Comments on: Hawgdaddy’s Hints: Improving the Cigar Tin Fly Box http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900 A blog by Southern guys who work hard, don't like it and would rather be fly fishing. Fri, 21 May 2010 14:03:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nathan Kennedy http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900&cpage=1#comment-2452 Nathan Kennedy Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:29:55 +0000 http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900#comment-2452 Reed, It all depends on how you define "work." It seems to me a good defintion would be "the act of not fishing." And we are certainly almost always not fishing. Hard. So you see, we are unfortunately working hard almost all of our lives. We should be getting paid for a whole lot more than 40 hrs/week. It's sad really, and I can't believe folks like Insane and me (good, wholesome fellas, for sure) are allowed to languish in such a situation when so many less worthy individuals are being bailed out by the government left and right. They probably don't even fish at all! Even if they do, it's probably on a ranch owned by Donny Beaver, which doesn't even count. Some of that stimulus money should come our way! It's so obvious that I can't believe that lousy White House Press Secretary continues to avoid mentioning us! Where's the change I can believe in? I believed, but what did it get me? I'm still here, working hard and all. Nothing's changed. I mean, c'mon! I still haven't been to <em>either</em> Patagonia or New Zealand. &^%$!!! Now you've got me all worked up... Nathan Reed,
It all depends on how you define “work.” It seems to me a good defintion would be “the act of not fishing.” And we are certainly almost always not fishing. Hard. So you see, we are unfortunately working hard almost all of our lives. We should be getting paid for a whole lot more than 40 hrs/week.

It’s sad really, and I can’t believe folks like Insane and me (good, wholesome fellas, for sure) are allowed to languish in such a situation when so many less worthy individuals are being bailed out by the government left and right. They probably don’t even fish at all! Even if they do, it’s probably on a ranch owned by Donny Beaver, which doesn’t even count. Some of that stimulus money should come our way! It’s so obvious that I can’t believe that lousy White House Press Secretary continues to avoid mentioning us! Where’s the change I can believe in? I believed, but what did it get me? I’m still here, working hard and all. Nothing’s changed. I mean, c’mon! I still haven’t been to either Patagonia or New Zealand. &^%$!!! Now you’ve got me all worked up…

Nathan

]]> By: Insane http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900&cpage=1#comment-2438 Insane Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:01:57 +0000 http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900#comment-2438 Reed, In retrospect, I'd like to say that it was a typo. It would seem more logical for us to say we work "hardly." However, that doesn't quite fit either as we spend 40 hours a week doing this thing people call "work" , which at times is quite "hard" for us to do. So, you have to look for the hidden meanings in the word. It's more of a cry for help, for someone to hear us, for someone to free us. Kudos to you for unraveling this mystery of work vs "work", as we all should know that a true fisherman never does real work unless he or she is victim of such a horrific circumstance. My journey has unfortunately imprisoned me behind bars of binary code and paperwork as I am reminded daily of what could have been... BTW, Thanks for the support, we need it! Dewayne Reed,

In retrospect, I’d like to say that it was a typo. It would seem more logical for us to say we work “hardly.” However, that doesn’t quite fit either as we spend 40 hours a week doing this thing people call “work” , which at times is quite “hard” for us to do. So, you have to look for the hidden meanings in the word. It’s more of a cry for help, for someone to hear us, for someone to free us.

Kudos to you for unraveling this mystery of work vs “work”, as we all should know that a true fisherman never does real work unless he or she is victim of such a horrific circumstance. My journey has unfortunately imprisoned me behind bars of binary code and paperwork as I am reminded daily of what could have been…

BTW,

Thanks for the support, we need it!

Dewayne

]]> By: Overmywaders http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900&cpage=1#comment-2436 Overmywaders Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:53:28 +0000 http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900#comment-2436 Insane, That's the second humorous reference to "work" recently on TV Angler. The new header "A blog by Southern guys who work hard,..." had me in apoplexy and fits... of laughter. The substitution of the adjective "hard", over the more accurate adverb, "hardly", is a knee-slapper. There is nothing to be ashamed of in having worked. It's patently obvious that it is just an unfortunate circumstance in which you find yourselves -- employed. Though you stand a good chance of being disowned by relatives, shunned by slaw-dig vendors, and an object of derision on the streets for your toils; you can still hold your heads up by reassuring yourselves that it is, after all, a government job, and you probably don't do it well anyway. We're pulling for ya' Reed Insane,

That’s the second humorous reference to “work” recently on TV Angler. The new header “A blog by Southern guys who work hard,…” had me in apoplexy and fits… of laughter. The substitution of the adjective “hard”, over the more accurate adverb, “hardly”, is a knee-slapper.

There is nothing to be ashamed of in having worked. It’s patently obvious that it is just an unfortunate circumstance in which you find yourselves — employed. Though you stand a good chance of being disowned by relatives, shunned by slaw-dig vendors, and an object of derision on the streets for your toils; you can still hold your heads up by reassuring yourselves that it is, after all, a government job, and you probably don’t do it well anyway.

We’re pulling for ya’

Reed

]]> By: Insane http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900&cpage=1#comment-2412 Insane Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:20:36 +0000 http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900#comment-2412 ** Also coming soon will be a journal of some lunchtime fishing adventures with Hawgdaddy and I. Only a few miles from our work lies the Tennessee River and a small creek that's muddy, covered with cottonmouths, overpopulated with gar, sparsley populated with giant channel cats, and home to a few bass and bluegill. I'm am positive you will be interested to see what we pull out of that muddy abyss. ** Also coming soon will be a journal of some lunchtime fishing adventures with Hawgdaddy and I. Only a few miles from our work lies the Tennessee River and a small creek that’s muddy, covered with cottonmouths, overpopulated with gar, sparsley populated with giant channel cats, and home to a few bass and bluegill. I’m am positive you will be interested to see what we pull out of that muddy abyss.

]]> By: Insane http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900&cpage=1#comment-2411 Insane Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:10:49 +0000 http://www.tvangler.com/?p=1900#comment-2411 That's pretty nifty work there hawgdaddy! I can't believe you just bought those tins yesterday evening and smoked all those cigarillos just to come up with an article for the night. Maybe that explains the wicked crazy gar flies you tied..... ;) That’s pretty nifty work there hawgdaddy! I can’t believe you just bought those tins yesterday evening and smoked all those cigarillos just to come up with an article for the night. Maybe that explains the wicked crazy gar flies you tied….. ;)

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