"You KNOWWW your a Rodbuilder when......."


.....on your weddin' day, your bride has a cute little yougin' making sure her gown don't get all messy on the floor walking down the aisle...and Yoooouuuu got yur snotty nosed nephew following you down the aisle picking up pieces of masking tape and thread that you're leavin' behind coming off them shiney rental shoes!!!

Feel free to add more, alter into a 'here's your sign" or 'git 'er done' approach. Might be fun. Maybe not, up to you.

(I think i was contracted to post this...not sure, but it is friday and friday is good)

Mike

NERB that types with a bar of Ivory soap in his mouth.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/11/2006 09:32PM by Michael Joyce.

"You KNOWWW your a Rodbuilder when......."
all your friends are fishing with beautiful rods built by you but you have 10 year old penn power sticks because you don't have enough time to build some for yourself.

You know you are a rodbuilder when..........

The word Pole is replaced by the words rod or stick.

You KNOWWW you're a rodbuilder when..

(Scott you got that right!!!)

The boys at Sears know your wife, but not you and the gals at JoAnn's know you and not your wife... and you don't find it odd at all.

(no kidding... this happened to me earlier this evening).. while in your basement shop corner you hear weird popping noises and then notice that water is pouring down from the ceiling in the other room onto the TV, and your first thought is... "I'll get to that in just a sec...I only have 5 more minutes of pot life on this mix".

Many of your expensive work slacks and shirts have epoxy dribbles on them but your shop apron is the cleanest thing you own because you believe that a dirty shop apron is just plain sloppy lookin.

You get excited when you see a magazine in the mailbox and are terribly disappointed when it is your issue of Penthouse instead of Rodmaker.

You think that anybody who uses the words "fishing" and "pole" in the same sentence should be shot.. unless of course they are talking about Doc.

You have used mono fishing line to repair clothing because you refuse to waste two feet of your perfectly matching color of Sulky on a shirt button

You are working on a way of pitching the idea, and hosting, a "Rodbuilding Show" to your local PBS carrier because you think more people would be interested in a drunk Irishman building a rod each Saturday afternoon than a sober Irishman painting watercolors. (anybody who beats me to it better have me on as a guest!!)

"You know Yooou're a rodbuilder ".... when some one asks you for a "nice fishing POLE with the best rings" , and youre first twisted visual thought is , Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, and Tom Sawyer stuck on a island, with a long peice of wood and some twine and some wire!..... lol!

"You know Yooou're a rodbuilder when".... your favorite ball cap is the one that came from a rod building dealer "Free with Purchase of $150 or more".

"You know Yooou're a rodbuilder when".... your banking statement includes a "checking account", a "savings account" and a "rod-building account." (And you wonder where all the money for the IRA went)

"You know Yooou're a rodbuilder when".... you notice a female angler's rod before you notice her physical attributes.

"You know Yooou're a rodbuilder when".... you have a bigger inventory or "components" than tackle.

"You know Yooou're a rodbuilder when".... you make excuses to NOT go fishing, so you can "finish up that sweet number on the bench."

"You know Yooou're a rodbuilder when".... you can spot a custom rod at 100 yards, but have no idea what kind of sports car that is next to you at the stop light.

"You know you're a rodbuilder when".... you read fishing magazines, you check out the type of rod, the guides, the butt wrap and the guide wraps in a photo before actually looking at the articles or the rest of the photo.

"You know you're a rodbuilder when".... you read all these posts and find they all fit you.

Mark Syck

SYCKO Custom Rods
There Are No Limits To The Imagination

I love friday night funnies!

You know your a rod builder when you stop in the middle of a four land highway at rush hour and risk your life running across four lanes to get the feathers off of a red tail hawk road kill because even at 65 miles an hour you could picture it on a feather inlay and just have to have it.
You know your a rod builder when its 5 am and you have to "get up" at 6 am and your 7 pm the night before "i am just going to throw a handle on that rod and be out of the shop in an hour" became two butt wraps and a set of guides on three rods.
You know your a rod builder when you have built hundreds of rods in the past year and havn't had time to get a single line wet.

"You KNOWWW you're a rod builder when"

You used to feel alittle guilty about running the lawnmower early Saturday morning, when now you worry about the lathe making too much noise.

Your dreams are in color, but now include fades.

When someone says they used to build, but when the ugly stick came out they quit, because it's the ultimate, you just change the subject.

Michael: Ate too much drank too much slept too late - thanks I was not prepared to get up so early - no epoxy scratching but have a bad headache: Here goes!

Gon Fishn Fires At Foxworthy:

You Know They Are A Rodbuilder When:

They can't go to church because they don't own a shirt without epoxy all over the front.

The flower girl at their wedding is assigned to pick up all the pieces of masking tape and multicolored thread stuck to the red carpet.

Spools of thread outnumber hairs on head

The Fed Ex man builds a PVC rack that will hold long slender packages in front of their trailer.

Went to the Water Slide Amusement Park looking for comical decals.

Insisted on titanium frame Holographic wedding bands

They are seen flaming a glass of Dom Perrion

They sleep well at night thinking they have a new toy that no one else has

Refuses to fly on Air Italia unless they know where Italo happens to be

Waiting for Rich's invisible and weightless reel seat

They try to sell empty thread spools at the local flea market

You know your a rodbuilder when a fisherman requests the cheapest 'rings' for his "pole", and you just want to either laugh in his face or slap it silly...but resist the temptation (Michael Joyce)

Thinks people from the Dark Side are the old masters who did the Sistine Chapel.

Thinks OCD is perfectly normal behavior

Restaurant manager makes them vacuum cork dust from arms and clothes before they are allowed to graze at the buffet line.

Chose High Modulus Helical Hexel 30879 instead of concrete headstone for permanent marker

Wonder how Tom Kirkman would have handled Mike Tyson

Thinks they are doing good things if wife calls them "spineless"!

Thinks New Concept is a new method of birth control

Wonders how Bill Baston uses cutting edge blanks to cut thread stickups

Goes into the woods with a 30 ought 6 looking for A Dear

Chicken or the Egg - Doc or Michael

Thinks Billy V must have had his t and h fingers crushed by a blank hustler

They are always smiling when a can of Acetone is opened.

They are the only ones that will tell you a fishing rod can resemble a corkscrew.

Steals chopsticks and chili sauce plastic cups from the Chinese buffet

They know that China is not what they eat off of

Raids the trash bin at the hospital to get sharp working tools

Tries to invest in Taco Stand in Lamar Fishing entrance foyer

Bottles of obsessive/compulsive medications out number spools of thread.

Considers divorce when they find ashes of latest Rodmaker Issue in the burning barrel outside the trailer.

Asks the waiter at the Italian restaurant if they know the modulus of the el dente spaghetti on the plate.

Wonders if Ralph The Flocker and Bluebeard the Pirate ever came face to face

Considers going back to the sixth grade to reenter school so they can use higher math to figure out Rodmaker Volume and Issue number code that Kirkman uses

You are right Jesse - I have too much idle time on my hands!!

All dryers full and turning

Bill S........."Heeeeres your sign!" lol.

very very funny guys.

Quote: “Wonder how Tom Kirkman would have handled Mike Tyson”
Answer:
6ft. gaff with custom butt kick wrap

You know your a Rodbuilder when a .pdf tutorial from Doc Ski
catches your eye faster then Pamela Anderson in a bikini.

Raymond Adams
Eventually, all things merge, and a river runs through it..