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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (94732)2/27/2002 5:00:55 PM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
Funny you use the expression "big uglies."

My father used to take me along to fish for "big uglies"--his exact phrase. You anchored where the pogy boats threw out their trash fish and dropped an 80-pound-test line and a long steel leader with a huge hook baited with an entire small fish, and then you waited. After a while you would have to raise the anchor because you were being slowly towed away. I once hooked a 145-pound sting ray that towed the boat about three-quarters of a mile. When I got it to the surface my father shot it six times with a .38 special.

I now regret having persecuted and killed that harmless sting ray. Don't think I will ever regret having shorted some Qualcomm when it was about 95. Unfortunately I cut the line on the Qualcomm much too soon.
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