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Patrick F. [=McManus=] (born August 25 1933, died April 11 2018) was an American humorist who wrote about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho. [=McManus=]' dry style of humor has invited comparisons to Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/SJPerelman, among others.
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Patrick F. Francis [=McManus=] (born August 25 1933, died (August 25, 1933 – April 11 11, 2018) was an American humorist who wrote about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho. [=McManus=]' dry style of humor has invited comparisons to Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/SJPerelman, among others.
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After the TurnOfTheMillennium, he turned to writing a series of comedic [[MysteryFiction mystery novels]] set in an even more fictionalized modern-day Blight; the sheriff protagonist's elderly father is essentially an AuthorAvatar. The last of these was published in 2014, and [=McManus=] announced on his (now defunct) webpage that he now considers himself essentially retired from writing.
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After the TurnOfTheMillennium, he turned to writing a series of comedic [[MysteryFiction mystery novels]] set in an even more fictionalized modern-day Blight; the sheriff protagonist's elderly father is essentially an AuthorAvatar. The last of these was published in 2014, and [=McManus=] announced on his (now defunct) webpage that he now considers considered himself essentially retired from writing.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: He writes about his childhood and adult life in Sandpoint, Idaho, which he rechristened "Blight".
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Patrick F. [=McManus=] (born 1933) is an American humorist who writes about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho. [=McManus=]' dry style of humor has invited comparisons to Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/SJPerelman, among others.
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Patrick F. [=McManus=] (born 1933) is August 25 1933, died April 11 2018) was an American humorist who writes wrote about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho. [=McManus=]' dry style of humor has invited comparisons to Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/SJPerelman, among others.
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* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: In "The Sensuous Angler", he sneaks around to a married woman's apartment to engage in some illicit fish-filleting. And no, that's not a euphemism. Before they start, the woman gets more comfortable by putting on some jeans and a bulky stained sweater.
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* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: In At the start of the previously-mentioned fish-filleting session in "The Sensuous Angler", he sneaks around to a married woman's apartment to engage in some illicit fish-filleting. And no, that's not a euphemism. Before they start, the woman gets more comfortable by putting on some jeans and a bulky stained sweater.
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-->He then used the air in his lungs to power a long, quavering scream of anguish that echoed up and down the lake, and for miles away fishermen said to each other, "Smokey Joe must have lost a trophy bass he thought was a log."
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-->He then used the air in his lungs to power a long, quavering scream of anguish that echoed up and down the lake, and for [[DistantReactionShot miles away away]] fishermen said to each other, "Smokey Joe must have lost a trophy bass he thought was a log."
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* CaptainErsatz: Not of anyone famous, but of the people he grew up with.
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** Another story describes an instance when he and his fishing companion Retch Sweeney decide to go skinny-dipping in a mountain stream that proves to be ice-cold. They emerge from the water just as a small group of mushroom enthusiasts come walking past, and McManus expresses his relief that "a particularly bad twelve-letter word had frozen on Retch's lower lip and didn't thaw out until we were in the car driving home."
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** Another story describes an instance when he and his fishing companion Retch Sweeney decide to go skinny-dipping in a mountain stream that proves to be ice-cold. They emerge from the water just as a small group of mushroom enthusiasts come walking past, and McManus [=McManus=] expresses his relief that "a particularly bad twelve-letter word had frozen on Retch's lower lip and didn't thaw out until we were in the car driving home."
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Discussed in one of his stories, commenting on the somewhat magical propensity of already-injured toes to attract further damage.
* BloodOath: Parodied in a story about his childhood adventures with his pal Crazy Eddie Muldoon; the duo always talks about sealing their (not terribly vital) secrets with blood oaths, but since that would involve, you know, cutting yourself, they only do it when one of them accidentally damages himself while playing, and they "share" the blood.
* CabinFever: Wrote a short story discussing this malady, along with its lesser-known variations Villa Fever (think a mild case of sniffles) and Two-Man-Tent Fever (think Ebola).
