danbouck

Been a rough couple days in the OFC family. Thinking of you guys!

From the Facts of Fishing Facebook Page "Thanks to the big wigs at Fish Shimano I am giving away a brand spanking new Shimano Calcutta D! Today is a snow day for many of us up north so I figured why not spread a little warmth with The Snow Day Calcutta D Give Away (pretty cool name huh, I came up with that myself). If you want to win this bad boy just post a warm weather fishing picture here on Dave Mercer's Facts of Fishing to make us all feel a tiny bit warmer & 1 winner will be picked Monday morning! Hey, if you have not liked the Shimano Facebook page yet do it so the big wigs keep giving use cool prizes like this!"

I will definitely contact them. Thanks for the info. Awesome info, thanks. I would love a wood stove but the insurance will decide that for me. Why is a Cistern the safest? BTW call coming soon. I am looking at older homes between 1500 and 3000 sq ft I don't mind the work whatsoever. I also have 2 13000W gennies so that should handle most of my needs. Thankyou That sounds like a great system. Thanks for all the great info guys, keep it comin!

Hey guys, I'm currently looking to get out of the city and get a nice country home. I'm looking for pros and cons on a few items. Maintenance requirements and so on. I have researched quite a bit but always like to ask on here as well. First: A drilled well vs sand point vs cistern. Second: Propane Heating vs oil vs wood Any advice or opinions will be greatly appreciated. Dan

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Exactly

They don't put up a fight

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I'll be at the spring fishing and boat show in the Fish-A-Thon booth

Hahaha

I have yet to see anyone refer to a prostaff member as "professional staff" A lot of people have an issue when they see someone with logos on their shirts and boats, not sure why. If someone wants to help a company promote items that is up to them to do. By the way, if you get paid working for the company or get paid in a tourney you a professional by definition.

My keepers are swimming until the knife goes into their head on the table.

Good work!

90% of people aren't going to need an individual online tourney for bragging rights only to motivate them to fish for different species. IMO leave it alone and don't complicate it.

Tahoe

Baileys and coffee

I've been sending that around for 10 years, I aint changing it

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Santa Claus:An Engineers Perspective I. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per house hold, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. II. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second --- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. III. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them--- Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). IV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance --- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accellerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQEgZNqa8jE

My new F-150 with the 5.0 can get 10L/100km but I average 13L/100km with my heavy foot.