FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[TC]

Fins, your signature photo reminds me that I think spearing should be banned on all designated muskie lakes.  I would be happy to introduce this as the MIAC PP's next discussion topic if anyone would like to engage me.  

How has your luck been this winter?  I'm still stuck on one trip out and one lousy perch.  June is only 4 and a half months away, though.

[finsleft]

Fins, your signature photo reminds me that I think spearing should be banned on all designated muskie lakes.  I would be happy to introduce this as the MIAC PP's next discussion topic if anyone would like to engage me.  

How has your luck been this winter?  I'm still stuck on one trip out and one lousy perch.  June is only 4 and a half months away, though.

Them's fighting words, TC. You reminded me that I think muskies should be speared year round.  They're nothing but a damned nuisance fish. *
Luck has not been great, but I still haven't been able to string enough days together where I've felt I've found a decent spot and gave it a workout, though. Hope to start hitting it a little better later in the week, Warmer weather will be nice (I'm turning into a big puss   )

*Actually, spearing is banned on designated muskie lakes.

[sjusection105]

Sorry to break into the spearing talk, but I'm going to anyway. That's just how I roll. My old man spears, I golf and we agree to disagree. Anyway.....

The point nobody has brought up about the Super Bowl is the fact that the fix must have been in (big time) for the Packers and the Green and Gold Jesus (#4) to lose in such weather conditions. The liberal East Coast Media Machine is loving this match-up as much as the mob. There is going to be so much action on this game with the Patriots being the early heavy favorite to get the money flowing. Look for the spread to tighten Feb. 1 as more action will be going  the way of NY with so many rubes taking the Pats and giving the points. The bookies live on the juice and will tighten the spread to even out the handle.

[tmerton]

TC

I argree with what you are saying.  I am a die hard NE Pats fan and have been since the introduction of Drew Bledsoe as the savior of the franchise.  I am not going to justify my fanhood or the amount of time I have been a fan, so take your pot shots at me for the next two weeks.  

I hope you've made your point, Klop, 'cause I don't want to be hearing about the friggin Pats for the next two weeks.  There are other boards for that.

[Klopenhiemer]

TC

I argree with what you are saying.  I am a die hard NE Pats fan and have been since the introduction of Drew Bledsoe as the savior of the franchise.  I am not going to justify my fanhood or the amount of time I have been a fan, so take your pot shots at me for the next two weeks.  

I hope you've made your point, Klop, 'cause I don't want to be hearing about the friggin Pats for the next two weeks.  There are other boards for that.

Unless prevoked you will not hear anymore about it out of me. 

[Klopenhiemer]

TC

I argree with what you are saying.  I am a die hard NE Pats fan and have been since the introduction of Drew Bledsoe as the savior of the franchise.  I am not going to justify my fanhood or the amount of time I have been a fan, so take your pot shots at me for the next two weeks.  

By the way...Do you back the Vikings or are you fond of another franchise?

I hope you've made your point, Klop, 'cause I don't want to be hearing about the friggin Pats for the next two weeks.  There are other boards for that.

[retagent]

Is my memory clouded by a RED haze, or wasn't Welker rated just ahead of, or just behind, (at the WR position) BE in draft worthiness in 2003?

[OzJohnnie]

OZ - Maybe for the first time , you could be wrong.

Ha.  If only my wife saw someone say that about me.  I'm flattered as what I usually hear is that 'maybe for the first time, you could be right.'  But I never am.

[OzJohnnie]

Are you talking about the same New England team that, since destroying Buffalo 56-10, has won by margins of 3, 3, 21, 10, 21, 3, 11, and 9?

Well, there are two stomps in that spread and I'm only predicting 10 points more.  I figure this "poor" spread is why they are due for a Klompenstompen (as they would say in Beer Fest).  NE are the most explosive offense ever.  Their D is pretty handy.  Randy Moss has one more game in the bank before he visits the big house for a long time.  If I'm wrong, it's because NE win by 24 instead of 31.  But regardless, I think they will flow like warm honey on fresh toast - and NY will be emotionally down after the OT win at GB.  Just too much to get back from.

In the final cut, the mission of the Perfect Season (c) will be too big a boost for NE.

[OzJohnnie]

Duff-
Welcome to the wonderful world of spearing, one of Minnesota's best kept secrets.

And this is my last post in this posting frenzy before the family and I go on a quick getaway before school kicks up again next week (I'm still not into the Christmas during summer vacation thing).  #2 child starts kindergarten (called Prep here, and pre-school is called kindergarten (although in Sydney they are named as we named them growing up in MN)).  One to go and we are free!  Free at last!

Fins; I found my old man did something that I never thought he would do.  As he has virtually the only access to an unnaturally warm privately accessed lake with big fat walleye begging to be angled, he's purchased an angling license and the folks have spent the winter feasting on fresh, not frozen, walleye.  After all the years of indoctrination into the clan of "it ain't fishin' if you don't use a spear" and "it ain't spearing if you have a gas stove in your fish house", I learn the leopard has changed his spots.  Kinda feels like a bit of my childhood slipping away (no over dramatization here, no sir ).

I also strike a smile at the pic in your signature.  Dad won a limited edition print at the Spear Fisher's Dinner at the Sawmill in GR one year when I was living at home.  It's still hanging on one of their walls and I can picture it right now as I think of home.  The following year he actually won first prize in the raffle - a new spear.  Much better than a second place framed print.

[57Johnnie]

I'm glad we are getting back to something important like spear fishing rather than the super bowl.  8)

Somebody must think I'm denigrating spear fishing. Quite the contrary - Mrs. 57 loves these 2 weeks since there are 336 hours when ESPN is never turned on. super bowl - come on, it's not like it's the Stagg.

[finsleft]

Well you could always watch the OZtralian open.  Oz, do you have some courtside ducats for the family? I was flippin' around last night and paused for a bit on the match. I hadn't paid attention for a while, but should Serena be tested for steroids? I remember her to be "hefty" between neck and navel, but she looks like she could play O-line for the Packers.

These weeks are ideal for fishing. My little TV for the fishhouse has the built in DVD player. Nothing like watching the Simpsons Movie or some Family Guy whilst sipping Hamm's in your Carharts.  8)

[tmerton]

Men's brain; women's brain (video) - this is a new one - looks like the MN version (fishing mentioned).

[tmerton]

13 Things PMS Stands For:
1. Pass My Shotgun
2. Psychotic Mood Shift
3. Perpetual Munching Spree
4. Puffy Mid-Section
5. People Make me Sick
6. Provide Me with Sweets
7. Pardon My Sobbing
8. Pimples May Surface
9. Pass My Sweat pants
10. Pissy Mood Syndrome
11. Plainly; Men Suck
12. Pack My Stuff
13. Potential Murder Suspect

[janesvilleflash]

Q: How many women with PMS does it take to screw in a light bulb?(answer by Mrs. Flash)

A: One. ONE!! And do you know WHY it only takes ONE?
Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb.

They don't even know the bulb is BURNED OUT. They would sit in this house in the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it OUT.

And once they figured it out they wouldn't be able to find the light bulb despite the fact that they've been in the SAME CUPBOARD for the past SEVENTEEN YEARS. But if they did, by some miracle, actually find the light bulbs, TWO DAYS LATER the chair that they dragged from two rooms over to stand on to change the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!! AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE CRUMPLED WRAPPER THE STUPID @*!#$% LIGHT BULBS CAME IN!

WHY?! BECAUSE NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE EVER CARRIES OUT THE GARBAGE!!

IT'S A WONDER WE HAVEN'T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES Of GARBAGE THAT ARE 12 FEET DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE. IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS........what did you ask me?