I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
such.
HWMNBN has taken on a new, low-key persona - and is trying to play
nice.
There seems to be no current troll infestaion - internal or external.
Peoples is actually talking about WoodDorking.
I have to tell you, I think it's disgusting.
Ah well - I believe it is a law of thermodynamics, replicated in group
dynamics - that all systems tend towards disorder.
Seriously now, folks - I haven't seen the Wreck this quiet since I
started lurking here in '94.
It's sorta scary.
It's sorta neat, too.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
Knitting newsgroup! Great idea, Tom.
Now where did I put those plans for pointy sticks?
Andy
P.S. I remember I made a weaving loom once. Does that count?
http://www.myweb.cableone.net/andya/loom0.jpg
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:42:38 -0500, "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >"Tom Watson" wrote in message
> >> I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
> >>
> >> And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
> >>
> >> Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
> >> such.
> >
> >Cause and effect?
> >
> >... just kidding. :)
>
>
> Oh no, Hell no! I was thinking the same thing.
>
> I was thinking that if I went away for another month - this might turn
> into a knitting newsgroup.
>
> Shazzam!
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:35:07 +0000, [email protected]
(Robert Bonomi) wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>[[.. munch ..]]
>>
>>It's sorta scary.
>
>Boring? Nah. hasn't been a serious technique discussion for drill-presses,
>or mortisers for at least a couple of weeks. Everything -but- boring has
>been being discussed. <grin>
>
ya know, i always wondered why our life could be boring without us
being borish. we had to be boorish to make our lives boring.
a man who is a boor is not necessarily a man who bores but may well be
a man who boors.
this is very confusing to me.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:08:08 -0400, Tom Watson <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>Although my knowledge of thermodynamics is pecky, at best, I have a
>fair grip on the application of its laws to social structures.
>
>My understanding of the former is that entropic regression can only
>consume the energy at hand, unlike the latter, which can consume
>energies beyond its initial state - and can create a void out of all
>proportion to its initial mass.
>
>Having drawn out the dragon - I will retire.
>
>
>Regards,
>Tom.
>
>Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
>tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
>http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
Have you considered un-retiring? Seems like you've WAY to much time
on your hands.
Respectfully,
Wally Goffeney (retired)
I just had to put my $0.02.
I thing Tom has 2 options..... go away and don't come back (then the
group won't be boring). Or stick around (maybe that's why it got boring)
I think fishing is boring!. I have read many newsgroups, and you have to
weed through the garbage to find information. I appreciate the
information I have received from this (and other groups), and hope they
keep up the good work. (BTW, trolls are always there, just don't feed
them)
I have been an amateur radio operator for 25 years, and some times that
gets boring!
You have to take the good with the bad!
Keep up the information (small things mean something to someone)
Frank
Bob Schmall wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:21:42 -0400, Tom Watson <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > If you don't like it here, then GET LOST!!!!! MORON
>
> He's already done that. Now what?
>
> Bob
Who would that be?
David
Leon wrote:
> "Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>
>>Oh no, Hell no! I was thinking the same thing.
>>
>>I was thinking that if I went away for another month - this might turn
>>into a knitting newsgroup.
>
>
>
> Surely you don't miss your buddy...
>
>
This is all sounding mighty mysterious...
David
Tom Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:18:14 GMT, "Leon"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Surely you don't miss your buddy...
>>
>
>
> He's still here, Bubba. You just ain't found him yet.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
"Tom Watson" wrote in message
> I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>
> And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>
> Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
> such.
Cause and effect?
... just kidding. :)
--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 7/10/04
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:21:42 -0400, Tom Watson <[email protected]>
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:
remove ns from my header address to reply via email
SHIT! Go away and fish.....come back and fucking troll! Wot a jerk!
Why don't ya go an fall in that fuckn lake Watson and stop
complaining! Geez!
Alright now? Better?
BTW Who or what is HWMNBN?
>I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>
>And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>
>Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
>such.
>
>HWMNBN has taken on a new, low-key persona - and is trying to play
*****************************************************
It's not the milk and honey we hate. It's having it
rammed down our throats.
