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06-26-2013, 07:50 PM
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Scarecrow
Join Date: May 2003
Location: bedford ma
Posts: 637
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You should have seen the look on his face
Poor kid just came to my front door asking for a donation. It seems the federal government is considering cutting funds necessary to protect wildlife on the beaches of Cape Cod.
I asked him if he had been to the beaches recently, did he enjoy the smell of seal crap? And why on earth would I want to preserve an area for "widlife"that is more and more off limits to PEOPLE. Might as well burn it down. He left quickly.
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06-26-2013, 07:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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Liar.
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06-26-2013, 07:53 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Funny story but its still important to encourage the youth!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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06-26-2013, 07:56 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Originally Posted by spence
Liar.
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Why say you? I get people knocking on my door twice a month telling me something they are partially wrong on. |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
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06-26-2013, 08:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 40
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Let's all make sure we discourage our youths from participating on our democracy whenever possible.
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06-26-2013, 09:08 PM
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Scarecrow
Join Date: May 2003
Location: bedford ma
Posts: 637
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Spence, I don't know you, so I'm just going to laugh and let that slide off my back. I don't bull#^&#^&#^&#^& people, or if I do, it's with such a stupid grin that they know I'm full of it'
If you knew me, you wouldn't have said that, maybe someday we'll be friends, but that is not a smooth way to start.  |
.......Elvis Lives
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06-26-2013, 09:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Your story stinks. I think you're making it up or at least embellishing. A kid is at your door and you dismiss him then brag about it? Doesn't make sense to me...
Perhaps it is true but that may be even more strange 
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06-27-2013, 03:48 AM
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Land OF Forgotten Toys
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Central MA
Posts: 2,309
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I would have wanted to know what wild life they are looking to preserve and who the money was going to and why?
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06-27-2013, 08:31 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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At least the kid didn't make an unsolicited call to your home just as you took your first bite of dinner. Regardless of how you feel about whatever he was collecting for your reply to his request should have his attitude while he asked you for money
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06-27-2013, 09:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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I would have had some fun with him as well. He probably got a summer job working for a conservation group. I saw adds for them hiring in the boston area this summer. I am sure they have an agenda which more than likely will jive with fisherman in some respects. There is noting wrong with educating these kids. I would venture to say they were not given all sides of the story by their employer.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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06-27-2013, 11:34 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Swimmer
At least the kid didn't make an unsolicited call to your home just as you took your first bite of dinner. Regardless of how you feel about whatever he was collecting for your reply to his request should have his attitude while he asked you for money
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i Blew it once (and ONLY once) one day when some Jehovah witnesses came to the front door
right as we all sat down for dinner
and instead of telling them to "HIT the road JACK"
i simply said: DAD ! it's for you..... |
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06-27-2013, 11:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Plymouth MA
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I would not consider it discouraging kids.....this year we have seen multiple kids from the metro west area dropped off in our complex in Plymouth by the same Boston based marketing company.....collecting for charities. One was to stop a pebble mine in bristol bay.....didn't know where bristol bay was....another collecting for vets......tried to tell me I'm not a vet since I served in the coast guard. Thread very groups are telling people not to give to door to door funds speakers since they get less than 10% of what is collected.
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06-27-2013, 12:10 PM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
Posts: 4,464
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I just tell them that I am deaf.
Stewie, I think that what you just did is freaking funny to me as hell because you did have a valid point there!
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06-27-2013, 12:14 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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Originally Posted by lamigsb1
tried to tell me I'm not a vet since I served in the coast guard. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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Well........
Just Kidding.
We work with a Coast Guard vet and there are 4 Navy vets (myself included) and we are always busting his balls about that....alll good ribbing though |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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06-27-2013, 06:45 PM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,515
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Wonder what the "poor kid" would have to say here,,, hmmm
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06-27-2013, 07:16 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Spence - only thing I've ever seen him lie on is how far he casts. 
So let's drop the liar part for places other than the Poliforum please |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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06-27-2013, 07:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pembroke
Posts: 3,343
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guppy
Wonder what the "poor kid" would have to say here,,, hmmm
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"The weird guy in the pink robe and fuzzy bunny slippers is strange". Yup, that's Stewie!
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06-27-2013, 08:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
Spence - only thing I've ever seen him lie on is how far he casts.
So let's drop the liar part for places other than the Poliforum please |
He has yet to prove that he hasn't 
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06-27-2013, 09:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
Liar.
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Best one word response out of nowhere ever. Lmao!
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06-27-2013, 09:29 PM
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The Bawston Whalah
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 223
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Irarley ever post here, but Spence you are a complete A S S
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06-27-2013, 09:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary
Irarley ever post here, but Spence you are a complete A S S
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What's with the spaces?
You guys have proven at least one thing, my wife isn't the most wound up person I know 
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06-27-2013, 09:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Originally Posted by WESTPORTMAFIA
Best one word response out of nowhere ever. Lmao!
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-spence |
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06-27-2013, 09:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Notaro
I just tell them that I am deaf.
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I remember years ago you catching your first fish on a home made teaser at Quonny...do you?
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06-28-2013, 01:59 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Funny story but its still important to encourage the youth! |
Not if they are trying to protect the &*^%#$ seals.  It's more important to teach the youth what's right and what's wrong and protecting the seals on the Cape is WRONG. Congrats to Stewie! |
No boat, back in the suds. 
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06-28-2013, 03:21 AM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
Posts: 4,464
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
I remember years ago you catching your first fish on a home made teaser at Quonny...do you?
-spence
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Yes, that's where I first met you there. |
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06-28-2013, 04:55 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
So let's drop the liar part for places other than the Poliforum please |
Maybe if they dropped it there as well they might actually get some constructive dialog going instead of the usual "You Suck" "No You Suck" Arguments |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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06-28-2013, 07:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
Maybe if they dropped it there as well they might actually get some constructive dialog going instead of the usual "You Suck" "No You Suck" Arguments
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Why do you think nobody posts there any more?
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06-28-2013, 08:43 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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One of my daughters had a summer job once for VPIRG (vermont public interest research group) It was a fundraising job, door to door, spreading halftruths and soliciting money from people to further their mission. Sounds like the same deal to me.
You missed a chance to educate the kid and besides every minute he spent with you he was not raising money to further the cause. Of course if he did'nt meet his targets he is gone.
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06-28-2013, 09:54 AM
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Secretsquirrel
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: South Shore , MA
Posts: 659
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lamigsb1
..another collecting for vets......tried to tell me I'm not a vet since I served in the coast guard.
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Wow. What a moron.
I wonder who taught the kid his fundraising skills, of insulting people and asking for a donation.
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06-28-2013, 05:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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