Here's the answer to all of our questions What sets apart outdoorsmen from, say, a roomful of advice columnists, beside the fact outdoormen tend to own at least one, good pair of chest waders and dozens of duck decoys, plus a shotgun and seven or eight fishing rods and a boat they keep littered with cigar stubs, is the fact outdoorsmen get asked a lot more questions than do advice columnists. Advice columnists know little about what really matters in the world. Outdoorsmen know all about the outdoors.
Advice columnists know nothing.
Admittedly, advice columnists do occasionally get asked small and trivial questions sometimes about dinner party etiquette or how to fold a napkin properly. But it's a generally understood principle that if anyone has any kind of question about nature, it's best to check with an outdoorsman. Unfortunately, we outdoorsmen often don't know anything about the questions we've been asked, which tends to complicate matters. These sorts of questions always pop up among casual conversation, more often than one might suspect. The trouble for us outdoorsmen is the fact we have no answers to these difficult entomological and physics questions.