* CordonBleughChef: He speaks on occasion of "Whatcha-Got Stew" which is concocted in hunting camps using whatever random ingredients can be scrounged together at short notice. Just ''looking at'' the result isn't particularly safe, much less ''eating'' it.
* CrushingHandshake: In "Scritch's Creek":
-->And then Scritch had me by the hand, crunching all my finger and knuckle bones into little splinters, and I supposed that he would then move on and do the same to all the other parts of my body, one piece at a time. But then I realized he was pumping the remains of my hand up and down.
* CurseCutShort: In "Meanwhile Back at the B-Western", he comments that all characters in such movies "curse" in the self-interrupting fashion, be they villains or heroes.
* CrushingHandshake: In "Scritch's Creek":
-->And then Scritch had me by the hand, crunching all my finger and knuckle bones into little splinters, and I supposed that he would then move on and do the same to all the other parts of my body, one piece at a time. But then I realized he was pumping the remains of my hand up and down.
* CurseCutShort: In "Meanwhile Back at the B-Western", he comments that all characters in such movies "curse" in the self-interrupting fashion, be they villains or heroes.
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: Played with "The Sensuous Angler", in which he tells the tale of his torrid...er, fishing partnership with a co-worker whose husband Hammer hates fish and fishing. After sneaking over to her apartment for some hot-and-heavy perch-filleting action (and no, that's not a euphemism), Pat asks the question at hand.
-->"Yes yes yes yes! And do you know what made it move?"\\
"What?"\\
"Hammer! He always trips on that last step at the top of the stairs!"
-->"Yes yes yes yes! And do you know what made it move?"\\
"What?"\\
"Hammer! He always trips on that last step at the top of the stairs!"
* EmbarrassingNickname: Discussed in "The Last Flight of Homer Pidgin".
-->The idea, as I understood it, was to give a kid a nickname appropriate to his appearance or eccentricity of behavior, the crueler the better. A kid with warts, for example, might be known as 'Toad' or 'Frog' or simply 'Warty'. In the course of time, the warts might vanish, but the nickname would remain, continuing its work of warping the kid's personality and kicking holes in his psyche. Nicknames were fun.
* EyebrowsBurnedOff: In one of his short stories, he talks about losing his eyebrows as a youth while experimenting with black powder.
-->The idea, as I understood it, was to give a kid a nickname appropriate to his appearance or eccentricity of behavior, the crueler the better. A kid with warts, for example, might be known as 'Toad' or 'Frog' or simply 'Warty'. In the course of time, the warts might vanish, but the nickname would remain, continuing its work of warping the kid's personality and kicking holes in his psyche. Nicknames were fun.
* EyebrowsBurnedOff: In one of his short stories, he talks about losing his eyebrows as a youth while experimenting with black powder.
* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: A story involving an over-zealous Boy Scout leader who not only goes skinny dipping, but does so in extremely cold water. Predictably, the disgruntled scouts steal his clothes. He roars back into camp "wearing" only a bit shrubbery arranged around his privates, latches onto to who he thinks are the culprits and drags them away for a dunking. And of course, two of the troop's den mothers have shown up, and witness all of this.
* LameComeback: "I, The Hunted" includes this exchange from his childhood:
-->"We'll see about that, you puny little rat!" Skragg snarled.\\
"Yeah, and you got dandruff!" I retorted. I made a mental note to work on my repertoire of insults. ''Dandruff'', for pity's sake.
* LaxativePrank: "The Fly" tells of being a night janitor in college, and the steps that the department secretaries took to keep the janitors from pilfering their desk goodies:
-->"A secretary over in Sociology loaded a massive charge of chocolate-flavored laxative into a choice morsel and almost wiped out Charlie Fisk."\\
"That's terrible," I said.\\
"Yeah. And poor Charlie wasn't even the one who ate it. He was just an innocent bystander."
