lsittig8 Loc: noth west pa

Reading all of these stories reminds me of when I smoked a carp. I was working in a machine shop. Some one was always bring something in for ever one to eat. So I decided to bring in some of the smoked fish. Every one was saying how good it was. It was about 3/4 of the way gone before some one asked. What kind of fish is it. When I told them it was carp. I end up taking the other 1/4 home.

Jeremy Loc: America

Yeah a nice Corny thread

USAF Major Loc: Sea Bright, NJ

Spirit: Just Googled Indiana whitetail deer. 70 years ago there were 5000 left in the state. Today they estimate the population has reached 350,000. The hunting adds 110 million dollars a year to the economy!

volfman Loc: New Braunfels, Texas

Dear Spiritof27, I am going to have to learn how to put photos on this computer. Right outside of my back fence is a huge maize field, and on the other side of the road is a field of what we call "field" corn, which is what you call "corn."

Our field corn is left in the field to dry and then made into feed and "deer corn". That is probably what y'all call corn, and is different from sweet corn, which I think they do grow some sweet corn here in Texas these days. Sweet corn stays soft and edible for a while, but field corn picked before the starches cause it to get hard, tastes like super corn. That corn is only good for about maybe two days and then it will get a dimple in the top of the kernel and then it is too hard to eat.

I never really knew what a Hoosier was, or is. You are destroying my idea of what Indiana is like. I always thought Indiana was filled with giant corn fed whitetail deer.

I must be a true Texan for sure. You can't tell me much. I think I managed those six words pretty well. I thought a Hoosier was a basketball team. Don't know where that came from. Not much into ballgame sports. I prefer to spend my time afield. I bet y'all have upland birds to hunt. That would be fun.

You, Hoosier, be safe and I'll read you on the FS Forum.

stuco Loc: Northern Utah - Salt Lake City

That’s hilarious. My brother said one day he’s going to feed a group of people a nice steak and near the end of the meal ask everyone how they liked the venison just to watch them start to say they thought it tasted funny.

stuco Loc: Northern Utah - Salt Lake City

That is also hilarious. I’ve watched that movie fifty times if I’ve watched it once. I knew it was Iowa, but went brain dead.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Well sir, now you got me started. I said I was a Hoosier and I'm proud to be FROM Indiana. Haven't lived there in over fifty years and there's not enough money to get me back there, cause just like Nebraska if I had enough money to live where ever I want, it sure wouldn't be there, and if you said I had to live there in order to get the money, I'd turn you down.

If you read the Major's post it says the state is being overrun by white tails. Not so when I lived there. There probably weren't many more than the 5000 in 1950. I was two then. So your vision of Indiana may be more true than what I lead you to believe. We did hunt pheasant and quail, but we did not own a bird dog and most the birds just startled the hell out us before we could get a decent shot off. I's pretty good with my open sight .22 Remington pump, and occasionally I would get a lucky shot and put one in the ass of a pheasant that made the mistake of not getting down quickly enough.

You probably know the Hoosier round ball team because that ornery ol cuss Bob Knight left a perfectly good coaching job at IU and went off to the land of the longhorns to try to herd the red raiders. Well he wasn't a real Hoosier anyway, he was a Buckeye. To his credit (?) did coach at Army. Had he coached at the Naval Academy he would be right up there on Basketball Olympus.


As for that movie about the corn field with one of my least favorite actors of all time in the leading roll - it is based on a fabulous book by a guy by the name of W.P. Kinsella called Shoeless Joe. I read it while I was going to tech school in Denver at Lowry AFB in 1983. When I heard they were making a movie I was anxious to see it, but then I read they had messed with the plot as they usually do and that they were tapping Eliot Ness/Robin Hood to play the lead, I refused to go see it. Never seen it and won't. I'm sure it sucks. If you enjoy a good read go to amazon and get the book. Let me know what you think. Better than the movie?

That actor is in one of my favorite sports movies of all time "Bull Durham" and has one of the classic lines of any move ever. When Crash and Nuke are discussing the effectiveness of Nuke wearing Annie's garter belt under is uni pants, Crash tells "the rose goes in the front big guy." Costner's finest role and best film. I try not to let him make me hold it against him. It's tough. But then he goes and totally redeems himself with the role of Butch in Eastwood's A Perfect World. This from the guy who did the postman and waterworld. Eastwood can direct. No duh.

volfman Loc: New Braunfels, Texas

I still have a Remington .22 pump rifle. My dad, for some unknown reason, refinished the stock and did an okay job but probably ruined any value it may have had as a collector's piece. Fortunately, I don't care what a gun looks like and I still have memories of killing jackrabbits and bullfrogs with that rifle so it is valuable to me.

