B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 08, 2025

Captain, they’ve broken through our shields! I canna hold them off much longer!

Give me all you’ve got, Scotty!

Now just wait until one of them sits down on the ice.

Ah, Temptation! Never out of season. The battle of the will is won only by an inward change.

Heh, I’ve smart blinds and curtains. “Hey Google. Shields up”. Closes them.

(Growing up is mandatory, maturity is optional).

I agree many people think my 95 year old father is having a second childhood, they are wrong he never left his first one! He is also SKIing (Spending Kids Inheritance) and I’m loving it!

Name a sport I will never be interested in. Answer – Ice fishing.

I was able to get out ice drinking, I mean fishing, yesterday here in western IL. Caught a couple nice catfish, and a couple too small. Enjoyed fishing with other “frosted flakes”.

The only enjoyable type of ice fishing is when I’m fishing out the ice cube from my glass of Scotch.

Only in a few places……….war???

And the War rages on to this day. The fish are losing. Humans are unaware that fish have declared war on them. Bears and Dolphins are also unaware that fish have declared war on them.

Europa.

Although I know next to nothing about ice fishing, I’m pretty sure they’ll need a bigger hole in the ice if they hope to pull the fish through it.

You know, calling ice fishing a “sport” feels like calling a nap a workout. I mean, come on! You drill a hole, drop a line, and then sit back like you’ve just conquered Everest—except instead of scaling a mountain, you’re conquering a six-pack. Where’s the athleticism in that? The only cardio involved is reaching for another beer or running to the truck to grab more snacks.

Let’s be honest: the fish are doing more work than the anglers. They’re out there swimming laps while you’re parked on your butt in a lawn chair, bundled up like a marshmallow, waiting for something to bite. If ice fishing is a sport, then binge-watching Netflix deserves an Olympic medal.

So, next time someone brags about their “big catch” from ice fishing, just remember: it’s less a sport and more a very elaborate way to justify day drinking in the cold.

Foster Brooks once said: “My brother went out ice fishing once, and brought home 200lb of ice. His wife fried it up and they both drowned!”

A different way to keep your stick on the ice…..

The fish clearly know what’s up, so presumably they also know not to take the bait. What is there to go to war over?

People who enjoy ice fishing must have a very low threshold of entertainment.

Depends on how hungry you are.

But they offered you a peace offering.

Before cell phones, it was a pretty good way to get off by yourself, undisturbed.

went ice fishing just once… that’s all it took for me to get hooked….

Underwater “Space Invaders”

The only ones I know who go ice fishing do it out of necessity when game is nowhere to be found.

A drunk decided to try ice fishing. As he started to drill, a great voice came from above: “There are NO Fish under the ice!”

The drunk looked around and asked shakily, “Is that the voice of God?”

“No! It’s the voice of the rink announcer! This is a skating rink!”

How did the green fish turn down a worm?

And so it begins…

ice fishing…how do you get the cubes to stay on the hook?