The Longest Thread in History

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...There's also a certain Bingo game.....where the winner gets to go into a telephone booth-type chamber.....thats like a wind tunnel.....with $$$$$$$cash flying around everywhere....

.....heres the catch, after you catch the bills flying around in the booth, you have to force them through a slot in one of the panes, and the slot isn't that wide....so you can't force too many bills through at once......


......GUESS WHO WON THAT GAME???....


...a Seventy year old woman!!!.....nothing against that, but...... ...it always seems to happen that way...


.....psssssst...she didn't catch many Bills.....

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...not too sound too girly about the SuperGame!!!......

..but I actually felt tears rolling down my cheeks, just talking about it !!!...(speakin of emotions)....


.....I was Hoarse up until Tuesday!!!.....kinda felt like I had flu like symtoms...

.....lotta yellin and screamin!!

.....Yaaaaaaaaaaahooooooooooo!!!!!!......

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C'mon Red.....keep up!!! ....

....I'm out-postin' ya......

[redcrbbr]

welllll, 4 am comes early, and i am so backed up at work. been fighting off a stupid stomach virus my kids brought home from school. could have only imagined what it would have been like if i had gotten inside that money tube. gotta be a system for grabbin the dough. pee on it so they don't want it back....

[redcrbbr]

i'll be high from the pats for quite a while. heard the season opener is gonna be a monday night game against the steelers

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...To finish up my Foxwoods trip.......

....we had gone up with another couple....

....neither of us had any luck with the Bingo, but on the way out....my friends wife asked if I minded if she dropped 6 single dollar bills...in a slot machine....

..... of course I didn't mind, seeing a chance to do a little more gambling myself.....


....GOOD THING!!!!.....we both walked out winners!!!....she played a quarter machine....and won back enough money to cover the Bingo fees...and the Buffet.....for her and her hubby

....and I got lucky too....I sat at a Dollar machine, won enough to cover my expenses for the night......plus $30

.....I left a satisfied man, ...well you know what I mean. I WAS THE SATISFIED MAN!!....I didn't mean, "left a man" like I was talking about another man....ummm....YOU GOT IT RIGHT?..

....ok, enough on this post.....

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.....Red, funny you mentioning a stomach virus....


...it ran through a bunch of my family members too.....

.....starting off with my nephew and goddaughter, bringing it home from Elementary school.....


....it stayed with them for about 4 days....then my brother got it.... ...and BOY DID HE STINK!!!


...I pity his wife...

[redcrbbr]

yeah i got it.... you miss tattoo. don't be ashamed we all share in your pain here have a good night bloo

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.....John better call a doctor!!!!!!!!......

...I think page 5 of this thread ......ummmm....


HAS GOT A CASE OF THE CRABS!!!!!

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Tattoo.....WHO???....

....does he still post on here?...

Ok....Red......G'-nite...

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...A CHUNKERS' NIGHTMARE........


....A BLOOOO SPIDERCRAB!!!!....

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....THIS NEXT CRAB + a size 4/0 hook + 3 - 4 oz. sinker =


...TAUTOG!!

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....Remember those nights when you couldn't keep a chunk on for NO time at all...???

....and ya asked yourself, "How the heck can they clean my hook so fast?"

.....here's your answer..
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.... I can't seem to put page 5 to rest!!!......

....ok....you asked for it!!!.....

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...check out the name of this "crab" shack....

...they kind of go together, don't they?...

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...I thought I was BAD!!

...Can you believe theres a crab on the "TOP TEN MOST WANTED" LIST???...


.....Yessiree!!.....THE "CHINESE MITTEN CRAB"....


-------ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS----------

...Since 1990 increasing numbers of mitten crabs have been collected from the intake screens from Lots Road power station, Chelsea. These records indicate that Eriocheir sinensis is now well established in the River Thames and the population is probably increasing. In fact anecdotal evidence suggests that population numbers of this crab in the Thames have increased dramatically in recent years. If continued, such an increase in the Thames Chinese mitten crab population could have potentially harmful environmental effects.

The mitten crab is known to burrow into river banks and therefore may represent a hazard to river and other freshwater engineering projects. The crab is capable of emerging from water and crossing dry land to enter new river systems. This invasion could eventually threaten freshwater habitats currently occupied by populations of our native crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes.

Can You Help?

