Friday, January 18, 2008

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It's taken me about 14 hours to discover that mudpuppies are just about the coolest creatures God created. I had been catching them while ice fishing in a particular spot, and got two last night and brought them home. I tred to shrug off the looks my wife gave me, but i think it might just take her a little longer to come around. It may have something to do with how they look like a huge brown slimy salamander with gigantic fluffy gills. And they bite. And are always trying to get out of the aquarium and get revenge on us while we are sleeping. But i think they are kind of cute.
The things are also called "waterdogs," and i found out this morning that they got their name because they bark. Yup, that's right. They poke their heads out of the water and make a niose that is more like flatulence than barking, but i guess "mudpuppy" does sound better than "mudfarter" or some other alternative.
I named one "Ehud," because he appears to be a left-handed man, and the other i think i'll call "Ithai the son of Ribai," because he looks like a mighty warrior mudpuppy. I'll write again soon, i promise.

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OH THE MEMORIES!
When I was about seven years old I was up in Hayward, WI fishing at my grandparent's cabin. My line got taught, I reeled it in, and dangling on the end of my fishing line was the UGLIEST thing I had ever seen...yet, oddly enough, it was so wonderful I wanted to keep it. My dad grabbed his knife and yelled, "It's a muddog!" He dangled the thing in front of him and just as he was reaching out with his knife to slice it open and forever it's miserable existence, I began to weep. I wept like a prepubescent little kid. Anyway, to make a long story short my mom sternly told my dad he had better not kill it, or it would ruin my life forevermore. So he didn't. And I let him go.
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Nice work Borg. You can be the vice president of the "Save the mudpuppies" club. We could make bumperstickers like "I saved a mudpuppy today" or "save a mudpuppy, eat a musky' or "always kiss a mudpuppy goodnight". I've got nothing, sorry.

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