Fishing Rhino

It's a trick formula. What is owed to each parent plus the dollar has no relation to the total of 100. The shirt was 97 dollars plus one dollar each to mom and dad equals 99 dollars. Add the dollar kept for yourself equals the hundred. Lets say the shirt was 95 dollars. You give your parents each one dollar. Now you owe them a total of 98 dollars. But, now you have three dollars in hand. 3 + 98 = 101. Where did the extra dollar come from? It's 97 dollars plus one for you, plus one for dad, plus one for mom. That equals 100. In the second scenario the shirt is 95 plus one dollar for mom, another for dad, plus the three you kept equals 100.

I'll second the tin boat suggestion. Of the first two, the second would make a better fishing platform, but, what concerns me is the motor. It looks like the lower unit was never tilted up at the end of the day. The lower part looks like it has been encrusted with dried slime and who know what else. In and of itself, that won't damage the motor, but it is an indicator that the owner(s) couldn't be bothered to get the lower unit above the water level. What else might they have neglected?

I like southern cooking, including grits. I was born in GA. But I'm here to tell you there ain't a Bubba Q in the world that can top an authentic New England clambake. Typical ingredients are white potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, hot dogs, saugages, chourico, steamer clams, fish, lobsters, sweet corn, to name a few. It's not only the eating. It's the spectacle of cooking. First, rocks about softball size are heated by placing them in a fire of cordwood. When heated, the rocks are pulled from the fire with long handled rakes, and the ashes and embers are cleared from the fire bed. The rocks are then pushed back together, and covered with rockweed gather from rocky tidal shallows. Then the ingredents are stacked on top of the seaweed. A large potato, with a cord attached is placed on top of the food. The final stage is to cover the food to contain the heat for cooking. Sometimes it's more seaweed, but most often two or three layers of canvas tarps are used. The bottom edges of the tarp are usually sealed with more seaweed. While the bake is cooking, clam chowder is usually available as an appetizer. Dessert is usually ice cold watermelon. After cooking for about an hour, the "bakemaster" will pull out the potato. If the potato is cooked, it's time to eat. If it's not cooked, the bakemaster will determine how much longer before the bake is ready. There are probably as many variations to a New England clambake as there are to barbeques.

Remember, I know where you live, and we'll be passing close by sometime on Wednesday. I'll be thinking of you while we are at the races in Daytona. And if we miss you on the way down and back for this trip, I'll be in the neighborhood again as I make my way to the Road Trip and on the return. It's not wise to poke a hornet's nest by taunting.

We had about two feet of snow. I got up a couple of times during the night to keep our driveway plowed. Lost power and internet service at 10 p.m. on Friday. It was restored about a half hour ago. We have a generator set that amply powers the circuits to keep the heat on, the water tank up to pressure, the fridge running, the sump pump functional if needed, lights in every room and to keep a couple of televisions and the Dish Network operating. The power came on just in time to allow us to leave for our daughter's in GA, then on to Daytona for the races. Be back the first weekend in March.

Hmmmm, must be the European version. First 'vette I've seen with the steering wheel on the right. In the video, the wheel is on the right. In the picture, the steering wheel is on the left. Two different cars. In the picture, the wheel is on the same side as the sawtooth side of the scoop. In the video the wheel is on the smooth side of the scoop.

I think it would be schedule C, business return for the self employed.

I'm not sure of that. If Scorcher was hired as an independent contractor then he (Scorcher) should have made estimated payments. I doubt the car wash owner's story of him being an independent operator would fly in any case. If Scorcher hasn't received a IRS form 1099 from the guy, then he's no independent contractor. Perhaps Scorcher wouldn't have made enough to owe income taxes, but sans a 1099, the employer is not treating him as an independent.

I have to admit that I'm skeptical about this "dark web" scenario. Buy drugs? Hire a hit man? I doubt it. If you can find it, or I can find it, so can the authorities, and they can follow the trail to those promulgating illegal activities. Seem like a great place for all manner of scams.

I doubt you'd get far in any type of court. The doctrine of "clean hands" will prevail. In the matter of your pay, you knew that you were not paying taxes on that "income". Nothing was deducted for federal, state, and social security taxes, as prescribed by law. The court will view you as a co-conspirator to evade taxes. As soon as this comes to the judge's or magistrate's attention, your case is toast. And, depending on their mood, they may refer the matter to a tax enforcement bureau.

