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  1. Yes. My creek receded fairly quickly, Steve, and all is back to normal here. The real flooding events are out in Iowa to my west.
  2. Great photos. I recall a thread on this forum a few years ago discussing whether or not the bridge was necessary, given the terrain. What was your impression - would switchbacks have been a better alternative?
  3. Same here, Clifftop. I read that "smithereens" was plural only and not singular in a trivia book, but your definition seems more plausible. More storms here. The other night storms dumped about a foot of rain 100 miles north of me and caused roads to wash out like this: The woman driver was unharmed after her wild ride. It was dark when she drove into this pit. Bet she was surprised.
  4. OK. Now tell me this: is there such a thing as a smithereen, and if so, what is it?
  5. Wow. That's gonna leave a mark. Hey, I fished Lake Michigan today - the launch docks were nearly submerged, and there were a lot of logs and things washed into the lake from the rivers. Flotsam and jetsam. Incidentally, just what the h is flotsam and jetsam, anyhow?
  6. Not sure, but I heard we received 6" saturday night. It is my sincere hope that all the moles in my yard drowned as a result. Wish we could send some of this water down your way to end that drought. Iowa has been getting soaked lately too.
  7. Strange. It's been a very cool spring up nawth hyar. I think the fishing patterns are about two weeks behind normal. Sounds like you're in for a sultry hot summer, Newt.
  8. Chubs mostly, although steelhead and suckers are around. In October we get a run of chinook salmon out of Lake Michigan and they bed on the gravel:
  9. Wow, nice photos from the autumn of 2006, Jan. I hear we received 5 or 6 inches of rain last night, much less than the ten inches south of us in Indiana. The waters are receding now, fortunately. Whew.
  10. As some of you know, I live on a creek in Michigan, USA, near Lake Michigan. Last night's thunderstorms dumped enough water to make it jump its banks; it was at my back-door threshold when I got up this morning. First time since I've lived here. After the initial panic my wife Karin and I got it sandbagged and pumped out near the house. I even saw a large fish swimming on the surface in front of my utility shed. I hope the waters recede soon. There are more storms due in a few hours. That distant bridge usually has an 8-foot clearance beneath it. That's my firewood floating away.
  11. Can you imagine what it must have been like in the days when horses provided most of the transportation and the flies followed them? Most folks didn't have screens to keep the flies and other insects out, either. One company in my town made a fortune selling flypaper around the turn of the 20th century. I can't imagine what living with clouds of flies must have been like.
  12. I half expected to see your "new Star Wars character", Newt. That would have received some interesting comments.
  13. Wow, how do their linemen cope with those rats nests? Reminds me of photos of New York City circa 1900. Good photos.
  14. Still there, Den. Many ducklings and kingfishers. BTW, nice photo, Darren.
  15. I've managed to attract a pair of breeding orioles to my yard with some oranges and grape jelly. My daughter Erika took this snapshot of these skittish birds yesterday. The male is at left.
  16. That might work, Clifftop. I do quite a bit of icefishing when the water gets hard, so I'll store that one.
  17. I always thought this was true, but apparently not. Snopes
  18. Good ones, Newt. Now here's one for you. I recently read in Ghosts of Vesuvius that although thousands of people and dogs have been found in the ashes of Pompei and Herculaneum, not one cat has been found. None. Go figure.
  19. Different strokes for different folks.
  20. I can think of another website over here that does just that. I stopped posting fishing reports there after Big Brother came down hard on everyone one day after several members questioned the validity of an advertisment masquerading as a fishing report. Every other word in that "report" was a brand name, and yet it was defended by the mod who then lectured us on forum behavior and closed the thread. Seig Heil! Good point, Elton.
  21. Jan, I'm surprised at you. You know full well that there is a Milwaukee Tumor.
  22. £82k To Study Irish Gays? They're easily identified. Gerald Fitz Patrick and Patrick Fitz Gerald.
  23. Reminds me of an article I saved last year; the one about Richard Nixon is my fav. I neglected to save the web address, but here is the content: Here are 10 of the top April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped. -- In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home. -- In 1985, Sports Illustrated magazine published a story that a rookie baseball pitcher who could reportedly throw a ball at 270 kilometers per hour (168 miles per hour) was set to join the New York Mets. Finch was said to have mastered his skill -- pitching significantly faster than anyone else has ever managed -- in a Tibetan monastery. Mets fans' celebrations were short-lived. -- Sweden in 1962 had only one television channel, which broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to receive color pictures by pulling a nylon stocking over the screen. In fact, they had to wait until 1970. -- In 1996, American fast-food chain Taco Bell announced that it had bought Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, a historic symbol of American independence, from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Outraged citizens called to express their anger before Taco Bell revealed the hoax. Then-White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale and said the Lincoln Memorial in Washington had also been sold and was to be renamed the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial after the automotive giant. -- In 1977, British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement for the 10th anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semicolon-shaped islands. A series of articles described the geography and culture of the two main islands, named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. -- In 1992, US National Public Radio announced that Richard Nixon was running for president again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." They even had clips of Nixon announcing his candidacy. Listeners flooded the show with calls expressing their outrage. Nixon's voice actually turned out to be that of impersonator Rich Little. -- In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexicans for Science and Reason carried an article that the state of Alabama had voted to change the value of pi from 3.14159 to the "Biblical value" of 3.0. -- Burger King, another American fast-food chain, published a full-page advertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the "Left-Handed Whopper," specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new burger included the same ingredients as the original, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees. The chain said it received thousands of requests for the new burger, as well as orders for the original "right-handed" version. -- Discover Magazine announced in 1995 that a highly respected biologist, Aprile Pazzo (Italian for April Fool), had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. The creatures were described as having bony plates on their heads that became burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speed -- a technique they used to hunt penguins. -- Noted British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on the radio in 1976 that at 9:47 am, a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event, in which Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, would cause a gravitational alignment that would reduce the Earth's gravity. Moore told listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment of the planetary alignment, they would experience a floating sensation. Hundreds of people called in to report feeling the sensation
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