant, etc to spend any more
time here

Whatever the reason, I bet we haven't seen the last of her.

--
Rusty Hook

She's still around. I bumped into her the other day near the student union.
I assume she is takin' Summer classes, as she had a book-bag with her and
appeared to be heading to a class. She said her SO was havin' some medical
issues, so I imagine she'll be around, when not occupied by more important
things.

Mark

Now that sounds quite reasonable. Mention to her that we've been
talking about her behind her back and see if that gets her back sooner
(does in the crowd of real life people I hang out with). And I hope
her SO gets better soon.

Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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