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Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-14-2006, 09:20
That spray seems goofy. I've got a different plate cover that allows you to read all the characters if you're directly behind it. If you look from either side half of the plate is covered up. Most cameras can't get a shot directly behind you. The paint and plate covers work the same way - they contain tiny crystals that reflect strong light. The flash used by most traffic cameras is strong and the crystals defuse the light causing the image in the immediate area of said crystals (the license plate) to be obscured. it is the same thing that happens in our regular photos when we are wearing something reflective - like the reflective area on running shoes, stripe up the side of pants, emblem on a T-shirt....
Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-14-2006, 09:22
I may go into photoshop later - I have to feed a hungry male dino right now before he bites me on the toe. :D
Dances with Mice
12-14-2006, 09:56
I'm going to learn to swim by reading websites and watching videos.
I'm now reading websites about different types of waters. Some are cold and some warm and some are salty so different swimming techniques are needed. Lots of these websites are by people who don't swim anymore because the water wasn't suitable for them, so they all know what they're talking about. There's no reason for me to actually go into water. IMHO I can become an expert swimmer without getting wet.
There are also videos about swimming. There are many lessons to be learned by watching funny videos of people drowning, IMO.
Dances with Mice
12-14-2006, 10:19
The paint and plate covers work the same way - they contain tiny crystals that reflect strong light. The flash used by most traffic cameras is strong and the crystals defuse the light causing the image in the immediate area of said crystals (the license plate) to be obscured. it is the same thing that happens in our regular photos when we are wearing something reflective - like the reflective area on running shoes, stripe up the side of pants, emblem on a T-shirt....Hey, it's not my thirty bucks (and never will be). Go for it and let us know how it works.
Gray Blazer
12-14-2006, 10:37
::: Standing on fingers so I don't go create something totally inappropriate in photoshop - think woman in tie-dyed clothing holding a whip and leash. :::C'mon, he left himself wide open.
he'd turn gay before he did that
Maybe her name will be Lola?;)
The Old Fhart
12-14-2006, 10:59
Lone Wolf-"he'd turn gay before he did that"
Fvital-"Maybe her name will be Lola?;) "Now that is Kinky!;)
StarLyte
12-14-2006, 11:06
I learned a lot about Minnesota Smith the days we spent together driving, at Miss Janets and at Kincora after his hike.
I always use these experiences to remind myself never to judge others but to learn a better acceptance of people and life, and know that even though we are brought together under this umbrella, we are very different.
Minnesota Smith is an exceptional creature.....there wasn't one time that I felt awkward or had to defend myself as a woman, even though I was prepared to do so from just reading the tidbits of information about him along the Trail.
I suppose in writing this I am revealing that I might even care about him somewhat as a friend. That's sort of obvious when I asked him to meet me in Harpers Ferry to drive down to Janet's for Thanksgiving. Along came Matthewski as well, and the 3 of us drove together like 3 kids on a sled......an adventure.
The biggest question is....."has the Trail humbled Minnesota Smith?"......the answer is yes.....but the Trail has also created another educator, who has based his teachings on the rewards that this beautiful Trail has given another thru hiker.
I'll embrace it....all.
Hats off to ya MS.
Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-14-2006, 11:09
::: incorporates Lola into photoshop vision :::
DWM - since the head-on in 2004, I drive like a little ol' lady so I'm not the person to be testing the spray. My lead-footed brother was the one that told me about this stuff and snce he hasn't gotten any automated tickets......
Dances with Mice
12-14-2006, 11:48
Now that is Kinky!Dammit, it took me an entire minute before I got that and I should have thought of it first. Nice one.
But I'm not here to talk about that. What I'd like to discuss is the whiney crew that just arrived on Mt. Washington (http://www.mountwashington.org/). Life is so unfair. They had to ride up in the truck because the snowcat is still stuck halfway up the mountain waiting on snow. Is this season on pace to beat the record for best winter weather on Mt W?