There must be something I do not know about your unnamed actor from the cornfield. I'd rather not know anything bad about him because since I don't have any idea what his personal beliefs are, I do not dislike him, yet. I shall definitely order the book. I love to read and write. I liked the movie but that is because I don't yet hate that actor.

Hoosier, what do you folks from other states call people from Texas? Do we have a nickname that I am unaware of. Even if it is bad, I'd like to know what y'all call us here in the Lone Star State. I can't think of anything we call folks from California except maybe "Surfers."

Don't break any game laws and maybe we will meet in Kansas next May. Til then, I'll read you here.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

I still have my .22 pump also. My granddad gave it to me when was 12 years old. It was his gun and I guess he and my mother and father figured I was responsible enough to have it and use it. I would not part with it, it is precious. It still has the original finish, and knowing my granddad it had probably not been fired in 50 years when he have it to me. I saw him chop the heads off of chickens that he raised, but I never knew him to hunt or kill another living critter other than those. He even raised peanuts in his garden to feed to the squirrels that got into his oak and hickory trees and also into his garden. I guess he figured he had enough to share.

Texans in general are referred to in California as Texans, as far as I know. Californians too, just Californians, unless you belong to a gang. And it depends on where in California. Crips. Bloods. Cholos. Paisans. Portugee. Mezcans.

I believe I actually did mention that guy's name in my post, you should read it again. Cosner. I don't have any special knowledge of him, far as I know he's a stand up guy. I just don't in general care for him as an actor. If you're gonna do Eliot Ness you better out-perform Robert Stack and he did not exactly reedefine the roll in a good way far as I'm concerned, and I really liked that tv show growing up. And then there's Richard Greene and Errol Flynn. He's not either one of them either. A man should know his limitations. He doesn't seem to. I really enjoy a good movie, but I'm really disappointed too if the movie doesn't meet my expectations The Untouchables? Sean Connery was pretty good in it. The movie itself sucked pretty bad, and even dependable ol Robert Dinero was chewing the scenery up pretty badly too. And Cosner has made me some stinkers over the years. But I give him credit where it's due don't I? He's got some talent - he just shouldn't over reach and then expect me to lay my money down and pretend that I'm entertained.

I adhere to the laws and I avoid Kansas and anywhere near it. Especially where that shindig is gonna be. I believe you are going to enjoy that book. I know I did. And I love baseball.

volfman Loc: New Braunfels, Texas

My wife and I do watch baseball. Mostly because her whole family has watched and listened to baseball forever. The only thing that requires balls that I like is hunting with round balls in my .54 caliber muzzle loader. It is a Lyman Great Plains rifle and it is the old hammer fired rifle with open sights. That is my way of playing with balls.

Kevin Costner isn't the best actor, but I no longer enjoy watching Robert Dinero, he has ticked me off plumb. He is a good actor but he made the mistake of using his fame to shoot off his loud mouth. He can have his ideas, but he can't expect me to enjoy his rants when I am unable to rant back at him. I may watch a movie he is in, but I won't pay any extra money to watch him in a movie. And no one will ever replace Robert Stack as Elliot Ness.

So I guess I won't be seeing you in Kansas, but I will be reading that book. Take care. Wes

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Dinero has yet to prove to me that he still has it in him. He should retire if all he's gonna do is phone it in, and that's what I think of him now. A truly truly great actor in his day, made some fabulous movies and some remarkable roles. Taxi Driver. What a punch in the gut film that was. The Deer Hunter. Then he got old and tired like the rest of us. And I'm with you on the political stuff. Robert and Ted Nugent need to learn to zip it. I don't like it from any of them. They're entitled, but come on.

volfman Loc: New Braunfels, Texas

I do not want to hear from anyone I can't talk back to and get my opinion out in the air on the same platform.

Rutinbuck Loc: Haysville, Kansas

Jeremy, I have always felt the same way about carp, but after eating on a 5 pounder I was really surprised. Damn good eating but lots of bones. Fun to catch too!