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10-09-2008, 09:08 AM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
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Fish Hard Hoodies
Fish Hard Live Long Hoodies
Hoodies are in! $39.99 - Heavywieght Cotton Navy Blue - Warmer pocket on front.
Also - I've re-done my Montauk version - it used to have the intial "M" but now it has "MTK" so if you get a Montauk hoodie, you'll get it with the new logo. |
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12-28-2008, 01:09 AM
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See you at the beach.
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Vero Beach FL. Bradford, RI.
Posts: 3,783
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Just got a Block Island version for Christmas Joe, quality product. Just a little suggestion, add a little script Block Island under the chest logo, My daughter asked me if I was "BI" lol.  |
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12-28-2008, 09:14 AM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
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Just be glad your daughter was curious if you were bisexual, and not bi-curious herself.
On Block Island, the Fish Hard tees and stickers have transcended the fishing community and are now popular just as a cool sticker or tee shirt. Two years ago, I saw someone who had a black Mercedes G55 with no other stickers other than a Fish Hard BI version sticker on it - that's the coolest car I've yet to see with a Fish Hard sticker.
Wear it in good health and thank you for the business. |
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12-29-2008, 08:35 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally Posted by Joe
On Block Island, the Fish Hard tees and stickers have transcended the fishing community and are now popular just as a cool sticker or tee shirt. Two years ago, I saw someone who had a black Mercedes G55 with no other stickers other than a Fish Hard BI version sticker on it - that's the coolest car I've yet to see with a Fish Hard sticker...
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Obviously, Joe you failed to notice the Craftymobile the last time I stopped by - undoubtedly one of the sharpest looking fish-wagons in RI... 
Besides, that G55 has probably been in a repo lot since last summer - with any luck some of the shpaccones and poseurs are gonna get flushed off the Island as the economy shakes out the chaff... 
To tell ya the truth, I knew the Island was swirling around the drain a long time ago when I saw an advertisement for a bunch of over-priced lawn furniture by Martha Stewart called "The Block Island Collection"... 
It sure ain't the same place it used to be...socially anyway. |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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12-29-2008, 09:01 AM
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Location: Rhode Island
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An island without a golf course is never going to be as popular an island with one. Block Island was popular in the 90’s as place where people from the Hamptons would go with their mistresses. The decline of hedge fund money has definitely driven down the property values - you can get a house well under a million now.
I was at a wedding on Martha's Vineyard once and the caterers were remarking how the event was very low on the social scale. They were engaging in this conversation while I was in the buffet line along with other guests. I politely inquired if the event would be considered socially above the wedding of two gay caterers?
But the social strata of any given destination is of little concern to Joe. I like Block Island even though I've encountered the most impolite people there. The beauty of being a miscreant is that the one's position within society does not enter into the equation when evaluating where to go - there's a certain freedom that comes when one realizes they can't be more of an outcast than a complete outcast.
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12-29-2008, 09:15 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Recently relocated to the shores of Rhode Island - East Bay!
Posts: 505
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Originally Posted by Joe
...the social strata of any given destination is of little concern to Joe...
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Joe, Third person? Get out of the house!
BTW, Wife ordered a couple of Xmas goodies from the store (I don't think she called it in though  ) Thanks  |
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12-29-2008, 09:50 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Originally Posted by Chris in Mass
Joe, Third person? Get out of the house!
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Joe says "IT PUTS ON IT'S LOTION!" 
Yeah, the Block was a special place for me as a young man in the long ago - and more beautiful than anyplace I ever lived in the Caribbean without a doubt - but the locals - of whom I knew more than a few - were always the jewel in the crown for me.
I suppose the atmosphere probably has changed a good bit with the downturn - haven't spent time there in probably 10 years or so - man, looking back I wish my great-grandfather had bought the cottage he stayed in there many years ago - I still have an early 1900's photo of him in front of that place with his arm around a heifer - the BI Cumby's of the day, I guess...that house still stands today.
I'd be willing to bet Papa probably fished the old bass stands that once stood behind The Surf, too -
You're right Joe - it will always be a special place, regardless of the latest wave of off-Islanders. They come and they go... |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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12-29-2008, 10:19 AM
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Location: Rhode Island
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Originally Posted by Crafty Angler
They come and they go... |
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it for a little while."
Willa Cather, O'Pioneers.
Gee Crafty, I'm impressed. We don't get literary references on the message boards very often. |
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12-29-2008, 10:55 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it for a little while."
Willa Cather, O'Pioneers.
Gee Crafty, I'm impressed. We don't get literary references on the message boards very often.
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Thanks, Joe - but all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, I'm actually literate. Even taught humanities at a university - I don't tell many people that, I don't wanna ruin my image...  ...I still find it funny for a kid who grew up on the wharves of Newport when the people there actually worked hard for a living and drove late '40's pick-ups instead of Beemers and 500's and the effluvia was more wooden bait barrel than haute cuisine.
Sometimes when I write snippets pop up - like obscure pieces of music - and I forget where I get them from at times.
Willa Cather... ...boy, I have no where that tidbit might have come from in the Crafty subconcious... 
So, yeah, I'm an ex-English department owl...sans rumpled tweed jacket and pipe.
BTW, real nice hoodies, gotta get one for Spring schoolie-wear...
Last edited by Crafty Angler; 12-29-2008 at 11:03 AM..
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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01-13-2009, 05:18 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: On the Island
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I saw this post, got the credit card out and  the one I want is not even on the list.
I'll have to think about it now.
Nice hoodies though. |
"It's not about the fish, it's about fishing for the fish. The fish is gravy."
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01-13-2009, 07:33 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
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Sorry about that. Some like, "PI" I have in stickers only. Some I have in both. Eventually, I'll have more and more available.
Joe
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01-14-2009, 06:38 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: On the Island
Posts: 541
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That's alright Joe. I still may get one.
My husbands says he's glad, don't advertise  .
We are a quiet minority up here, it's kinda nice.  |
"It's not about the fish, it's about fishing for the fish. The fish is gravy."
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