how to catch a 37 pound salmon

[Rick]

You have to join us.
Anybody that can spin fish stories like that, needs to be one of us.

[justanoldvet]

@Rysdad

Welcome aboard, justanoldvet. Great fish tale.

Thank you
I’ve certainly been made to feel welcome

Y’know, you just can’t go wrong with a good fishing story.

Reminds me of a time when a friend of mine and I were carp fishing down on the Mississippi River (read: reclining on the sand with fishing rods propped up on a forked stick while drinking copious amounts of beer). His fishing rod started bouncing (indicating a fish), and when he jumped up to grab it, he got stung in the nuts by a bee that had evidently crawled up his shorts.

I took over fighting the fish (he had very unprofessionally dropped his rod) while my friend did a justanoldvet impression and dropped his pants. Some nut slapping was involved.

Fishing, beer and bees…it don’t get no better’n that.

YOUCH!
I’m allergic to bee sting… can’t imagine which would be worse: the sting, or the epi pen ( you are supposed to inject at the site of the sting ).

[justanoldvet]

Just wanted to thank everyone that has made me feel so welcome here.

sooo…

THANKS

[gigi]

Pssst…the intiation rite involves a 37-pound squid.

[justanoldvet]

@gigi

Pssst…the intiation rite involves a 37-pound squid.

And a condom ?

[Cluricaun]

@justanoldvet

And a condom ?

Of course, this is a very modern board. Not like some of the others…

[gigi]

Following the excellent example of MsWhatsit over here, you’re all set for a year if you want to keep hanging around.
**Release the squid! ** /montgomery burns

[OtakuLoki]

Great stories, justanoldvet. You need to stay. If only to help prove that us nukes aren’t the craziest mofo’s in Squidland.

[justanoldvet]

@gigi

Following the excellent example of MsWhatsit over here, you’re all set for a year if you want to keep hanging around.
**Release the squid! ** /montgomery burns

Thank you!
WOW… wasn’t expecting this…
wow
Thanks.

One lil question…
Goat, or squid?
ok… two questions:
how do the smiley thingies work? Clicking on them doesn’t do anything, least as far as I can tell.

[justanoldvet]

@OtakuLoki

Great stories, justanoldvet. You need to stay. If only to help prove that us nukes aren’t the craziest mofo’s in Squidland.

erm…
Thanks?

[Cluricaun]

@justanoldvet

how do the smiley thingies work? Clicking on them doesn’t do anything, least as far as I can tell.

When you have a reply box open, make sure that the cursor is where you want the smiley and just click on one to insert it.

[WordMan]

+1 on the greatness of the stories - good stuff, well told.

Welcome to the Dope!

[The_Understander]

@justanoldvet

Thank you!
WOW… wasn’t expecting this…
wow
Thanks.

One lil question…
Goat, or squid?
ok… two questions:
how do the smiley thingies work? Clicking on them doesn’t do anything, least as far as I can tell.

First of all, excellent fish tales… easily in the class of the Horror of Blimps, IMO.

The smilies… you only need have your cursor in the area in which you want to put your smilie, then click the smilie itself. Done and done.

Also… goat* or * squid? I admire your optimism, I really do!

[lizardling]

CACKLE

Welcome to the SD, dude.

[racer72]

@Zebra

(sigh)

Does anyone know how to catch 38 pound salmon?

My biggest was a 72 pound king, I caught it during the Westport, Washington salmon derby. All fish had to be weighed by 5 pm, the boat I was on didn’t get into port till about 5:30. The sad part about that fish is I didn’t even get to eat any of it, I was working as a deckhand on a charter boat and any fish I caught either went to customers that were skunked or I sold them to a cannery.

[justanoldvet]

@Enfant Terrible

First of all, excellent fish tales… easily in the class of the Horror of Blimps, IMO.

The smilies… you only need have your cursor in the area in which you want to put your smilie, then click the smilie itself. Done and done.

Also… goat* or * squid? I admire your optimism, I really do!

Horror of Blimps?
Do tell…

Hmmmmm I have no clue what I’m doing wrong: I am making sure the cursor where appropriate, then clicking on a smiley… and all that happens is the page jumps to the top.
~sigh~
There are times I could become a Luddite

re: Squid and/or Goat…

Why do I get the idea this could be… interesting?

( Recall the Chinese Curse: " May you live in interesting times" )

[justanoldvet]

@racer72

My biggest was a 72 pound king, I caught it during the Westport, Washington salmon derby. All fish had to be weighed by 5 pm, the boat I was on didn’t get into port till about 5:30. The sad part about that fish is I didn’t even get to eat any of it, I was working as a deckhand on a charter boat and any fish I caught either went to customers that were skunked or I sold them to a cannery.

72 POUNDS??
DAMN!!

[Oslo_Ostragoth]

@justanoldvet

Horror of Blimps?
Do tell…

I’ve got this one. The Horror of Blimps.

[OtakuLoki]

@justanoldvet

Hmmmmm I have no clue what I’m doing wrong: I am making sure the cursor where appropriate, then clicking on a smiley… and all that happens is the page jumps to the top.
~sigh~
There are times I could become a Luddite

Well, if you can’t get the buttons to work, you could just go back to using ASCII characters to get most of them easily enough:

A colon, followed by a closing parentheses yields
A colon, followed by the text “mad” followed by another colon yields :mad:
A colon, followed by the text “rolleyes” followed by another colon yields :rolleyes:
A colon, followed by the text “cool” followed by another colon yields
A colon, followed by a lower case p yields
A semicolon, followed by a closing parentheses yields
A colon, followed by the text “dubious” followed by another colon yields :dubious:
A colon, followed by a capital D yields
A colon, followed by the text “smack” followed by another colon yields :smack:
A colon, followed by a lowercase o yields :o
A colon, followed by the text “confused” followed by another colon yields
A colon, followed by an opening parentheses yields
A colon, followed by the text “eek” followed by another colon yields :eek:

Be sure to omit the quotation marks when typing in the ASCII.

:eek: is a good one to remember when you finally do meet the goat and the squid.

[justanoldvet]

@OtakuLoki

Well, if you can’t get the buttons to work, you could just go back to using ASCII characters to get most of them easily enough:

A colon, followed by a closing parentheses yields
A colon, followed by the text “mad” followed by another colon yields :mad:
A colon, followed by the text “rolleyes” followed by another colon yields :rolleyes:
A colon, followed by the text “cool” followed by another colon yields
A colon, followed by a lower case p yields
A semicolon, followed by a closing parentheses yields
A colon, followed by the text “dubious” followed by another colon yields :dubious:
A colon, followed by a capital D yields
A colon, followed by the text “smack” followed by another colon yields :smack:
A colon, followed by a lowercase o yields :o
A colon, followed by the text “confused” followed by another colon yields
A colon, followed by an opening parentheses yields
A colon, followed by the text “eek” followed by another colon yields :eek:

Be sure to omit the quotation marks when typing in the ASCII.

:eek: is a good one to remember when you finally do meet the goat and the squid.

Printed and taped to the edge of the monitor; thanks
Ummm… isn’t that goat OR squid ?
:eek: