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crash1371

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  1. Cell phone 101 open shirt pocket bow line bend down no more phone calls I seen my friend do it
  2. Did you put in the drain plug before our after learning you forgot .Cheers I have forgot
  3. Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy. Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana .. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office.. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn.. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it.. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day? May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!! Pass this on to all your friends, just in case they're having a bad day!!!
  4. 4 man rubber raft I picked up cans all winter and summer to buy it 8 or 9 years old it was around 200.00 dollars in the late 60s or Early 70s back than out of Smith River Calif
  5. I have always rinsed in saltwater and layed them on bait or gulp or spray scents sometimes you take for granted everyone always knows this
  6. How to fix or straighten out lure tangles island style good old hair conditioner Whats in your wallet
  7. I hate this I tryed to copy and paste and could not anyhow here is the link http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/showthread.php?t=211426
  8. Gee I feel I need to go to boat rehab I can't stand a good deal at times I did the floor in the 21' Kenner with a 115 Mercury and on the 20'4" Arrowglass 6.1 Volvo Penta so far My MVA is slowing me down now to finish the ski boat anyhow M I A redneck ?
  9. Great and welcome Howdy from well you get it
  10. I got a email from a Prince from Nigeria said I could join ,If I would let him hide all of his money in my bank account I gave him all the info he needed ASAP because he promised me that he would give me 100,000,000 now it is safe to say that I'm a millionaire and you can all kiss my Heine. So I moved out of my parents house in the trailer park ,They where to old for me anyhow mid 60's and I'm only 46 Not to act as a rich snob,but I can take care of myself now with all my money and went to buy my own trailer the banker said I could not and I asked why. He said you don't have any money, can you believe what he told me I laughed. And must say that Prince is good he really knows how to hide our money I've been staying outside my mom and dads now for a week and they wont let me in for some reason maybe because I'm rich. So I went down to the local INTERNET café and joined this site .The Prince told me to stay right here and my ship would come in .Has anyone seen it
  11. It is smart business to advertise on T V maybe you are a loved one BLA BLA BLA and are entitled to a settlement contact are office. Like you say many of the victims get O.00 sad but how true
  12. I'm a inventor I sit in my office and invent things, some things are real and some are not ( but midgets ) I'm glad to see that some people are sicker than me, fishing has been my whole life . I love boats,car racing . anything that has to do with fishing lures travel (But midgets ) I've never seen one or two do the double flip dismount
  13. I read this over here from Rick great hero story .But They did call them selves hero's -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not sure we need to celebrate Memorial Day just one day a year. My Mom sent this and it's worth sharing. NOTE; read it during a quiet time or with your dog or such. From Steve Jones, Wisconsin... Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable. On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II. Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?' I told him that we were from Wisconsin. 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.' (James Bradley just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington , DC, but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.) When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.) 'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin. My dad is on that statue, and I just wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers' which is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me. 'Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it. (He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph... a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima . Boys. Not old men. 'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country.' He knew he was talking to little boys. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.' 'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona . Ira Hayes was one who walked off Iwo Jima . He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?' So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken). 'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky . A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away. 'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin , where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada . Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell 's soup But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing He didn't want to talk to the press. 'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a caregiver In Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died in Iwo Jima , they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain. 'When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.' 'So that's the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima , and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.' Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless. We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our freedom. Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also pray for those still in murderous unrest around the world. STOP and thank God for being alive and being free at someone else's sacrifice. God Bless You and God Bless America . REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free, it's going to be a great day. One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is . . that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God. Great story - worth your time - worth every American's time __________________ Rick VOR Hooter Scooter
