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...and that is just the skin!

Hopefully they will expand the whitetail minimum requirements.

Wait till her husband comes home from the camp and gets the bill. He left the meat for a gumbo in the fridge and comes home to find it costs him $1,500..... TO SAVE IT!!!! Divorce papers pending!!

Don't tell me, the wife took it to the vet instead of just killing and eating it.

Now put that in English that can be understood.

Okay. What do you want me to say in the PM? LOL.. just kidding.

If you have his Little League pictures, then you have some pics of me.

So when are you going?

I can lift two 100 pound potato sacks at the same time. One of these days I am going to start putting some of the potatoes back in the sacks and see what I can do then. ;D

In California it will likely get you an acquittal and a settlement from the state for not protecting you.

There you go vsports. I fixed it so you can now vote.

I agree. As I said in my previous post, I am not saying that the testing is right. I was just posing the question about where the schools should step in when we obviously have parents out there that will never be a good role model or be involved in their children's lives.

You are completely correct baddog. From the sound of your posts, you are probably a good parent. As you said, it should be the parent's responsibility yet there are plenty of deadbeats out there that are not doing their jobs. It is disgusting what happens to many children growing up. I coached Little League Baseball in Nederland for a few years and there were parents to my players that I never saw. I didn't see them at practice, I never met them and never saw them at games. What do we do with those children? As disgusting as their parents are, do we just throw those children away? I guess we can tell them that their parents are lousy so they have basically no chance in life. Sorry kid but your parents are dirtbags. I have seen many times on television or read stories of successful adults going back to thank their teachers, coaches or some mentor they had while growing up. They tell very touching stories of how this person took them in and got them to make something of their life when no one else took an interest. Those are some really disheartening stories. Not because those great people were there when needed but why did the children need to get that learning and/or guidance from someone other than their parents in the first place. The truth is simply that all parents are not created equal. I am not saying that testing for drugs is right. I am just wondering about the complaint that the schools are basically a de facto parent in many cases. That is unfortunately true but I am wondering about the alternative for the kids that do not have good parents. For those kids, if the school doesn't do it, who will?

Rave on piratefan. If I remember correctly, last year (usually every year and likely this one also) Nederland sent teams or individuals to the playoffs in football, boys soccer, girls soccer, baseball, softball, volleyball, boys tennis, girls tennis, swimming, boys cross country and girls cross country. Vidor sent how many teams to the playoffs last year? I guess there is always time to recover for this year as there are still a couple of sports left to play. Piratefan will be talking about the great year of '06 about 30 years from now while talking to his great grandkids. He will relive the glory days when the Vidor Pirates for one year beat Nederland in two sports (yet didn't send either of those Pirate teams to the playoffs) and they didn't do anything to change the standings in football to keep Nederland out of the football playoffs (again....). Oh yes, what glorious days those were. By golly, Vidor didn't go to the playoffs (again...) but at least they kept Nederland from...... well, nothing actually. But a win is a win. I just wonder how long piratefan will have nothing more to cheer about than a win in football that was meaningless to either team in the standings. Come on Pirates, give him something else to cheer about!!! In basketball we are fighting it out for the cellar so if that is a source of pride to Vidor, then so be it. Yeehaa.. we beat Nederland for 7th place! I will concede that Nederland doesn't have a basketball program while we are sending teams and individuals to the playoffs in 11 other sports.

Vidor has a good shot? So where did this hotshot coach of theirs come from? How is he going to turn things around if he has any experience at all? LOL.. just kidding. I coached Kyle Green for 4 years in Little League and was also the manager when he made the 10 year old All-Star team. I wish him the best of luck. I would like to think I taught him everything he knows but he might refute that!!! ROFL ;D

Actually I have eat it cooked in a smoker and it was fairly decent. I have also baked it in steaks with some type of cajun rub on it and then basted in lemon and butter. Maybe the key is to get enough other flavors on it (like deer steaks) to make it good enough to eat. Mackerel has to be really fresh and iced down quickly. It tastes kind of like fresh tuna but a lot stronger. I have eaten some of the mackerel that I have caught and would eat some again but I surely would not pay for it or take it from someone else. It just has to be so fresh and then that makes it marginally edible. I sure wouldn't cut it into fillets and fry it like bass, specks, crappy, etc.

Cook up a big batch of french fried and then get a big bowl of potato salad or cole slaw. They get one of those big cajun cookers and get about a gallon of oil real hot, maybe 350-400 degrees. Peanut oil works the best. Cut the mackerel into 1/4" by 2" strips and salt and pepper it real well on both sides. The roll it in flour,, not corn meal, just flour. Toss the strips into the hot grease for a short time, until they float. Then remove them and drain well. Then throw away the mackerel because it will not be edible but eat the fries and salad/slaw so the whole day won't be a waste.

How many years have Jasper and Silsbee been playing?

Doesn't sound good for piratefan. He won't have one of his excuses for not making the playoffs year after year after year after year after...... "wahhhh... sniff sniff... everyone else is cheating.. wahhhh!!"

It is easy to catch a lot of them and they are closer inshore which makes for an interesting tournament. I used to go down by Corpus Christi and fish and people would fish for them in bass boats a short distance offshore. I got second place once down there in the Port Aransas Deep Sea Roundup on a big Spanish Mackeral. I was fishing for kings but hooked up the smaller mackeral. You can usually pick them and kings up near the first or second grass lines. I think this year will be the 73rd year for the Deep Sea Roundup. I would guess that it is the oldest fishing tournament on the coast.

What I am shocked about is that Coop didn't post these pics. I think bronco1 is moving in on his territory. ;D I am not sure to make anything of it or not but I noticed that this transexual deer is from Arkansas.

Kings make a couple of good runs and they can sure strip some line fast. They seem to wear out fairly quickly after a couple of fast runs. They don't nearly keep up with the fight like an amberjack or tuna. It is the same with Spanish Mackeral. On light line they are great fun but they are hardly great fighting fish. Take some 6 or 8 pound test on a spinning rod and it is fun to listen to your line hiss through the water. They don't fight for long but they sure run fast.

She was busy looking for fingernail files, nail clippers and baby food jars with liquid in them.

And if you criticize her music, she can stomp a hole in you. ;D

He would look like a drowned chihuahua.