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This time, we gave away several copies of Fishizzle and Steve Apple’s new Hustle & Fish fly fishing DVD, which has given the fly fishing movie an interesting new twist (we reviewed Hustle & Fish here).
While two of the winners have yet to reply to the happy news emails, Mr. CastingOutLoud – who won the copy of Hustle & Fish – seemed overjoyed, at least in part because he’d won and Underground Fave Writer Smithhammer hadn’t (Mr. Smith had won something here before, though I can’t remember what), which suggests this giving stuff away thing is way more complicated than I originally thought.
[Special Editor's Note: Damn, my original post got all tangled up, so I'm editing it now and want to make it clear that all this - especially Mr. CastingOL's spike-the-football celebratory email about winning - was purely in good fun , as was my reply here, but our gentle readers wouldn't know that history, so my bad. We return you to our regularly scheduled post.].
Then again, we should have expected little else from an eCast that went out to exactly 333 Undergrounders, which sharp-eyed readers will realize is half the Number of the Beast (666), which further suggests we’re only getting this whole thing about half right.
We’ll try harder, we promise. (Our open rate on the newsletter is about 4x the industry average, so maybe we’re getting it right after all.)
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First off it is Smithhammer
castingoutloud(Quote)
Actually, my bad. Your email was in good fun, and yet my post here was pretty confusing, and if you didn’t know the fun part, then it would a little strange.
So, I edited, included a mea culpa, and I’m researching shipping to Canada.
Sorry, bud.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Now I feel I have to shed some clarity on my post/e-mail.
I don’t know if BS has won here before or not but I suspect he has as it is common knowledge in the Fly Fishing community that He (Smithhammer) wins every contest weather he enters or not. I did not make that one up. As for my fervour apon hearing the news It was in reaction to learning the outcome of a long standing lawsuit directed at The FOX network for obsenity charges and I thought this was the Trout Underground geeeez. As the kids say No worries. Keep fishing.
castingoutloud(Quote)
How much does this eNewsletter cost?
SMJ(Quote)
It’s quite expensive, but you can afford it you 20″ fish-catching bastard.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Wayne knows where I caught that fish. Ask him to take you there. And make sure he shares some of that jerky with you.
Hope to see you this summer. By then it should be hot enough for a certain someone to make the journey without worrying about snow.
SMJ(Quote)
Actually, the only logical conclusion to be drawn here is that Smithhammer’s to blame for pretty much the whole mess, and frankly he should be ashamed.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Yeah, but what of the possibility of heat? Of random wild animal attacks? Or a light summer rain? I think he’s pretty much stuck inside his house for the duration…
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Funny,
My prize notification must have been lost somewhere on the interweb. Damn!
O well, I had to have been one of the first ones to sign up for that damn Newsletter. Isn’t that worth something? HUH? HEH? Maybe?
Benjamin Rioux(Quote)
It is. Because of your Founding Member status, you get the newsletter for FREE.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
NICE! that explains why I never got the $9.95 taken out of my account then. Thanks!
Benjamin Rioux(Quote)