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Mike Cox tells folksy tales, the kind that we would all enjoy around a campfire. In the early 1870's Ranger Tedford and several other Rangers were scouting the headwaters of the Llano River. They were under strict orders not to shoot unless they came upon Indians. The order was mildly irritating to the Rangers until they crossed a hill and came upon a bear. What would they do? One Ranger suggested roping it. One can imagine what could have happened (www.amazon.com....15-9630314)
Turkey hunting, for me, has long been an exercise in frustration. I have had some close calls, but none that really came close to putting a Thanksgiving bird on the table. Here are a few tragic tales, which some may find funny. I daresay these stories have amused more than one fellow hunter when told around a campfire (hunting.about.com....ollies.htm)
Playing in the rain is something all children do or want to do. As we grow older, we're supposed to grow out of that. aren't we? Hunting in the rain often provides interesting fodder for campfire tales , anyhow (hunting.about.c..../77943.htm)
to add to his post, and he asked me just to create a post here and he would link to it. So here goes: The 19th Floor: Anomalous Data: Around the Campfire: At the Hillocks of Hysteria: Blog of the Moderate Left A Bluestem Prairie: Centrisity: The Cucking Stool: CultureCat Rhetoric and Feminism: Curly Tales of War Pigs: Evil Bobby: Fighting Evil With Evi (www.technorati.com....?reactions)
Even worse, those same cortexes that invented science can't really embrace it. Science describes the world with numbers (ratio of circumference to diameter: pi) and abstractions (particles! waves! particles!). But our intractable brains evolved on a diet of campfire tales . Fantastical explanations (angry gods hurling lightning bolts) and rare events with dramatic outcomes (saber-toothed tiger attacks) make more of an impact on us than statistical norms. Evolution gave us brains that crave certainty, with irrational fears of crashing in an airplane and a built-in weakness for just-so stories about intelligent design. Meanwhile, the true wonders revealed by the scientific method — species that change into new species over time, continents that float around the planet, a quantum-mechanical world where nothing is for sure — are worse than counterintuitive. To a depressingly large number of us, they're downright threatening (www.wired.com....su_science)
What do You get if you combine Urban Legend , Are You Afraid Of The Dark ,and I Know What You Did Last Summer ?You'll get a Great Campy Movie Called `Campfire Tales ' This movie was funand very promising, if your a good horror fan and would live ANY horrormovie you'll love this one, I really liked Christine Taylor :) she waspretty good. This Movie was like a long Are You Afraid Of The Dark episode.It's Fun, It's Great, Try it for yourself, you'll love ittoo.PS. Christine Taylor is Great (us.imdb.com/title/tt0115813/)
Pretty soon hes going to ask for an congressional inquiry into this whole branch of the civil service called the Military. Why I have heard tales told around the campfire that they actually expect men in the submarine service to be away from home for up to six months at a time! (minx.cc/?post=255523)
Ragan has thought a lot about fear, particularly after seeing her children's reactions to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. For help, she looked to written folk tales and found herself seated at a virtual campfire with strangers and friends who each told a story in turn. (www.washingtonpost.com....01997.html)
Hoo-hah! Journey into insanity is more like it. Who wrote this stuff? Delirious and illogical, the four stories in here are like bizarre fever dreams from hell , and yet, they have an almost self-deprecating quality, as though the writer and artist were giving you a metaphorical "sly wink". as if, it didn't need to make TOO MUCH sense, because it's just a STORY. a scary story, but still fiction designed to thrill in its unreality. Campfire tales , if you will. Hardly deserving of THIS response (datajunkie.blogspot.com....chive.html)
In addition to tales of Uncle Wiggly, during his career Howard R. Garis (using several different pseudonyms) wrote many books in various classic junior lit series, including Tom Swift, The Bobbsey Twins, and The Campfire Girls. His wife and children wrote similar material, also using pen names. Collectively they authored over 1000 book (learning2share.blogspot.com....chive.html)
L ately a number of notable infotech industry veterans have been sitting down at the virtual campfire to spin out their tales of dot-com glory. Invariably, the narratives boil down to the same basic elements: Blast! Hit! Bite! Punch! Fight! Fight! Fight (www.salon.com....renegades/)
Can you imagine the topics discussed when Charles "Indian" Phillips, Daniel Boone, his black slave Derry and America's First Mountain Man John Colter sat about a campfire telling tales? Chewing a plug of tobacco.spitting, now and again. Such was the mix of cultures fueling the intellect at La Charrette (lacharrettevillage.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Playing in the rain is something all children do or want to do. As we grow older, we're supposed to grow out of that. aren't we? Hunting in the rain often provides interesting fodder for campfire tales , anyhow. I seem to do it at least once a season, because out there in the rainy woods, I might get a deer. and I know that won't happen in camp (hunting.about.com....e-rain.htm)
Carbon County is rich in History of the Old West. Lots of stories of Outlaws surround the myth and legend of Carbon County. A lot of the "stories" are just that.tales told around a campfire, or old yarns passed on from generation to generation.embellished George Manus (www.francescacontreras.com....useum.html)
Going into this "Deep," North American audiences are at a particular advantage â especially over their British and continental counterparts â for not knowing so much about the Crowhurst saga: It's one of those campfire tales that's never more powerful than on a first listening. (For that reason, this review will refrain from revealing too much.) In this way, the film resonates in similar fashion to such accounts of everyday people in extraordinarily dangerous situations as Jon Krakauer's chilling account of the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy, "Into Thin Air ." (www.csmonitor.com....-almo.html)
How many of us remember sitting around a campfire or on a dark front porch telling ghost stories and looking over our shoulders into the night ? The Moonlit Road is a Web site you can use to bring classic spooky tales from America's South into your classroom (www.education-world.com....1099.shtml)
The realm of the astonishing story has its roots in the campfire tales of old; twisted little shockers designed to surprise, frighten, and amuse. Each story is one succinct and perfect thread describing a single situation or set of circumstances. Gifted authors, such as the contributors to this compilation, are able to provide enough character development, description, and storyline in so few words; it makes one reconsider if the time investment associated with reading a novel is really worth it (contemporarylit.about.com....tories.htm)
How many of us remember sitting around a campfire or on a dark front porch telling ghost stories and looking over our shoulders into the night ? The Moonlit Road is a Web site you can use to bring classic spooky tales from America's South into your classroom. (www.education-world.com....9-17.shtml)
We all gather around the campfire to collective tell tales. We have our individual motives and uses from this collective process. We also have our individual responses when the Kumbaya is broken. I think they are all valid. Everything else are "should", "could" and "would (terranova.blogs.com....cost_.html)
It seems appropriate, then, that this issue of The Double Cone Quarterly should be largely about Memory the remembrance of times past, of people who loved this land before us, of fondly-remembered wilderness journeys in years gone by, of tall tales told around the campfire after a day on the trail (www.ventanawild.org..../fe01.html)
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