I have to come clean for Snipe, He's a buddy.

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Dear Board,

I have to come clean and admit that I’m not what I seem to be.

I’ve been banned as Tim Murphy, Vocelli, and in the very near future, perhaps immediate future, I’ll be banned as Avalon.

Back when I could be me I used to occasionally chat with “Snipe” about the things around and about Elmira. I liked to do it and I’m sure he liked it as well. We talked about favorite “watering holes,” fishing holes, and stuff like that.

He had me by a couple of years but in our hearts we were kindred spirits.

Honestly, I’ve never met the man personally. We have chatted and e-mailed each other and that means something to me.

I really hope that things work out for old “Snipe” the man I never met. I promised him a plate of Hot Wings from Bernie Murray’s a couple of years ago.

I owe the man at least that much.

Regards,

Tim Murphy,
Vocelli,
and Avalon.

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Tim,

Try to be a good boy this time! 8T

You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it’s a real short camping season.

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Maybe if you try to behave yourself this time, they will let you stay.

Cheers
Bob

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Glad I’m not making the call…Prolly would’nt be good for you either!

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Avalon, you know what you need to do.

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Something happen to Snipe? Last I saw he posted on a home made wading staff.

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Hey Mantis,

Yes, Snipe has been hospitalized with a
stroke. More details here: [url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/Forum1/HTML/017823.html:c00a6]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/Forum1/HTML/017823.html[/url:c00a6]
Warm regards, Jim

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Dear JC,

To be totally honest I really don’t know what I need to do?

I’m just hoping that someone who knows “Snipe” will see this message and let him know that Tim Murphy was asking about him.

I lived for 11 years up Snipe’s way and I meet a lot of really great people. I regret having never met Snipe.

Honestly, that’s all I meant by this post.

Regards,
Tim Murphy

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Get some hot-wings up to him…

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Thanks Jim. Missed it…just posted…

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Avalon, Jim Murphy,Vocelli or whoever you wish to be called at the present time, I was getting ready to go flyfishing and just had to check in to FAOL to see what is going on and read your post and now I must respond or my thoughts will “bug” me the rest of the day, so, bear with me here. These thoughts are only my opinions and nothing more and are not put into print to upset you or anyone else on this board. They are just MY thoughts and nothing more and I must get them off my mind to enjoy my fishing today.

I am the type of person that, at the present time in my life, does not need a bonding, real life person for a friend to survive. By that I mean I do not need the type of friend that I must spend all my weekends and free time with in order to be able to enjoy my free time. I enjoy being by myself which, to some people, is not suppose to be healthy and in their minds “normal”. To those people, listen up, I am 58 and still alive and pretty healthy, so, you may be wrong! : ) The “friends” I need, at the present time, have been given to me by LF and JC with FAOL web site. May God Bless them for coming into my life with their web page. I now have more “friends” than most of the people in this world. My present friends are all members of this web site and we communicate by posting or e-mail. With this being the only way to communicate with each other and staying in touch with each other, we do not see the side of that friend that we would probably not like and do not see the side of that friend that would probably end the friendship. Hopefully, that makes sense because it does to me. I have only had the opportunity to meet “face to face” two of my friends here on FAOL and it made a good “bonding” friendship that I will always cherish. Those two members are ohiotuber and Jack Hise who made the trip here to fish with me and I had a great time with them and am looking forward to their next visit.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I think you have discovered that this web site has made you some “friendships” that you never knew were as “bonding” as they are. You have discovered that you and your FAOL “friends” are closer than you thought could be possible since you never met “face to face”. I do not post as often as most because I have learned from reading some posts that what a person “thinks” they have said is not what the printed word relayed and the “receiver” took everything the opposite of what it was meant and the “friendship” was lost over nothing more than “words” taken wrong. I have even been offended at times with comments made here from a post I made and rather than get upset and repost to get “even” I have decided that it is just water under the bridge and let it go. I know I am not educated enough to put my true thoughts and feelings down in writing so that the true feelings will show, so, it is best to just let some things go.

Now that most, but not all, of this is off my mind, I am going to go flyfishing and enjoy being by myself and alone and know that in my mind I can be with all my FAOL “friends” and no one else will see them, but, I can revisit their e-mails and posts in my mind and they will be with me and I will be with them.

To all my FAOL “Friends”, I love you and thank you for being with me where ever I may be and most of all, “thank you” JC and LF for your gift of “flyanglersonline.com”!

Sorry for the long post, but, in my mind, I feel better!

Warren

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Warren
I think you did just fine.
Tim
Welcome home, what ever you call yourself.
Betty

Trouts don’t live in ugly places

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The printed word is a powerful thing. We wouldn’t have a civilization without it. It informs, entertains, enlightens, inspires, degrades, depresses, and a whole host of other adjectives, dependent upon the skill of the writer, and his/her intent. Most of us haven’t cultivated the literary skill of conveying “intent” through the printed word. The little icons above make a stab at it, but are inadequate to convey tone, body language, irony, sarcasm etc. My point. We all need to leave room for the benefit of the doubt. If we take everything literally, we’ll surely misconstrue someones meaning. We’re all guests here, and should comport ourselves the way we would if we were physically in someone else’s home. Some of us need a bit more housebreaking than others, and should visit where the comfort zone is more amenable. I direct these remarks to all, not to any individual. My .02

Lew

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Dear Warren,

I’m not sure what it says about me, but I completely understood everything you said in your post.

I have people that I have never met from this board and many other diverse internet message boards that I consider to be friends.

I sometimes find myself in conversations where I say something like, “My friend from England, New Zealand, or Wyoming, said that he/she blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”

I mean it sincerely when I call those folks friends.

That is one of the blessings and bounties that we received from the internet. For better or for worse it brings everybody who can access it a little closer together.

I’m in no position to actually go visit Snipe right now. But I really do hope and pray that someone who is reading this post and that can visit him passes on my good wishes and regards.

Sincerely,
Tim Murphy