Old vs. New. Bamboo vs. Graphite, Boron, & Glass. DTvs.WF. RHW vs. LHW. Broad-minded vs....

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feeds@yuku.com (Old Baleine) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:38:31 GMT

Thanks for the brilliant thread, gentlemen. It's been a delight to follow from the sideline.

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feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:54:28 GMT

over UP Michigan, Northern Wisconsin, and Northern Minnesota,
the cultural epicenter of saunateering, we complete our pursuit of
of this invigorating ritual--another feature of the byroads too often
overlooked but readily available to ardent bamboo fly rod fishermen
who look around them while resting from piscatorial labors.

It is possile, we realize, that you could have figured out a better and
happier denouement for DrakeBob's study of gas-heated...

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feeds@yuku.com (DrakeBob) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:15:04 GMT

Late last night, while deep in research on the fascinating subject of gas-heated lava rocks for the sauna, I stumbled across the concept of gas-fired charcoal. I thought back to my Versus (after all, the subject of this thread): "gas or charcoal?" "Eureka!" I thought... why does it have to be one or the other? Why not both?

I'm abandoning my research on gas-heated lava rocks to pursue a subject near and dear to my heart and a most practical...

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feeds@yuku.com (Southbranch) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:16:46 GMT

greg hall wrote:
BTW, rumor has it that our friend oneculm recommends those European/Anglo parabolics as terrific ice fishing poles. Good news for the Finns as they can now use them year round.

Indeed, more than a few bamboo tip sections have ended up jerking perch though holes in the ice of Wisconsin....

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feeds@yuku.com (greg hall) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:17:07 GMT

Yes, Bob struggling to maintain a scientific objective opinion, I can feel his pain even as my mind conjures visions of Ingrid steaming amongst the gas fired rocks while Bob himself positively writhes with the effort to stay focused on his higher calling.

BTW, rumor has it that our friend oneculm recommends those European/Anglo parabolics as terrific ice fishing poles. Good news for the Finns as they can now use them year round.

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feeds@yuku.com (pcg) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:08:09 GMT

And with that final sentence ("Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks in..."), BHB wrote the first sentence of his new novella. Sweet.

The illustrator will be, of course...
DrakeBob, who has taken up watercolors and is studying Art with...
Ingrid (of course).

Publisher shall be...
WhiteFish Press, whose owner has been secretly (& avidly) following the building tension in this...

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feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:57:30 GMT

Greg, you know how the wags can be when they latch onto something
even as innocent and uplifting as Bob's struggle to remain steadfast in
the scientific method, even in the sauna. Nevertheless, this thread has
received several reports recently that Ingrid will be running the Sauna Beer
and Tee-Shirt Concession at the Lennox dealership where DrakeBob is
scheduled to present his paper on gas-heated stones. It's probably only
rumor, but...

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feeds@yuku.com (greg hall) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:03:37 GMT

DrakeBob wrote:

BlackHillsBill wrote:
In September DrakeBob will be presenting a peer-evaluated paper on gas-heated stones at the local Lennox dealership.

I'll post it here first for general comments and for your help, Bill, with grammar and syntax. Here's fair warning, though: it is shaping up to be rather lengthy given...

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feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:04:16 GMT

Several Minnesotans have already told me they
feel it will be the defining moment of their autumn.
Heretofore it was waiting for the lake to freeze over.
Gas-heated stones, they said, will save them for other
activities, about which they were quite vague. But,
if you know these Northern Minnesota Finns, you feel
certain there's an outside chance that those activities
could include bamboo fly rod fishing. The Lennox man,
who's a dead ringer...

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feeds@yuku.com (DrakeBob) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:29:59 GMT

BlackHillsBill wrote:
In September DrakeBob will be presenting a peer-evaluated paper on gas-heated stones at the local Lennox dealership.

I'll post it here first for general comments and for your help, Bill, with grammar and syntax. Here's fair warning, though: it is shaping up to be rather lengthy given the scope of the topic and my coverage of it is exhaustive. Stay tuned.

