You're too retentive. Relax. As the colonoscopic tecnician said during the middle of an exam...
"Can you here me now?" DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Secret Fly Swap > DonO: Did you really mean "anals", or possibly "annals"? > Your response may trigger another avalanche of ripping > flames and pot-shots. No one would want to be referred to > in the "anals of history", any more than they might want to > be referred to as a redneck. I am confident that the answer > will remain (as you may have already guessed) a secret. > > Larry J > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/24/03 03:26PM >>> > (Murf beat me to the punch, but here goes anyway.) > > OK, I'm hosting "The Secret Fly Swap". > > All entries must be a secret pattern hithertofore unknown > in the anals of > history, even though, obviously, I invented it. It also > must be a #1 > killer pattern that will catch chubs and great white sharks > and everything > in between. It can be your secret or someone else's > secret, but no more > than 2 people can know about it, or else it's not really a > secret, is it? > > All patterns and flies will become the exclusive and sole > property of the > swapmeister, as I must fish them to prove their > effectiveness and then > publish them in my new book called "My Secret Fly > Patterns". That way > everyone will know about them and they can forever be > called 'secret fly > patterns'. Then I can get rich and retire to a secret > trout stream only I > know about. > > This swap is a secret. Burn this email 30 seconds after > reading it. > The swappers are a secret > The due date is a secret > Send $50 each with your secret flies > What I do with that will be a secret > > What the heck am I doing? > > It's a secret. > > > Your secret swapmeister, > DOnO >
