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Post by jan on Jun 29, 2003 13:59:00 GMT -5
You know, before i came here, i thought that PB was something you had with jelly on bread.
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Post by Paul Boote on Jun 30, 2003 18:27:01 GMT -5
All right, I went away for a while. Smote my breast a bit(none other available). Went fishing (twice). Caught some chalkstream rainbows (I apologise for this, but I was someone else's guest). Wandered and pondered a bit. Now I'm back. God help you all.
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Post by Gander on Jul 1, 2003 0:51:45 GMT -5
All right, I went away for a while. Smote my breast a bit(none other available). Went fishing (twice). Caught some chalkstream rainbows (I apologise for this, but I was someone else's guest). Wandered and pondered a bit. Now I'm back. God help you all. Yes, but are you the real PaulBoote or has someone pinched your name? Welcome back.
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Post by sagerod on Jul 1, 2003 15:44:20 GMT -5
nah ! it can't be him he would have had fifty stars by now ;D ;D ;D
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Post by SimonD on Jul 1, 2003 16:19:18 GMT -5
All right, I went away for a while. Smote my breast a bit(none other available). Went fishing (twice). Caught some chalkstream rainbows (I apologise for this, but I was someone else's guest). Wandered and pondered a bit. Now I'm back. God help you all. So you managed to escape, did you? Those Fillipino security guards are in for a d**n good thrashing and if you think that this will foil my plan for world domination of rod manufacturing then you are sadly mistaken.
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Post by Paul Boote on Jul 1, 2003 17:45:54 GMT -5
Sometimes one's past -- (for example, "Roderick Spode" -- in some other, now abandoned, domain of this vast and often cranky Internet, in another time but not that long ago -- threatening someone or other, oh-so-discreetly (he rather felt), with a modern-day B. Wooster -- "Never let your pals down" -- beating-to-a-jelly); or one's direst and, I have to say, unlikeliest predictions, about an imminent and not too pleasant future (quite apart from a possibly fatally-compromised and certainly truth-shy present ... "The Usual Suspect" being a recent example, to be found, awaiting extinction, elsewhere now -- plus a rash of legitimacy-seeking Angling-personality-profiles in our rags and periodicals of late) for no apparent reason -- except to my own, sometimes suspicious mind -- other than the quite understandable, but nevertheless craven, one of post-conquest conquerors' self-justification) -- catches up with you.
Doesn't matter a jot, it seems to me, just WHO builds and sells the sticks that we anglers find that we need in ever-increasing (then, as experience and a bit of wisdom, really kick in) in ever-decreasing quantities, as long as they're in it for the craic -- for the whole, godd@mned, indescribable, wonderful experience -- the thing that enriches, ennobles and justifies our often selfish, silly catching -- and not merely in it for the money; to make their pile and go off and fly a kite somewhere. Poop poop.
PS Let's keep this one real, guys. We have a brief "window" of opportunity and relative sanity before the smart money notices our "Sanity -- Part Deux", and decides to move us up-market and itself in. Make the most of it.
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Post by robh on Jul 2, 2003 2:56:21 GMT -5
I am getting suspicious-that sentence was a little convoluted even for Paul! ;D regards robh
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Post by AR on Jul 2, 2003 3:18:33 GMT -5
PB, Daddy-O of the subordinate clause, iz in da house!
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Post by Paul Boote on Jul 2, 2003 3:31:01 GMT -5
Yeah. And why not? It was either that, or write a book!
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Post by smallmouth on Jul 2, 2003 3:49:39 GMT -5
Yeah. And why not? It was either that, or write a book! Why not both?
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Post by The Famous Grouse on Jul 2, 2003 8:10:22 GMT -5
Doesn't matter a jot, it seems to me, just WHO builds and sells the sticks that we anglers find that we need in ever-increasing (then, as experience and a bit of wisdom, really kick in) in ever-decreasing quantities, as long as they're in it for the craic -- for the whole, godd@mned, indescribable, wonderful experience -- the thing that enriches, ennobles and justifies our often selfish, silly catching -- and not merely in it for the money; to make their pile and go off and fly a kite somewhere. Poop poop. There. You see, guys? For those that thought there might be an inpersonator in Boote's clothing, I ask you: Is there anyone but PB who COULD have written that post? Yah, he's the real deal all right. Now that everyone is here, we should get started. . . Grouse
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Post by JonMartin on Jul 2, 2003 15:11:35 GMT -5
Paul - Paul, where for art thou Paul........? Why did I bloody ask!!!!!!!
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Post by jan on Jul 2, 2003 16:56:07 GMT -5
Paul, Please, write another book - the crazy river was a great read and i seem to remember you mentioning having a couple of scripts about - they might hark back to a time before fishing all over the world went to the highest bidder and the rest of us were disenfranchised, but it might at least tell us what we lost, and how we might prevent it happening again. Thats not to say we dont want any more posts!
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Post by Paul Boote on Jul 3, 2003 5:43:02 GMT -5
"Please, write another book - the crazy river was a great read and I seem to remember you mentioning having a couple of scripts about - they might hark back to a time before fishing all over the world went to the highest bidder and the rest of us were disenfranchised, but it might at least tell us what we lost, and how we might prevent it happening again.
Thats not to say we dont want any more posts!"
Very kind of you (and of StewartR -- "smallmouth") to say this, Jan. Yes, I know that quite a few, now, would like to see something more from me. However, I believe I once said in the old forums that I am not one for writing hand-wringing, look-what-we've-lost elegies. And besides, were I to produce something, now or in the future -- a third text, say -- edited highlights of manuscripts 1 and 2 with lots of new stuff and an entirely new treatment -- it would create a STINK in the Angling world that I believe would NEVER go away; the thing would read like a Robert Harris novel -- all plots and conspiracies -- it would have to, for it would have to recount the truth, to tell it as it happened. A lot of nasty stuff (that's how deep the rot went). Very nasty. And I am not a nasty type.
Sometimes the best way of expressing one's disapproval is a contemptuous, largely unknowable silence, whilst maintaining a capability to speak some highly unpleasant truths if absolutely necessary -- if the background chatter of a few wide boys and their biddable "mates" threatens once again to go loud and public. The pen might be mightier than the sword, but not half as effective (for SOME, at least, I am inclined to believe now) as weapons of mass destruction. None that you know of, eh, Jan? Something fallen off the back of a nuclear submarine somewhere? If you do, please get in touch -- I might be in the market!
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Post by Theo on Jul 3, 2003 8:34:18 GMT -5
Very nice synchronicity, Mr Boote...
Theo
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