Ok---ya forced me to tell another war story :
: Back in my Army days, stationed up at Ft. Detrick, Md I had a black sgt fishing buddy,,,we was forever catfishing down on the potomac and shenandoah rivers...One day as we was making our way back along the river bank, we came across some guys fishing for carp,,,and they was tearing em up...they were using quaker oats---regular ol 3 min quaker oats....they would just pour some out in their cupped hand, close their hand and stick it in the river water and work it into a dough ball....if ya ever tried washing a pan that the oats have set up in, you know how tuff they can be.
So a couple weeks later ol sarge is driving all over base showing off this 40 lb carp he caught on the Monocacy River...I mean everyone gets to eyeball this thing laying in the trunk of his black caddy....Next day on Monday he catches a bunch of his co workers in the parking lot and calls us over to show off his now dried up carp :roll: and telling what a tremendous battle it put up.....one of the other Sgts asked him what he caught it on.......well I guess he had a blonde moment and drew a blank,,,so instead of saying oatmeal he blurted out cream of wheat..........of course his buddy came back with a how the @#$@ do you get cream of wheat on a hook.........We all were rolling on the ground laughing about that for weeks on end :
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