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Holy crap! It's HARD to find good help these days! ... ... Especially in Calgary! Or maybe I should say.. "especially in the big city". Seems like good customer service can only be found in the small towns these days. When I was in Castlegar this past weekend.. went through the drive thru at Timmy's and after they tell me my total, I always say "thank you", and then drive ahead. You know what this chick had the NERVE to do?!? She responds with "you're welcome sir!". My god man. I almost crashed into the barriers I was so shocked!

Didn't matter either way.. the weather was too crappy to go out in the limited time I was there.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that there will be no nativity scene in Ottawa this year. This has nothing to do with religion. It seems they simply could not find 3 wise men and a virgin in the nations capital. There was, however, no problem finding enough asses to fill the stable.

Just realized I posted this in the "not fishing related" section.. hmm, must've been half asleep. Crappy weather out here anyway. "Ice Pellets" forecasted for pretty much the whole time we're here.

Hoping I can get out ridiculously early once or twice this weekend when I'm there. Thinking the Columbia might be tough this time of year.. seeing as the "wintering holes" are probably a hundred feet deep or something.. Smaller streams.. they've got the Salmo and Slocan rivers. I'm thinking nymphing in the deep holes are stripping a small streamer really slowly. Any thoughts?

Definitely time again... .... ....

Yes, yes it does. And for the record.. yes, I did deliberately type that in the best "maritimer" accent I could. ... If you can type an accent..

MMmmm.. soft chocolate ice cream!

Hmmm.. I wonder if that's what caused my pituitary tumor!

When I was a kid, I used to go to my uncles place all the time to hang out with my cousins. My uncle had a cool older house that had a laundry chute between the upstairs bathroom, and the downstairs hallway by the laundry room. One day during summer break we decided it'd be fun to slide down the laundry chute! After a few successful slides down feet first, I get the bright idea.. hey, i'm going to try it head first! You see.. the downstairs wasn't 'finished' yet, so the 2x4 wall studs were still exposed. I thought.. "hey, I'll just slide down slowly, grip the studs with my hands really hard, and then when i'm close, I'll flip over and on to my feet." So I give it a try.. and wouldn't you believe it? .... It goes exactly as I had planned.. slid down, gripped the studs.. slid down slowly some more, and then flipped over on to my feet and off I went! Well.. now i'm getting really cocky! Gotta do that again.. except, this time I know what I'm doing, so I'm going to do it faster. yeah.. Slide down head first.. grip the studs.. but this time i'm rushing.. and I lose my grip. Well.. from about 4 feet in the air, didn't even have time to get my hands out to break my fall, KER SMASH!! RIGHT STRAIGHT ON THE TOP OF MY HEAD!! I landed so straight on the top of my head that my cousin said my whole body (spine) kind of compressed, and then decompressed, before I fell over on to my back in front of him. Well of course.. he is laughing his freakin arse off at me!! In tears and everything.. meanwhile, i'm laying there.. "Travis.. stop laughing! I can't feel my legs!! SERIOUSLY, STOP LAUGHING!! I CAN'T FEEL MY LEGS!!!" Yeah.. he couldn't stop laughing. Laid there for about 2-3 minutes, not able to move my lower half, and then finally things started getting tingly and shortly thereafter I was able to get up and go on my way. Probably one of the scariest things that ever happened to me.. and at the same time, one of the funniest to watch for those present!

Yeah.. I know. It was a bloody mess! I'll post up a picture when I get home tonight from about a week afterwards.. FNG - hilarious!!

In hindsight.. I wish someone could have video taped me when I wasn't paying attention and ran my face smack into one of those upside down L shaped bike racks on the back of my neighbors SUV. Broke the nose and dropped me on my ass pretty quick lemme tell ya! *on a tough guy note* It did not knock me out!

Feel better Lynn!!

Ha! Mike?! ... Todd?!?

Huh.. I never would've thought that such a simple statement would make me giggle for so long! I must be tired. Thanks dude!

Still haven't fished since Barnaby... September 14!!! Therefore.. I hate everybody!

Well.. that's better than what I was thinking.. some sort of ridiculous 'toy'.

What the H?!

Dyson dude.. DYSON!

There is a factory in Northern Minnesota which makes the Tickle Me Elmo toys. The toy laughs when you tickle it under the arms. Well, Lena is hired at The Tickle Me Elmo factory and she reports for her first day promptly at 8:00 AM. The next day at 8:45 AM there is a knock at the Personnel Manager's door. The Foreman throws open the door and begins to rant about the new employee. He complains that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire production line behind schedule. The Personnel Manager decides he should see this for himself, so the 2 men march down to the factory floor. When they get there the line is so backed up that there are Tickle Me Elmo's all over the factory floor and they're really beginning to pile up. At the end of the line stands Lena surrounded by mountains of Tickle Me Elmo's. She has a roll of plush red fabric and a huge bag of small marbles. The 2 men watch in amazement as she cuts a little piece of fabric, wraps it around two marbles and begins to carefully sew the little package between Elmo's legs. The Personnel Manager bursts into laughter. After several minutes of hysterics he pulls himself together and approaches Lena. "I'm sorry," he says to her, barely able to keep a straight face, "but I think you misunderstood the instructions I gave you yesterday..." "Your job is to give Elmo two test tickles."

Coming from someone with next to no experience... but likes to think he knows what he's talking about.. Roll top desks are where it's at..

Funny. But you should know that I keep a big mean Rottweiler in the same room as my fly gear.. and only feed him once a month.

A year and a half later.. wow, I almost forgot I posted this thread. Had to look back to see who the guy who was uttering threats Joe Dirt Style.. oh, it was this clown! Envy.. i'm sorry that my being offended by the mishandling of beautiful trout offends you. Errr, wait. No, i'm not. Feel free to PM me if you have a problem with that.

I'm really digging Kate Walsh lately.. (Private Practice - "Addison"). Holy, hot 41 year old!! My wife's always like "your girlfriend is on TV".

I had to Google the Edison twins.. you're old dude!