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Re: Another update from David, including snippet
Post by Fox2!   » Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:24 am

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drothgery wrote:
Annachie wrote:Only amatuers think fishing is about fishing.

It's doing as little as possible, while appearing to be actually doing something, and drinking as much beer as possible. ;


/cue the Miles & Illian fishing trip from LMB's Memory...


"There are no fish in my pond."

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Re: Another update from David, including snippet
Post by filbert   » Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:41 pm

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Fox2! wrote:
"There are no fish in my pond."

Jack O'Neill (two "l"s), Brigadier General, USAF
Director, Homeworld Security, United States Joint Staff

. . . just before there's a splash in the middle of the pond . . .
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Re: Another update from David, including snippet
Post by Brigade XO   » Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:45 am

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Jack O'Neill has a fine appreciation of a lot of things. He also a person who views the world from a slightly skewed perspective rooted in practicality. Tilk does come to understand fishing in a pond with no fish. You are resting, you can let your mind drift (or not) but you present the appearance of being activly involved in something -there is a purpose in fishing- even if you are doing lightly more than sleeping in a hammock. Jack has his friend, his beer, a boat, a rod...and is resting in plain sight.
Of course Jack has now gotten to the level (as a General) where he still has to make a lot of tactical and stratigic decisions but now he mostly has to send other people out do make those things happen and while he wants to be out there leading he knows he can't and still do his job.
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Re: Another update from David, including snippet
Post by Fox2!   » Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:50 pm

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filbert wrote:
Fox2! wrote:
"There are no fish in my pond."

Jack O'Neill (two "l"s), Brigadier General, USAF
Director, Homeworld Security, United States Joint Staff

. . . just before there's a splash in the middle of the pond . . .


That is the Zen of the whole thing.

Wasn't there a cuddly astrophysicist by his side?
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