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I hope that boy gets some help coping. He has got to feel terrible. I couldn't imagine that. One of my Scouts and his mom have allergies to Penicillin and aspirin. I am always reminding the other adults in charge if anything happens to them, remind the Doctors. We also keep medical treatment forms available with abbreviated histories and notes.

Then Down and Derby would have brought back some memories. I've grown to really dislike the Pinewood Derby. Too many dads trying to live a second childhood and thinking they win when *their* car finishes first, not winning when their son has a great childhood memory. More than once I've been running a weigh in and did would lift the car carefully from the box and his son would say "Gee dad, is that *our* car?" :headshake I prefer the Raingutter Regatta. The kids have to propel the boats via air power and there isn't any shaping allowed, so the kids can paint, sticker, etc. and race their boat.

Remember when you could have fun on an airplane?

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Wow.

I collect Boy Scout memorabilia, patches, uniforms, books, merit badge sashes, neckerchiefs, pocket knives, equipment, etc. If anyone has something buried in their basements and would like to turn them into cash, PM me.

When I was living in Illinois, I was 2 blocks from Gages Lake. That was my after work, for a couple hours spot. It was also easy to trailer my boat to the Chain and fish the channels for bass and heading up to the northern lakes for walleye. I also started doing some musky fishing on the chain when that started heating up. The spring is a great time to grab some small minnows and fish the southern facing, protected, bays for crappie to fill the freezer. I also enjoyed wading the Fox River for small mouth near Geneva. Ultralight tackle and Rapalas or spinners worked very nice. It's funny to see people dining at a couple of the restaurants and people walking the rails along the river, while catching fish. Use very light line and the west bank. The fish are pretty wary with all the people afraid to get in the water and pounding the east bank. Vacations were up in Hayward/Minoqua/Eagle River area. We would make at least three trips. One in the spring for the opening of walleye season with a few guys from work. A week in the summer with my extended family, and again late in the season for the last of the open water musky fishing with anyone hardy and foolish enough. This end of the season trip was brutal weather wise. A few times we would be fishing with snow flurries all around us. We would have to rent aluminum boats because of skim ice forming near shore. It was worth it, most years we would land at least one over 20 pounds on live suckers. My largest was just under 33 pounds. BTW, we fished the Lac Vieux Desert for hybrids one fall. Fast action, 2-3 per day, but never much size to them. The warm water discharge at Zion Nuclear Plant is also a great time with spawn sacks for trout and salmon. I use to write for Midwest Outdoors News Magazine.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 27, 2005 -> 08:34 AM) I ain't travelin' to goddamn TEXAS for a cheese sammich!!! Pepper Jack cheese with bacon makes a scrumptrulescent cheese sandwich!!! I sooo need to get away. I was going to head up to Hill Country this weekend, but couldn't find anyone to go. My family isn't very supportive of me doing solo backpacking anymore. I guess old and feeble and being miles away from help doesn't mix.

Happy Birthday!!!

Substitute tortillas for bread because they travel better. Grab your backpack and a tent, sleeping bag, pad, Whisperlite camp stove and fuel, small fry pan, brick of cheddar, clarified butter. Hike to the top of the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend. Unpack and fire up the whiperlite. Heat up water for your Ramen noodles, pour water into insulated mug and add SweetSue pouch chicken. Spread a little of the clarified butter onto tortilla and begin heating. Slice cheese onto tortilla. Butter second tortilla, and flip when bottom tortilla begins to brown. When second tortilla is brown and cheese has melted, remove from pan. Enjoy your grilled cheese while 6 miles from the closest road and enjoying a 100 mile view into Mexico. Deer will wander through your campsite, so keep a clean camp. Don't be alarmed that suddenly there are a billion more stars then you are use to seeing. Without any light for hundreds of miles, and no major sources of pollution, you can see so many more stars. While sitting back leaning against a bolder, add some water to the instant pudding you brought, mix thoroughly, add crumbled graham crackers and some marshmallows for a portable smore delight. While finishing up the smores, heat some water. After finishing your mug of smores, add hot water to the mug and a coffee single pouch. Swirl around and clean the sides of the mug making a cafe mocha. Use the remainder of the hot water to finish any cleaning your mug may need. Decide the weather is too nice to stay in a tent and drag your pad and sleeping bad outside and drift off to sleep under the coolest blanket of stars imaginable.

As they said in the USSR, you have nothing to fear from the KGB if you are a law abiding citizen. So you have nothing to fear about our government.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Nov 26, 2005 -> 08:30 PM) Whoa, a shoutout to Valparaiso in the new Orville Redenbackers commercial! f*** Yeah! I feel so damn old telling you that commercial is a couple decades old.

QUOTE(SnB @ Nov 26, 2005 -> 03:30 PM) what is all this "bowl-ing" you speak of? All i want is 1 bowl before i graduate. Try this bowl

We're at $1.86 most places, with diesel still around $2.25

QUOTE(YASNY @ Nov 26, 2005 -> 04:37 AM) Karen Carpenter, for sure. Carly Simon. Patsy Cline. I forgot about Carly Simon How James Taylor could choose drugs over her :headshake

LMAO, this is why I love being a guy. I am 100% that the ladies here will think that is totally stupid and gross. The guys on the other hand, will be thinking of who they could do that too and pissed they didn't think of it first.

Bill Clinton starting a marriage counseling service. damn, that was soooo easy Michael Moore sitting in for Rush Limbaugh Southsider starting a 12-Step program was Internet Addiction, with me as his partner. Damn we could have been a success, but we were too busy posting on Soxtalk.

Governors wouldn't play politics with someone's life, would they?

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/25/D8E3R6I87.html

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QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Nov 25, 2005 -> 03:02 PM) Umm, I feel ignorant here........ What is Black Friday? It's the day retailers get into the black for the year. Many retail stores are losing money YTD, and need a busy Christmas season to turn a profit for the year.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 24, 2005 -> 11:27 PM) Um, not a pretty sight. Apparently you got the last laugh! I couldn't get out of the way fast enough It wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Nov 25, 2005 -> 02:43 PM) Texas will win. Would that be University of Texas-Austin or Texas A&M?