-->"We'll see about that, you puny little rat!" Skragg snarled.\\
"Yeah, and you got dandruff!" I retorted. I made a mental note to work on my repertoire of insults. ''Dandruff'', for pity's sake.
* LaxativePrank: "The Fly" tells of being a night janitor in college, and the steps that the department secretaries took to keep the janitors from pilfering their desk goodies:
-->"A secretary over in Sociology loaded a massive charge of chocolate-flavored laxative into a choice morsel and almost wiped out Charlie Fisk."\\
"That's terrible," I said.\\
"Yeah. And poor Charlie wasn't even the one who ate it. He was just an innocent bystander."
** Another time, he writes about growing up in a household headed by his hard, fearless, super-competent mother, commenting that the only thing she couldn't bend to her will was food. He learned to "scrape off the burnt parts".
* LookBehindYou: Reminisces about this trick's prevalence in the Westerns of his childhood in "Meanwhile Back at the B-Western".
* LyingFingerCross: In "At Loose Ends", he relates an instance where his childhood friend Crazy Eddie Muldoon was made to uncross his fingers when forced into a promise, so he crossed his toes instead.
* LookBehindYou: Reminisces about this trick's prevalence in the Westerns of his childhood in "Meanwhile Back at the B-Western".
* LyingFingerCross: In "At Loose Ends", he relates an instance where his childhood friend Crazy Eddie Muldoon was made to uncross his fingers when forced into a promise, so he crossed his toes instead.
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** "Bleeping bleep of ableep!"bleep!"
** One of his hunting/fishing/camping companions dislikes another and insists on referring to him by a variety of "crude anatomical names". Throughout the rest of the story, the character in question keeps addressing the other as "you kneecap", "that elbow", etc.
** Another story describes an instance when he and his fishing companion Retch Sweeney decide to go skinny-dipping in a mountain stream that proves to be ice-cold. They emerge from the water just as a small group of mushroom enthusiasts come walking past, and McManus expresses his relief that "a particularly bad twelve-letter word had frozen on Retch's lower lip and didn't thaw out until we were in the car driving home."
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: He writes about his various childhood and teenaged adventures in Blight, Idaho, which is a stand-in for his real-life hometown Sandpoint.
** "Bleeping bleep of a
** One of his hunting/fishing/camping companions dislikes another and insists on referring to him by a variety of "crude anatomical names". Throughout the rest of the story, the character in question keeps addressing the other as "you kneecap", "that elbow", etc.
** Another story describes an instance when he and his fishing companion Retch Sweeney decide to go skinny-dipping in a mountain stream that proves to be ice-cold. They emerge from the water just as a small group of mushroom enthusiasts come walking past, and McManus expresses his relief that "a particularly bad twelve-letter word had frozen on Retch's lower lip and didn't thaw out until we were in the car driving home."
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: He writes about his various childhood and teenaged adventures in Blight, Idaho, which is a stand-in for his real-life hometown Sandpoint.
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* PlayingDoctor: He recounts the time as a kid that he got invited over by his neighbor Olga Bonemarrow to "play doctor"; it turned out the girl was referring to a mindnumbingly dull medical-themed board game.
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* TheScream: From "How to Get Started in Bass Fishing":
-->He then used the air in his lungs to power a long, quavering scream of anguish that echoed up and down the lake, and for miles away fishermen said to each other, "Smokey Joe must have lost a trophy bass he thought was a log."
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: He details his development of the technique of smoking a pipe and looking either "Thoughtful" or "Bemused" in order to hide his ignorance. This combination causes people to think he is doing some serious intellectual pondering.
-->He then used the air in his lungs to power a long, quavering scream of anguish that echoed up and down the lake, and for miles away fishermen said to each other, "Smokey Joe must have lost a trophy bass he thought was a log."
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* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: In "The Sensuous Angler", he sneaks around to a married woman's apartment to engage in some illicit fish-filleting. And no, that's not a euphemism. Before they start, the woman gets more comfortable by putting on some jeans and a bulky stained sweater.
