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Saturday, January 27. 2007

It takes a fearless journalist to rewrite history, accurately portraying all the tawdry details of fictional events. One such brave soul was Milford "Stanley" Poltroon (a.k.a., David Bascom), the voice of unreason for the metropolis of West Yellowstone, Montana and author of the inimitable (we can only hope) tome "How to Fish Good" (Winchester, NY, 1971). Fortunately, he was able to document the event depicted below. Oh, the inhumanity! [To enjoy the gore in detail, click on the image.]

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In the middle of the photo there is a man holding up a "timber". On that mans wrist is a wrist watch. Yet another example of uncovering little known facts of the early 1900's

#1 fessiewig (Homepage) on 2007-01-29 04:20 (Reply)

fessiewig,
I'm afraid you are mistaken. That is a handy wrist-worn heart rate monitor, digital of course, commonly worn by Orvis rod makers during the early to mid nineteenth century. They were part of an early experiment to determine the effects of heart rate on speed/quality of rod building. The experiment was abandoned as a result of everyone realizing that digital technology hadn't been invented yet, and the things were scrapped for the pieces of rubbish they were.

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#2 hawgdaddy (Homepage) on 2007-01-29 05:48 (Reply)

I first learned of Stanley Poltroon when, as an awkward teen in the late sixties, I used to sit up all night fly fishing the dry desert washes of Arizona and listening to AM radio from across the western states. I think it was a SF station that spread his legend and sold me a calendar.

#3 Rich on 2007-02-18 17:02 (Reply)

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