The Old Fhart
12-14-2006, 12:19
DWM-"What I'd like to discuss is the whiney crew that just arrived on Mt. Washington. Life is so unfair. They had to ride up in the truck because the snowcat is still stuck halfway up the mountain waiting on snow."Well, the cat isn't technically stuck, they leave it at the 1/2 way point on the road and don't use it because the tracks have points to bite into the ice that would tear up the pavement. In the late fall they usually use the truck to 1/2 way because the lower road is pretty clear. The Cat is generally needed on the upper 1/2 because that is where you go above tree line and there can be huge drifts that the truck just can't handle. By spring the cat may be riding on drifts about 40 feet above the actual road in some spots.
The cat has a box on the back with seats and will hold about 10 people if they're real friendly.;) There is also food and other supplies in there or securely roped on the roof. Even with a heater it can be below freezing inside the box but it is generally a lot better inside than out.
The truck is just a big 4x4 with a cap on the back and no seats. Trust me, that is not a fun ride. I know why they complain. Some of the summit crew will actually walk part way from the base just so they spend less time in the truck when it is used to 1/2 way. On an average winter there is generally good snow cover the entire 7.6 miles and the cat can go the entire distance. On a good day with only minor drifts to plow and reasonable winds, it takes 1.5 hours to go up or down. There was one very nasty day where it took 4.5 hours to get up the road. Everyone going up has to have full winter gear suitable for the worst conditions just in case the cat breaks down and they would have to walk.
StarLyte
12-14-2006, 12:54
Dammit, it took me an entire minute before I got that and I should have thought of it first. Nice one.
But I'm not here to talk about that. What I'd like to discuss is the whiney crew that just arrived on Mt. Washington (http://www.mountwashington.org/). Life is so unfair. They had to ride up in the truck because the snowcat is still stuck halfway up the mountain waiting on snow. Is this season on pace to beat the record for best winter weather on Mt W?
DWM or TOF....did one of you write that in the snow?
Dances with Mice
12-14-2006, 13:10
DWM or TOF....did one of you write that in the snow?There's not enough snow for full names this year so everyone has to use initials.
StarLyte
12-14-2006, 13:22
There's not enough snow for full names this year so everyone has to use initials.
HEY....you didn't see the Mt. Washington webcam? Someone wrote "HI" in the snow.....
Dances with Mice
12-14-2006, 13:46
HEY....you didn't see the Mt. Washington webcam? Someone wrote "HI" in the snow.....Oh, I see it now, thanks. When I checked in this morning it was too foggy to see much. It should have been "VT" though, right? They're really lost if they think they're in "HI".
mweinstone
12-14-2006, 16:47
ms will become a layed back hipster with way left ideas and overalls and a wife that makes lone wolf die and kids that put us all to shame and mostly work in space.
not
mweinstone
12-14-2006, 16:48
ms will become a farmer.
Oh, I see it now, thanks. When I checked in this morning it was too foggy to see much. It should have been "VT" though, right? They're really lost if they think they're in "HI".I'm thinking "NH" myself.:confused: I'll bet I'm missing something.:-?
VT huh - I didn't think the Hokies had anything to do with running the Mt Washington Observatory
minnesotasmith
12-14-2006, 18:45
ms will become a layed back hipster with way left ideas and overalls and a wife that makes lone wolf die and kids that put us all to shame and mostly work in space.
not
I'd say, nope, DEFINITELY nope, maybe, not sure what a wife that makes LW die would mean (from revulsion? envy?), I hope so, and sadly probably not (though I would if I got the chance).
Dances with Mice
12-14-2006, 18:47
I'm thinking "NH" myself. I'll bet I'm missing something.All them little bitty states up there all run together, how am I supposed to keep them straight?
Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-14-2006, 21:09
youll all be jellouse when ms hooks up with a comune livin, free thinkin, hippy mamma!
he'd turn gay before he did that
Maybe her name will be Lola?;)
You people sure know how to make it hard on a photoshopper
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/lowcarbscoop/MSWhipcollar2.jpg
mweinstone
12-14-2006, 21:20
back to buisness. ive just consulted that squares thingy you guys call your callender and ive got 10 fridays left till my pedicted launch date to thru in 07. thats 10000 clamers if i play my calories right. envy , minnesota . lone wolf would die of envy. now i just need a dollar from each of you sent to this address and all will be fine. mat c/o the save the mat fund, chicago illinoise 60609. yeah mat, illinoise. im smart. and i will need my own thread with vidio capability and a bottle of something shinny for my finnish and i will need ms flown out to certian strategic points along the way to boost my spirits. and i will require a canoly and a calzone once a week at roadhead and four to six beers a night while in towns and i want music.i like clam chowder and ginger snaps too. and fried food of all kind. and butter. lots of butter. i want folks to come out to meet me with butter. ill think of more weird crap to fill the pages of this weird post later. ive got world domination to plan.
mweinstone
12-14-2006, 21:25
and lolaski is hidious. its a thing nit a sex. its like howard stern after 20 years of prison and turned tranny. its like a creature made frome spare canerious parts cut off in surgery and sewn back together for montgomery burns to reproduce. its like a nightmare! turn it off! turn it off!
You people sure know how to make it hard on a photoshopper
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/lowcarbscoop/MSWhipcollar2.jpg
Nice, WB in the background.:sun
Nasty, I can't look at it anymore. Shield my eyes....
Panzer
Nasty, I can't look at it anymore. Shield my eyes....
Panzer
Be nice Panzer. IMHO MS has never looked better.:D
Skidsteer
12-14-2006, 22:12
Anybody else have visions of this 'thing' we call The Thread morphing into the Matthewski update in '07?
Minnesota Smith could wake up every morning at 6:00 AM and give us two or three posts about how he'd rather be hiking with mweinstone and that mweinstone is a thru-hiking god and there will be no bears and the IRS thinks Matt is on the PCT so they'll never find him and MS will spend his evenings defending Matthewski against scurrilous ******* accusations made on the thread against Matt by vicious Thead detractors and assorted trolls that don't get it.
That'd be poetic.
Nightwalker
12-14-2006, 22:23
Oh, I see it now, thanks. When I checked in this morning it was too foggy to see much. It should have been "VT" though, right? They're really lost if they think they're in "HI".
That was just wrong...
Nightwalker
12-14-2006, 22:25
All them little bitty states up there all run together, how am I supposed to keep them straight?
There's Maine, and then there's everything else up there.
Dances with Mice
12-14-2006, 22:31
Anybody else have visions of this 'thing' we call The Thread morphing ...No, it should stay the tightly focused forum it has always been.
briarpatch
12-14-2006, 23:13
OK, here's my analogy for The Thread. Keep in mind that I grew up in a very small town. The Thread reminds me of the pot bellied stove in the corner store, where a local boy has moved away to college and the old guys sit around the stove and discuss whether he's gonna make it. Other side conversations pop up, but the reason for going to the store is "checking on MS". When he finally makes it, folks have enjoyed sitting around the stove, so they keep coming back. Its a time-honored tradition played out in cyberspace.
back to buisness. ive just consulted that squares thingy you guys call your callender and ive got 10 fridays left till my pedicted launch date to thru in 07. thats 10000 clamers if i play my calories right. envy , minnesota . lone wolf would die of envy. now i just need a dollar from each of you sent to this address and all will be fine. mat c/o the save the mat fund, chicago illinoise 60609. yeah mat, illinoise. im smart. and i will need my own thread with vidio capability and a bottle of something shinny for my finnish and i will need ms flown out to certian strategic points along the way to boost my spirits. and i will require a canoly and a calzone once a week at roadhead and four to six beers a night while in towns and i want music.i like clam chowder and ginger snaps too. and fried food of all kind. and butter. lots of butter. i want folks to come out to meet me with butter. ill think of more weird crap to fill the pages of this weird post later. ive got world domination to plan.
