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Old 09-02-2003, 02:43 PM   #21
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lol NialScorva
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You have seen what "light"?
Look out! It's a TRAIN!!!
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Or an endoscope, perhaps?
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Everyone's had one cross their tongues late at night in a truck stop bathroom?
You promised not to tell.
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Bud Light

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Yes, like trolling for fish.
Actually, that's trawling.
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Old 09-05-2003, 02:28 PM   #27
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Actually, that's trawling.
It looks to me like trolling means to drag a hook, while trawling means to drag a net. And to trawl can mean to troll.

So a trawler is like a troller on steroids.
Maybe that does describe the original poster! Haul in a boatload in one fell swoop!

Merriam-Webster
Main Entry: 1trawl
Function: verb
intransitive senses
1 : to fish with a trawl
2 : TROLL 2
transitive senses : to catch (fish) with a trawl

Main Entry: 2trawl
Function: noun
1 : a large conical net dragged along the sea bottom in gathering fish or other marine life
2 : SETLINE

Main Entry: 1troll
Pronunciation: 'trOl
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English
Date: 15th century
transitive senses
1 : to cause to move round and round : ROLL
2 a : to sing the parts of (as a round or catch) in succession
b : to sing loudly
c : to celebrate in song
3 a : to fish for by trolling
b : to fish by trolling in <troll lakes>
c : to pull through the water in trolling <troll a lure>
intransitive senses
1 : to move around : RAMBLE
2 : to fish by trailing a lure or baited hook from a moving boat
3 : to sing or play in a jovial manner
4 : to speak rapidly
- troll�er noun
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