Besides being wrong about the viruses (which are not "alive" themselves) and HAVE to reproduce in other life forms, like the bacteria ON the lunchmeat, my friend Capt. "Buck" Rodgers, who is sitting around having a few cold ones right now, told me that he won't send you any eyes unless you are nice to me. He actually exists I found out by shaking his hand...even the he would take the bag off his head to reveal his identity. He did show me some eyes that are going to end competition. These things are so far ahead of anything else I have seen (and you know it Cecil...you have seen them) that they are going to drop some jaws. The work that goes into these gems is done by Americans. The craftsmanship is meticulous, Old-World, German engineered and so far above anything else I have seen, all I can do is sit and stare at them. Get ready world, the elusive Mike Rodgers has resurfaced in Genoa City Wisconsin...Musky Capital of the World, Home of the Young and the Restless, and a hometown guy that has spent the last 8 years perfecting the ultimate fish eye. And wait til' the deer eyes come out! Today Genoa City, tomorrow, the World! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Come on Buck, let's make another beer run and paint these things so they glow in the dark. Buck? Oh darn...he disappeared again but I swear he is real and left all these pretty eyes for me to play with. Yipppppeeeeeee!
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I can look forward to seeing some of Mr.Rodgers eyes in Reno.Dennis,Can we count on you to be there with a fish?
Dennis, if you do want to do one for Reno,Let's use the candy -flip flop,with my *Magic Moss on driftwood, Also, why don't we do the left-right option on this...
Buck...
And those eyes are looking better and better! But I haven't met anyone from Wisconsin that didn't like beer anyway. At least no yet.
Dennis, just because you're wrong doesn't mean I don't you as a taxidermist. LOL
We flew in in the middle of the Terror scare last week ! in stead of pouring them out, or throwing that good ol'German beer in the can ! I grabbed a couple of G.I's in the same line(NorthWest) and slamed those puppys ! I did however, get to keep the ones we had in the luggage,NOT a drop of anything in your carry ons ! at least the plane trip was fast, ..slept trough half the goldangthing ! HeHe ...
Buck...
Hit a wrong buttin and losst it, ASAP PDQ ! and Ill send em from wis.
Damn terrorists do crap and we the people are the ones that have to suffer. No need to blow anything up. They can do enough damage just planning it.
Sad to say if we're attacked again like 9/11 it will be Marshall Law! Kneejerk reaction!
What a mess on that day ! Socks,Shoes ect, Felt like a dam fool ! And I said to the Guy ! Do I look like a F'n AlQueda you Jack Hole !Then the dang guy tore apart all my carry on, EXCEPT the Beer ! HA HA !
Buck...
I'll do a edit search in my emails and see what the difference is.
There should be a semicolon instead of a period. Beer will do that to you.
michael.rodgers@web;de
I'm on my moms computer ! and the thing is all differen't than the German Keyboard ! plus, Jack&Colk wil do that to ya !
Buck...\
P.S. Got the Adress. Thanks !
You tryin to be a good boy or what ?
Quiet,Real Quiet...
Why dont you tell me what's going on with you and Dennis ? Lovers spat ? or PMS...
Buck...
Sorry Doc...I don't compete...never have. I guess that makes me "yeller." Just not my thing. Besides, isn't Reno a den of iniquity where naughty young girls might be bothering me all the time? I have enough going on with my wife chasing me. Well, now wait a minute...I may have an idea for that show...a huge, cycloptic eye floating on some ultra-realistic algae...lit from below with halogen bulbs to give it that unearthly glow, with subliminal bubble sounds in the background saying "Buy me! Buy this eye from the Buckmeister. Must have! No control, must have!"
once you get to the show. Sounds like there could be some more mounting in Reno. LOL
Ya hey der Cecil...I will be damned if know how you manage to paint fish and spend so much time on the ol' 'puter. I get a sense about you, even though I have not met you, that we would probably be buddies...except for you shootin' kitties. I would kill and eat just about anything, but am a big baby when it comes to cats.Mine sleeps with me every night. Native Americans had their totem animal...the cat is mine...independent with no need to suck up to the crowd.
That aside, I respect you as a taxidermist. It always surprises me that there is not more fraternal order on this site. Cops support cops. Teachers share war stories with other teachers. (I am one.)I just see so much ego crap here that the idea of competition turns me off. I have been to World Shows in Springfield and was in awe...particulary of carvers. If I had unlimited time outside a full day of teaching, coming home for a nap, then painting fish until bed time...it might be fun...but my schedule is not fun. In 2 years it will be...when I retire from teaching.I don't try to hide the commercial work I do...you can see it in BT. It is what I do from the grungy corner of my basement. Anyways, I have to feed Buck now. He is chained down there, in my basement, and if I give him his chow, he promised to keep making eyes. Somebody has finally nailed it and you know...you have seen them. Spread the good news...sleep well, Fishmeister!
you could name it..ROPT. The royal order of part time taxidermists. Or would yours be a sorority?
5 years later and Cecil JUST realized that terrorism is all about FEAR! We're making progress folks. It's SLOW progress, but at least it's a few steps forward - lol!
It's simple Marty, if Cecil is layin off a bit, that just means he's probably got loads of fish to finish ! I'd guess that he's saving-up a bit to go into the next round ! We got that part down, about> does not play well with others! Prob,is that my Boy Cecil likes Tickin off selected groups of oppisite political ...Well, let's not go there ! and enjoy the show ! shall we ! and since you now have hit the ball in Cecil's court,...sit back and enjoy the show !Jerry Springer...here we go ! Jerry..Jerry...Jerry !
