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What's your favorite fly fishing book?
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... In article , says... The morons who burn plastic in their campfires are also right at the bottom of the evolutionary chain. Good pistol targets, if only the authorities would get lost for an hour or so. As scary as it is, I'd be willing to bet that a vast major or those who burn plastic are unaware that it won't burn and won't break down. I forget the exact quote, but something along the lines of never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. The longer I live, the more I realize that most people are clueless. - Ken Oh, it's true. It's definitely stupidity. My former neighbor was a great example. I used to have a ridiculously large vegetable garden. The neighbor's daughter, who was maybe 3 at the time, used to love to come over and munch vegetables and "help" in the garden when I was puttering. The next season, the mom decided to give in to the daughter, who was begging to plant something in their yard. They planted a 10x10 plot of bush beans, an easy crop for a kid to have fun with. One day, when the plants were knee high for an adult, I came home from work and the neighbor summoned me to look at a bug problem on the bean plants. When I got there, I found she had completely dusted the plants with one of the various insecticide powders from Ortho. By "completely", I mean there was barely any green leaf showing. This was done because out of 30 or 40 plants, perhaps 5 leaves in all had bug holes in them the size of a pencil. We got to talking about how she didn't need to do that. Her husband leaned out the patio door to announce that the daughter was up from her nap and wanted to see mommy. The kid ran right into the bean patch to visit her plants, and in the process, covered herself with insecticide dust. She even inhaled it. It took a half hour to convince mommy to get the kid into the shower, and another hour to convince her to get to the emergency room. Her reasoning: "How could they sell the stuff if it wasn't safe?" Unbelievable. |
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... ...The kid ran right into the bean patch to visit her plants, and in the process, covered herself with insecticide dust... Um......while Superman's daddy was doing.......what, exactly? Wolfgang who, while loathe to interrupt a conversation between two gentlemen so utterly free of malice, is nevertheless curious. |
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Greg Pavlov wrote in
: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:11:55 GMT, "slenon" wrote: So we got practice in felling trees, rudimentary logging and a bit of knowledge about forest management. WE had a source of material for pioneering practice and games, and our host had fewer trees to fell to heat his homes. ... and a fair amount of free labor as well.... After the trees, they whitewashed fences cause it looked like so much fun. Scott |
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wrote in message ... In article , says... "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... ...The kid ran right into the bean patch to visit her plants, and in the process, covered herself with insecticide dust... Um......while Superman's daddy was doing.......what, exactly? Wolfgang Exhibit A. It's like a dog whistle or something. Start discussing stupidity and in comes Wolfie panting and with his tongue hanging out..... Actually it wasn't so much the discussion as the graphic demonstrations that caught my attention. although you'd think that if he can lick himself like that he'd be in a better mood more often. Very perceptive......and clever to boot. It seems to me that anyone that clever should be able to explain to people why the stuff they are burning won't burn. Um.....and you might want to make it malicious....the other really isn't working for you. Wolfgang who's got a shiny new nickel says no plausible explication or self extraction is forthcoming. |
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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message . 1.4... Greg Pavlov wrote in : On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:11:55 GMT, "slenon" wrote: So we got practice in felling trees, rudimentary logging and a bit of knowledge about forest management. WE had a source of material for pioneering practice and games, and our host had fewer trees to fell to heat his homes. ... and a fair amount of free labor as well.... After the trees, they whitewashed fences cause it looked like so much fun. What'd it cost 'em? Wolfgang |
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"Wolfgang" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... SNIP One hates to cast aspersions (however unintentionally) on anyone's integrity or offer commentary on eyewitness accounts of events at which he was himself not present, but careful observers as far back as Bartram and Audubon (as well as others too numerous to mention) have noted that herons do not usually carry their prey. Wolfgang But some heros apparently do so, maybe it was superman trying to **** off mighty mouse? TL MC |
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"Wolfgang" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... wrote in message ... ...those who burn plastic are unaware that it won't burn and won't break down..... Hm.....what do you think we can do to convince them? Wolfgang who, admittedly, is stumped. Go back to selling drinks in glass bottles, and wear ironclad boots? TL MC |
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Greg Pavlov
... and a fair amount of free labor as well.... After the trees, they whitewashed fences cause it looked like so much fun. Scott What free labor we provided was worth the safe, undeveloped place to camp, worth the adult leadership, transport to the campsite and home again. I have great memories of those days even though there were no wooden fences. For real fun, we got to play baseball in an empty cow pasture. Most people learned quickly not to slide face first. The same ones who never learned that lesson usually didn't learn about not urinatinng on fences until after checking for insulators. -- Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69 Drowning flies to Dark Star http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm |
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