What the hell has happened to this place?

[Chad]

So I have been a little busy. Life, well... it's a kick in the ass at
times. As for fishing and tying, not like I use to. But I still get
out from time to time. I have not been here on ROFF in years. I return
and what the hell? Where did everybody go? I faded away due to just
not being able to keep up. Now, no fear of that. Did you all move to a
forum or something?
I use to post under the name Goat. Nothing lasts forever but I am a
little shocked. ROFF was a flurry of activity at one time.
Really guys, did everybody jump to a forum or is this ember just
hardly glowing?

Chad

[jeff]

there's now a facebook page... a few of us geezers still check in here
on occasion.

jeff

[Ken Fortenberry]

Chad wrote:
> <snip>

> Really guys, did everybody jump to a forum or is this ember just
> hardly glowing?

Both. There is a ROFF group on Facebook which has slightly more
traffic than Usenet roff. It's better for pictures and videos but
not as good for "conversation". And there are a few folks who have
a distrust of Facebook who keep the faint pulse of Usenet roff
beating.

roff is dead, long live roff

--
Ken Fortenberry

[Frank Church]

Ken Fortenberry <kennethfo...@gmail.com> wrote in news:jbasdq$esa$1
@dont-email.me:

Oh yeah? Yer mother wears GI shorts and combat boots, so there.

Frank Sr. (just wanted to let you know I'm still kickin' Kenny) :)

[Ken Fortenberry]

Frank Church wrote:

> Ken Fortenberry wrote:
>> roff is dead, long live roff
>
> Oh yeah? Yer mother wears GI shorts and combat boots, so there.
>
> Frank Sr. (just wanted to let you know I'm still kickin' Kenny) :)

Well, one thing I know about roff's own masseuse magnet, if you're
still breathin', you're still kickin'. Are you still living in
Indiana ?

--
Ken Fortenberry

[Frank Church]

Ken Fortenberry <kennethfo...@gmail.com> wrote in news:jbbkk3$io5$1
@dont-email.me:

Yep, still in Fremont. Love this small town living, screw big citys.
You'll be pleased to know that I have acquired 2 new Chinese POS Bamboo
Rods, thereby spreading the wealth from Korean made POS'S to China, who
God knows needs more of our business. /s/ Actually, very well made rods
in my humble estimation, fit and finish as good as I've seen on any rod.

[Tim J.]

Chad <zenk...@gmail.com> typed:

> did everybody jump to a forum or is this ember just
> hardly glowing?

There are just no more fish, plain and simple. We've all taken up knitting
and kite flying, so check those groups.

Geez, I hope yarn and kite string don't go the way of the fishes. . .
--
TL,
Tim

[john b]

Heck, I never have been able to find the facebook page...


I guess that makes me a geezer?

john


"jeff" wrote in message
news:4ed8d189$0$15346$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net...

[john b]

hey goat!

We never did get to together to fish the stillwater! What say you swing by
my house tomorrow for some coffee and we will go fishing?

john

(formally asadi)

"Chad" wrote in message
news:32627362-2090-4b96...@u32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...

[Chad]