OK. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. It was a joke.
I am humbled. I have posted dozens of messages here. They have
included OT, On Topic, advice, humour and not a little foul language.
Apparently Tom Watson has read none of them, or he would know me.
I have had a most unpleasant private post from Tom. I am assuming that
was NOT a joke, or it could have been posted in public, along with a
lot of the other chaff that goes on here.
Tom. You made a joke about how quiet the group was. I thought I would
fix that.
IT WAS A JOKE. I am sorry I offended you.
I will leave it at that, but I really have to wonder at the thin skin
of the group, considering the sort of stuff that floats around here.
AS A JOKE.
*****************************************************
It's not the milk and honey we hate. It's having it
rammed down our throats.
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:38:26 +0800, Old Nick <[email protected]>
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:
remove ns from my header address to reply via email
OK. On reflection, I will assume that the private email that I
received from "Tom Watson", implying fisticuffs should I ever get near
enough, was a malicious joke, and that he was not simply publicly
seeming to be a nice guy, and dong his knuckle-dragging in private, in
order to protect his net image.
>OK. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. It was a joke.
*****************************************************
It's not the milk and honey we hate. It's having it
rammed down our throats.
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:23:46 -0400, Tom Watson <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:50:53 +0800, Old Nick <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:38:26 +0800, Old Nick <[email protected]>
>>vaguely proposed a theory
>>......and in reply I say!:
>>
>>OK. On reflection, I will assume that the private email that I
>>received
<snip of almost disgusting group hug>
JP
****************
The Reflex.
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:50:53 +0800, Old Nick <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:38:26 +0800, Old Nick <[email protected]>
>vaguely proposed a theory
>......and in reply I say!:
>
>OK. On reflection, I will assume that the private email that I
>received from "Tom Watson", implying fisticuffs should I ever get near
>enough, was a malicious joke,
gotcha
(btw - id'a used a tubfour on your sorry butt - it'd a been a nice
walnut one though)
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:07:04 -0400, Jay Pique <[email protected]>
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:
remove ns from my header address to reply via email
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:23:46 -0400, Tom Watson <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:50:53 +0800, Old Nick <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:38:26 +0800, Old Nick <[email protected]>
>>>vaguely proposed a theory
>>>......and in reply I say!:
>>>
>>>OK. On reflection, I will assume that the private email that I
>>>received
><snip of almost disgusting group hug>
What group hug?
"Tom Watson" sent me an email implying physical violenceto my person.
In it he said that if I "had the balls" to come near him (and has
supplied an address), we could "discuss" what I had said.
Now, I reckon that the physical violence comes in because it does not
take _balls_ to discuss anything, but brains. I have the brains,
unlike the author of the email who seems to _think_ with his balls, to
realise that it's not worth getting into a physical fight over a
couple of ill-chosen, mis-taken words, spoken in rough jest.
I had really hoped that "Tom Watson", local hero and all round nice
guy on these forums, was not enough of a moral coward to threaten
physical "bravery" against me , but only in private, while maintaining
his gentlemanly, erudite,m heroic image on the public forums. I at
least have the courage to publicly be an arsehole, among other things.
Given that I have had a public reply from "Tom Watson" saying "gotcha"
(I am not sure quite why ), my hope is diminishing.
*****************************************************
It's not the milk and honey we hate. It's having it
rammed down our throats.
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:21:42 -0400, Tom Watson <[email protected]>
wrote:
If you don't like it here, then GET LOST!!!!! MORON
>I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>
>And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>
>Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
>such.
>
>HWMNBN has taken on a new, low-key persona - and is trying to play
>nice.
>
>There seems to be no current troll infestaion - internal or external.
>
>Peoples is actually talking about WoodDorking.
>
>I have to tell you, I think it's disgusting.
>
>Ah well - I believe it is a law of thermodynamics, replicated in group
>dynamics - that all systems tend towards disorder.
>
>Seriously now, folks - I haven't seen the Wreck this quiet since I
>started lurking here in '94.
>
>It's sorta scary.
>
>
>
>It's sorta neat, too.
