When I was a kid one could buy a squirrel monkey thru the mail. Nasty little mo foz. Each came with a set of razor sharp triangular teeth. My son was caring for one from a local zoo. I so wanted to murder that thing in an unusual & violent way! I bet unboxing those vicious little shits was a thing of instant terror. Wish I could still buy one today; there are some assholes I know of that need to get one of those boxes of mayhem delivered to their living room!
Why is there an elastic belt on the weights? How good is a wall that falls down when you put a level on it? #10 Those ladders are advertised to be extra strong.
#1- I still have a scar on the fat part of my left thumb from when I first started snagging salmon in my town's White River. I was about 12, and I hooked a big fish with a too weak fishing rod. It snapped at the ferrule, and the top portion of the rod was under pressure from the 20 pound test I had on the reel. The damned thing popped up and stuck me in the thumb, leaving a semi circled cut. And I lost the fish. A side note, of course it was not legal to snag back then. And the biggest Coho Salmon I ever caught was 28 pounds, and it had already spawned. Between myself and my twin brother we kept our family in fish until the next spring, following the fall Salmon run. We caught White Suckers during the spring run. They came early then were followed by Red horse Suckers. Red horse we never took even though they were much more abundant. They had a different style of bones that made them too hard to eat. We filleted both Salmon and Suckers, the only different thing between the two was that we would scale suckers while we skinned Salmon. After scaling the Suckers we then laid them skin side down and scored the flesh about 1/4" apart leaving the skin intact. That let the bones that were present cook out, making the fish essentially boneless. My parents, like so many of their generation, were not poor but were certainly not well off. They simply lived the frugal lifestyle that seemed to be the norm back then, with my brothers and myself helping supplement protein. They had a garden even thought we lived in town, practicing a lifestyle that so many of today's people refer to as prepping or even homesteading. Maybe that is why so many people want to get back to their generation.
3)Owned one of the little bastards back in 1960...yeah, they bite.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid one could buy a squirrel monkey thru the mail. Nasty little mo foz. Each came with a set of razor sharp triangular teeth. My son was caring for one from a local zoo. I so wanted to murder that thing in an unusual & violent way! I bet unboxing those vicious little shits was a thing of instant terror. Wish I could still buy one today; there are some assholes I know of that need to get one of those boxes of mayhem delivered to their living room!
DeleteHello!!!??? They are called "wild animals" for a good reason. They are not pets.
DeleteWhy is there an elastic belt on the weights?
ReplyDeleteHow good is a wall that falls down when you put a level on it?
#10 Those ladders are advertised to be extra strong.
It doesn’t appear that there is any mortar in that wall.
Delete#1- I still have a scar on the fat part of my left thumb from when I first started snagging salmon in my town's White River. I was about 12, and I hooked a big fish with a too weak fishing rod. It snapped at the ferrule, and the top portion of the rod was under pressure from the 20 pound test I had on the reel.
ReplyDeleteThe damned thing popped up and stuck me in the thumb, leaving a semi circled cut. And I lost the fish.
A side note, of course it was not legal to snag back then. And the biggest Coho Salmon I ever caught was 28 pounds, and it had already spawned. Between myself and my twin brother we kept our family in fish until the next spring, following the fall Salmon run. We caught White Suckers during the spring run. They came early then were followed by Red horse Suckers. Red horse we never took even though they were much more abundant. They had a different style of bones that made them too hard to eat.
We filleted both Salmon and Suckers, the only different thing between the two was that we would scale suckers while we skinned Salmon. After scaling the Suckers we then laid them skin side down and scored the flesh about 1/4" apart leaving the skin intact. That let the bones that were present cook out, making the fish essentially boneless.
My parents, like so many of their generation, were not poor but were certainly not well off. They simply lived the frugal lifestyle that seemed to be the norm back then, with my brothers and myself helping supplement protein. They had a garden even thought we lived in town, practicing a lifestyle that so many of today's people refer to as prepping or even homesteading. Maybe that is why so many people want to get back to their generation.