Well hot damn. How do John?
I will say that when seeking out ROFF once agian that I was just a
little disheartened to see the decline. The internet is everwhere. In
everbody's pocket. So easy. I figured this place would be a mad house.
(notice I didn't say "nut house" I belive it is still probably a nut
house) But I am seeing that several of the good folks are still
around. This is fine news. Maybe I had the wrong idea altogether.
Maybe there is just less bullshit to wade through?
Wetting a line on the Stillwater needs to get done. This weekend sadly
is a little booked for me. I have had some electrical issues come up
with the house and will be spending my weekend off playing
electrician. I have already thrown a spark or two but have yet, and I
say yet, to shock myself. Kind of funny actually.
"POP!"
Insert wife
"are you ok?"
me
"I am fine"
wife
"be careful, don't kill yourself"
me
"its just 110.. and beside... I am immortal... no worries"
wife
"not funny"
And so it goes....
So John, I would really like to get together and fish a little. My
schedule is pretty much a disaster. I am however off every other
weekend but I work 3rd shift now so my sleep pattern is, well, a mess
to understate it. And my boys are all in the teens now and very active
and keep me busy. After losing my job as a park ranger life has gotten
foggy at best. Feels like that movie Groundhogs Day somethimes. But
lets get this done. Sooner than later. Have you been on the mad
lately? I haven't fished it in a couple of years. I still say that the
upper section is just ugly but it is where I always ended up. Trout
waters are hard to come by here as you know. I was raised on the
Stillwater River and it is by far my favorite local waters. So if its
Bass or Rockies I'm after thats where I end up. I still have never
made it over to the Brookville tailwaters. I have no good excuse for
this. Just busy I guess. I had my own photography business for a while
and that kept me pretty busy but when the economy tanked I had to give
it up. I still do some side jobs here and there (I have a lady waiting
on her pictures as I type this and should probably be working on that,
but...)
So you still retired? Last I heard you bought a bike and a travel rod
was to be mounted. Sounds good to me. Sounds damn good. All my rods
are 2 piece and I have yet to figure a good way to strap that to my
bike. I will need to get a 4 piece rod one of these days. I have joked
about mounting it straight up off the back and putiing an orange flag
on the rod case like one of those bicycle flags. But I just can't do
that. However funny, it just seems wrong.
By the way, do you know if the Rusty Drake still around?
I am absolutely game for getting together a doing a little fishing.
The weather is quickly going to crap and the holidays are hectic but I
am game. Last time I fished the Mad it was January, Snowing like
crazy, I spent more time deicing my rod than fishing and I didn't
catch a damn thing. It was still a great day.
-Chad

[Frank Reid © 2010]

Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
Frank Reid

[rw56]

On Dec 5, 11:16 am, Frank Reid © 2010 <flytye...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
> Frank Reid

I rather like this place now -- just a few old timers gathered around
a dying campfire.

[Frank Reid © 2010]

WHO YOU CALLING OLD!!!
Frank Reid

[Tim J.]

Frank Reid Š 2010 <flyt...@gmail.com> typed:

> On Dec 9, 10:45 pm, rw56 <rw56r...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Dec 5, 11:16 am, Frank Reid Š 2010 <flytye...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
>>> Frank Reid
>>
>> I rather like this place now -- just a few old timers gathered around
>> a dying campfire.
>
> WHO YOU CALLING OLD!!!

You remember 300 baud modems, floppy disks, and parallel ports, right? Need
I say more?
--
TL,
Tim

[Tim J.]

Tim J. <NOkpos...@comcast.net.invalid> typed:

Just thought of another. Last week, the 386SX AST PC we have been using
since it was new for our phone ACD system gave out. I was the only one who
was saddened. :(
--
TL,
Tim

[jeff]

300 baud?? jeez, you guys are geezer geeks!

jeff (Prodigy was my introduction to the internet...how "baudy" was that?)

[Tim J.]

jeff <jmill...@suddenlink.net> typed:

> On 12/10/2011 3:59 PM, Tim J. wrote:
>> Frank Reid Š 2010<flyt...@gmail.com> typed:
>>> On Dec 9, 10:45 pm, rw56<rw56r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Dec 5, 11:16 am, Frank Reid Š 2010<flytye...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
>>>>> Frank Reid
>>>>
>>>> I rather like this place now -- just a few old timers gathered
>>>> around a dying campfire.
>>>
>>> WHO YOU CALLING OLD!!!
>>
>> You remember 300 baud modems, floppy disks, and parallel ports,
>> right? Need I say more?
>
> 300 baud?? jeez, you guys are geezer geeks!

Yep. I don't know where ol' Stan has gone lately, but he has geezer geek
stories that would curl your hair.
--
TL,
Tim

[Tim Lysyk]

I remember punch cards and card readers. As well as all of the above.
Including cassette tape storage.

