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To: Paul R.

Are you sure that it is a fishing rod or maybe something else that is unintelligible?


3 posted on 04/16/2026 2:58:10 PM PDT by caver ( )
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To: caver
Well, it catches fish!

I just want to know more about it. I'm not a collector, but fishing is a bit of a hobby for me, as well as it puts food on the table.

The history is sometimes interesting too. How many people know that "Zebco", a major brand of fishing gear, came out of the "Zero Hour Bomb Company"?

From Brave Search:

Zebco inadvertently caused a security scare at the White House in 1956 when a package labeled "Zero Hour Bomb Company"—the company's original name—was sent to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. White House security officials, seeing the ominous name, submerged the package in water and summoned the bomb squad, fearing it was an explosive device. (This prompted the company to come up with a new name.)

8 posted on 04/16/2026 3:16:35 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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