[Oratam]

I recall reading some years ago an article by testosterone-deficient lib who'd been taken hunting by a friend. Somehow, he successfully harvested a deer. The emotion he experienced at that moment was difficult for him to describe. He said, as he knelt beside the lifeless buck, he felt . . . he felt . . . gratitude.

This perplexed him as he wasn't sure to whom this feeling of gratitude was directed.

So he thanked the deer.

Alas, the godless.

[ManHunter]

That nameless, unidentifiable emotion that hunters feel when they take an animal is probably the most difficult thing to explain to non-hunters.

[Texan5]

I was taught to thank God for the food first, then thank the animal-somebody should have told that fool...