[at-l] Weary's one-stick post

[ellen at clinic.net (ellen)]

Let's give Jim a special smashmellow for finally clearing up this long standing mystery.

Weary

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Jim Bullard <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
> To: Bror8588@aol.com, ellen@clinic.net, Slyatpct@aol.com, at-l@backcountry.net
> Date: Sun, Sep-26-2004 11:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Weary's one-stick post
> 
> At 10:01 AM 9/26/2004 -0400, Bror8588@aol.com wrote:
> > > may thy rod and thy staff comfort you."
> >
> >So, that's two -- two poles.  Sounds like the Bible has given us good 
> advice.
> >  I just never knew the names of them.  Now, if someone can answer the
> >question, Which pole do you carry in your right hand?  The rod?  Or, 
> the 
> >staff?  And
> >should they be different colors so you could identify them or is it 
> like Port
> >and Starboard on a ship, When you move north the right handed one is 
> called
> >rod and the left handed one is called staff.
> 
> The short one that you prod a slow moving sheep with is your rod. The 
> long 
> one with a crook on the end that you use to retrieve lambs from 
> crevasses 
> with is your staff. They are actually quite easy to tell apart no 
> matter 
> which hand they are in or which direction you are headed.
> 
> 
> 
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