To: Druss who wrote (6770 ) 6/3/1999 12:48:00 AM From: Blue On Black Respond to
Druss - Bane of Humanitythe cotton-mouth story....but since you mentioned it...southern etiquette . Page 16 paragraph 4 clearly states....if you fool around and catch a cotton-mouth, it is incumbent upon the catcher to turn loose his own damn snake... Southerners know better than to play with snakes that are poisonous and ill-tempered....but not Druss. until he sunk a hook into it ....then he wants help. Now, when you hook a snake with a flyrod, you know that you can keep that snake at least 9ft away from your person but that doesn't help you remove the unhappy snake from the hook. Sooooo.....Druss swings it around to my friend...seemingly thinking that my friend would flog the hell out of it. WRONG . My friend, being aware of page 16 paragraph 4, is standing on a stump 15 ft behind Druss. Druss comments that the least that he can do is give Druss a stick so that he can flog the snake. My friend, after consulting page 16 paragraph 4, hops down and picks up a medium stick and a large stick. He hands Druss the medium stick to flog the snake with....and informs Druss that the big stick is the one that he will flog Druss with if he gets the snake anywhere near him . I'll leave the rest of the story for Druss. He seemed mildly offended that no help was forthcoming from my friend or I but we were clearly bound by rules of etiquette.on foot and skip across water.
