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Ok guys, I am in a particularly good mood today. As they say …“tis the season”!
Therefore I wanted to take a moment to say thank you!

I am sure I will forget a bunch of folks (I apologize in advance), but here we go:

ML, Burger, Bruce, Theo, Duggan, Aaron, Davidson, Shorty, Sunil, Frank, George, Brettski, and Gator- Thank you for the support, the information, and the ability you all have to make me laugh just when I need it. \:D

Lusk, ewest, Cody, Cecil, and Willis- Thank you for all of the research data and for making me strive to further my education. You are all teachers in my book. \:\)

Robinson, BrianH, Eastland, Matthew, Ric, and Greg- Thank you for the stimulating conversations. Our words are mixed at times, and often misread by one another, but we are all focused on the same goal.

I have a job, a roof over my head, and the freedom that this country provides me. Above all else I am thankful for my family. I have supportive parents who have put up with me for a heck of a lot longer than any of you have had too. I have a beautiful son sent straight from Heaven. Never thought I would be able to be a mom, but through God and IVF…I am truly blessed!

As I said before, I am sure I left off several people that I needed to include. So I will give one BIG thank you to this forum for allowing me to come on board. I have only been here a short three months, but the experience I have gained is simply insurmountable.


Now, everyone needs to take a moment to post what they are most thankful for this season. (Bossy, aren’t I?) \:D

Merry Christmas to one and all from your little Georgia Giant!


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I'm thankful for the PEOPLE on the forum. There are a few newbies who ask questions then disappear, but all the others, who've contributed to discussion and provided information have given freely of their time and deserve many thanks.

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I wish there was an adequate way to express thanks to Bob Lusk, for all he has done for this "hobby" that I love and for this Forum. Bob and family must have some difficult times this Holiday season and I wish it were not so.

Meeting Bob and learning from him at the Texas meeting was a highlite for me. I'm thankful to have had that opportunity.

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I believe that we could all gather at a big round table and develop a very long list of blessings to be thankful for, and there would be a heckuvalot of "oh yeah, sign ME up for that one too!" At the top of that list should reside the very large category encomapassing the freedoms we enjoy in the greatest nation on God's green earth, the U.S.A. To live, breath, and "take it in" is a direct result of the sweat, toil, and lives sacrificed by not only our fore-fathers, but the brave and courageous souls fighting as I pen this memo. Without this sacrifice, many of the other reasons to be thankful simply would not exist. God bless the women, men, and families of our military.

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Thanks Deb! \:\)

Merry Christmas to All! \:\)



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Merry Christmas all

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Thanks Deb and all

I look forward to meeting many of you at the Georgia meeting in Feb '06.

Merry Christmas - stay safe everyone

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All I want for Chrithmuth is my 2 front teeth.


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I just realized what I like about this site. A bunch of politically incorrect rednecks who don't have enough damn sense to say Happy Holidays or Seasons Greetings. BTW, I don't shop at Target.

Merry Christmas all and don't forget about the "Reason for the Season".

Dave and family

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Update:

That's only 9 thankful PB members out of a registered 2300 plus. Come on you scrooges!!! \:D


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Deb, your Merry Chrismas Lady G's $-Gill flies AND a Merry Christmas message, along with all Theo's bug contest winners - are in the mail.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Fishin' 2006 !!!
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Thanks, Deb. Great to have you on the forum. Merry Christmas to you.

Happy Holidays, Dave D. \:D Sorry, Dave, couldn't resist. I used to always use that combined holiday greeting until it became politically INcorrect.


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Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

I hope Santa Claus remembers to stop at Gast, Sweeney, Native Outdoors, Stren, Cabelas, Bass Pro Shops, Gander Mountain, Home Depot, Aquatic Ecosystems but most of all, for Cecil and Bill....ZAMBONI. \:\) \:\) \:\)


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Merry Christmas to all! All I want for Christmas is about an 8 inch rain, because that is what it will take to fill up my pond \:\( .

My big blessing this year is my bouncing baby boy, 8 months old now and lovingly refered to as my "bucket of chunk!"


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I am most thankful for still having a JOB after so many hours reading PB posts.

Thanks boss; I know you have that new little I.T. geek spying on me!

I am getting PB mag. for Christmas(I hope) so I wont spend so much time reading on line, except to find out more info on exotic species such as Peacock bass, Rio Grande perch, tilapia, snakeheads, GG/GSF (hi Deb) and others.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good nightD!


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Deb and all:

Since you brought up Mr. Scrooge I think it important for all of us to please remember how he turned out, as the happiest most fulfilled man in the town, who after the following conservation with Spirit no. 2 ( note the warning); set out below ,personally relieved much IGNORANCE and WANT.

From Dickens :

"Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask," said Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit's robe, "but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?"

"It might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it," was the Spirit's sorrowful reply. "Look here."

From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.

"Oh, Man, look here! Look, look, down here!" exclaimed the Ghost.

They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.

Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.

"Spirit, are they yours?" Scrooge could say no more.

"They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end."

"Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.

"Are there no prisons?" said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. "Are there no workhouses?"

The bell struck twelve.

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In the end the following speaks volumes of what Christmas is about.


Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed," GOD BLESS US , EVERY ONE !"

PLEASE NOTE the caps and " " emphasis in last line added by this writer. \:\)
















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Well, since we are thankful for where we are. We should thank the people that made it possible:

http://thankasoldierweek.com/


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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The Total Abstinence Principle? Now, that sounds tough.