>
>
>
>
>
>Regards,
>Tom.
>
>Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
>tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
>http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
Ya just had to go and jinx it didnja? Heck we almost have JOAT a paying gig
too.
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>
> And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>
> Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
> such.
>
> HWMNBN has taken on a new, low-key persona - and is trying to play
> nice.
>
> There seems to be no current troll infestaion - internal or external.
>
> Peoples is actually talking about WoodDorking.
>
> I have to tell you, I think it's disgusting.
>
> Ah well - I believe it is a law of thermodynamics, replicated in group
> dynamics - that all systems tend towards disorder.
>
> Seriously now, folks - I haven't seen the Wreck this quiet since I
> started lurking here in '94.
>
> It's sorta scary.
>
>
>
> It's sorta neat, too.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:19:12 GMT, "BobS" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >No it doesn't, that's fishing ! We went on a little trip down the Kenai
> >river (AK) one summer and paddled our way through many no-name lakes. The
> >mist on the lakes in the early morning is just plain mystifying and
watching
> >the moose and other wildlife from only yards away is one helluva prelude
to
> >the breakfast trout snatching up a fly. Ya gotta try rainbow trout
cooked
> >on a beer soaked Sitka spruce plank (just to keep it on topic...).
> >
> >Bob S.
>
> I've never been much of a traveler, Bob, but that sounds like fun.
>
> I enjoy exploring the little bitty creeks around here, that rise from
> the mountains about twenty-five miles west.
>
> (we call them mountains - folks from colorado would call them hills -
> still, they are the northern expression of the blue ridge chain and
> are thus at least related to mountains)
>
> Best breakfast I've ever had, bar none, is a couple of shortish
> brookies, fresh caught - and stuck into a campfire with a skin of
> tinfoil containing nothing but butter, salt and pepper. Tastes like
> heaven itself.
>
> OBWW - we did cook these on a wood fire.
While sitting around singing Kumbaya?
Bob
Hmmm, I thought BAD was done trolling.......
Mark L.
Tom Watson wrote:
> I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>
> And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>
> Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
> such.
>
> HWMNBN has taken on a new, low-key persona - and is trying to play
> nice.
>
> There seems to be no current troll infestaion - internal or external.
>
> Peoples is actually talking about WoodDorking.
>
> I have to tell you, I think it's disgusting.
>
> Ah well - I believe it is a law of thermodynamics, replicated in group
> dynamics - that all systems tend towards disorder.
>
> Seriously now, folks - I haven't seen the Wreck this quiet since I
> started lurking here in '94.
>
> It's sorta scary.
>
>
>
> It's sorta neat, too.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:21:42 -0400, Tom Watson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> If you don't like it here, then GET LOST!!!!! MORON
He's already done that. Now what?
Bob
More like a hitching post for lollipops?
"Phisherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Actually, I had a boring day in the shop today. Drilled over 140
> holes in a wooden post using my drill press.
>
> Now wouldn't you call this a boring post?
Psssssssstttttt...........Tom.......over there near that bulwark .......in
the shadows.... see him lurking ......all squinty eyed like .....smirking
and waiting .
(so how was the fishing)
Bob S.
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>
> And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>
> Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
> such.
>
> HWMNBN has taken on a new, low-key persona - and is trying to play
> nice.
>
> There seems to be no current troll infestaion - internal or external.
>
> Peoples is actually talking about WoodDorking.
>
> I have to tell you, I think it's disgusting.
>
> Ah well - I believe it is a law of thermodynamics, replicated in group
> dynamics - that all systems tend towards disorder.
>
> Seriously now, folks - I haven't seen the Wreck this quiet since I
> started lurking here in '94.
>
> It's sorta scary.
>
>
>
> It's sorta neat, too.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:19:12 GMT, "BobS" <[email protected]> wrote:
>No it doesn't, that's fishing ! We went on a little trip down the Kenai
>river (AK) one summer and paddled our way through many no-name lakes. The
>mist on the lakes in the early morning is just plain mystifying and watching
>the moose and other wildlife from only yards away is one helluva prelude to
>the breakfast trout snatching up a fly. Ya gotta try rainbow trout cooked
>on a beer soaked Sitka spruce plank (just to keep it on topic...).