OK, I will be the first to lay down my bet on this one. Matthewski if you complete a thruhike next year I will meet you at the finish to deliver your "bottle of something shinny."
the goat
12-15-2006, 00:02
and i will require a canoly and a calzone once a week at roadhead and four to six beers a night while in towns and i want music.i like clam chowder and ginger snaps too. and fried food of all kind. and butter. lots of butter. i want folks to come out to meet me with butter.
i like to have all that stuff too matt, but i'll usually settle for just the roadhead and six beers.:D
minnesotasmith
12-15-2006, 02:50
Anybody else have visions of this 'thing' we call The Thread morphing into the Matthewski update in '07?
Minnesota Smith could wake up every morning at 6:00 AM and give us two or three posts about how he'd rather be hiking with mweinstone and that mweinstone is a thru-hiking god and there will be no bears and the IRS thinks Matt is on the PCT so they'll never find him and MS will spend his evenings defending Matthewski against scurrilous ******* accusations made on the thread against Matt by vicious Thead detractors and assorted trolls that don't get it.
That'd be poetic.
I've already promised him I'd drive up and slackpack him some during his thruhike. Oh, and Matthewski is a darned good hiker as well as an incredible human being.
minnesotasmith
12-15-2006, 02:56
All them little bitty states up there all run together, how am I supposed to keep them straight?
Combine MA, CT, NH,and VT into one state, at the very least for purposes of U.S. Senate representation. They're all too small areally to justify being separate states. What did some Northern wag say about SC just before the War for Southern Independence, that it was "too small for a republic, and too large for a lunatic asylum"? Analogous situation IMO.
Only vaguely related: hilarious short video about gov't employees:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VxXyJPbbuw8
minnesotasmith
12-15-2006, 02:58
Nice, WB in the background.:sun
I've been accused of lots of things with varying degrees of basis in reality, but being a bottom t*rd burglar is a new one.:rolleyes:
minnesotasmith
12-15-2006, 03:58
If any of the zillion liberal guys reading this thread would prefer to date the darker-haired woman in this short humor video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1hwb5yGZZQ&eurl=
Further satirical version of the less-feminist
type in the first video; it's a hilarious clip of Julie Brown from the movie "Earth Girls Are Easy" with Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, and Geena Davis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s70o8HCRGV4
minnesotasmith
12-15-2006, 04:44
Anyone know what degree Minnismith's sleeping bag is? Looks like the weather is going to suck up there this week. Poor bastard! :p
Is a full-length synthetic zero degree. With a balaclava and thermals, I was never cold in my bag on my thru. Outside the bag was another story sometimes...
Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-15-2006, 05:24
{{{ MS }}} I only photoshop the ones I love :D Sorry, I know the concept morph'ed a bit... I couldn't find suitable images for the original idea.
May I ask the manufacturer and model of your sleeping bag? The male dino's mother told me years ago that he was allergic to down so I've never used it in any of our common gear.
He told me yesterday he is not allergic to down {bleep}. I put a down comforter from one of the guest rooms on our bed last night just to be sure (as my beloved MIL was sharp as a tack until the day she thru-hiked thru the pearly gates)
Dances with Mice
12-15-2006, 07:01
MS - Your posts today between 1:50 and 3:44 am show that you have lost that 'in bed at sundown then up at the crack of dawn' habit. What other unhealthy habits are returning now that you've re-entered civilization?
minnesotasmith
12-15-2006, 11:28
MS - Your posts today between 1:50 and 3:44 am show that you have lost that 'in bed at sundown then up at the crack of dawn' habit. What other unhealthy habits are returning now that you've re-entered civilization?
I went to bed pretty early, shortly after my nieces hit the sack. I just woke back up some hours later, and said hey, uninterrupted noiseless Internet time where I don't have to avoid anything past PG...:D
Played some Isle Wars, posted some on www.voxday.net (http://www.voxday.net), etc.