* SmellySkunk: In one story, Pat and his pal Crazy Eddie Muldoon accidentally catch a skunk in the pit they have dug. Eddie's father falls in the pit and gets a full dose of spray.
* StereoFibbing: ''They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?'' includes an account of his youthful encounter with the local game warden:
-->"What you boys doin' here?" he demanded finally. We answered simultaneously: "Lookin" for a cow." "Pullin' up thistles." Sneed didn't smile at these contradictory explanations. He was not a fun-loving man.
* SmellySkunk: In one story, Pat and his pal Crazy Eddie Muldoon accidentally catch a skunk in the pit they have dug. Eddie's father falls in the pit and gets a full dose of spray.
* StereoFibbing: ''They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?'' includes an account of his youthful encounter with the local game warden:
-->"What you boys doin' here?" he demanded finally. We answered simultaneously: "Lookin" for a cow." "Pullin' up thistles." Sneed didn't smile at these contradictory explanations. He was not a fun-loving man.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: After swerving to avoid running over a skunk:
-->"My goodness! What would you have done if you'd hit that skunk with the car?"\\
"The only thing to do," I said, "I'd have stopped and buried it in the ditch. I might have buried the skunk while I was at it."
-->"My goodness! What would you have done if you'd hit that skunk with the car?"\\
"The only thing to do," I said, "I'd have stopped and buried it in the ditch. I might have buried the skunk while I was at it."
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* AmbiguousSyntax: After swerving to avoid running over a skunk:
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* CoolUncle: His Uncle Flynn, a ne'er-to-well gambler.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It took him a while to work out his cast of characters in the tales of his youth; one early story features a friend named "Stupe" Jones who made that one appearance and then disappeared for good, replaced with Crazy Eddie and Retch.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: He writes about his childhood and adult life in Sandpoint.
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--> "My goodness! What would you have done if you'd hit that skunk with the car?"
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* HenpeckedHusband: He occasionally depicts himself as one of these.
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* HenpeckedHusband: He occasionally often depicts himself as one of these.
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"Ain't s'posed to be ''nobody'' draggin' it!"
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"Ain't s'posed to be
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Patrick F. [=McManus=] (born 1933) is an American humorist who writes about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho. [=McManus=]' dry humor has invited comparisons to Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/SJPerelman, among others.
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Patrick F. [=McManus=] (born 1933) is an American humorist who writes about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho. [=McManus=]' dry style of humor has invited comparisons to Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/SJPerelman, among others.
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'''Patrick F. [=McManus=]''' (born 1933) is an American humorist who writes about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho. [=McManus=]' dry humor has invited comparisons to Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/SJPerelman, among others.
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* YouCanPanicNow: The trick is to do it while standing in place, rather than running blindly into the next tree. Or state.
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* YouCanPanicNow: The trick is to do it while standing in place, rather than running blindly into the next tree. Or state.
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'''Patrick F. [=McManus=]''' (born 1933) is an American humorist who writes about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho.
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'''Patrick F. [=McManus=]''' (born 1933) is an American humorist who writes about outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing; for many years he contributed comedic essays and short stories to (and served as an "editor-at-large" for) ''Outdoor Life'' magazine. Said stories, which have also been reprinted in several book collections, usually focus on his misadventures in the outdoors or recount highly-fictionalized anecdotes from his youth, which was mostly spent in the small town of Sandpoint ([[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed aka "Blight"]]), Idaho.
Idaho. [=McManus=]' dry humor has invited comparisons to Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/SJPerelman, among others.
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* TheDitz: Several inhabitants of Blight, such as his cousin Buck and his best friend Retch Sweeney.
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* TooDumbToLive: Several inhabitants of Blight, such as his cousin Buck, and his best friend Retch Sweeney.
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* AlwaysGetsHisMan: Sneed, the local game warden.
* ApronMatron: Pat's mother and grandmother.
