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Title: Does this describe you?
Post by: JW_Halverson on October 07, 2011, 01:29:22 pm

I read this in the now defunct magazine, Traditional Archery, issue #18, 1987:

"The following came from the November 1939 issue of The American Bowman Review

Definition of a Bowmaker
-adapted by Forrest Nagler

     One who passes as an exacting expert on the strength of being able to turn out, with prolific fortitude, dozens of incomprehensibly short lived or inefficient arcs calculated with micromatic precision and superlustrous finish from extremely unhomogeneous and frequently poor material on assumptions which are based on debatable theories acquired from incomplete experiments carried out with instruments of problematic accuracy and half backed observations by persons of doubtful reliability and rather dubious mentality; with the particular anticipation of disconcerting and aggravating a group of hopelessly chimerical fanatics described altogether too frequently as archers."

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: JackCrafty on October 07, 2011, 02:27:54 pm

Hmmm...1939?  It's pretty funny right now but back in '39 I bet that statement ruffled a lot of feathers...so to speak. ;D

...hopelessly chimerical fanatics ...?  Now that's funny. :laugh:

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: criveraville on October 07, 2011, 02:50:31 pm

That's a long sentence.. Reminds me of the first sentence of Conrad's The Secret Sharer

Cipriano

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: Josh on October 07, 2011, 02:51:39 pm

that's awesome, are you sure that's from 1939??  ...sounds like whoever wrote that knew what they were talking about... :D  I love it! 

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: Badger on October 07, 2011, 09:27:32 pm

  Are you sure you are not talking about me!!?

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: Badger on October 07, 2011, 09:29:13 pm

   Very funny and a lot of truth in this as well. This could probably be true about most things men like to do LOL

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: ken75 on October 08, 2011, 01:18:01 am

too dang many big words in there for me ...but im sure i resemble that remark !

im more fond of good ole boy language like .... "pizz on em if they cant take a joke"

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: johnston on October 08, 2011, 11:45:05 am

Reminds me of the time I found a foot print in a place man had never gone.

Others have traveled our path.

Lane

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: lowell on October 08, 2011, 12:15:17 pm

  Morally, ethic'lly
 Spiritually, physically
 Positively, absolutely
 Undeniably and reliably.............. ME!!!!!!!! ::) ???

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: Gus on October 11, 2011, 05:54:16 pm

Yes Sir,

Excepting for the part of turning out a Plethora of Arcs... at least not yet.
And I haven't really had any question about the materials that I'm using, only the skill, growing as it may be, with which I form/deform them.  :)

Johnston, your foot print comment drew me up short.
Was just reliving a 2003 fishing trip to the Alaskan Bush with a Hunting/Fishing buddy of mine weekend before last.
Where we came upon three sets of Barefoot human(?) tracks WAY out in BFE in a Very hard to get to location along an Ice Cold river backed by a high erosion embankment.
Two adults (size 13-14) and a child (size 5-6), tracks... tracks came out of the water trailed along the bank, they were picking blue berries, then back into the water and on along the river.
Took photos of the tracks... also had a get to know ya with Griz on this river, man it was a Kewl trip.

-gus
 

Title: Re: Does this describe you?
Post by: soy on October 13, 2011, 03:46:19 am

Quote from: ken75 on October 08, 2011, 01:18:01 am

too dang many big words in there for me ...but im sure i resemble that remark !

im more fond of good ole boy language like .... "pizz on em if they cant take a joke"

Ya what he said :D