>
>Bob S.
I've never been much of a traveler, Bob, but that sounds like fun.
I enjoy exploring the little bitty creeks around here, that rise from
the mountains about twenty-five miles west.
(we call them mountains - folks from colorado would call them hills -
still, they are the northern expression of the blue ridge chain and
are thus at least related to mountains)
Best breakfast I've ever had, bar none, is a couple of shortish
brookies, fresh caught - and stuck into a campfire with a skin of
tinfoil containing nothing but butter, salt and pepper. Tastes like
heaven itself.
OBWW - we did cook these on a wood fire.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
<Snip of Tom walking by a calm, glass smooth lake, picking up a big rock and
tossing it in... >
"There! Much better.."
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:57:47 -0500, Robert Galloway
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Increasing entropy?
>
>bob g.
Although my knowledge of thermodynamics is pecky, at best, I have a
fair grip on the application of its laws to social structures.
My understanding of the former is that entropic regression can only
consume the energy at hand, unlike the latter, which can consume
energies beyond its initial state - and can create a void out of all
proportion to its initial mass.
Having drawn out the dragon - I will retire.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
In article <[email protected]>,
Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:35:07 +0000, [email protected]
>(Robert Bonomi) wrote:
>
>>In article <[email protected]>,
>>Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>[[.. munch ..]]
>>>
>>>It's sorta scary.
>>
>>Boring? Nah. hasn't been a serious technique discussion for drill-presses,
>>or mortisers for at least a couple of weeks. Everything -but- boring has
>>been being discussed. <grin>
>>
>
>ya know, i always wondered why our life could be boring without us
>being borish. we had to be boorish to make our lives boring.
Sometimes boors can be quite entertaining -- well,in a crude and oafish
way. Their attire does tend to provide 'fair warning', however -- they
wear boormuda shorts in inappropriate places.
>a man who is a boor is not necessarily a man who bores but may well be
>a man who boors.
A boor is not necessarily a bore; but, frequently he _is_ a bur.
If you prefer, we can discuss the distinction between being 'a cad',
and 'caddy'.
>
>this is very confusing to me.
Don't forget, a person who gets impaled by the tusks of a male pig is boared.
Corporations like Enron, Adelphia, MCI, get into trouble because all their
directors are bored members.
Not to mention that if the aforementioned pig, in a fit of tedium, stuck
his tusk through a plank used for entering a ship, you would then have a
bored-boar-bored boarding-board.
Does that help clear things up? Or is it like the overly-successful anti-
H-bomb rally? At which there was a profusion of confusion?
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:53:46 GMT, "Mark L." <[email protected]>
wrote:
In article <[email protected]>,
Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
[[.. munch ..]]
>
>It's sorta scary.
Boring? Nah. hasn't been a serious technique discussion for drill-presses,
or mortisers for at least a couple of weeks. Everything -but- boring has
been being discussed. <grin>
Early July? Where you been, son? And... where you been fishin'?
bob g.
Tom Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:51:06 GMT, "BobS" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>Psssssssstttttt...........Tom.......over there near that bulwark .......in
>>the shadows.... see him lurking ......all squinty eyed like .....smirking
>>and waiting .
>>
>>(so how was the fishing)
>>
>>Bob S.
>
>
>
> Damned fishing was awesomeful, Robert.
>
> My idea of fishing differs from some.
>
> I like to get out on the lake about an hour or so before false dawn.
>
> Took the canoe the first day and just sat and watched the lake wake
> up.
>
> It was damned satisfying.
>
> Got a cove in the back part of the lake that has about four or five
> pairs of nesting blue herons.
>
> They ain't a bit scared of a canoe that comes at them from upwind
> without a paddle.
>
> Made my day.
>
> (i did catch a few small bass when the mist blowed off - some of them
> young ones that'll take a plastic worm with no weight on it - if you
> flop it on the water just right)
>
>
> Got a five pounder later in the week. Let her go - she hadn't let her
> eggs loose yet, and this is early July we're talking about - strange.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
Increasing entropy?
bob g.