Tim Lysyk

[rw56]

On Dec 10, 5:20 pm, Tim Lysyk <timly...@telus.net> wrote:
> On 10/12/2011 1:59 PM, Tim J. wrote:
>

> > Frank Reid © 2010<flytye...@gmail.com>  typed:

> >> On Dec 9, 10:45 pm, rw56<rw56r...@gmail.com>  wrote:

> >>> On Dec 5, 11:16 am, Frank Reid © 2010<flytye...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> >>>> Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
> >>>> Frank Reid
>
> >>> I rather like this place now -- just a few old timers gathered around
> >>> a dying campfire.
>
> >> WHO YOU CALLING OLD!!!
>
> > You remember 300 baud modems, floppy disks, and parallel ports, right? Need
> > I say more?
>
> I remember punch cards and card readers. As well as all of the above.
> Including cassette tape storage.
>
> Tim Lysyk

I wrote Fortran programs on punch cards in 1965. We used the chaff for
pranks -- throw a box of it in some nerd's closet and he'll never
clean it up because of the static charge. Remember the chain-driven
line printers? Remember ferrite-core RAM? Drum drives? Batch
processing? Remember when CDC and Honeywell and Univac were big
players? Time sharing? Dumb terminals? Remember DEC? Minicomputers?
Paper tape? PDP-11?

[D. LaCourse]

On 2011-12-10 21:58:15 -0500, rw56 <rw56...@gmail.com> said:

> On Dec 10, 5:20 pm, Tim Lysyk <timly...@telus.net> wrote:
>> On 10/12/2011 1:59 PM, Tim J. wrote:
>>

>>> Frank Reid Š 2010<flytye...@gmail.com>  typed:

>>>> On Dec 9, 10:45 pm, rw56<rw56r...@gmail.com>  wrote:

>>>>> On Dec 5, 11:16 am, Frank Reid Š 2010<flytye...@gmail.com>  wrote

> :
>>
>>>>>> Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
>>>>>> Frank Reid
>>
>>>>> I rather like this place now -- just a few old timers gathered around
>>>>> a dying campfire.
>>
>>>> WHO YOU CALLING OLD!!!
>>
>>> You remember 300 baud modems, floppy disks, and parallel ports, right?
> Need
>>> I say more?
>>
>> I remember punch cards and card readers. As well as all of the above.
>> Including cassette tape storage.
>>
>> Tim Lysyk
>
> I wrote Fortran programs on punch cards in 1965. We used the chaff for
> pranks -- throw a box of it in some nerd's closet and he'll never
> clean it up because of the static charge. Remember the chain-driven
> line printers? Remember ferrite-core RAM? Drum drives? Batch
> processing? Remember when CDC and Honeywell and Univac were big
> players? Time sharing? Dumb terminals? Remember DEC? Minicomputers?
> Paper tape? PDP-11?

Remember when the workplace was lit by gaslights?

[rw56]

On Dec 11, 5:44 am, D. LaCourse <davp...@aol.com> wrote:

> On 2011-12-10 21:58:15 -0500, rw56 <rw56r...@gmail.com> said:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Dec 10, 5:20 pm, Tim Lysyk <timly...@telus.net> wrote:
> >> On 10/12/2011 1:59 PM, Tim J. wrote:
>

> >>> Frank Reid © 2010<flytye...@gmail.com>  typed:

> >>>> On Dec 9, 10:45 pm, rw56<rw56r...@gmail.com>  wrote:

> >>>>> On Dec 5, 11:16 am, Frank Reid © 2010<flytye...@gmail.com>  wrote

> > :
>
> >>>>>> Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
> >>>>>> Frank Reid
>
> >>>>> I rather like this place now -- just a few old timers gathered around
> >>>>> a dying campfire.
>
> >>>> WHO YOU CALLING OLD!!!
>
> >>> You remember 300 baud modems, floppy disks, and parallel ports, right?
> > Need
> >>> I say more?
>
> >> I remember punch cards and card readers. As well as all of the above.
> >> Including cassette tape storage.
>
> >> Tim Lysyk
>
> > I wrote Fortran programs on punch cards in 1965. We used the chaff for
> > pranks -- throw a box of it in some nerd's closet and he'll never
> > clean it up because of the static charge. Remember the chain-driven
> > line printers? Remember ferrite-core RAM? Drum drives? Batch
> > processing? Remember when CDC and Honeywell and Univac were big
> > players? Time sharing? Dumb terminals? Remember DEC? Minicomputers?
> > Paper tape? PDP-11?
>
> Remember when the workplace was lit by gaslights?