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Deb :

Thanks for starting this post. \:\) I will try to add something of value to it each day until Christmas day. All feel free to join in the effort.


An Old Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand


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An Old Irish Blessing

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours
















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Good idea ewest!
Here is some "food for thought" I ran across:

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: the true meaning

People often think of The Twelve Days of Christmas as the days preceding the festival. Actually, Christmas is a season of the Christian Year that lasts for days beginning December 25 and lasting until January 6 - the Day of Epiphany - when the Church celebrates the revelation of Christ as the light of the world and recalls the journey of the Magi.

From 1558 until 1829 people in England were not allowed to practise their faith openly. During this era someone wrote 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' as a kind of secret catechism that could be sung in public without risk of persecution. The song has two levels of interpretation: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the church.

Each element in the carol is a code word for a religious reality.

1. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ.

2. The two turtledoves are the Old and New Testaments.

3. Three French hens stand for faith, hope and love.

4. The four calling birds are the four Gospels.

5. The five gold rings recall the torah (Law) the first five books of the Old Testament.

6. The six geese a-laying stand for the six days of creation.

7. Seven swans a-swimming represent the sevenfold gifts of the Spirit.

8. The eight maids a-milking are the eight beatitudes.

9. Nine ladies dancing are the nine fruits of the spirit (Gal.5).

10. The ten lords a-leaping are the Ten Commandments.

11. Eleven pipers piping stand for the eleven faithful disciples.

12. Twelve drummers drumming symbolize the 12 points of belief in the Apostles Creed.

There you have it, the HIDDEN meaning of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and the secret behind the song.


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Deb,

I've never seen/read that before. Very interesting. Thanks.

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from the song--"man may live forever more because of Christmas day"

Merry Christmas

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Todays addition with local flavor. Read this slowly for best effect keeping in mind how Cajuns speak and pronounce words.


Cajun Night Before Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas, An' all t'ru de house,
Dey don't a t'ing pass, Not even a mouse.

De chirren been nezzle, Good snug on de flo'
An' Mamm pass de pepper, T'ru de crack on de do'.

Den Mama in de fireplace, Done roas' up de ham,
Stir up de gumbo, An' make bake de yam.

Den out on de by-you, Dey got such a clatter,
Make soun' link old Boudreau, Done fall off his ladder.

I run like a rabbit, To got to de do',
Trip over the dorg, An' fall on de flo'.

As I look out de do', In de light 0' de moon,
I t'ink "Manh, you crazy, Or got ol' too soon."

Cuz dere on de by-you, W'en I stretch ma' neck stiff,
Dere's eight alligator, A pullin' de skiff.

An' a little fat drover, Wit' a long pol'n stick,
I know r'at away, Got to be ole St. Nick.

Mo' fas'er and fas'er, De 'gator dey came.
He whistle an' holler, An' call dem by name:

"Ha, Gaston! Ha, Tiboy! Ha, Pierre an' Alcee,
Gee, Ninette! Gee Suzette! Celeste and Renee!"

"To de top 0' de porch, To de top 0' de wall,
Make crawl, alligator, An' be sho' you don' fall.

"Like Tante Flo's cat, T'ru de treetop he fly,
W'en de big ol' houn' dorg, Come a run hisse'f by,

Like dat up de porch, Dem ole 'gator clim!
Wit' de skiff flill 0' toy, An' St. Nicklus behin'.

Den on top de porch roof, It soun' like de hail,
W'en all dem big 'gator, Done sot down dey tail.

Den down de chimney, He fell wit' a bam.
An' St. Nicklus fall, An' sit on de yam.

"Sacre!" he axclaim, "Ma pant got a hole,
I done sot ma'se'f, On dem red hot coal.

"He got on his foots, An' jump like a card,
Out to de flo', Where he Lan' wit' a SPLAT!

He was dress in musk-rat, From his head to his foot,
An' his clothes is all dirty, Wit' ashes an' soot.

A sack full 0' playt'ing, He t'row on his back,
He look like a burglar, An' dass fo' a fack.

His eyes how dey shine, His dimple how merry!
Maybe he been drink, De wine from blackberry.

His cheek was like a rose, His nose like a cherry,
On secon' t'ought maybe, He lap up de sherry.

Wit' snow-white chin whisker, An' quiverin' belly,
He shook w'en he laugh, Like de stomberry jelly!

But a wink in his eye, An' a shook 0' his head,
Make my confi-dence dat, I don' got to be scared.

He don' do no talkin', Gone straight to his work,
Put playt'ing in sock, An' den turn wit' a jerk.

He put bot' his han', Dere on top 0' his head,
Cas' an eye on de chimney, An' den he done said

"Wit' all 0' dat fire, An' dem burnin' hot flame.
Me I am' goin' back, By deway dat l came.

"So he run out de do', An' he clim' to de roof.
He am' no fool, him, For to make one more goof.

He jump in his skiff, An' crack his big whip.
De 'gator move down, An' don' make one slip.

An' I hear him shout loud, As a splashin' he go,
"Merry Christmas to all, 'Till saw you some mo'!"
















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Wonderful, Eric! Ah tink maybe Ah make de Jambalaya toni' fo de suppah!

Merry Coonass Christmas to you!


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Theo :

I be tryin da fish gumbo ahh wit da turducken.

http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/turducken.html
















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