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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on October 16, 2011, 10:20:32 PM
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Hey all;
I have been offline for awhile. It happened like this. I went to visit the old man. Three days after I got there he got called up by the Red Cross (for which he has been a long time volunteer) to man a shelter in North Dakota to deal with flood victims. He got 36 hours notice. This seems like BS as the shelters have been in place for a couple of months, and you would think think they could give greater lead time for staff given that there was no urgency, just a continual need for replacements. ???
Anyway, rant over, he took off and I decided to stay at his place and fish (yes I would have gone with, but the Red Cross won't take folks who haven't completed their training). Anyway, long story short, he was planning on doing his rotation in ND and then renting a car and touring the Pacific North West. Then he got the flu. He called me on a Saturday morning, an hour before I was to leave, and asked me to pick him up at the airport that night. He was a mess. I drove him home, and praise God I stocked up on groceries, including his medicinal Evan Williams the next day because 24 hours later I was just as sick. We spent the next three weeks setting land speed records for the head and doing our best to cough up a lung. What was supposed to be a two week trip turned into the better part of 5 weeks. When he and I are too sick to fish, it is serious. ;) However, all things pass. Last week we got out a couple of times and I have returned home. We are both relatively healthy. It just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished. I appreciate the concerns expressed by the board. Its just that internet access at his place is difficult and I was too damn sick to follow the board anyway. I thank those of you who expressed concern and regret that I couldn't chime in on the whole zombie like resurrection of Romney. More to follow on that topic. ;D
FQ13
PS I delayed my return home for one day due to the start of stone crab season. The best restaurantin Everglades City, (read the Florida equivalent of a lobster pound), didn't get their crabs in till today, and damned if I was leaving till I'd had some. These things are the food of the gods. Anyway, I showed up at 11 am and was told that it would be an hour before the claws got there. The owner went to school with my dad and when I asked if I could cast to the baby tarpon rolling off his dock while I waited he said: "Sure, make yourself at home" and he even threw in a free beer. I caught two small tarpon about three feet long on a light spinning rod and got several jumps out of each before they threw the hook. (Note to Yankees: a tarpon throwing the hook after a respectable fight is a good thing, as its all catch and release and there is no point in fighting the fish to exhaustion). Anyway, the crabs arrived, dad and I ate a pound each, and it was a great end to a somewhat ill fated trip. Flu aside I have no complaints.
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Glad you made it back, FQ........ I've been getting bored reading posts with low word-counts. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Damn!!!
Does anyone know how to remove orange highlighter from a monitor screen ??? I needed to take a potty break, so I put a mark on my last word read. Then I needed to get another beer so another mark. Then the phone rang ... I had fifteen marks on here before I got to the end :'(
Anyway, glad your back and well rested for some abuse ;D
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OK.
Short version: ;)
Went to Naples to visit dad.
Dad got called up by the red cross.
Dad came back with the flu, infected me with the same.
Three plus weeks spent hacking and vomiting.
Returned to health (sort of).
Today I ate stone crabs, drank beer, caught tarpon, returned home.
Thanks for your concern.
FQ13
PS How about that Mitt Romney and the "its my turn party"? ;D
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I've always tried to avoid getting crabs.
Some one should dump Holy water on Romney.
Should spritz the alleged FQ as well just to be safe, everything's spelled right. ;D
Oh yeah, welcome back ;D
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Welcome back!
Richard
PS: Brief and to the point!
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Something fishy here, folks. The word count is high, and that shows consistency with FQ's modus operendi, but the grammar and spelling are correct. That just doesn't wash.
And notice that there was not one mention of iguanas, rum, air rifles or coeds.
And the single political crack wasn't off-the-charts-looney-left.
Until I see further proof, I'm calling BS on this ringer.
Sheesh.
Crusader
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Something fishy here, folks. The word count is high, and that shows consistency with FQ's modus operendi, but the grammar and spelling are correct. That just doesn't wash.
And notice that there was not one mention of iguanas, rum, air rifles or coeds.
And the single political crack wasn't off-the-charts-looney-left.
Until I see further proof, I'm calling BS on this ringer.
Sheesh.
Crusader
I was going to suggest he'd been posting all along as Mauler (Pauler?), but the spelling and grammar were too good. I'll probably get labeled a Neo-con Zionist for that crack.
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I was going to suggest he'd been posting all along as Mauler (Pauler?), but the spelling and grammar were too good. I'll probably get labeled a Neo-con Zionist for that crack.
ROFL, I had the same thought .
You Trotskyite ! ;D
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ROFL, I had the same thought .
You Trotskyite ! ;D
Tool of the military industrial complex. ;)
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And damned proud of it ;D
Nuke Iran and F*ck Ron Paul ! ;D
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Welcome home young man!
Glad you've got a least half a lung left and I envy the stone crab. It's been about thirty five years since I've tasted that delicacy myself.
BTW, you are NOT a difficult person to find. I spent about five minutes and had your home phone number at my fingertips and I didn't even know your name.
;)
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And that sir, is damn scary. So much for privacy on the web. It does make you wonder why the Feds haven't rounded up every goof ball on a jihadi web site, or for that matter hauled Tom away. ;D
FQ13
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Tom's a Marine Veteran.
He can't hide from the Government any more than I can. Believe it or not, I once had a Top Secret clearance!
You on the other hand were no more difficult to find than your email address. One led me to another forum and "Bazinga!" I had a name and from there, I checked the White Pages for WPB and you're not unlisted.
I'm a huge Agatha Christie fan as well!
;D ;D
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And that sir, is damn scary. So much for privacy on the web. It does make you wonder why the Feds haven't rounded up every goof ball on a jihadi web site, or for that matter hauled Tom away. ;D
FQ13
I live under the approach pattern for the local hospital.
The "Black helicopters" are not allowed to interfere with possible Med flights. ;D
Besides, I'm just advocating the violent overthrow of the current regime.
It's not like I'm killing iguanas or something ;D
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Glad your back FQ, and feeling better. Getting some stonies myself this week....
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g428/marylandbluecrabexpress/stonecrab.jpg)
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for anyone interested. You might not find a tastier morsel to spend money on...
http://www.flstonecrab.com/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=3
monies too tight for me this year...
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Nuke Iran and F*ck Ron Paul ! ;D
LOL!
Or
F*ck Iran and Nuke Ron Paul ! ;D
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LOL!
Or
F*ck Iran and Nuke Ron Paul ! ;D
Six of one...
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And damned proud of it ;D
Nuke Iran and F*ck Ron Paul ! ;D
In my best Hedley Lamarr voice "Kiiinkeeeeee!" 8)
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LOL!
Or
F*ck Iran and Nuke Ron Paul ! ;D
LOL!
Or
F*ck Iran and Nuke Ron Paul ! ;D
Do that and the Dems might elect him.
They are suckers for a minority and we have never had a glow in the dark pres.
He could say, "My opponents don't like me because I don't look like those guys on the money, They actually needed Flashlights to get around in the dark" ;D