* [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]]: the Troll.
* BlatantLies: Cheerfully lampshaded.
* BrickJoke: His articles often end with one of these.
* ApronMatron: Pat's mother and grandmother.
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* HorribleCampingTrip: Numerous examples of FromBadToWorse.
* LethalChef: Important hunting-camp tip: never ''ever'' eat the green hash.
* LethalChef: Important hunting-camp tip: never ''ever'' eat the green hash.
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%% * HorribleCampingTrip: Numerous examples of FromBadToWorse.
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*LethalChef: LethalChef:
** Important hunting-camp tip: never ''ever'' eat the green hash.
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** Important hunting-camp tip: never ''ever'' eat the green hash.
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* MountainMan: His childhood mentor, Rancid Crabtree.
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%% * MountainMan: His childhood mentor, Rancid Crabtree.
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* NostalgiaFilter
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%% * NostalgiaFilter
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* TheOmnipresent / StealthHiBye: Sneed, the game warden, is implied to have these abilities because of his tendency to instantly materialize wherever a hunting or fishing violation is occurring.
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* TheOmnipresent / StealthHiBye: TheOmnipresent: Sneed, the game warden, is implied to have these abilities because of his tendency to instantly materialize wherever a hunting or fishing violation is occurring.
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* ThePigPen: Rancid
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%% * ThePigPen: RancidRancid.
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After the TurnOfTheMillennium, he turned to writing a series of comedic [[MysteryFiction mystery novels]] set in an even more fictionalized modern-day Blight; the sheriff protagonist's elderly father is essentially an AuthorAvatar. The series has been officially concluded, and [=McManus=] has announced on his own webpage that he now considers himself essentially retired.
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After the TurnOfTheMillennium, he turned to writing a series of comedic [[MysteryFiction mystery novels]] set in an even more fictionalized modern-day Blight; the sheriff protagonist's elderly father is essentially an AuthorAvatar. The series has been officially concluded, and [=McManus=] has announced on his own (now defunct) webpage that he now considers himself essentially retired.
* CoolUncle: His Uncle Flynn, a ne'er-to-well gambler.
* FunetikAksent: Rancid Crabtree's dialogue is rendered in this fashion.
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* TheOmnipresent: Sneed, the game warden, is implied to have this ability, because of his tendency to instantly materialize wherever a hunting or fishing violation is occurring.
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* TheOmnipresent: TheOmnipresent / StealthHiBye: Sneed, the game warden, is implied to have this ability, these abilities because of his tendency to instantly materialize wherever a hunting or fishing violation is occurring.occurring.
-->"Ain't s'posed to be but three of us draggin' this deer.."\\
"Ain't s'posed to be nobody draggin' it!"
-->"Ain't s'posed to be but three of us draggin' this deer.."\\
"Ain't s'posed to be nobody draggin' it!"
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* WriteWhoYouKnow
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* WriteWhoYouKnowWriteWhoYouKnow: He writes about his childhood and adult life in Sandpoint.
* YouCanPanicNow: The trick is to do it while standing in place, rather than running blindly into the next tree. Or state.
* YouCanPanicNow: The trick is to do it while standing in place, rather than running blindly into the next tree. Or state.
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* GilliganCut: Happens occasionally in his stories. For example:
-->"Ha!" I said. "There's no way I'm going to go down that river in a rowboat. A person would have to be out of his mind to take a rowboat down that river!"
-->Hours later, Hoov was still in a wretched mood. "Row to the right," he commanded.
-->"Ha!" I said. "There's no way I'm going to go down that river in a rowboat. A person would have to be out of his mind to take a rowboat down that river!"
-->Hours later, Hoov was still in a wretched mood. "Row to the right," he commanded.
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Tropes cannot be averted \"hilariously.\" This is cruft.
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* HeroicDog: Hilariously averted with Pat's childhood dog, Strange.
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* HeroicDog: Hilariously averted Averted with Pat's childhood dog, Strange.
