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]]> http://singlebarbed.com/2009/06/11/the-biggest-rapala-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-4140 SMJ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:09:47 +0000 http://singlebarbed.com/?p=3665#comment-4140 What a timely post. This past week a refrigerator-sized box was deposited on my doorstep by Fed Ex. Once my wife and I finished hurling accusations of “What in the hell did you buy now” at each other, I saw that it was addressed to me, and that the return address belonged to one of my Midwestern relatives. I spent the next fifteen minutes removing various layers of packing material, and at the center of it all found a life-sized, hand carved wooden steelhead, hand painted and decorated with gold and silver foil leaf, mounted on a large chunk of polished burl. Not a bazooka or a pineapple grenade, but pretty cool all the same. As you mentioned in your post, anything we find to be even remotely cool is given the “Don’t even think about putting that thing in my living room” look, and my new treasure met the same fate. It was very disheartening. What a timely post. This past week a refrigerator-sized box was deposited on my doorstep by Fed Ex. Once my wife and I finished hurling accusations of “What in the hell did you buy now” at each other, I saw that it was addressed to me, and that the return address belonged to one of my Midwestern relatives. I spent the next fifteen minutes removing various layers of packing material, and at the center of it all found a life-sized, hand carved wooden steelhead, hand painted and decorated with gold and silver foil leaf, mounted on a large chunk of polished burl. Not a bazooka or a pineapple grenade, but pretty cool all the same. As you mentioned in your post, anything we find to be even remotely cool is given the “Don’t even think about putting that thing in my living room” look, and my new treasure met the same fate. It was very disheartening.

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