Tom Watson wrote:
> I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>
> And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>
> Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
> such.
>
> HWMNBN has taken on a new, low-key persona - and is trying to play
> nice.
>
> There seems to be no current troll infestaion - internal or external.
>
> Peoples is actually talking about WoodDorking.
>
> I have to tell you, I think it's disgusting.
>
> Ah well - I believe it is a law of thermodynamics, replicated in group
> dynamics - that all systems tend towards disorder.
>
> Seriously now, folks - I haven't seen the Wreck this quiet since I
> started lurking here in '94.
>
> It's sorta scary.
>
>
>
> It's sorta neat, too.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
Morris Dovey wrote:
> Phisherman wrote:
>
>> Actually, I had a boring day in the shop today. Drilled over 140
>> holes in a wooden post using my drill press.
>>
>> Now wouldn't you call this a boring post?
>
> If you insist on playing "Holier than thou", you'll spoil all
> this great conviviality...
Go to your room.
--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
[email protected]
http://www.mortimerschnerd.com
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:42:18 -0400, Tom Watson <[email protected]>
wrote:
>He's still here, Bubba. You just ain't found him yet.
Witness the a priori and the ad posteriori.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:43:04 GMT, "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>While sitting around singing Kumbaya?
Oh hell yes!
And I know all the words.
'course there's only about three words.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:42:38 -0500, "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>"Tom Watson" wrote in message
>> I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>>
>> And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>>
>> Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
>> such.
>
>Cause and effect?
>
>... just kidding. :)
Oh no, Hell no! I was thinking the same thing.
I was thinking that if I went away for another month - this might turn
into a knitting newsgroup.
Shazzam!
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
No it doesn't, that's fishing ! We went on a little trip down the Kenai
river (AK) one summer and paddled our way through many no-name lakes. The
mist on the lakes in the early morning is just plain mystifying and watching
the moose and other wildlife from only yards away is one helluva prelude to
the breakfast trout snatching up a fly. Ya gotta try rainbow trout cooked
on a beer soaked Sitka spruce plank (just to keep it on topic...).
Bob S.
> My idea of fishing differs from some.
>
> I like to get out on the lake about an hour or so before false dawn.
>
> Took the canoe the first day and just sat and watched the lake wake
> up.
>
> It was damned satisfying.
>
> Got a cove in the back part of the lake that has about four or five
> pairs of nesting blue herons.
>
> They ain't a bit scared of a canoe that comes at them from upwind
> without a paddle.
>
> Made my day.
>
> (i did catch a few small bass when the mist blowed off - some of them
> young ones that'll take a plastic worm with no weight on it - if you
> flop it on the water just right)
>
>
> Got a five pounder later in the week. Let her go - she hadn't let her
> eggs loose yet, and this is early July we're talking about - strange.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:18:14 GMT, "Leon"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Surely you don't miss your buddy...
>
He's still here, Bubba. You just ain't found him yet.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
> Oh no, Hell no! I was thinking the same thing.
>
> I was thinking that if I went away for another month - this might turn
> into a knitting newsgroup.
Surely you don't miss your buddy...
Aye......
Rob
--
http://www.robswoodworking.com
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I went away for a month - just to see what that would be like.
>
> And, when I returned - it's the freaking Stepford Newsgroup.
>
> Peoples is sitting around singing Kum ba ya and holding hands and
> such.
>
> HWMNBN has taken on a new, low-key persona - and is trying to play
> nice.
>
> There seems to be no current troll infestaion - internal or external.
>
> Peoples is actually talking about WoodDorking.
>
> I have to tell you, I think it's disgusting.
>
> Ah well - I believe it is a law of thermodynamics, replicated in group
> dynamics - that all systems tend towards disorder.
>
> Seriously now, folks - I haven't seen the Wreck this quiet since I
> started lurking here in '94.
>
> It's sorta scary.
