On 05/31/2010 08:19 PM, Dave wrote: > Here in the new world .... in the midwest USA, old, IMO, is anything > over 100... ;-) The house across the street from me was built in the > 1840s and rebuilt in 1910 (since it was getting old then), it is sort of > a house within a house. > > That house is considered really old around here. When my sister > bought a house a few years ago, she insisted on a new one.. Now her > house is 12+ years old and considered an older house by many ... (not > me.. ) > > I've been to Rome where I seen the shopkeepers often hold open the doors > with a piece of carved Roman column. Some there, would consider your > parents farm relatively new! > > I was running Ubuntu 8.04 but that was pretty old (2 years! ). So I > started using 9.10 (less than a year old). But that was getting old, > so I loaded up a copy of 10.04. > > So it is all about perspective I suppose. :-) > > FWIW, I'm not sure they actually had fly rods 150 years ago. > > Dave
Dave, Fly rods and fly fishing, in one form or another, have been around since ancient times. A little more recently, Dame Juliana Berners (sp?) wrote one the first books on tying and fishing with flies. Course, that was England, back in the middle ages... ;-) Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users