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Don't swim in Congo RiverRacial slur on sofa label stuns family (obviously not funny)
I guess people really don't know quality when they hear it.
Seen in a mall in Dallas, Texas
Lifeguard station sitting in 4 feet of snow in Claremont, NH
On Highway 101 in Los Angeles
Good movie! Too long, though.
Tombstone in Montreal. Read the first letter of each row, vertically.
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as governor, he had one of the best track records for the environment.... as prez, well,... no.
hmmm... I think there is a different opinion out there on his track record on the environment...
Back in the early 1960's when we used to live in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a favourite holiday was to pop up to Lake Kariba and go fishing.
Lake Kariba was formed by the building of a dam wall at Kariba Gorge on the Zambezi River and, when full, is around 100 miles long and just over 30 miles wide at it's widest.
Mostly, we used to fish for the pot and go after Tilapia Mosambica (known locally as "bream"), but every now and then - when we could either afford to rent a boat or scrounge a ride with someone else - we used to fish for some of the more exciting varieties.
In those days, the three "game fish" in the lake were Chessa, Nkupe and Tiger Fish. Chessa and Nkupe were smallish, but put up one hell of a fight when hooked - making for great entertainment.
The Zambezi River variety of Tiger Fish was known scienifically as Hydrocyon Vittatus and used to grow to around 25-30 lbs (I seem to recall the record being ~35 lbs).
The example shown in that blog entry is a different sub-species to those we used to get in Rhodesia and is found in the Congo River. Known to the scientific community as Hydrocyon Goliath , the largest accepted example being around 50 lbs.
The Tiger Fish in Kariba used to provide great sport and require real skill if fishing with light tackle. Great care was required when removing lures/hooks from their mouths, as a single slip could result in serious injury. One of the locals that wrote a number of books on the Zambezi Tiger had had the muscle from his right forearm ripped off by a 15 lb Tiger that slipped out of his grip while de-hooking the mutha.
I never had much success in landing any decent sized fish up at Kariba, but at one the closer dams, I did manage to land a 3 lb example which I then proceeded to keep alive in a large bag of water and cart it back to the city where I let it loose in the city park's large goldfish pond.
Needless to say, the goldfish came a very poor second in the ensuing debate. The uproar that arose shortly thereafter caused me to keep a very low profile for a long time...
They look like Red Tailed Characins (sp?)with teeth.
I can imagine! You mischievous devil! LOL!
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is in Fritz's backyard. Maybe we should ask him about their service. ;~)
It's in my backyard, just a mile or two from me.
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"Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone."
Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;~)
I'm not into that Teutonic precision.
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"Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone."
has a beauty gushing to a newly successful writer - who has bought himself a Merc 230C - about how precise the T'cherman's engineering was, when he offers her a lift home, after she's met him in a coffe shop, years after they were at Cambridge .....!and he reponds with
"Yes, and tomorrow we invade Rushya!"
I LIKED it then, and I STILL do!!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
Bloody good series IMO.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
Weird, to say the least. Read the comments, too.
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A guy I graduated high school with managed to do this in our annual. I can't remember the words, but there are about 1200 (grad 1982) annuals out there from my high school with exactly the same idea.
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