>
>
>
> It's sorta neat, too.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
> Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
> tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
> http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
Tom Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:43:04 GMT, "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>While sitting around singing Kumbaya?
>
>
>
> Oh hell yes!
>
> And I know all the words.
>
> 'course there's only about three words.
>
and four notes.
j4
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:00:41 -0500, Robert Galloway
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Early July? Where you been, son? And... where you been fishin'?
>
>bob g.
Around here, our bass mommas give up their eggs in late May or early
June. I caught this confused specimen, sitting on a bed, in the
second week of July - that is damned strange for these parts.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
> vaguely proposed a theory
> ......and in reply I say!:
> remove ns from my header address to reply via email
> SHIT! Go away and fish.....come back and fucking troll! Wot a jerk!
> Why don't ya go an fall in that fuckn lake Watson and stop
> complaining! Geez!
> Alright now? Better?
> BTW Who or what is HWMNBN?
HEY man, I think oughta watch yer fucking language...K???
Alex
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:51:06 GMT, "BobS" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Psssssssstttttt...........Tom.......over there near that bulwark .......in
>the shadows.... see him lurking ......all squinty eyed like .....smirking
>and waiting .
>
>(so how was the fishing)
>
>Bob S.
Damned fishing was awesomeful, Robert.
My idea of fishing differs from some.
I like to get out on the lake about an hour or so before false dawn.
Took the canoe the first day and just sat and watched the lake wake
up.
It was damned satisfying.
Got a cove in the back part of the lake that has about four or five
pairs of nesting blue herons.
They ain't a bit scared of a canoe that comes at them from upwind
without a paddle.
Made my day.
(i did catch a few small bass when the mist blowed off - some of them
young ones that'll take a plastic worm with no weight on it - if you
flop it on the water just right)
Got a five pounder later in the week. Let her go - she hadn't let her
eggs loose yet, and this is early July we're talking about - strange.
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:48:08 +0000, [email protected]
(Robert Bonomi) wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:35:07 +0000, [email protected]
>>(Robert Bonomi) wrote:
>>
>>>In article <[email protected]>,
>>>Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>[[.. munch ..]]
>>>>
>>>>It's sorta scary.
>>>
>>>Boring? Nah. hasn't been a serious technique discussion for drill-presses,
>>>or mortisers for at least a couple of weeks. Everything -but- boring has
>>>been being discussed. <grin>
>>>
>>
>>ya know, i always wondered why our life could be boring without us
>>being borish. we had to be boorish to make our lives boring.
>
>Sometimes boors can be quite entertaining -- well,in a crude and oafish
>way. Their attire does tend to provide 'fair warning', however -- they
>wear boormuda shorts in inappropriate places.
>
>>a man who is a boor is not necessarily a man who bores but may well be
>>a man who boors.
>
>A boor is not necessarily a bore; but, frequently he _is_ a bur.
>
>If you prefer, we can discuss the distinction between being 'a cad',
>and 'caddy'.
>
>>
>>this is very confusing to me.
>
>Don't forget, a person who gets impaled by the tusks of a male pig is boared.
>
>Corporations like Enron, Adelphia, MCI, get into trouble because all their
>directors are bored members.
>
>Not to mention that if the aforementioned pig, in a fit of tedium, stuck
>his tusk through a plank used for entering a ship, you would then have a
>bored-boar-bored boarding-board.
>
>
>Does that help clear things up? Or is it like the overly-successful anti-
>H-bomb rally? At which there was a profusion of confusion?
>
"Mommy - make the bad man stop!"
Regards,
Tom.
Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.)
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I just had to put my $0.02.
> I thing Tom has 2 options..... go away and don't come back (then the
> group won't be boring). Or stick around (maybe that's why it got boring)
>
> I think fishing is boring!. I have read many newsgroups, and you have to
> weed through the garbage to find information. I appreciate the
> information I have received from this (and other groups), and hope they
> keep up the good work. (BTW, trolls are always there, just don't feed
> them)
> I have been an amateur radio operator for 25 years, and some times that
> gets boring!
> You have to take the good with the bad!
> Keep up the information (small things mean something to someone)
So my wife says.