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Good ones. My favorite one, to be told when the weather is cold: Very cold this morning. I saw my lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.

Good tip, Westie. I'll be fishing on Lake Michigan before dawn tomorrow, and am looking forward to seeing a few meteors. Hope it's clear.

It's been a banner year for ducklings at my house. I can't recall a year when I've seen so many mother ducks with offspring. This one kept a sharp eye out for trouble.

Thanks Judy. For some strange reason the last box won't work but the second one did. Go figure. Thanks for your prompt help and advice, though. And Westie.

OK, I think I figured it out. The four choices you spoke of were to the right of the photo at PhotoBucket; you chose the final one - IMG CODE - but the one that worked for me was the second one - URL LINK. Not sure why this is, or why I can't use the URL address under "properties" when an image is right-clicked, but at least now I know what will work. Well. Here is an image of a large moth I photographed on my garage wall late one night back in July, after returning from a fishing excursion. Not sure what species or genus it belongs to, but I can tell you its wingspan was about 4" inces from tip to tip. A very impressive insect.

I have no idea either, Westie. I'm curious as to what four choices you have; when I post a photo I hit the Insert Image icon located above the text box, which brings up the script prompt box into which I put the photo link. The mystery deepens.

Well, the photos I'm trying to post are ones I've uploaded to Photobucket, if that's what you mean. MS Explorer 7.0 - the browser I use - won't allow scripted windows to be opened and used without permission, which I must do before posting a photo at AN. So, when I preview the post with photo, the "Sorry, dynamic pages in the tags are not allowed" message appears. Any ideas?

I'm sure this has been posted before, but bear with me, please. Why does the message, "Sorry, dynamic pages in the tags are not allowed", appear when I attempt to post a photo? Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Thanks - Ken.

Terrible news, Gray. I hope his boy is in good hands. A shame he will grow up without his dad.

Come on, Cranfield. Confess. We won't tell. Kidding. Hey, check out this item.

Is that what they mean by "Field Fairies"??

7 of 10. I only knew 3 for certain. Thanks for posting, Hembo.

Elton, you rapper. Yo baby yo baby yo.

Love it.

Two families move from Pakistan to America . When they arrive the two fathers make a bet to see -- in a year's time -- which family has become more Americanized. A year later they meet again. The first man says, "My son is playing baseball. I had breakfast at McDonalds, and I'm on my way to pick up a case of Bud. How about you?" The second man replies, "F*** you, towelhead."

Well, the luxury item would be a yacht with fuel enough to get home. The music and book can wait.

SINGLE MARRIED DIVORCED OR, THE THREE STAGES COULD BE: 1. Tri-weekly 2. Try weekly 3. Try weakly

Jean-Claude Van Damme once kicked Chuck Norris' ass. He was then awakened from his dream by a roundhouse kick to the face. When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side. Chuck Norris invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Tom Cruise invented pink.

THAT, I understand.

Hope you have a good time in Lost Wages, Martin. If you get a chance take a day trip to Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. You won't be disappointed.

I was on a fishing trip in northern Ontario five years ago with some friends. Our cabin had a small water heater in a room next to the shower, so when Mike was showering we turned off the hot water. "You f****rs! I know where you sleep!", he shouted. We turned it on immediately.

My son once taped the spray nozzle trigger down and aimed it at the sink front on April Fool's Day. Of course, I just happened to be the first one to turn on the water. Rumor has it that saran wrap stretched over a toilet bowl and shrunk skin-tight with a hair dryer is good for a laugh. Lower the seat and wait for a victim seeking relief. So I'm told. I've also been told that red Kool Aid mix is good for a laugh when inserted into a removed shower head, which is then screwed back on. Just don't forget and be the first one to take a shower.

I have to confess, I've had my share of guffaws at the expense of others who felt the need to chum.

Lots of trout streams up in the Sierra Nevada range about 3 hours east of SF. If you get sick of fishing you can pan for gold. Also, Lake Tahoe has a large population of Lake Trout and there are several charter boats available on both the California and Nevada sides of the lake. I'm certain there must be charter boats available for sea-fishing in northern California. I drift-fished on a charter once back in 1998 in Brookings, Oregon, just north of the coastal redwoods in California. We caught a boatload of fish, but I got seasick right after I lost a large ling cod. My son, who took dramamine and felt fine, was cruel that day and kept offering food to me in spite of my distress.

Not mine, but worth passing on. My uncle Norm served in the US Navy serving on a supply ship off Okinawa and other places during WWII. The latrine on his ship consisted of a long bench in a room running from one side of the vessel to the other; holes were cut into the bench every few feet to allow sailors a place to relieve themselves. There was no flush mechanism: seawater was continually pumped through a channel beneath the bench, drawing it up from the port side and depositing it to starboard. Not real high-tech, but that's how it worked. One day he waited until most of the "seats" were occupied by fellow sailors, then he dropped a large wad of paper which he had lit afire into a hole on the port side. He could tell exactly where the fiery paper was by watching his fellow tars jump off the crapper, one by one.