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Any knife will do! I promise if you need to survive in the woods any will do. But the one that comes to mind would be the Swiss Army knife, this thing can occupy your mind from being lost for hours. This thing has all grades of gadgets on it. Nothing is impossible with this knife. You can do any thing from cutting your hair to skinning a deer, or you might want to do a little screwing and maybe pop a cork. I mean there is just no end to what you can do with it. It's just fascinating to me.

Some times I get e-mails with pictures in them. Every time I try to post them for y'all to see all I get is the writing and no pics. So I go to the forum to find out how to post pics and it's pretty simple for one pic. Do I have to save every one of them to a folder, re size and all that good stuff, or is there an easier way? Don't leave me hanging, I have some good stuff worth looking at.

If those guys who caught it say it's a Piranha then it's a Piranha. It has teeth and looks like one to me so I have no reason to believe otherwise.

Let's go Fishing!

Subject: FW: Michael's Monkey This is hilarious!!!

If it's so easy then why can't I do it.

Just say I've lost my phone number can I have yours.

That's only 52 years ago! Comments made in the year 1955: "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20." "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2000 will only buy a used one." $3200 for a brand new Toyota in ' 72 "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous." They were 35 cents in a vending machine in 1968. "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?" "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store." $1.25 hr. in '69. "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 c ents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage. Actually, I remember paying 23 cents a gallon in 1972 . "Kids today are impossible . Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls." "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying 'd**n' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every new movie has either "hell" or "d**n" in it. "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas." "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the president." "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now." "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet." "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work." "Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat." "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business." "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress." "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on." "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel." "No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood." "If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it." Know friends who would get a kick out of these? Pass it on! "what about those of us who " remember " these days well ?" ms

Father's are an important part of the family, and we should celebrate their contributions as least one day of the year. The following quotes are gathered and presented in no particular order, for your inspiration. 1. "That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all." J. August Strindberg 2. "It is a wise father that knows his own child." William Shakespeare 3. "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." Anne Sexton 4. "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." English Proverb 5. "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."" Harmon Killebrew 6. "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874 7. "There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself." John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994 8. "It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge." Phyllis Diller 9. "The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad!" Author Unknown 10. "To her the name of father was another name for love." Fanny Fern 11. "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." Jim Valvano 12. "Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys." Anonymous 13. "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." Ruth E. Renkel 14. "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." Anne Sexton "Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" Lydia M. Child 15. I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week." Mario Cuomo 16. "One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." Anonymous 17. "By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father who art in Heaven" Douglas Macarthur 18. "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." Sigmund Freud 19. "Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name." William Wordsworth 20. "Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it." Clarence Budington Kelland

Not bad at all and the fish were impressive too.

You are wright RW we need the rain. I am in the irrigation business in eastern NC and the drought has stopped use from working. The towns and counties have put water restrictions in place. We can't work on systems or do a install because the cities won't give us a permit. I told them if they didn't use the water it was going to flow on by to the ocean. Made sense to me.

Yep she sure dose have a sister and she is single. She is a professor at a college in Tenn. ;D

The only one I know is Mark Martin and the only reason I know his name is because I got hooked on that stuff he advertised.

17# doesn't hold up well against 300lb gators.

What is this?

I made a reply but don't know what happened to it. But did you catch the little section in the lower left hand corner.

Only you squid

How about vertical jigging with a Hopkins spoon? I have done a lot of this on the local lakes. I also love to use my Sweet Beaver with a 1/2oz weight in 15 - 25' of water. What do think?

Mike I just don't know about the. ;D

I've got a tournament on Ontario out of Henderson Harbor on 9/8 - 9/15 Never been on water that big before. You guys are talking Hugh waves, we have rough water in NC to but it consists of 3 - 4'. Why am I going up there with a 20' bass boat? :-[ I have never fished for smallies but I guess I'll learn. If I get back alive I will let you know how I did.

Cannon Balls It was necessary to keep a good supply of canon balls near the cannon on old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bot tom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called a Monkey. But if this plate was made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make Brass Monkeys. Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey. Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. And all this time, you thought that was a vulgar expression, didn't you? ;D

Muddy I wasn't in on the shirts, but pm me so I can help in getting some of them to America's Best.

Helicopter lure and that Flying lure have you ever. ;D

I have had it two weeks and it hasn't touched the water yet. I'm just to busy to take it out for know. > I'm still using my Skeeter to fish tournaments on the weekend. But it won't be much longer. ;D

Whatever the decline I made up for in spending. ;D