Waking up on Father's Day Answered

Many years ago, we went to a gator farm in Florida - everybody working there were cousins, and the main man told the visitors how his paw used to take him hunting for alligators - paw would take the boat out into the swamp, throw the boy out and then stand and shoot at any ripples that headed their way.

I know some people that would probably hunt for gators that way, given the chance...

We discussed it,(along with a luncheon meat suit for bear hunting) but my youngest boy declined....SISSY!

Well, it would pretty much guarantee you'd see a bear.... I reminds me of a story a guy my dad used to work with told me. He loved to go bowhunting for bear without a sidearm. Not having a just-in-case gun had worked for him for years. When his son finally was old enough to hunt, he took him along. A bear charged the two of them and they got about four arrows into it before it dropped ten feet ahead of them. They never went bowhunting without a sidearm again, and definitely not for bear!

It used to be illegal in Arkansas to carry a sidearm while bowhunting. I know what they were thinking, but BEARS for gooness sake!! We only have black bears here, but I'm pretty sure they can turn nasty when they have an arrow sticking out of them.

Yeah, the bears around here don't really like being shot with arrows. Go figure. I'm not really sure what state the guy was hunting in at the time (not much bear in Arizona where he lived), but I remember that guns were allowed for self-defense only. I'd guess that the law happened after one too many mauled hunters.

When you're actually FROM South Park, it's really just like the TV show. Really crazy. It's like the guys made jokes only we would understand. What the heck for? There's only like a handful of us anyway... Anyway, did you see the new Coney Island? It's way better now than when it was in Aspen Park. Where is the gator farm??

Well, they *were* from just over the pass. I know some folks just over the pass in the other direction, too, and they remind me of the TV show a lot. Probably the whole mountain region. The gator farm is a little ways north of Alamosa on Colorado 17. Actually, you get off on county road 6N at Mosca and go a little ways. I didn't get the chance to see the new Coney Island. Once we got on 285, we didn't stop much until Denver.

That's kind of the way we treat Valentine's day. I'll never be guilted into buying the Hallmark stuff, but I have bought my wife a few cars and guns on Valentine's day over the years.

Most if not all of these "occsions" like Halloween, valentines day, mothers,fathers day have all been blown out of proportion so that we feel the need to buy more gifts, the human element of "ill give her this because i love her" has gone in most cases and people buy gifts just to conform with the social trend.

That's true. But, if you're going to give gifts sometime during the year anyway, I figure those days are as good as any. I do however boycott the industries that try to make you buy their disposable, useless crap, on that particular day.

It didn't-I saw it about 8 hours after you apparently posted it.

Weird bug, then, because I didn't see it on the lists until today.

Oooh...you meant turn up on the lists...I just saw it on your page...never mind!

Stalk, stalk, stalk!! :D Not that I can talk. I got here from his page as well.

No, I 've been slightly stalked before, it's worse than this!

(I think the same thing is happening to me. I submitted two topics, but still no sign of them, except on my page.)

^{I submitted a topic about a spy gadgets contest idea, posted it, and didn't see it on the lists. I deleted it, made another, and posted it again. Got a double post message, deleted it, changed the name, posted again. Repeated three more times, got frustrated, and gave up.}

As for father's day; I went airsofting with my friends while he stayed home and painted the dining room we're remodeling. : /
Oh wait, Dad and I saw The Incredible Hulk later that afternoon too.

Was the movie good?

Meh, it was O.K. I generally don't like superhero movies, especially completely unrealistic ones. It's hard to gain that suspension of disbelief when you're watching a man turn into a green, bulging thing.

The only superhero movie I think I've liked was Iron Man (except for the ending battle, what a cliche!).

*Spoiler* Tony Stark even appears in the ending of Incredible Hulk telling the general he is putting together a team, suggesting an Iron Man/ Hulk movie... */Spoiler*

I'm with you on that - Batman is about the only superhero I like.

Ah yes, Batman. I forgot him. He's legit, I have all the old(ish) movies on DVD. The one where he fights Two-face and the Riddler is my favorite, I think (It's been a while).I'm going to see the new one when it comes out, along with Get Smart and the new Mummy.

i posted 2 topics. they both turned up at the same time. the first one took 2 days and the second one showed up instantly!

. My first guess is that it got hung up in the filters, but I don't see anything in the post that might have triggered them.

That must be an Instructables Robot malfunction again ... Unless it's its evil twin brother ??? ---> the Destructables Robot !

That is cute.

#2 son drew me on his card, and I had hair all the way across!

#2 son is now my favourite.

LOL!!!!!!!

That's cruel and unusual punishment.

=O

Kiteman doesn't like golf??

It's a waste of a pleasant walk in the park. Actually, I saw Tiger Woods on the news this evening - it doesn't look like a very pleasant walk, either.

well you could say a golf course is like a park :P there's grass everywhere.....

Good grief - that wouldn't actually fit against any of our walls.

He wanted to get something like 100+ inch, but the Mrs. wouldn't let him.

Hundred inches? I've been to cinemas with smaller screens!

(Seriously - Cine City in Salford. You used to phone up an answer machine to find out what was on - it always started "Welcome to Sin City...."

Oh, a DIY shopping day - nice.

yep, whilst he was gawking at some tools i bought him some torx wrenches _{shh, they are for his birthday}