Rob Denkhaus
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay DeLong
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:03 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Beware the green sunfish
>
>
> > anybody remember the ruckus raised over "jeremy's catfish"
> that jeremy
> > wanted to release into his farm pond?
>
> Jeremy lied when he said it was his pond. It was a lake at a
> state park.
> Some people that knew the truth tried to offer words of caution and
> responsible behavior. Another person used the opportunity to
> make Jeremy
> into some kind of persecuted hero. Jeremy wouldn't come
> clean, and it got
> really stupid when he and that other person started name-calling and
> insulting people personally. Then that other person took his
> mistruths to
> another fish list where he had a more sympathetic but
> completely misinformed
> audience. All this while a few people here were trying to
> have a discussion
> about a potentially serious topic.
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
> "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a
> chance to get
> its pants on."
> - Winston Churchill
> /-
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