P.S. Marty .E-mail me , maybie I got some eyes left !
Buck...
Maybe once you retire you could do a show piece just for fun.Teach them children well
Let's see, maybe that was all in fun, if so, great. However, I sense an air of elitism here. You have earned the highly-coveted degree of full-timer! Wow! I am sure that makes you a better taxidermist and person as well if that is the case. Let's see, how could I get to use this superior title. I could quit my teaching job, writing for the newspapers and several magazines, sleep as long as I wanted, and skin and mount a few more fish, which I pay others to do now. I could sell my home, move into a trailer, drink more, and enjoy the superiority of being a full-timer! Yeah...I get it now. As far as the sorority...wishful fantasy on your part m'lady? Again, if done in good spirit, fine. If your post is what I sense...I am certain as a "full-timer" you are familiar with the name of the cavity you can jam your remarks into.
For God's sake keep your day job and don't look forward to this rat race full-time. It will make you grumpy and cause you to jump all over folks that just don't get on this website. I've actually fanticized about running out of work and getting a REAL job. LOL I thought it was going to happen this year but now I'm swamped.
Being married to a very dedicated full-time teacher I respect what you do and I know how difficult it can be.
Marc is O.K. He just does that tongue in cheek thing now and then like I do. I doubt if he meant it in a mean way.
What's the big deal? Certainly Cecil and I have had a few words of discord and he can handle it. Why can't you Dennis? I'm no better than any one of you on here, and not nearly as good as many(doesn't include you Dennis, LOL) but I will say this though...if I ever get on here after a few drinks with friends and start talking stupid(will never happen) feel free to tell me to get a life, OK? or if your close enough...come on over and slap me, will ya? Bottom line is this...if your gonna try to be a big shot by who you know or what mag. you write for, or what kinda car you could drive...BE PREPARED!PS. You know...your work might look a little better if you'd start laying off the sauce a little!
I didn't see anything that deserved that. Did I miss something? Is there some history here?
shoot'n off his mouth about how he could drive a lexus if he wanted to and blah, blah, blah. Now it seems if he quit his teaching job he'd have to live in a trailer. Obviously, he is not able to be profitable through the art of taxidermy. Maybe he should brag about teaching and all the money in his TIA cref account instead.
...without my adult film star gig supplementing my taxidermy gig, I'd be in trouble for sure - lol!
It is just that,at times, this forum is like a car wreck. You have to take a look even though you don't always want to. This is all fun for me, and whatever I said about driving a Lexus is true...and I actually never meant it in a bragging way, honestly. I do fish for fun even though it is a hassle, I am obsessed with doing it. It has something to do with a feeling of self-sufficiency, and being rewarded for working totally on my own terms. As for writing, what can I say?
Again, much of it is done for free or nearly free. It is a kind of honor for me...and please don't include these forums in that vein. I just get a kick out of going on here for fun, but it is sometimes hard to separate spoofing from some fanatical lunatics. Some of the stuff I write is a spoof from me, and I am not loaded when I write it, or when I go to work, or paint fish. (no comments!) I know "Buck" got his name from deer shooting skill, not because he is from another planet as I suggested. The spoof was...eyes are out of this world...Buck Rodgers...let's all laugh.There were folks that questioned his reality for awhile because of someone impersonating him. He seemed elusive and I was not even sure he was for real. Rest assured he is, and so are his glass eyes. I can see where your "sorority" comment was probably tongue-in-cheek which I like. I just get burned when guys get on here and start the trash talk about so-and-so and whether they "look into the next stall" when some guy is taking a leak. Not necessary. Not funny. Same for cutting down a fellow taxidermist's work. Yeah, there should be a kind of fraternity here.No bashing! there has just been so much crap here lately, I am not even looking at the current events anymore. I could not resist jumping in on some issues, but it is becoming more and more of a toxic waste dump I just don't have the time to play with. I took a sabbatical last year and had way too much time on my hands to read all the stuff on there, and got sucked into some kind of Jerry Springer vortex of no return. I think you are probably another jokester like me and get on here for a bit of entertainment. Give me a call sometime and say hello. Feel free to use my toll-free number on my supremely, highly-ranked, kick-ass website that rules all of cyberspace---->LOL
I am just a bag of hot air. A trouble maker of sorts. I'm quite sure you are a good guy. Sometimes I get out of line with my smart mouth and I really should watch it a little more. Maybe it's because I haven't gone fishing for 5 days now but, I am on my way up north in a few hours. Come monday, You may see a kindler gentler Marc...that is if I can beat the hell outa the fish up there..if not...watch out LOL! (kindler, gentler?) Maybe I need a teacher huh?
I just see the world of "fish heads" as a very elite group...and like teachers or any other profession, we need to vent in the "teachers' lounge." Who else is going to understand! My offhand comment about the luxury car was actually intended to point out a philosophy I have...and that is...I was brought up working middle class, am comfortable with that, and could live like that for the rest of my life. We are killing this earth with our "supersizing" everything, and gross materialism. I have lived dirt poor in what amounted to shacks and a deluxe trailer with an addition! Always was thinking of what I could do on my own, besides poaching, to put food on the table. That is where the taxidermy started, with no airbrush, in a remote town in Colorado. Never bothered me a bit. Learned to live within my means, which were not much. When all that changed, I still refused to change my frugal nature.I felt bad when this was taken out of context, but should have elaborated.
Kick butt on the fish up north, and give a call some time. Don't let me 3 secretaries tell you I am too busy. You have the best, most humbling teachers of all...the fish!
What..now what ? Hey Marty, ..LMAO! Great plan B !
Buck...