This makes me think we did something right as Kristie's parents. Watch for Life is Labs about halfway through the video. http://www.ktre.com/category/151816/video-central

As an aside to your one hundred percent wrong. You cannot be any "wronger" than that unless you experience what happened when my wife and I visited some friends in Lexington, KY. They took us to opening day at Keeneland. The first time my wife or I had been to a track. We ate Burgoo (sp?) stew, watched as they warmed up the horses before each race, and did everything we could to soak up the local atmosphere. Finally there was a race that only had five entries. So Donald proposed that we each pick a different horse and place a two dollar bet on that horse, which we did. Wouldn't you know it, we picked the four losers. The fifth, and unchosen horse won the race.

"Ladies and gentlemen, a good evening to you." That's how Swayze began his newscast. Here's a classic Timex commercial with JP Swayze. By the way, the model of the Johnson outboard was the Javelin.

I'm betting that glue is 3M 5200. Very strong, and very flexible.

Don't use fiberglass resin. Use epoxy. Fiberglass resin is not a very strong adhesive. When boats or other products are laid up, previous layers of laminate are not fully cured, and successive layers form a chemical bond, not an adhesive bond.

Man, we're talkin' some serious BS here!

The Taco Bell commercial with the old timers was horrid.

As I understand it, the motor should not tilt up or down if it is equipped with hydraulic tilt and trim. The older outboards had a mechanism on the pivot bracket which "grabbed the tilt pin when the engine was shifted into reverse. That prevented the motor from tilting up when in reverse. I've looked at my boat and motor. There is no such device. Even if there were, there would be no tilt pin for it to "grab". The motor must be held in place by the hydraulic piston so that it will not tilt up when reverse is used. If the motor can rock enough to drop the fork from the trailer, there has to be some problem in the hydraulic system, be it a seal, valving, etc. Note the angle of the transom saver in this photo. Mine is even closer to horizontal. There is no way that can put significant upward thrust on the motor. When the trailer encounters a bump in the road, the boat and trailer are compressed together. That would put no force into the transom saver, unless you want to count the possible tiny bit of compression of the carpet on the bunks. Now, when you run over a pothole, the boat will tend to separate from the trailer. When that happens, the transom saver if secured at both ends, would try to draw the lower unit down. But since there is not solid connection between the saver fork, and the trailer roller, all that happens is that the fork separates a bit from the trailer roller. When the boat drops back onto the trailer, that gap between the roller and the saver fork closes, and the downward thump is absorbed by the transom, not the saver.

I'm wondering which came first, the chicken or the egg. Did the fork break which allowed the saver to drop, or did the saver bounce free and then drop which caused the saver's fork to break? The hammering you've described might have broken the fork. Just a thought.

Do you think that could be replicated so that you could take a video? Sounds like it would make for great entertainment. I'll bet Bill Dance might do it if you give him the idea. He loves his bloopers, and so do I.

I wonder how much extra stress that rig puts on the steering components of a front end. It certainly will take a lot more force to change the angle of the front treads than it does to change the angle of a wheel for steering. The contact patch of a tire is in line with the "kingpin" inclination. Yes, I know most pickups no longer have kingpins, but the term is still used. It's the line that runs between the upper and lower ball joints. Those treads are at least four feet long. That means there is a two foot lever on each side of the pivot point, where a tire only has a few inches of leverage.

Another effective weedless hook is the Owner Sled Head with the bait Texposed. I usually use lizards, but the options are endless. Bottom image illustrates how to rig the bait.

Hey Grampa1114, and Tate, these guys are talking about us. Just to clarify. We three are fishing buddies and call ourselves the three stooges. Grampa is Curley, Tate is Larry, and I am Moe.

Here's how I fish grass. This is a Jackall Wacky Jig Head. I prefer it to the jig heads with the barb on the shank. A drop of crazy or super glue hold the bait in place. I fish several baits this way such as a wacky rigged worm, the Rage Tail Grub in the photo, the Rage Tail Menace which outfished the grub. You can also rig a floating worm and it becomes a shaky head on this hook. You can use just about any plastic bait that you prefer. I have found a better hook for grass. Unfortunately, the weight is lead, so it cannot be fished in Mass. I don't like the vertical eye because it can snag grass. It works pretty well, but the hook in the second photo is much better. The eye is in the front of the head, so it slips through the grass. There is nothing to snag the grass. It also has two guards, made of titanium and they rarely get bent. It comes in the same weights as the Jackall Wacky Jig heads, 1/16th ounce, 3/32 ounce and 1/8th ounce weights. It can be rigged the same way using super glue. You can see the positioning of the eye lets it slip through the thickest gunk nicely, and the two guards definitely are an improvement over the single wire in the Jackall Wacky Jig Head. I have a good supply of the Gamakatsu hook above. They'll be getting a workout at Pickwick when I want to drag a plastic through the aquatic plant life.

As Sir Snookalot says it depends on the walkable, castable shoreline. You definitely do not want the shore to look like this. This is ok for "bottom jerking" but not so much for casting along a shoreline.