bigugli

Back on topic lets have something festive. Turn up the speakers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrhzCgy_bg...t=1&index=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY1otyfwu1o

I will be singing

on Sunday, along with some other toe tappers like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmFj5zbuOn0

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-cAhz3OfUE&NR=1.

 

Just a bunch of wild and wacky guys.

 

Tickets at the door.

I am truly impressed. But you need to come out of the cloister more often j/k.

We choose to believe, or not, in the spirit and magic of Christmas. This jolly elf believes in Santa Claus/ Joulupukki. Some children always wonder when they see me but I never claim to be the "one".

Having said that I manage to find toys for dozens of area children. Once produced 1000 Christmas colouring books to give away. Delivered numerous fishing rods quietly on Christmas eve from Santa.

The magic is for the little ones and they will find disenchantment soon enough. Until then I will do my part to keep it alive for their sakes.

The best one was called" christmas is coming the goose is getting fat" Remember that one?

I don't recall that one but there were a lot of good Christmas folk recordings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rleWR6_0mq4

A traditional Christsmas tune in my family.. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ThYX967mONQ

Thank you for sparking a fond memory. News Years Day sittin around the hearth, each with his own crock of poison belting out Kingston Trio harmonies with my buddy Terry on the geetar.

One more bit of psychadelia

Fishin music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFF-BaT0MM

Need a gas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguzKze1sYo

Those are some good little pranks

I admit to going to the fitting room with an armful of women's dresses tucked under my arm. It took the poor employees a good half hour to find an appropriate manager with a tactful way of telling me I could not try the dresses on.

That's all part of the fun of being in the zoo.

My fave, going to Bloor station at rush hour with a few friends, stand back from the crowd, and when they push and shove their way onto the train commence with a chorus of Mooooooooo, Baaaaaaa. Amazing how many people will freeze in their tracks to find the culprit.

Try to make eye contact with as many as you can on the train, then give them a big smile. Drives people nuts.

Another stunt requires a bull horn. Attention shoppers, 70% clearance sale in aisle 4 for the next 10 minutes.

Hazard taping the entrance to a store with police tape anybody?

The joys of university pranks and alcohol.

I feel your pain. Have been just as foolish ( and stubborn) out on the French trying to jig for walleyes in a tinner at -10C not including windchill and trying to run through snow squalls

Despite all the drawbacks, and there are several, I still kept mine.

My wife went to a lot of trouble to get me the shelter. She worries about my health these days. So I just did not have the heart to tell her she bought junk. Same goes for some of the other fishing goodies she buys me every year. Her heart was in the right place. ME handy, me fix. Besides far better than landing in"the DOGHOUSE".

Didn't someone mention a while back they are a piece of junk, one good blast of wind and you'll have pieces all over.

That was the $99.99 Walmart special

There have been a few discussions about the HT products. I own the two man backpack shelter and I like the portability at 26lbs.

The workmanship is not good. Canvas is sewn with common thread, not the heavier grade I would expect, and not adequately reinforced. I have enough experience with a needle and palm to do most of the minor repairs (I learnt something in the reserves).

Hinge pins and pivots are cheap, I have replaced the 1/2 plastic pin assembly for the hood bars with good steel.

Inside is very compact and cosy and I often peel the coat off in the shelter. No room for gear. put a hunting pillow on the seat to raise you up another 2 inches ( the seats/benches in all makes of hut are all set too low for us bigger fellas, gets hard on the back).

I may not watch a lot of WFN, but it sure beats most of the worthless crap on the tube these days. So called "reality" shows with their staged situations, or, even better: " I'm such a loser they are paying me to publicly humiliate myself and family on TV"

I'll take WFN any day.

Great photo set. Some absolutely wonderful shots. Fish weren't too shoddy either.

Too bad I had to back out, but I need to be at home right now. Glad to see you were hot into the action Jack.

Hah! Fergot CCW and Yamaha. And Kawi and Suzuki came a little later. Wish I had one of those Kalamazoo performance sleds today, or even my old Blizzard.

 

JF

Our neighbour had another indestructible tank from the 70's, a John Deere.

Our Lion's club has been running up here for over a decade.

http://www.shuswapcamp.com/index.html

I rode an old Olympic up until 1985. Hard to steer, cantankerous, heavy, not as fast as the other sleds but.... Always started and most important, indestructible.

Almost went through a soft spot on the lake with it. That was a scary experience. It can always happen. Never is a fools word.

Seems that every once in a while someone keeps trying to put WWF/WWE smack talk and noise into a fishing show.

Examples: Dime store fisherman

the FNC feud between Reno and Miller

Scott Martin challenge

Dave Mercer (a silly boy) his redeeming grace is the volumes of info he provide

"The Boston Mouth"

I guess the idea is to keep us from falling asleep in our seats.

I think the point trying to be made is why bail out an operation doomed to fail?

Invest the money into an industry that wants to succeed! ................................Like me!

I'm afraid there are no industries in Ontario to invest in using your criteria. They run to the pacific rim for their manufacturing if they are profitable.

I do not know what the right answer is to this question.

I do know that the bailout will probably be no more than a stay of execution. If the "3" fold, it means a loss of 10% of the jobs in Ontario within the first year. Nobody can calculate the job loss over the second year.

It will mean 10% fewer people to shop in the stores, buy services, toys, entertainment, fast food, etc... Unless you are fortunate enough to have a secure government funded job, or you're in the funerary business, mass layoffs will have an impact on your economic future.

Boy..sucks to be you...

 

It's freaking cold here in the GTA too....-2C...brrrr....

 

I'd me more excited I'm sure if I like ice fishing....LOL.

Cold? I'm still out first thing walking the dogs wearing mocs and I did not need the winter coat. I call -2C refreshing. 2 mornings back at -10C, that was cold.

In the Soo, either 83 or 84. . 3 days after Boxing Day we started to get lake effect snow every night from Superior for the next 10 days. The walkway got drifted in so much we dug a tunnel from the house to the sidewalk. The father-in-law had the snow from the driveway trucked out by a neighbour.

I don't remember any winters prior to that year where there wasn't a lot of snow. In fact, that was my first green Christmas with freak 70F. temps Xmas day.

Saw the parts of one fly across Cook's Bay last year.

I loved the Soo, but the work dried up in the early 80's and everybody with less than 15 years at Algoma got the boot.

Man the fishing around town was just wicked good, even then.

Being down in the banana belt the past 20+ years I kinda miss all that snow.