  14. 14' X 5' Ski Barge CC For sale or trade -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have clear title & PWD 143 form signed 1974 ski barge.The hull is in good shape and the transom seems solid when I shake the motor. Trailer is a Highlander -Tilt and is fair it has a 40 HP Evinrude (40555C-J0001963) it does have 110 lb per cyl compression. The foot is off as per pics, got it that way, has front bracket for trolling motor all aluminum, stearing works. Yes it needs work, the floor is soft I weigh 165 and feel it. It has 2 fibreglass seats, I just bought a new spare and trailer light kit for it. Been in fresh water only I live in Texarkana, Tx, but I go to the Gulf a lot and think this would make someone a great little bay- intercostal boat, I could bring it. I was going to redo it, but I can't I was in a car crash back in Nov. in Clute and have too much trouble to screw with this, my mind says yes and my body says no. And I have 3 boats in my yard now, make a reasonable offer or trade. Thanks Tim, contact me at crash1371@aol.com or 903-701-5252. I can't stand it when people let stuff go anyhow I like road trips and can go anywhere
  15. What a shame I think that is 9 for La. this week http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20090521/HURBLOG/905219938
  16. pulled there UNITED STATES COAST GUARD hook straight.It was as straight as a dagger and it was huge. I was in shock my boat is as close to the rocks as you can get I would ride the swell in to-wards them I new I was going to hit as they swung about to toss another rope and I mean just in time here is where she was smart she could not pull me hard left or my Stern would hit she pulled a little to the left in a straight path hugging the rocks until clear, my but was puckered in my throat the whole time . They put me in my slip boarded my vessel she apologized to me told her crew to saddle up that I had gone through enough trouble and damage for one day and there will be no inspection today I signed there report as she was boarding her vessel and talking to her crew she says I got my new assignment I well be going to the Carolinas I cant recall which one. Looking back I know I was there ###### pig and I feel they did not care about commercial fisherman that much as it was a bit of joke to them seeing my boat ski
  17. We see them turn due south now toward us they approach us and ask what is the problem of course we have our life vest on and my son in one of the survival suits still I have no power can you jump me and they say know can't do that but we will tow you in all I needed was the jump what I got was a rope slug aboard I attach it to my front eye on the bow of my boat . My mate says do we need to pull up my flopper's and the young man asked his Capt she says no okay this is new to me rope gets tight that woman gunned that boat like a dam dragster my boat was 30 ' I'm sure we flew on the hole shot 15-20 feet I was in the cabin and now I'm on the fish cleaning table on my face on the back deck and my crew was on the ground or floor of the boat as I look up my out rigger starts to break from the flopper in the water it comes crashing down on the back and side of the boat rigging every where . And she gets of the gas to a stop, my phone rings and it is the Coast Guard asking why we stopped he was on land and he had a little chuckle in his voice I was let say in shock on how I responded back explaining how we broke my outrigger but we are ok so we tied it down or along side the boat ok here we go again my boat was a mored boat and I'm sure it had barnacles on it but I would bet I did not have them anymore I have no idea what the swells where or how far apart I do know that I and my crew and boat was landing on every other one touch the water briefly and in the air again we go we could not stand it was to much fun this way for someone and they where not in my boat I see that the party ride is coming to a end as I do recognize the rocks at the Jaws and now my boat is heading right for the rocks that woman pulled me so hard and so fast that she 2 more coins please for the rest of the story i
  18. My son was visiting from college North Texas University.And we decided to go Commercial fishing I wanted to show him what the old man does off to my boat we go and I had a first mate he had been on a lot of boats he had knowledge all is good fuel up take of that afternoon out through the jaws and start up the hill and I start fishing 50 lb cannon balls on each side and running 2 floats out the back commercial fishing laws are 4 hooks per line I got sixteen out . Go right through a huge bait ball and my out riggers are screaming both sides the floats were knocked down total salmon mayhem gee it was great every pull was 2-4 fish we are dancing on the decks I was cleaning fish like a well you know and putting the ice to them and as it gets darker my mate say lets stay out and in the morning we will be right in our fishing hot spot my gut said no but my wallet said yes he new how to calculate current speed and out to sea we went running of my campus and GPS in the dark seas were good then I had radar all is fine it looked like a city out there with all the other boats some how in the middle of the night we lost all power son of **** and the fog rolled in and you could not see your hand 2" from your eyeball and the sea starts to churn a bit more I had my flopper's down off my outriggers that helped the rocking motion a bit can't call anyone I don't know where in the hell I'm at other than in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Winchester Bay I make my son get one of my survival suits on and we wait it out to morning I'm sick with fear there is a lot of cliffs heading north up the coast line my game plan was 2 drop anchor if needed and both cannon balls if I could to stop us from smashing on the rocks I listen so much to hear if I could hear waves crashing I was scared for all of us. The fog was bad. day light comes and a boat is not far from us I give him 2 shorts and than again he never stops I have the coast guard on my cell phone with a half a bar on it we where using it trying to see in the night I can see the light house now as the fog lifts more and more I mayday call now I'm less than a mile from shore they respond right away I tell them about 10 miles north of the harbor and about a mile from the freaken Beach I can see them 10 miles out to sea checking other boats I'm thinking WTF They call me and I tell them I see you but I'm almost on the BEACH deposit 2 more coins for the rest of the story
  19. I got Coast Guard rescues or would you like to here about being a river guide story's
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