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Damn your hide, Bob. I nearly sprayed a mouthful of coffee all over two keyboards, two monitors, and everything else on my desktop!

LOL!

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That's twice in one thread!!

Pretty soon Bob's going to have a reputation around here he won't regret.
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Back when I was a younger, troubled teen...

My best friend and I would ditch school and fish for carp off this tall wall that was part of a flood control system on Camden Avenue in Campbell CA.

This wall was at least a good 50' tall. We would fish for Carp using doughballs (flour and water mixed together). We would catch so many we eventually got lazy when it came to taking the carp off the hooks so we would just swing them around on 50' of line and smack them into whatever was available, water, the bridge, the waterfall, whatever. Of course, we'd kill a bunch in the process.

I bet the problem could be solved pretty quickly by loading some boats with flour, water, and a bunch of troubled teens with a cruel pull the wings off a fly mindset.
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They should put a bounty on the carp. Like the states of Oregon & Washington did on the Squawfish/Pikeminnow. If a Squawfish is over 9" it is $4 each for the fish hundred and the bounty goes up with each hundred over that first hundred.
The various states that have the asian carp could do the same thing... and sure enough the carp will be reduced to an occasional fish instead of massive schools of them.
In the mean time if you need some extra money. Go fishing on the Columbia river for Squawfish. Any of the squawfish over 9" is worth money. My luck all the ones I catch wouldn't go over 8 an 3/4 inches.

Now would You say that is an excellent Idea? Think of the kids earning money for their school clothes & supplies that way. And so forth... Like you earning enough for that new boat you always wanted.

Your business card could read:
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That's twice in one thread!!

Pretty soon Bob's going to have a reputation around here he won't regret.
I take in coffee-damaged computer equipment and resell it at tidy profits. Just trying to gin up some biz....
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Considering your location, I presume you mean the political kind, not the religious kind. In neither case will they meet with your two-day expectations.

You might want to try a circumnavigation!!!

I just got back. If it was religious, it would be the Minister of Loaves and Fisheries. All our federal ministers, in addition to being powerful elected bureaucrats, can perform civil weddings, baptize babies, and heal the sick.
Is Bob one yet? I haven't had time to make any calls.
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Freep rips USACE over carp crisis

Eric Sharp, outdoors writer, has ripped the USACE in the Detroit Free Press today over the whole carp barrier debacle:

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers probably has done more environmental damage to this country than any other single entity, with the exception of farming. Its dams, canals and other projects have destroyed wetlands, wiped out fish-spawning areas, flooded valleys, caused serious erosion problems and imported more exotic animals than anyone since Noah. I've spent half my working life in Florida and half in Michigan. Based on the ecological debacles I've seen the corps create in both states, it's clear that its modus operandi is spend money now, worry about potential long-term problems later. That might explain why the agency failed to show much concern about the effectiveness of an electrical barrier that's supposed to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes."

Carpe diem for carp? | Detroit Free Press | Freep.com
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Business oportunity!
16' boats.Golfball cage around the operator.Rent them by the hour.Go collect fish until the boat is full then donate fish to a food bank or use for fertilizer.
Might be a hoot To see how fast you could fill the boat!

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I know this is a serious matter but I think it is the funniest thread in a long time.

Bob, you are funny right now.

The real answer is what Boasun said. Too bad it probably won't happen.

I had no idea how curling got started.............for real??? Link?

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Man, you had me for a second............History of Curling

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I know this is a serious matter but I think it is the funniest thread in a long time.


I had no idea how curling got started.............History of Curling
More important is how we can get it stopped.
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Which?? Curling or the carp! :-)

I can see the headlines now!
Great Lakes boaters required to wear motorcycle helmets with full face shields!
Student funds college education with Carp Bounties!
Carping for charity!
Curlers abandon sport for carp fishing!
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