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Crabman's avatar

Hey, I’m not a woman but I love fly fishing. I tie my own flies from feathers I find and other miscellaneous items like the hair our horse sheds in the spring or the clippings from when my wife gives my beard a trim and I wear those weird waders and often stand in the middle of a stream just like Wikipedia says. The catching of fish is pretty much secondary to the pleasure of being at one with the river. It’s my moment of zen. Also, that’s a good looking cat.

Edith Prickly's avatar

LOOOL, Stephen Dorff plays the obnoxious oldest brother of the Dummy family! and he just made a Beatles joke. I stopped there, it was not going to get any better 😆

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Wunder Boner? What? Was the entire Marketing Department made up of twelve-year-olds?

DeBoneaire. It was right there.

ames's avatar

The sophisticated fifteen-year-olds have entered the chat. Le giggle!

beb's avatar

Waders are waist high boots, not thigh high. They are what those people trying to remove the algae from the Reflecting Pool are wearing,

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Donnie's body man wears them when he changes Trump's diaper also, too.

Courser's avatar

Good morning from Hawaii, Robyn!

I actually know how to fly fish. I was patiently instructed by an old one-armed man in Granby, Colorado, many, many moons ago. This is a useless skill here in Hawaii, however. Fishing here is done with big, heavy fishing poles on the ocean.

Your other pieces are interesting but disturbing. I will say it's always interesting to find early work by actors.

Alternative Dog's avatar

Just add Popeil's Pocket Fisherman to the Wunder Boner and you're all set.

Whale Chowder's avatar

Just don't ger your Wunder Boner caught in your Pocket Fisherman.

Alternative Dog's avatar

I might get one of those for my next road trip. It's getting to where I can't drive more than 90 minutes without making a pit stop.

Marlon Rando's avatar

For me the pit stops are a chance to walk around a bit.

Now if I were on a mission....

Littorally Speaking's avatar

Wow, made it a whole seventeen seconds into that awful dummy thing, which is pretty good for me, especially considering it’s just another shitty three-camera sitcom, even without the puppet.

At least the one on 𝘈𝘭𝘧 wasn’t nightmare fuel.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

If you'd held out, you'd have discovered that the little girl who's a ripoff of the Olsen Twins has two brothers, the younger of the two who does a Stewie from Family Guy impersonation while the older brother is apparently dumber than the basketball he apparently carries with him everywhere.

If this hadn't been done in the 90's, I'd swear it was AI.

Resource NW's avatar

Flies for fishing are usually made of materials like feathers to simulate bug wings and legs. In the '80s a thing was to use bits of fabric from women's underwear, like tricot. Light, durable, easy to cut to shape. Fish do not stand a chance against such resourcefulness.

Alternative Dog's avatar

By far the most fascinating thing about fly fishing is the story of Edwin Rist, an American flute player studying music who broke into a British museum and made off with a million dollars worth of irreplaceable dead birds. I guarantee that anyone who listens to this episode will find it one of the most remarkable true stories they ever heard.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/654/the-feather-heist

Littorally Speaking's avatar

True enough; with the right fly—“matching the hatch”—and presentation, the efficiency becomes machine-like, and *almost* boring, until you hook up with a real hog, that is.

Feep Feeperoonie's avatar

Yesterday I made a post about having to call an ambulance for a homeless old guy that passed out in front of my shop. Today I saw one of his buddies and asked how's your friend and he said he's OK, he saw him last night having a meal at the church. Said it was just dehydration that knocked him out.

Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Thank you for being there and caring.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. I don't fish (although there's a funny family story about the first fish I ever caught), and I don't want to watch horrifying videos this morning. Pride Shabbat at Orensanz Foundation was more sparsely attended than those in recent years, and NYC's parade is tomorrow. HAPPY PRIDE!

tehbaddr's avatar

That's Underdog lady from the Howard Stern Show!

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Sweet Polly Purebred is the only Underdog Lady.

tehbaddr's avatar

Would a larger version of the Wunder Boner work on mammals the weigh ~ 235 lbs and are ~ 6 feet tall?

Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

If you're referring to politicians, they don't have a backbone anyway.

tehbaddr's avatar

ZOMGDS is that an actual Receiver?

Rags's avatar

Lest we forget:

A Treatise of Fishing with an Angle is the earliest known English book on sport fishing, attributed to Dame Juliana Berners and published in 1496 as part of The Book of St. Albans.

Littorally Speaking's avatar

Then there is 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘳, by Izaak Walton, for whom Berners’ work was a source; first published in 1653, after the Bible and Shakespeare, it is one of the most reprinted books in the English language. 🎣

Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

The booming metropolis of Bishop California has an Izaak Walton Park. I'm quite certain he never set foot here:

https://www.inyocounty.us/services/parks-recreation/parks/izaak-walton-park-bishop

Littorally Speaking's avatar

Don’t be knocking Bishop; besides Mule Days, it is home to Schat’s Bakery, which has the best damn chili cheese bread *EVER*.

https://muledays.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/153300903_10158938352510729_7628823908505861508_n.jpeg

Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

I’m definitely not knocking Bishop! I’ve lived in this general area since 1971, moved to Mammoth at the age of 19 to make my way in the world as a builder, which was a booming trade at the time. I moved to Big Pine 25 years later, then to Bishop. I had a condo right next to the fairgrounds, so I got my fill of the Mule Fools blowing their vuvuzelas at all hours of the day and night. I’m back in Big Pine now after a stint in Death Valley for work. Much more peaceful (and affordable!) here, but since our market closed we have to go shopping in Bishop anyway. As for Schat’s Bakery, they have stiff competition from Great Basin Bakery. Less touristy, and IYKYK.

https://www.greatbasinbakerybishop.com/index.html

Zyxomma's avatar

Yes, remember to hydrate, but not with LaCroix; that stuff is nasty.

Raccoon of Vengeance's avatar

"Here are the 11am dewpoint temperatures. Moisture will increase over the next 24 hours, meaning these are the last 50 degree dewpoints we'll see for a while"

We are about to get MOIST, along with most of you.