it's OK to shoot fish 'cause they don't have any feelings
when you have a fairly uncommon last name (at least in the US. in Canada it's everywhere, from companies to streets) you get excited when you see it on the front page of the NYTimes. and then you realize that the article is about shooting fish. for sport. and while i'm sort of morally neutral to the whole endeavor - though it does represent another ridiculous use of an AK-47 - it would have been nice to see the name attached to someone curing a disease or bettering humanity or starting a new diet craze or something. if you were wondering, i am not related to the family in the article as far as i know except in the sense that we're all related.
in a side note, Craig Paquette is stuck on 99 career home runs. can't some GM pick him up long enough for him to clear the century mark? thank you.
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But boy, was that photo of your cuz shooting the fish cool! I recall noticing in the Va. fishing regulations once (I was reading it during a long drive) that it's legal to shoot fish on one river in one county in southern Va. for something like one month a year, but NOT ON SUNDAY. Because that's God's day.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2004 04:29 PM
Paquette may not be common among the denizens of present day New Amsterdam, but I knew several Paquettes among the Acadians in New Hampshire. The closer to Canada, the fewer Leons you'll meet, anyway.
Posted by: jake | May 12, 2004 04:44 PM
Dave I think this is what you're referring to:
Virginia used to have several fish-shooting areas, said Alan Weaver, a fish biologist with Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Now, Mr. Weaver said, the only place is the Clinch River in remote Scott County, where, six weeks a year, people can shoot bottom-feeders like "quill-back suckers and red-horse suckers."
Posted by: jamie | May 12, 2004 05:05 PM
you jive-talkin, red-horse sucker.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2004 03:12 PM
On the subject of unorthodox fishing, if you ever get the chance, you all should try to see this 60-minute-or-so documentary called Noodling, or Noodlin', or something like that, about the Oklahoma sport of the same name, which involves wading into a river, sticking your hand in a hole where you expect a fish to be, and pulling it out when it bites onto your hand or arm. Some of these fish are big.
On the subject of baseball players with the same last name as you, you'd be surprised how many people find it necessary to joke about Curt Flood being "no relation" or "any relation?...ha ha" when they hear my name. The woman who did my taxes at H&R Block several weeks back was the most recent.
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