Larry Jaques wrote:

On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:08:58 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
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?? ?? On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:58:52 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
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?? ?? ?? I have most of one left. But I'm near a river and several creeks, so
?? ?? ?? I'd be snaring and fishing.
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?? ?? ? Are you up for the gig?
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?? ?? I haven't gigged frogs since I left Arkansas in '66. We never ate
?? ?? them because the swamp on the base had an overflow pipe and the sewage
?? ?? frequently came out of it. We'd be walking around (age 12ish) and
?? ?? seeing lots of old condoms, turds, and such. We knew better. ?g?
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?? ?? My favorite was a green three-pronger. I whittled a broomstick to fit
?? ?? and tied a piece of nylon cord to it for retrieval. It worked quite
?? ?? well. We had to watch out for water moccasins there, too.
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?? ?? The things we had the most fun on the AFB we
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?? ?? 1) Following the DDT truck during fogging of all the streets around
?? ?? the base lake.
?? ?? 2) Giggin' frogs.
?? ?? 3) Sailing my friend's styrofoam sailboat.
?? ?? 4) Watching the Apes (air police) shoot the 10ga shotguns at the nests
?? ?? of water moccasins and other snakes.
?? ?? Oh, and I almost forgot:
?? ?? 5) Swinging from the rubber trees. There were thin poplars or such
?? ?? beneath the earthen dam which got plenty of water. We'd climb up
?? ?? 25-30' and hang out over the branches while grasping the thin top of
?? ?? the tree trunk. It would swing us down and we'd jump and go up and
?? ?? over, 180-degrees to the other side. Thank CROM one never broke. We'd
?? ?? have crushed both legs and probably our pelvic bone and some vertebra.
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?? ? Are you sure you never landed on your head? At least once? ;-)
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?? I never said that. I took nose dives out of my highchair as a kid,
?? and have stitches in both eyebrows to prove it. ?g? Then there was
?? the time I was chasing a local girl and she ducked under the tubafore
?? porch railing and I didn't quite see it. It hit me square in the
?? forehead and my body straightened out on the lawn with my skull
?? connecting with the concrete after the rail had stopped my forward
?? progress. THAT hurt. But 'tis the price we pay to chase wimmens.
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? Are you sure she didn't swing that tubafore at you, and you just
?think you ran into one? Quality women are never cheap. ;-)

?g? She was my sister's best friend's younger sister. I saw her 20
years later and we had some real chemistry together but she was
married and she didn't let me play doctor again. I saw her later,
after I was sober and she wasn't interested at all. Sest lavvy, wot?


You booze, you lose! ;-)