Our research is ongoing so therefore we would be most grateful for your help. Examples of the type of information we want to know are:


Where and when was the crab seen or caught?
Did you see any other crabs in the same area?
Were they alive or dead?
Do you know what sex they were?
(Males have a V-shaped abdomen and females have a U-shaped abdomen)
What was their approximate size?

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.....According to what I read, they're invading the West Coast right now!!!...

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oh.....you wanna know what it looks like?.....

ok....

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.....DO THEY KNOW ABOUT THE EAST COAST ......."SHERRIF"??...

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......OK already, I'm goin to bed.......zzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

....but before I go......I'm leaving a challenge behind!....

...page 5 belonged to the Crab family.....


.........BEAT IT!! ..

[Fishpart]

Wow, this reall is going to be the longest thread in the history fo the known universe.

[Fishpart]

Thanks, bloo you seem to be doing your fair share on this one........

[Fishpart]

On a more serious note how about the projo article on the Russian factory ships buying the "underutilzed" herring and mackerel from local fishermen.

Is there any bycatch and who is monitoring what gets processed?

Aren't herring and mackerel forage species for the recovering Cod fishery??

Will these "farmers of the sea" ever fertilize and plant new crops or are they really "miners of the sea"????

[JohnR]

When was the Projo article? I'd like to check it out...


Maybe you could visit the TWO Ocean going Russian ships over by the Jamestown Bridge....

Just think, two dilipidated & rusty ships, probably built by the same vodka swillin' docks that built the Nuclear powered Kirov class missile cruiser, swaying at anchor just a couple miles from the Naval War College... I wonder how many Lt. Commanders over in Newport have wondered about lobbing a harpoon or two across Jamestown....

Apparently, they are after the searun herring. They get ground up and Flash Frozen and "supposedly" carried to an even bigger ship offshore to get back to Mother Russia... They also have a lot of people tweaked by the noise (they are very loud) and by their less than efficient engines billowing smoke...

[JohnR]

As far as the, err, quality of the jokes in this thread - how about nothing that would make you blush if yer kid overheard it and asked for clarification - if you don't have a kid, pretend....

[JohnR]

Uh oh!!! They're comming!!!

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Just incase you did not know by now what a striper is or looks like I took this from the pages of McClane's New Standard Fishing Encyclopedia.

Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis)
An important marine gamefish which belongs to the family Percichthyidae. Regionally known as the rockfish (south of New Jersey) and infrequently called squidhound or greenhead, the striper is easily identified.
The trunk of the striped bass is 31/2-4 times as long(to the base of the caudal fin) as it is deep. It has a long head,a moderately pointed snout, and a projecting lower jaw. The two dorsal fins are about of equal length, and both are triangular in outline; these fins are separated. Although the color may vary, as a rule the striped bass is dark olive-green (hence the name greenhead) to steelblue or almost black above, becoming silvery on the sides and white on the belly. The sides have 7-8 longitudinal dark stripes which follow the scale rows; 3-4 stripes are above the lateral line, one on it, and three below it. the upper stripes are the longest and may reach to the caudal fin. The stripes are often interrupted or broken and are usually absent on young fish less than 6 inches. There is little chance of confusing striped bass of over 10 inches with any other species of fish along the Atlantic or Pacific coasts. The prominent stripes, separated dorsal fins, and the general outline are unique. In the young specimens of less than 7 inches it may be difficult to distinguish the striped bass from the related white perch. However, the dorsal fins of the white perch are connected.
The striped bass of the Atlantic coast has an extreme range from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the St. Johns River in northern Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico from western Florida to Louisiana. The center of abundance appears to be from South Carolina to Massachusetts. On the Pacific Coast, where it was introduced in 1886, the extreme range is from the Columbia River in Washington, to Los Angeles, California. The present center of abundance on the Pacific Coast is in the San Francisco Bay region. The fish are coastwise in distribution, and are rarely taken more than a few miles offshore. The striped bass is anadromous and is found in fresh- and brackish water, with preference shown for bays, deltas, and estuarine areas. It exists as a landlocked form also, notably in the Southeast Atlantic states.


If need be I would be glade to post a few pictures for you so there will be no mistakes made while out fishing as to what it is you are after.

[chris L]

well that leaves me out of the joke frackas !

[chris L]

but I have these really strange thoughts running thru

[chris L]

my mind that I dont mind sharing !

[chris L]

1000 posts !!! Bruce we need to talk , You spend way to much time on the net punching keys . Like I should talk !