"katysails" wrote in message
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John admitted:
Even better for a Lake Erie guy.................

eeewwwww....Lake Erie......you're right....
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Whoooooooa there. The lake is a LOT cleaner than it used to be. I remember
when I was a kid, we would go to the northern shore in Ontario and you'ld
see nothing but dead fish on the beaches. Looks like the efforts of the
federal government have finally paid off. It's clean enough where I don't
feel uncomfortable letting the kids swim in it, though I wouldn't recommend
eating fish out of ANY of the Great Lakes.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...82224353xopmod
Funny, this picture made me think of this little factoid. Visiting one of
the few legitimate tourist attractions at PIB, "Perry's Cave", the guide
mentioned that Commodore Perry's men filled their water barrels from the
springs in the cave, it seems that even then, long before the industrial
age, the water in Lake Erie wasn't fit for human consumption, probably had
something to with naturally occurring organisms in the water.
John Cairns

John remarked:
when I was a kid, we would go to the northern shore in Ontario and you'ld
see nothing but dead fish on the beaches

Smae as when I was a kid. We spent a great deal of time at Point Pelee and
perch fishing off the pier at Leamington. Beaches were littered with dead
sheephead, but we'd pick our way through to swim. Used to go to Holiday
Park down by Monroe, too, before they put in the nuke and killed all the
fishies there. Of course, we lived on the Edison Lake spur of Belleville
Lake and swam in it almost every day, and that made Lake Erie look pristine.
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 19:10:51 -0400, "John Cairns"
wrote this crap:



Whoooooooa there. The lake is a LOT cleaner than it used to be. I remember
when I was a kid, we would go to the northern shore in Ontario and you'ld
see nothing but dead fish on the beaches. Looks like the efforts of the
federal government have finally paid off. It's clean enough where I don't
feel uncomfortable letting the kids swim in it, though I wouldn't recommend
eating fish out of ANY of the Great Lakes.

You are missing some of the best tasting perch and wallye you can get.





Screw the rules! They're more like guidelines, anyways.

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 20:49:53 -0400, "katysails"
wrote this crap:

Smae as when I was a kid. We spent a great deal of time at Point Pelee and
perch fishing off the pier at Leamington. Beaches were littered with dead
sheephead, but we'd pick our way through to swim. Used to go to Holiday
Park down by Monroe, too, before they put in the nuke and killed all the
fishies there.

Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant is not in Monroe, and doesn't kill
any fish.





Screw the rules! They're more like guidelines, anyways.

Buzi Boy stated:You are missing some of the best tasting perch and wallye
you can get.

Thewy may taste good, but the afteraffect of eating all that mercury, lead
and other industrial waste won't insure any longevity of your life....taste
away....


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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant is not in Monroe, and doesn't kill
any fish.

It's down in that general vicinity...it was the closest city to where we
went, Holiday Beach or something like that, and when they first put it in,
it did kill lots of fish from all the hot water....
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katysails
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:58:10 -0400, "katysails"
wrote this crap:


Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant is not in Monroe, and doesn't kill
any fish.

It's down in that general vicinity...it was the closest city to where we
went, Holiday Beach or something like that, and when they first put it in,
it did kill lots of fish from all the hot water....

I guess you never noticed those two huge cooling towers? You can see
them from Put-in-Bay. There's no discharge of hot water into the
lake.




Screw the rules! They're more like guidelines, anyways.

Buzi related: I guess you never noticed those two huge cooling towers? You
can see
them from Put-in-Bay. There's no discharge of hot water into the
lake.

Dumbass, you are referring to Fermi 2. When I grew up it was the 50's and
50's and the plant then was Fermi 1....they have since fixed the problem.
Get with the program. It did kill fish when they first built it.

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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

"katysails" wrote

Dumbass, you are referring to Fermi 2. When I grew up it was the 1850's
and the plant then was Fermi 1....

a windmill?

thanks, I guess.

Scotty


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Shott Vernon wrote:

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"John W. Bienko" wrote:
On 1 April 2004.. a famous Ottawa retiree.. Willie Watt..
launched his homemade plywood sailboat and sailed for
several hours in a brisk breeze.
And he repeated the fun and games on the water on 4 April.

Was it a Bolger?

that's what he keeps it in to protect it from the weather.

I won't be nasty at you over that remark, Snotty. I can guess
how jumpy, twitchy and close to the edge you must be, after all
the effort you put in as a MacAnonymous member, and after all
those years finally defeating the habit...only to have another
MacJunkie suddenly spout forth on the newsgroup. These lashings
out at those who truly appreciate you are merely cries for help,
and we do understand. So we're all supportive, Spotty, and we're
all here to help you resist the siren call that Jim-the-Deafer
has sounded. We know that what is cacaphony to our ears is
still, at heart, music to yours. But be _strong_! Hang in there!
Just keep your chequebook under lock and key and remember...even
just one Mac is too many!
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Flying Tadpole

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