I've been accused of lots of things with varying degrees of basis in reality, but being a bottom t*rd burglar is a new one.:rolleyes:
I'm not sure what you're saying here, or why. :confused: Perhaps you were still half asleep?:rolleyes:
Let me make myself clear, dear. Behind you, in the picture, on the computer, is Whiteblaze.net, cool. Where and what you burgle is your own business. Perhaps you were just feeling guilty?:eek:
Appalachian Tater
12-15-2006, 15:51
When is he going to finish????
minnesotasmith
12-15-2006, 16:12
I finished thruhiking the AT on 11/20/06.
Pacific Tortuga
12-15-2006, 16:32
I finished thruhiking the AT on 11/20/06.
I just Googled : 'Def. of a thru-hiker' and check out the 5th or 6th one listed, its never going to end, is it ? :rolleyes:
DWM: I just saw this story. Is this something you can relate to?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16220366/?GT1=8816
Anybody else have visions of this 'thing' we call The Thread morphing into the Matthewski update in '07?
Minnesota Smith could wake up every morning at 6:00 AM and give us two or three posts about how he'd rather be hiking with mweinstone and that mweinstone is a thru-hiking god and there will be no bears and the IRS thinks Matt is on the PCT so they'll never find him and MS will spend his evenings defending Matthewski against scurrilous ******* accusations made on the thread against Matt by vicious Thead detractors and assorted trolls that don't get it.
That'd be poetic.
It's time to start talking about mweinstones's hike if he's serious this time and put the other one to bed anyway. Let's have at it!
back to buisness. ive just consulted that squares thingy you guys call your callender and ive got 10 fridays left till my pedicted launch date to thru in 07. thats 10000 clamers if i play my calories right. envy , minnesota . lone wolf would die of envy. now i just need a dollar from each of you sent to this address and all will be fine. mat c/o the save the mat fund, chicago illinoise 60609. yeah mat, illinoise. im smart. and i will need my own thread with vidio capability and a bottle of something shinny for my finnish and i will need ms flown out to certian strategic points along the way to boost my spirits. and i will require a canoly and a calzone once a week at roadhead and four to six beers a night while in towns and i want music.i like clam chowder and ginger snaps too. and fried food of all kind. and butter. lots of butter. i want folks to come out to meet me with butter. ill think of more weird crap to fill the pages of this weird post later. ive got world domination to plan.
I'll fix you up with some proper magic if you can get your sorry *** to Port Clinton!:rolleyes:
mweinstone
12-15-2006, 18:22
there has been a loaded pack ready to go at the foot of the bed since childhood. there is never a non AT related topic on his lips. his love and commitment to thruhiking has been alive and well many years. this years attempt will not launch without a go from the irs. ie: a payment plan. i will delay my feb 18th launch only to may 15th at witch point i will wait to southbound only till june 25th at witch time i will call it off till o8. just to be honest. and i will be go for throttle up as ive finnaly learned not to dawdle and race but to pace and not space. thank you very much. thank you. your very nice.( elvis)
Darwin again
12-15-2006, 18:25
Combine MA, CT, NH,and VT into one state, at the very least for purposes of U.S. Senate representation. They're all too small areally to justify being separate states. What did some Northern wag say about SC just before the War for Southern Independence, that it was "too small for a republic, and too large for a lunatic asylum"? Analogous situation IMO.
Only vaguely related: hilarious short video about gov't employees:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VxXyJPbbuw8
M.S., you one crazy Summa beech. :D (Civeel War, she's over. Get over it.)
mweinstone
12-15-2006, 18:27
i will not however accept your nomination for thru hiker god status as my following christ makes it a sin. but i will however continue to blather on about my hiking heros like warren who are indeed thru hiking gods . and ms is really only a thru hiking king. its better for him to be just a king. gods have heavy bolts to throw and are allways getting there feet dirty squishing bad guys.
mweinstone
12-15-2006, 18:35
minnesota smith taught us alot. and he will be sorely missed. in retrospect,.. i wish i could have known him longer. he was someone who made folks feel as if they knew him in a short time. but we all dont know anyone after such a short time as was minnesotas . we will miss him dearly like a falmily member well loved. and his name will ring for a long long long time around campfires and hilltops as thruhikers pit themselves against not just the trail , but ms's accomplishment waiving in there faces saying,.... if i can , you can. and his name will follow the trail he left, the trail of legonds. i will miss luke. the untimly demise of his thread is sad. and if i am to dawn the rains of his yoke,.. he has made it easyer for me for sure. rest in peace dear thread.
