2020 Hot Stove

Today in Arizona you can catch Key frying eggs on the hood of his car. If you are hungry, swing by. He is the charitable type.

Sausage and hash browns carry an extra charge, sort of like all the "free delivery" on food now, that carries a "service charge". 

Good to know you got off the lake safely. I hope those high winds did not blow away your styrofoam cooler of PBR, that would be worth crying about. I know most of te Pollocks wound up in Chicago, and the rest in Omaha, but I can't help feel you are a redneck at heart. Change your name, move to Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi and you will fit right in. Remember what Kenny Stabler said about his redneck base in Louisiana, "down home we just concentrate on having a good time, then, if there is any time left over, we worry about making a living."

Far from redneck actually, just love fishing.

Hate hunting. Don't understand why people get a thrill from murdering animals.

I could never run a farm. Too much work. 

After a few more stock/beer trades, I'll be retired. The high life is waiting.

Totally agree with the hunting comment. 

So, hunting is killing animals, but fishing is not?

IRONic if you ask me. And, in hunting the prey normally dies instantly, a fish gasps and struggles to breath while in pain from the hook in the creel or tank.

You got some 'splainin to do, Lucy.

Furthermore (pardon me) but are you guys vegetarians? If you enjoy steaks, chops, sausage and bacon, chicken or turkey, I got news for you. An animal had to be killed to provide your meal.

Furthermore (pardon me) but are you guys vegetarians? If you enjoy steaks, chops, sausage and bacon, chicken or turkey, I got news for you. An animal had to be killed to provide your meal.

2nd the hunting comment.  And I’m from TEXAS!

All fish get released. They live, and go on with their lives as usual. After being caught most fish get privy to the lure that got them. When fishing waters that are highly pressured(lots of fishing) it is twice as hard to catch them.

Meanwhile Bambi is just standing there, clueless to the fact that she's about to take her last breaths of fresh air.

Boom. Gone forever. And some dude named Earl might just mount her head on his wall. Cool.

A Texas guy that does not hunt,that would not be the norm from what we have heard but the way people BS now it might just be about the right to own and carry a weapon,the only thing I enjoyed about Army was blowing SHIT up,which just reminded me of a story when you guys were talking about your acid,mushrooms and things,I had basic in late 72 and a tab could be split 4 ways and not be in silly land and our night was going to be night fire with a tracer round in every 5 I believe it was.After that we were told we were going to go on bivouac course which was getting from one end of the course to end without getting caught and you were done.

What really happened was they put us in the stands and had us sitting there waiting to move out and the next thing we knew we had every noise maker the Army had that would not wound you but gave off alot of light with noise and just froze us as 100 M-16s were being fired overhead with blanks and tracers,quite a sight plus 200 Enemy Soldiers yelling that we were now POW,I mean we should of know something was up when they took our Rifles before they sat us in the stands,but we were having a good time which was over for the next couple hours as POW Camp was just a bunch of PT,up-downs push ups and any other crap thing they could punish us with and they were calling out names,the people they were looking for were those that gave our Drill Sergeant's a bad time or were Profile Guys or ROTC morons that tried to show up our Sergeants.Tripping our way thru this made it a bit more work but by this time your in shape and 19 years old so if you played sports in school after the first week when they cut all your hair off and you got used to being yelled at basic was not that bad plus going to Nam then was unlikey .

Now after this we had to go on the course and if you got caught then you had to spend rest of training in POW camp,another funny thing,they threw all our food in garbage cans and you had to eat it by hand,we were not hungry really but these guys were yelling at us to eat,good news was they ran you thru the food line quick so we did not eat much,the even better news which my friends did not know was my Dad grew up about 12 miles from this base and there was not much around it when I was a kid and I had 2 sets of Grandparents and spent a month every summer in the area.They took us by truck to start of course to go thru with an Airport one of the boundaries and I knew exactly where we were and how to get to friendly lines quick.All these guys went running off into the woods,I grabbed my guys and told them let them go,I know the way,so we smoke a Camel and relaxed a bit,told them we just need to go to the airport,go down the road a couple miles and turn back in and we should be good.Only 2 guys beat us back to our lines and then we were done and drank coffee while waiting for rest of troops to come in just on our trip.Last time I ever took anything like that.

I was never much of a Hunter,my Grandfather was big hunter and would go as far as Idaho for Bucks or Elk also,I was not big on the taste of wild animal,had Bear once and I think I got the runs from it,fresh fish now that is much better,maybe because my other Grandfather was a fisherman and we always had fresh fish to eat.

sac are you not eating any of the fish you catch?

How about those guys that have the knock off AK 47s that they say they need for hunting,assault weapons seem like overkill for hunting imo.

All the fish are not getting thrown back, the stores are full of it year around. Now I agree with JEG on the assault rifle issue, that is not hunting, that is slaughtering. As for "Bambi" sac, don't take the movie home with you. Ridiculous to call fishing any more humane than hunting, most of them do not go back to living the happy life in the pond and bragging about their war injuries while having a beer with boys. It is what it is and another unsettle-able argument, but we do have dominion over all forms of life and can do as we want. What's next? Harvesting corn is cruel and unusual punishment? 

Ok, I should be more thorough on the subject. I was speaking more in terms of "sport". Forget about commercial hunting/fishing where it's done for food on a mass scale.

I fish for sport. Whether for fun or in a tournament format, I release all my fish. Other tournament fishermen also release everything they catch when fun fishing as well.

Then there's people who hunt or fish who take their prey for food. That's cool, as long as it's being used and within slot limit regulations and such. Hunters pay for tags and can kill a certain amount each year. Such regulations are there to keep from depopulation.

Then there are those who hunt for sport. Mount their animals. To me it's just murder. Sorry but I don't get the joy or thrill of killing and making them trophies.

Good to see a lot of baseball being discussed on the forum. I am still laughing at JEG's story about falling off the horse. 

I am not drunk. I was just too lazy to go turn on the patio lights so I could see to type.

We opened at 6/5 and have moved up to 7/5

JEG's retirement fund

every time one

That should make more sense 

You see where I tried to bet Key that the Giants were going to win 100 games and lose one,Hunter resigns and off they go again.                                     

Those were not the first guys on SNL that played the beer drinking announcers right,did Belushi ever play that skit or was it him just rooting for Bears,man that show started in early or mid 70s,whole lot of people came out of that show to TV or movies,

sac IRONically we agree on the trophy thing,no way do I agree with killing an animal just to mount the head or to stuff a bird,I have no problem with someone hunting if they pay for their license and they are allowed one or 2 food kills,my Grandfather never mounted a head or horns and he ate most of the meat and he made good jerky with Bambi,but of course killing Bambi is illegal if I remember right,wasn't Bambi female.

Tour.Fishing is also fine with me if you can win some money but they stock those lakes and rivers for those contest don't they,worst thing is sitting all day and not even getting a bite,at least if they are biting it has a bit of sport to it as you try to snap the pole but I also agree sac that fish are not all stupid,caught and release makes them a bit more smart imo.

Key use a flashlight on key board,does not wake the wife.

No.

Lakes get stocked with fish by dnr. Only a select few lakes do when populations get low or if they want to introduce a new species into the body of water. And the fish are babies when they do it, so it's for the future of the species.

If it is a new species, there will be a catch n release rule for them untill it's deemed that they will flourish in the water and reach a healthy size.

I chose that snl skit because it was the Bulls. I've been watching "The Last Dance", it's great.

The original skit was about the Bears I believe. There have been a few.

I remember in one of them they were asked what would be the score if it was Ditka vs the Giants. One guy replies "Ditka 49, Giants 3, Ditka takes one play off"