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feeds@yuku.com (czkid) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:12:16 GMT

I take off for a little trip to the White River and look what happens.... total deterioration... you guys are really hopeless. It's bad enough having to deal with Short Tip (did his girl friend give him that name???) but then to have you deviants track off course again makes me shake my head in sorrow. No discipline at all here... BHB, how did you ever control a classroom??? This would never do at a good engineering school.

As to Stubby's (excuse me... Short Tip's)...

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feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:36:16 GMT

For those of you eager to break from usual forum fare (collecting, casting, and controlling
stream crowds) but too shy to mention your urge to unearth more nitty-gritty of dry-or-wet
saunas, as close to primitive Finnish saunateering as can be had on a modest travel budget
is waiting for you in Northern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and UP Michigan, widely
renowned as America's Sauna Circuit. It would in fact be safe to say that if you never make
it to...

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feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:19:12 GMT

Martin, it was a good joke. There was no reason to edit. I was
happy in fact to see us get back to some foolin' and teasing. I
should always be taken with a grain of salt. I liked your analogy. It
was fun. I thought it freshened things up. So help me. I deleted
my nonsense--which was the only part ill-conceived.

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feeds@yuku.com (Soft Hackle) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:49:08 GMT

My analogy was an ill-conceived attempt at a joke, thus I have deleted it, a fate I clearly see it deserved. Nothing to do with you Bill, just a silly attempt to weave DT and WF lines, Finnish saunas, snowmobiles and Bjorn Dahlie into a coherent and thoughtful comment on the direction of the thread at that point in time. A truly abysmal effort that deserved to be deleted.

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feeds@yuku.com (tedgolden) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:51:04 GMT

Sunday comments?

It's the Snodgrasses and the Swozzlers all over again with a different set of choices.

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feeds@yuku.com (pcg) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:27:01 GMT

In the spirit of this thread (& echoing part of the title), I posted some fly lines F/S in the classifieds yesterday. I neglected to mention whether two of the lines were DT or WF. And I immediately got a half dozen inquiries, usually going like this: "Are they DT, of course?" Of course they weren't, and I became discouraged. I edited the ad to note that they were WF.

But then within another 30 minutes, I got a similar cascade of "I'll take them"s...

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feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:18:46 GMT

Southbranch, the snowbank business has been overblown and
can be skipped without penalty. The lashing with birch twigs is
a different matter altogether and has strong proponents who
refuse to let the custom go. Try to substitute aspen twigs and
you'll quickly find out. Finns enjoy lashing Swedes, and they
both particularly enjoy lashing Norwegians. Some think the
fondness for lashing either divides or joins along gender lines.
For quite a lot...

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feeds@yuku.com (Southbranch) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:47:18 GMT

DrakeBob wrote:

Among the cases found dead in a sauna, all but 2 were found alone....

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feeds@yuku.com (DrakeBob) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:38:07 GMT

Many years ago, a woman of my acquaintance, Ingrid, tried mightily to convince me of the therapeutic value of the sauna - both wet and dry, each having its special purposes. And just as mightily I rebuffed her case as being too heavy in anecdotal evidence and too light on science. Not to mention that Ingrid scared me a bit, quite frankly.

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feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:06:44 GMT
Pat, I don't like to speak ill of kin naturally and never would
about Charlie. I was named after Uncle Charlie, you see.
I am C.W. Charles William. Charlie Bill.

Charlie had a gift for matching bad judgment with bad luck.
For instance, once he and his date, while frolicking along the
trail beside Roughlock Falls, tumbled right on over. Neither
was hurt, and the experience actually served a civic purpose,
leading to improvements at the little...

Old vs. New. Bamboo vs. Graphite, Boron, & Glass. DTvs.WF. RHW vs. LHW. Broad-minded vs. Narrow-minded.

feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:43:52 GMT
Just wanted to see if anyone had something else
he needed to get off his chest. A sort of pandemic
suggestion box to cover all the leading issues of the day.