FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[57Johnnie]

My goodness.  How old are some of you guys?

The original 'Rat' was a classmate of mine 

[badgerwarhawk]

I set off smoke alarms blowing out the candles on birthday cakes.

[Robert Zimmerman]

Ah, but I was so much older then

I'm younger than that now.

[Tom Thumb]

Hahaha!  Love the comments. 

[USTBench]

My goodness.  How old are some of you guys?

31

But my truck is new.

[DuffMan]

32, but my truck is 12 years old.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

The #1 worst athletic school in the nation is......<drum roll>.....

http://www.collegemagazine.com/editorial/2596/Top-10-Most-Unathletic-Universities

[faunch]

The #1 worst athletic school in the nation is......<drum roll>.....

http://www.collegemagazine.com/editorial/2596/Top-10-Most-Unathletic-Universities

Not to nitpick but Mac, Vassar, and Sarah Lawrence are are colleges.

[faunch]

Duff might get a kick out of this.  My nephew and brother-in-law caught a mess of panfish but left them overnight in the basket.  The next morning my brother-in-law came back from fishing and discovered a snapping turtle in the basket.  Here's the video I shot on my phone of extracting it from the basket...the audio didn't fully upload for some reason...enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWl3BT4btn0

[DuffMan]

Ha ha!  Easy pickings.  I have seen a bowfin (aka dogfish) attack a basket of sunfish attached to our dock.  Tenacious buggers!

[DuffMan]

This begs the question, did the turtle become dinner?  Not a whole lotta meat on that little fella, though. 

[OzJohnnie]

Duff might get a kick out of this.  My nephew and brother-in-law caught a mess of panfish but left them overnight in the basket.  The next morning my brother-in-law came back from fishing and discovered a snapping turtle in the basket.  Here's the video I shot on my phone of extracting it from the basket...the audio didn't fully upload for some reason...enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWl3BT4btn0

I could hear my dad yelling, "Someone get those stupid dogs back!"

[faunch]

This begs the question, did the turtle become dinner?  Not a whole lotta meat on that little fella, though.

No...he got away...I was thinking turtle soup. 
My brother-in-law and nephew went out later on Saturday and boated about 50 crappies...of course I had gone home early...oh well.
Here is what they kept.

[DuffMan]

I was thinking turtle soup. 

That's very Stearns County of you.  Turtle soup is pretty tasty, though.  It's a favorite of my dad's family.

[badgerwarhawk]

There's an ungoing investigation looking for a turtle murderer in our area now.  It revolves around a snapping turtle who had gone into a sand trap at a local golf course apparently to lay eggs.  Anyway some golfer saw it and attacked it with a golf club.  The turtle was seriously injured and later died.  Now the authorities are trying to identify the responsible golfer to arrest them.  There is a reward of $10,800 (and growing) for information that leads to their arrest.