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To: rodguy911; Alas Babylon!; All
rodguy, I believe there was a wise man who once said A bad day fishing is still better than a good day doing anything else.

Here's another tidbit from my archives you might enjoy. I've had a lifelong interest in archaeology and ancient cultures. In the British Museum there's a clay cuneiform tablet that was discovered in the mid-1800's, along with thousands of others, in the Royal Library of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in Ninevah (present day Iraq).

The tablet lay in the basement for a hundred years until someone got around to translating it. The library dated from around 700 B.C., but the tablet was a translation of an earlier Sumerian text from around 2000 B.C. So, from the wisdom of 4000 years, here's what it said:

God does not subtract from a man's life the hours spent in fishing.

68 posted on 11/27/2016 6:53:16 AM PST by tarheelswamprat (gh)
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To: tarheelswamprat
God does not subtract from a man's life the hours spent in fishing.

I only hope he's that understanding about surfing the net.

72 posted on 11/27/2016 6:57:22 AM PST by Buttons12
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