Post Race!

[FunkyDexter]

To be honest, I doubt I'd actually use the bar much but I just want to have it

A pole, you say. There might be an idea there...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Now I see why you wanted DDay's extra six grand.

You won't be as tempted to drink if you set the bar high enough.

[dday9]

If the bar's to high then how can he pass it?

[dday9]

That was my terrible attempt at pun by the way.

[FunkyDexter]

I've seen worse. Come to think of it, I've made worse.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It does sound like you're talking about getting into polling. Funky was suggesting polling strippers, which could be a clothes call with your dollars.

[dday9]

How in the hell do you do it?!

[dday9]

One day, I'll become that good at making puns too

[FunkyDexter]

I think Shaggy's probably the reigning champ. Mendhak used to be excellent at them but he doesn't seem to be around anymore.

[dday9]

I heard that somebody's looking for Mendhak.

[Gruff]

I finished making a LUA tutorial website just like the VB.Net one:

I am soooo spoiled by visual studio. Notepad ++ is bare bones ugly. I used it to write some ruby scripts for Google Sketchup. It took forever. (Write code, Import code, Run, Crash, Examine cryptic error messages, Wild guess rewrite, Repeat.)

[dday9]

LUA's IDE that comes with LUA for Windows is not much better. I must admit that I too, am spoiled to Visual Studios.

[dday9]

I really wish MS would make a plugin for HTML5/CSS/JavaScript like they have for VB.Net.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Ok, so what does LUA actually mean/stand for/derive from, or whatever? I realize I could probably find out through Google in a few seconds, but I only care enough to post in the Post Race.

[dday9]

LUA was built in Brazil during a technology blackout period for the country, so it was built out of necessity. But the name literally translates to moon.

[Bonker Gudd]

I need kedaman.

[dday9]

Kedaman or ketamine?

[homer13j]

I love this time of year. Too bad it doesn't last.

[dday9]

That's really pretty. Did you take that yourself?

[dday9]

I wish trees would change color here, but they don't. One day they're green and the next day they're dead.

[FunkyDexter]

Like Ebola victims?




Too soon?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'd say the panic response is ripe to make fun of.

[homer13j]

That's really pretty. Did you take that yourself?

Yup. It's the aptly-named Rocky River in Berea, Ohio. 12 miles southwest of Cleveland.

[dday9]

I was just thinking, how in the hell could you fish in there with all those rocks?!

[Gruff]

Dupe

[Gruff]

I do a lot of stream fishing.

There are a number of ways.

1) Fly fish.

2) 24" leader with a light split shot and Salmon eggs.
Toss in up stream and let it drift down past you a ways. Repeat.

3) Use a spinner. drop it in the current. let it out some. Reel it back in some. Repeat.

All are best when you are in the stream away from the banks.

[dday9]

If I'm on a river or bayou, I prefer to sit on the bank or off a dock. Just throw it out there and wait for something to bite.

[dday9]

Now if I'm on a lake then I prefer to be on a boat

[Gruff]

If I am in a boat I prefer to be on a lake.

[Shaggy Hiker]

All those rocks form eddies downstream of them. Fish tend to hold in those eddies and pools. When I was growing up, I fished for trout in streams like that. Each pool had the potential to have a trout or two. We generally didn't stay long at each pool, though, so it wasn't so much sitting still as moving a bit, stopping for a time, then moving on.

[dday9]

Last time I took my brother's boat out which is a 16 foot flat bottom aluminum boat with a little 25hp motor on it we went on Houston River, which is really just a glorified bayou, he had it full throttle and we hit a frickin tree that was submerged and it popped the motor up. Scared the crap out of us because all of a sudden you have a propeller going full speed right next to your face!

[Gruff]

Don't think I've ever seen a frickin tree. Are they related to elms?

[Shaggy Hiker]

No, not so much like elm. I've known several of them, especially while boating in Florida. They have the odd property that they grow under the water, often with no visible part emerging from the water, though that is not always the case. It can be both alarming, and hard on the engine, when you hit one of those with an outboard. It can be even worse if you hit them with an inboard....and let's not even discuss what happens when you hit them with an overboard.

[dday9]

To be honest, it could've been a Sinker Cyprus. Houston River's full of them.

[dday9]

I would love to get them and sell them but:

a) there are alligators
b) they are heavy
c) usually they're stuck

[Gruff]

A boat carrying red paint crashed into a boat carrying blue paint

the crew was marooned….

[dday9]

What lies at the bottom of the lake and twitches?

A nervous wreck!

[Gruff]

I've heard of dream boats but...

[dday9]

You know what a boat stands for?

Bust
Out
Another
Thousand

[Brewers]

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