Comments on: Well, no, I cannot, technically speaking, skin a buck or run a trotline.

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PrettyFakes » Blog Archive » Bruce in Dixie — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:50:22 +0000

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PrettyFakes » Blog Archive » The Itsy-Bitsy Tweaker — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:31:29 +0000

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By: St. Louis ArchBishop

St. Louis ArchBishop — Thu, 12 May 2005 00:55:43 +0000

My bad, Gorjus. SWAPO was an African political party (Namibian?), but I thought it was a country back then. I think I confused it with my other favorite country name, CAR. I mean the country is essentially called automobile.

Now, back to my Pocket Fisherman.

By: gorjus

gorjus — Wed, 11 May 2005 22:11:29 +0000

Best Discussion of the Proper Spelling of Fishing Devices and Fish on a Blog Devoted to Reality TeeVee, Comixx, and Springsteen, & Poetry. EVER.

And, St. Lou, my brain is failing me. What’s SWAPO?

By: Professor Fury

Professor Fury — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:38:01 +0000

Oh yeh. I say “brim,” too, but I’m pretty sure it’s spelled “bream,” and by “pretty sure,” I mean “positive.” I had no idea for years until I saw it written somewhere and put it all together. My folks have a couple of ponds behind their house, and so we catch-n-eat bream and bass just about every time we go up there when it’s not too cold—dad fillets ‘em, mom fries ‘em—it’s good stuff. Mmm, pondfish.

By: Mr. Mooch

Mr. Mooch — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:34:08 +0000

maybe? i can’t spell for shit. that’s how it sounds: brim.

By: Professor Fury

Professor Fury — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:29:00 +0000

Well, I never read him in high school, but now I teach him for a living. So it all balances out.

One of my students from American lit survey last semester—where we read As I Lay Dying—recently acquired a beta fish, which she named “My mother,” so that she could go around saying “My mother is a fish.” Satisfying.

By: St. Louis ArchBishop

St. Louis ArchBishop — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:08:20 +0000

Uh, you never read Faulkner in HS and yet you wrote the sentence that begins, “These people, allegedly cultured though they are,...”?!My mother is a fish, that’s ironic!

And Gorjus, can you point out SWAPO on the map? I always thought that was the coolest name for a country. It kinda sounds like SWAT, so what’s not to like?

By: Professor Fury

Professor Fury — Wed, 11 May 2005 20:43:51 +0000

Isn’t it “bream” rather than “brim”?

It’s not really important, I’m just still shame-faced after calling it a “crop line.” It’s like I can’t rely on the Web to give me reliable information!

By: Dr. Wagner

Dr. Wagner — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:22:39 +0000

I always figured that me hearing “trotline” was just the extreme accent that ol’ Bocephus had in saying trout line.

I got in trouble for “talking back” to my 7th grade English teacher because I asked her to clarify if she were saying “quiet” or “quite” (both of which were on this particular spelling test). I had already spelled “quite” earlier in the test and here she was saying it again. Turns out it was “quiet” and she pronounced them nearly identically. I mean it was like having “here” and “hear” on the same ORAL spelling test.