Monday, February 04, 2008

Organized Promiscuity


In Response to Safari's Post:


"The advertiser invents ideas, and ideas are seldom as honest as physical objects...one deserves special mention: the 'where-to-go' department. Knowledge of the whereabouts of good hunting or fishing is a very personal form of property. It is like rod, dog, or gun: a thing to be loaned or given as a personal courtesy. But to hawk it in the marketplace...seems to me another matter....All of these organized promiscuities tend to depersonalize one of the essentially personal elements in outdoor sports. I do not know where the line lies between legitimate and illegitimate practice; I am convinced, though, that the 'where to go' service has broken all bounds of reason." (Wildlife in American Culture)


So.....

12 comments:

  1. sheesh, you couldn't haiku this????
    Does this mean you will be handing out personal maps to all of Heb's Hackamatack Honey Holes?

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  2. youse asked for it...

    Dirty rotten cheats
    sell hidden, cherished secrets
    we earn with our boots.

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  3. hunt Rich's coverts
    GPS waypoints for free
    get there before he

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  4. Red Gods gnash their teeth,
    watching the nimrod, fumbling
    with his gadgetry.

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  5. Leopoldians
    with their smug self-righteousness
    hunt without gadgets

    all I can say is
    must get cold in the duck blind
    without neoprene

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  6. techno-gadgetry
    varying atomic weight
    still "all-natural"

    fake haiku-ing
    much like fake masticating
    or masturbating

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  7. living in the past
    no gadgetry means miles hiked
    sore feet and few birds

    let gizmo point the way
    less searching more time hunting
    game pouch overflows

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  8. speaking of gadgets
    hooray for beeper collars
    bells are for sissies

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  9. Hike for miles? Sore feet?
    Invoking Reigel: "waaah, waaaaah"
    the hunt IS the search

    (duuhhhh!!!)

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  10. Rich is surely right
    it's been said guns don't kill grouse
    shoe leather kills grouse

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  11. As an ethics guy
    My word on this is weighty:
    Maps, schmaps – just wander.

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  12. I'd say that's impact
    sporting ethics brings out Josh
    Mr. Ethics Man

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