mweinstone
12-15-2006, 18:40
allright this puppys mine. im takin over this joint. anybody got anyting ta say bout it? first i want the old fart brought to my office. i want live vidio feed and 24 hr survailence on the womans thread. dances thats your new job. go see what the girls are up to. keep me informed. goat and tank your my muscle men. i need lone wolf contained. he may still be loyal to ms. and i want the thread name changed to mats place and bring me a bottle of jonney walker .
stumpknocker
12-15-2006, 18:58
allright this puppys mine. im takin over this joint. anybody got anyting ta say bout it? first i want the old fart brought to my office. i want live vidio feed and 24 hr survailence on the womans thread. dances thats your new job. go see what the girls are up to. keep me informed. goat and tank your my muscle men. i need lone wolf contained. he may still be loyal to ms. and i want the thread name changed to mats place and bring me a bottle of jonney walker .
All right, that's funny stuff Matthewski. So funny that I had to come on here and make my first post to this thread just because I was laughing so hard. :)
Thanks again for the Shenandoah trail magic last month.
I'm glad I got to congratulate Minnesota Smith in person for completing the Trail because it looks like it's too late to do it here....now that this is your thread. :)
Dances with Mice
12-15-2006, 18:59
i want live vidio feed and 24 hr survailence on the womans thread. dances thats your new job. go see what the girls are up to. keep me informed. Sir, I can't do it. I looked in there once and they were talking about ... y'know ... female things ... and stuff. I'm still suffering from Traumatic Post Disorder Stress. Please don't send me in there again, sir, I can't take it.
Dances with Mice
12-15-2006, 19:07
DWM: I just saw this story. Is this something you can relate to?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16220366/?GT1=8816 Yeah, if there were Air Names like Trail Names, there'd be more of me.
Imagine if that plane crashed into the one full of snakes...
mweinstone
12-15-2006, 19:13
if ms meets a woman hes serious about,.. we must destroy the thread. she can never know his horrible horrible dark secrets herein contained. we must all take the vow of scilence. under pain of death we must keep quiet to a one
i will delay my feb 18th launch only to may 15th at witch point i will wait to southbound only till june 25th at witch time i will call it off till o8. and i will be go for throttle up as ive finnaly learned not to dawdle. thank you very much. thank you. your very nice.( elvis)
:::eek:Risks getting struck dead with a lightning bolt:eek:::
Would the May start commense then at Pearisburg on the day you suspended your hike this year?;)
terrapin_too
12-15-2006, 20:57
... i need lone wolf contained. he may still be loyal to ms...
There's only one way to do that, sir: Chaucer.
the goat
12-15-2006, 20:58
goat and tank your my muscle men. i need lone wolf contained.
you may have to rely on tank for this one, mat. lone wolf knows my fondness of certain distilled spirits, and would likely buy me off. :D
Lone Wolf
12-15-2006, 21:00
There's only one way to do that, sir: Chaucer.
Who's this Chaucer?
Mother's Finest
12-15-2006, 21:02
I know the man is serious. He has enough hiker food in his house to last for months (and the treatment supplies to survive as well)
and he hikes fast.
prediction-if he sets out, he will finish in 07. I hope to be an able quartermaster for him.
peace
mf
the goat
12-15-2006, 21:05
I know the man is serious. He has enough hiker food in his house to last for months (and the treatment supplies to survive as well)
true, true. when the apocalypse is upon us, i'm making a beeline for mat's apartment.