No, but I remember negro peddlers driving horse-drawn carts in
Baltimore, calling out various wares and services, from watermelons to
knife sharpening. They were confined to the alleyways. And I remember
separate white and colored watering fountains.

[DaveS]

> separate white and colored watering fountains.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I remember the fear of police and State Troopers in New Jersey, where
shakedowns of civilian business people were unsurprising, beatings and
"suicide in jail" periodic, bottles of whisky greased building
inspections, and bets and numbers were conviently possible at most
city parking lot attendent huts and corner "candy shops." I remember
Troopers shaking down Black families at the side of US 130, with all
their luggage spread out in the grass. I remember a Black friend in my
HS geometry class who was beaten to death in the city jail.

I also remember lots of good stuff, like the opportunities nite school
or the military (Marines or Navy preferred) or a ticket West could
mean. but I am VERY content that much of the bad old days are gone.

Dave Snedeker

[s g]

On Dec 10, 7:12 pm, "Tim J." <NOkpos3wtS...@comcast.net.invalid>
wrote:
> jeff <jmiller...@suddenlink.net> typed:

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 12/10/2011 3:59 PM, Tim J. wrote:

> >> Frank Reid © 2010<flytye...@gmail.com>  typed:

> >>> On Dec 9, 10:45 pm, rw56<rw56r...@gmail.com>  wrote:

> >>>> On Dec 5, 11:16 am, Frank Reid © 2010<flytye...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> >>>>> Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
> >>>>> Frank Reid
>
> >>>> I rather like this place now -- just a few old timers gathered
> >>>> around a dying campfire.
>
> >>> WHO YOU CALLING OLD!!!
>
> >> You remember 300 baud modems, floppy disks, and parallel ports,
> >> right? Need I say more?
>
> > 300 baud??  jeez, you guys are geezer geeks!
>
> Yep. I don't know where ol' Stan has gone lately, but he has geezer geek
> stories that would curl your hair.
> --
> TL,
> Tim

Stan is still sometimes lurking. I'm so old my stories have forgotten
me.

[Frank Reid © 2010]

The groundhog has not forgotten.
Frank Reid

[Giles]

Hm.....where to begin?

Well, things change.....some of them, anyway, sometimes.

The moved to another forum thingy......that's what ya call yer basic
bullshit.

A small number of the reliable thinking posters died. That happens.
Others have given up for a variety of reasons, none of which redound
to their great credit. A few remain but seldom stick up their heads.

A substantial number of the reliable morons still lurk reliably and
ocassionaly sally forth to garner yet another well-deserved
drubbing.....knowing full well what is in store for them, but
incapable of exercising anything resembling restraint. We like them.

A few.....very few.....of the latter no longer read these pages. This
is evident by virtue of the fact that they NEVER post proof to the
contrary.

The bulk of the remainder of readers are just plain tired of the run
of the mill fuckwits.....but are afraid to tell them so.

A precious few go about their business here, as always. We adore
them.

giles
who will gladly address.....personally.....anyone who feels that he or
she has been left out.

[Giles]

Um.....

Or maybe literacy really is moribund.

giles
well under 140.....this time.

[Russell D.]

On 12/19/2011 03:30 PM, Giles wrote:

>
> giles
> well under 140.....this time.

That's rare. ;-)

[Giles]

And rare = precious.

No, don't thank me.....it's not so much my bequest to mankind as a
modest demonstration that we ALL have something to offer.....whether
or not the scum deserve it.

giles
who, having grown up more or less german, has a precious insight into
the term "gift".

[Frank Reid © 2010]

If I see something under the tree marked "Gift aus Wolfgang," I'll
call HAZMAT.
Frank Reid

[s g]

I miss our groundhog buddy. I may go to Penns Creek this year just to
drive over that wrong pass.

[Frank Reid © 2010]

Yeah, that was like Lampoons "European Vacation." "Look kids, Big
Ben!"
Frank Reid