It's been discussed before, but now it's a reality. Two of QJ's resident inuks will be presenters at the coming show. Old Salt and Wally 13 will be teaming up to share ideas for 'Planning a Fishing-based Wilderness Canoe Trip". The rendezvous runs March 7-9 in Mad town. Hope many QJers will be there.

More info will be coming later, but you may want to begin making your plans to be there. 

That's excellent, OS!!

I'm here on the ground in Madison for anything you and Wally need--muscle, limo service, etc 

We will come and heckle support, even though we don't fish.  It should be fun! It will be great to see all of you!

I will be one of the several QJers engaged by Old Salt & Wally13 to show up in full-body pink flamingo costumes in an effort to spice up their program.  With our colorful head gear attached, we stand anywhere from 9' 3" to about 9' 8" in height.  Me & the rest of the flock will spend most of our time strutting the aisles & pecking away at peanuts or candy that we find on the floor as those two guys do their fishing presentation.  Really, we only start to get involved if Old Salt says something particularly witty, noteworthy or profound; then our duty is to cue audience applause by hooting, whistling and flapping our wings in unison.  Also, he's trained us to provide "cover" by cackling-up a ruckus in the event either he or Wally13 begin to slip and divulge confidential fishing hole information.  On our part, we birds-of-a-feather, plan for our entire side-bar performance to be remarkably realistic.  One anonymous (but notable) QJer  is bringing a large can of cream-of-chicken-soup and plans to do a "bird dropping" if he doesn't like the tackle recommendations made during the program.  A few Inukshuks are planning to bring a couple dozen eggs (extra large) and "lay them" whenever Old Salt's jokes don't go over so well.  We even have a few Moderators scheduled to police the event in costume, just in case the "Back to Civilization" crowd shows up and start throwing eggs at one another.

As for me, I credit Old Salt & Wally13 with an entirely novel & creative approach to running a CanoeCopia presentation.  Don't expect TOO much, however.  Remember, those of us in the bird suits are strictly amateurs; Old Salt is paying nothing but peanuts to do this job.

Speaking of avian matters, "Happy Thanksgiving", everybody!

Jimbo   

Hopefully Jimbo is back on the prozac by now. Sounds like his Thanksgiving was very exciting. We're looking forward to seeing everyone at Copia.