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What is "boo"? |
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Posts: 218 11/26/2007 20:15 |
It's driving me crazy! Is it something you yell when you are hiding in you wife's longerie closet and she opens the door? I'm stumped. Please
helps.
Boy, I hope it's not what I think it is. That would be too cutsie. |
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Posts: 1704 11/26/2007 20:16 The COOLER |
pmag wrote: I'm afraid so and you're right. Brook Trout are God's way of reminding us everything is going to be alright. |
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Posts: 3480 11/26/2007 20:32 Immoderate |
It's also, I should add, on the list of proscribed terms as detailed in the VWB by-laws. Indeed the list of proscribed terms comprises the by-laws in their
entirety. Here it is as best as I can recollect (the by-laws are ductile and passed along via the oral tradition):
Boo Newbie Wand Pig Hog Gin-clear |
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Posts: 908 11/26/2007 20:56 |
Excellent recall by the C.I. as it has been a few years since the bylaws were codified, albeit loosely as described above . I would like to offer the term
" tweaked " for consideration to the VWB inner circle, as an addition to the above list. It is so commonly used to describe tapers that without
specific clarification the expression itself has lost any relevance.
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Posts: 828 11/27/2007 00:17 Moderator |
Tweaked is definitely in.(Or out, as the case may be) There were also Mint, Unfished, Stick, Sweet,and others in the forbidden lexicon.
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Posts: 1132 11/27/2007 01:00 Formerly Drake |
"Tweaked." Yes, I like it, Martin. I mean, I hate it.
The boo newbie crouched low, his recently acquired, mint, unfished wand in hand and he watched intently as the hogs, which were stacked up from bank to bank like so much cordwood, finned lazily in the gin-clear flow. "This sweet stick feels so light in hand. I'm gonna nail one of those pigs," he thought to himself as the line silently unfurled from the tip of the rod, a Payne clone that had been tweaked to add an extra foot to its length.
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quashnet |
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Posts: 1589 11/27/2007 01:40 Moderatus Muscae |
This is what happens when you say "tweaked." |
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moregrayling |
A Vote for Gin-Clear | #7 | ||
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Posts: 656 11/27/2007 05:16 |
Cloozoe wrote:Len, I would like to throw my hat in the ring for "gin-clear". If one describes the clarity of an english chalkstream, the term "gin-clear" is absolutely imperative, if not indispensable. Puting "gin-clear" on the list of proscribed terms would be like asking you chaps from the colonies not to call a north country wet fly a "soft hackle". With the very best from "Krautland", Christian
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Posts: 230 11/27/2007 07:05 |
DrakeBob...That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! You nailed it, Bro! Awesome! Actually, I believe any
member of this Forum found using the B-word should be soundly caned...and then tweaked...hard!
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Posts: 1133 11/27/2007 07:19 Formerly Drake |
And then he should be casted into the drink. The gin-clear drink.
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Posts: 2482 11/27/2007 07:52 |
An interesting fact about those gin-clear chalk streams is that due to the amount of dissolved calcium and other minerals in them, they are actually a little
bit cloudy.
"I pick one up, cast it, and it makes me smile. That's its job and it does it well. "
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Posts: 658 11/27/2007 08:41 |
mer wrote: I beg to differ. They are most definitely not, at least not the southern english ones I know and have fished. they are, well, gin clear!
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Posts: 1058 11/27/2007 08:46 |
quashnet wrote: OK, when I was a boy my boss used to use the phrase close to "You've got your t-t in the wringer" many times but this....this looks like a drying rack...albeit, a fine rack! And what's a VWB? I had a rough childhood. |
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Posts: 2483 11/27/2007 08:50 |
But how clear is gin? Especially after one or six?
"I pick one up, cast it, and it makes me smile. That's its job and it does it well. "
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Posts: 2942 11/27/2007 08:56 Moderator |
Boo = Grass enhanced fishing experience.
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Posts: 909 11/27/2007 10:38 |
Bob,
Your narrative should stand as the definitive interpretation of the current bylaws . You are most deservedly the Sergeant at Arms and Chief Magistrate. |
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Posts: 1590 11/27/2007 10:41 Moderatus Muscae |
Boo = Grass enhanced fishing experience.
Which explains why "VWB" stands for "VolksWagen Bus," a typical staging platform for these experiences. From personal experience I must add "on any given day," to the list of proscribed phrases, as in "On any given day this forum is a veritable gin-clear font of information about boo." |
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Posts: 1135 11/27/2007 11:30 Formerly Drake |
It's not a responsibility I take lightly, Martin.
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Posts: 838 11/27/2007 12:54 |
Are you more likely to have an olive hatch on gin-clear water or a cocktail onion hatch?
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wctc1 |
Argggh ..... There is no recourse, I have to ask ... | #19 | ||
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Posts: 173 11/27/2007 14:15 |
Gentlemen, what is "VWB?"
JHector  And my compliments on the ductile verbosity of DrakeBob, the boo
wordist formerly known as Drake.
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Posts: 471 11/27/2007 14:28 |
My mind is always a bit cloudy after gin! Clear! ok then! tim
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