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[me]

BELIEVE IT OR NOT>THE AURORA BOREALLIS WEREN'T THAT RARE WHEN *i* WAS A KID!

*i* DO REMMBER SOME GUYS IN MAINE FROM THE SOUTH WHO WERE SEEING THEM FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!

*me* AND *my* STUPID ASS COULDN'T EXPLAIN IT TO THEM FOR LAUGHING AT THE FEAR IN THEM>THEY THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS COMING TO AN END!

TOOK FOREVER TO GET THEM TO UNDERSTAND>THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!

I kind of wonder if those who see it all the time still appreciate the beauty of it.

[Palehorse]

BELIEVE IT OR NOT>THE AURORA BOREALLIS WEREN'T THAT RARE WHEN *i* WAS A KID!

*i* DO REMMBER SOME GUYS IN MAINE FROM THE SOUTH WHO WERE SEEING THEM FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!

*me* AND *my* STUPID ASS COULDN'T EXPLAIN IT TO THEM FOR LAUGHING AT THE FEAR IN THEM>THEY THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS COMING TO AN END!

TOOK FOREVER TO GET THEM TO UNDERSTAND>THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!

Reminds me of a similar experience I had on a fishing trip up north. . . I may have told it before somewhere, so I'll check before I repost it. . .

[~vxn~]

it has occured to me, that once i publish poetry collection #10... i will have written 17 books.  (since 2003) wow.

[Palehorse]

 

[Palehorse]

Reminds me of a similar experience I had on a fishing trip up north. . . I may have told it before somewhere, so I'll check before I repost it. . .

Well I could not find it, but that doesn't mean anything either. . .

"Back in the day" some buddies and I had been talking about taking a fishing trip up north to hunt the mighty walleye. We kept talking about it and doing nothing surrounding planning, then one day one of them stops by my quarters and tells me he has just bought a cabin up in northern Wisconsin. To make a longer story short, the day finally came for us to go up and check it out. We had taken time off (10 days) and were driving up in an old Grand Prix.

The thing was running hot and we had left right after our shift, so we had the heat blasting and were sweating like hogs when we began to get closer to our final destination around 1:00 in the morning.

It was dark as hell and we kept seeing flashes in the sky. I was in the shotgun spot and the driver, (the Weasel), kept saying oh man its going to rain. I asked him why he thought that, and he said look at the sky its glowing! The guy in the back seat sandwiched in with a ton of gear, said, "Man Weasel, that don't look like any lightening I've ever seen. Maybe it's a fire! Or maybe its a space ship!"

That initiated a conversation on abductions and assorted other alien statements. (I knew what it was but was keeping it to myself). As we got just outside of Woodruff the woods were thick and it was even darker, and the glow had turned brighter. As we rounded a corner in the road, I heard the Weasel say, "WTF is that?!", as he braked hard. I looked up to see hundreds of glowing red eyes across the road. Backseater screamed, "It's aliens! I told you that was a space ship causing that glow!"

You friggin idiots!, I said. First of all, those are deer, (there was a huge herd standing in and alongside the road), and all that crap about lightening and space ships is BS! Those are the northern lights you morons!" After which I began laughing so hard I had tears rolling down my cheeks! 

[Henry Hawk]

  

[me]

[followsthewolf]

And, that anecdotal evidence just further confirms that some fishermen are only one or two IQ points above the bait they're using.

[Palehorse]

And, that anecdotal evidence just further confirms that some fishermen are only one or two IQ points above the bait they're using.

I dunno. . . Red Tail Chubs may be a bit smarter than the two in that story!

That little incident initiated my writing of the annual installments of "The Trip". It ended with installment 14 in 1992! 
In it I relate the things like it that happened every year when we got up north and under the influence of clean air! 

[followsthewolf]

Yeah.

Those trips really bring out the best in some.

It usually gets better when the beer comes out.

[Palehorse]

Yeah.

Those trips really bring out the best in some.

It usually gets better when the beer comes out.

Oh yes indeed! Only some of our little company preferred Manhattans, whiskey, scotch, tequila, moon shine, torpedo juice, grain alcohol, and herbs with their beer! 

I was usually the one making their heads hurt at 0400 every day too! 

[followsthewolf]

Gets really funny when guys try to "out-macho" each other in the drinking thing.

I won't even describe some of the things I witnessed.

I only know that deer and other critters came out of the woods with hooves and paws up.

[Palehorse]

Gets really funny when guys try to "out-macho" each other in the drinking thing.

I won't even describe some of the things I witnessed.

I only know that deer and other critters came out of the woods with hooves and paws up.

I once walked out into the main room of the cabin, to discover a giant aluminum pyramid had somehow managed to plant itself right on top of the kitchen table. . . And it had a pair of legs sticking out of it! 

[LOsborne]

I once walked out into the main room of the cabin, to discover a giant aluminum pyramid had somehow managed to plant itself right on top of the kitchen table. . . And it had a pair of legs sticking out of it!

Uh-0h. Sounds ELF related.

[Palehorse]

Uh-0h. Sounds ELF related.

ALE related for sure!