Madison has a very nice free art space at the Main Public Library called The Bubbler. They love using the word "Bubbler" in Madison, because it is their amusing and historically interesting way to refer to drinking fountains. There are books and T-shirts even. What's even funnier to me is that in many other places, a bubbler refers to a hash pipe. If a cheesehead were out of state and asked if there were any bubblers nearby, they might get funny looks. I got a much funnier look awhile ago, because for awhile many ATMs in Wisconsin were called TYME machines, so when i asked someone in Idaho if there was a time machine nearby...... Well they acted like I was Dr. Who or something.
The Requisite Fish Story When my friend Tom and I went backpacking on Isle Royale we didn't bring a lot of food and even planned to catch fish for a few meals. We brought a lot of lures but didn't have leaders and we hooked a lot of northern pike but they broke free because of their sharp teeth. So we were fishing one of the inland lakes on the island, and I cast my lure and it wasn't a very good cast, it went more up in the air than out on the lake, and it made a really big splash, and I already had hooked a pike but when I got it near shore it broke free. My friend Tom had come over to help me land the fish since he had already lost a couple near shore. So I said "Wow, that was a big one, like 3 feet long". Tom said, "No, more like 26 inches, maybe, at most." So we argued about that briefly, and I was muttering "at least 3 feet", after I had tied on a new lure and made another cast, which was also a poor cast that went more up that out, an...
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