Hunters have their say, too.Byline: Bob Welch There are a number of famous people of this name including:
AFTER THE response to my column Thursday when I wrote that I didn't "get" hunting, I feel like the Hershey, Pa., columnist who wrote about not liking chocolate. Though positive e-mails and phone calls outnumbered Outnumbered is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 2007.[1] It stars Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner as a mother and father who are outnumbered by their three children. negative ones nearly 2-to-1, I haven't received so much angry response since I wrote about Eugene's anarchists. Here's a sample from those who objected to what I wrote: "YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA. YOU HAVE THAT `SAVE THE CHILDREN' ATTITUDE. SO THEY CAN GROW UP AND DIE IN THE NEXT WAR. YES I AM SHOUTING. CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!" Comment: Yes, I can hear you. I just can't understand you. "I don't `get' the Bob Welch column. I find myself puzzled, intrigued and ultimately unclear about what drives people to read his drivel driv·el v. driv·eled or driv·elled, driv·el·ing or driv·el·ling, driv·els v.intr. 1. To slobber; drool. 2. To flow like spittle or saliva. 3. . I also don't `get' what makes people like Bob so crazy about Duck football or football in general, which seems a gladiator gladiator (Latin; swordsman) Professional combatant in ancient Rome who engaged in fights to the death as sport. Gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, the intent being to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world. sport designed to excite the masses while injuring, maiming and even killing some of the young gullible gul·li·ble adj. Easily deceived or duped. [From gull2.] gul players hoping to make the big time. I'm trying to avoid stereotyping all Duck fans as the yahoos I remember who have to get blind drunk Adj. 1. blind drunk - very drunk besotted, blotto, crocked, fuddled, pie-eyed, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, pissed, pixilated, plastered, cockeyed, loaded, wet, stiff, tight , act aggressively and make fools of themselves to `enjoy' a Duck game Overview The duck game is a series of questions and answers that are repeated. The entertaining aspect of the game is both that the questions and answers can be funny in various different ways and that the people playing the game might begin to forget their lines. . So, I don't think being a Duck fan is bad. But like with news column opinion pieces, I just don't connect with the ultimate goal." Comment: You must have read my column "to-do" list. I plan on writing about why fans think it necessary to get blind drunk, act aggressively and make fools of themselves to enjoy a Duck game. "Not ALL men go hunting to get away from their wives and drink beer. There are a lot of wives who enjoy the sport with their spouse. It is unfair to say all hunters do is drink beer and shoot their guns off into the night. It is a shame that people like you are anal to the sport. Me? I still have a lot to learn about it, but I remain open-minded (not like you) and proud to say I will be joining my husband this year with my mother- and father-in-law on our hunting trip. It is a shame you are so closed-minded." Comment: I never said `all men go hunting to get away from their wives and drink beer.' I said that's one of the two major schools of thought, but neither school "accurately describes the bulk of hunters." I said a number of my friends, "some of whom are the most selfless self·less adj. Having, exhibiting, or motivated by no concern for oneself; unselfish: "Volunteers need both selfish and selfless motives to sustain their interest" Natalie de Combray. , giving, honorable human beings" I know, hunt. I pointed out that not all hunters are men. Finally, I don't consider it close-minded to dislike a particular activity. "I know those hunters who drink Hamm's, ride in trucks and shoot from their rigs. Much the same as maybe you know a few writers that scribble scribble - To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core. nothing but garbage and make most journalists look bad. I don't understand why anyone would want to write articles in a newspaper, I really don't. But I do accept the fact that there are people out there that like and want to do that, so I think they should do just that." Comment: My column had nothing to do with whether people should be allowed to hunt. "I'm not philosophically opposed to hunting," I wrote. I simply said I don't understand the allure of it. "I believe you missed one very key element to why many people hunt - for the meat." Comment: Good point. "It's obvious to any hunter reading your article that you don't get `it.' ... That's right Bob, `it' is the reason hunting season exists at all anymore ... it's culling culling removal of inferior animals from a group of breeding stock. The removal is premature, i.e. before completion of its life span, disposal of an animal from a herd or other group. the herds, keeping deer and elk elk, name applied to several large members of the deer family. It most properly designates the largest member of the family, Alces alces, found in the northern regions of Eurasia and North America. In North America this animal is called moose. populations healthy and sustaining the balance that nature itself took care of quite well before mankind took over the land." Comment: If the suggestion is that most hunters hunt out of a moral obligation to Mother Nature, I don't believe it. "You suggest that you have never fired a `weapon.' Webster defines a weapon as `any instrument used in fighting.' To link hunting firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
Comment: My "Webster's New World College Dictionary" defines a weapon as "an instrument or device of any kind used to injure To interfere with the legally protected interest of another or to inflict harm on someone, for which an action may be brought. To damage or impair. The term injure is comprehensive and can apply to an injury to a person or property. Cross-references Tort Law. or kill, as in fighting or hunting." I never referred to educational levels of hunters or suggested that they weren't informed. Nor did I suggest that sailors or those who attend Duck games are cooler than hunters. In fact, my sailing reference was used to point out the dangers of stereotyping people. And my Duck reference was used to defend my hunting friend whose preparations, I said, were no more involved than my pre-game routine. "Perhaps you should accept an invitation from one of your hunter friends and then tell us why you don't `get' it." Comment: I plan to do exactly that. Bob Welch can be reached by calling 338-2354 or by e-mail at bwelch@guardnet.com. |
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