Lone Wolf
12-15-2006, 21:07
I know the man is serious. He has enough hiker food in his house to last for months (and the treatment supplies to survive as well)
and he hikes fast.
prediction-if he sets out, he will finish in 07. I hope to be an able quartermaster for him.
peace
mf
I might let the whackjob stay at my place too.:)
The Old Fhart
12-15-2006, 21:35
Terrapin_too-"There's only one way to do that, sir: Chaucer."Chaucer, I hardly knew her! (I believe that was the context)
Lone Wolf-"Who's this Chaucer?"
Check out "The Miller's Tale (http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/gchaucer/bl-gchau-can-mill.htm)". Great reading. I can't quote it here because its a little too strong for some folks.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sly http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=260117#post260117)
Anyone know what degree Minnismith's sleeping bag is? Looks like the weather is going to suck up there this week. Poor bastard! :p
Is a full-length synthetic zero degree. With a balaclava and thermals, I was never cold in my bag on my thru. Outside the bag was another story sometimes...
Zero degree synthetic? No wonder your pack looked so big, and heavy!
this years attempt will not launch without a go from the irs. ie: a payment plan.
That blood sucking IRS!!!!
I say:Get a lawyer and give them a good fight.. Tie them up in court for years.
Panzer
Hay look at the time of my previous post. It's 00:00
Panzer
70,000 dollars? Say it ain't so Joe, say it ain't so. Somewhere, deep down inside, I wish I could have blown 70 grand that I've already paid in taxes.
That blood sucking IRS!!!!
I say:Get a lawyer and give them a good fight.. Tie them up in court for years.
Panzer
Panzer, My guess is that your 1040 forms for the last 5 years just got printed and dropped in someones "In Box". I got a certified love letter last week also. Guess a big bottle of cheap wine and a letter opener will fill part of my weekend.
mweinstone
12-16-2006, 11:57
shades, im startin at amicalola as per my old fashioned minnesota smithlike belief in a purist hike. and my first aid kit collection has a 50 person size but i stopped collecting first aid crap cause i figure ill just let suckers die in the end times. i got enough for 50 though.speaking of survival gear for city dwelling end of world hopefuls,..... im quite proud of my water consumption figures and stores of filtering methods. as well i have studyed all the known ways to make fire . im up to 54 ways without matches. and im looking into buying a canoe or raft of some sort to hang from my one bedroom apt ceiling. i figure the flood is commin and ill have the only boat at 16th and snyder.think of the trade possibilitys! im gonna rule in the afterworld. you know,.. the mad max world thats a commin?
mweinstone
12-16-2006, 12:01
ill match my double 00 buck against a 401k anytime. nwe all should be diggin foxholes on the at! (kidding)
mweinstone
12-16-2006, 12:04
i wouldnt wipe my ash with a lawer. and taxes are due. there is no excuse not to pay. and my art will sell one day and god will make me rich in lots of ways. actually im learning alot about stress management from the irs situation in my life. ive learned that bourbon is better than canadian whisky.
insure ants
12-16-2006, 12:59
Check out "The Miller's Tale (http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/gchaucer/bl-gchau-can-mill.htm)". Great reading. I can't quote it here because its a little too strong for some folks.
Just a taste:
This carpenter had lately wed a wife
Whom lie loved better than he loved his life;
And she was come to eighteen years of age.
Jealous he was and held her close in cage.
For she was wild and young, and he was old,
And deemed himself as like to be cuckold.
Fair was this youthful wife, and therewithal
As weasel's was her body slim and small.
A girdle wore she, barred and striped, of silk.
An apron, too, as white as morning milk
About her loins, and full of many a gore;
She was a far more pleasant thing to see
Than is the newly budded young pear-tree
Now, sir, and then, sir, go befell the case,
That on a day this clever Nicholas
Fell in with this young wife to toy and play,
The while her husband was down Osney way,
Clerks being as crafty as the best of us;
And unperceived he caught her by the puss,
Saying: "Indeed, unless I have my will,
For secret love of you, sweetheart, I'll spill."
And held her hard about the hips, and how!
And said: "O darling, love me, love me now,
Or I shall die, and pray you God may save!"
i wouldnt wipe my ash with a lawer. and taxes are due. there is no excuse not to pay. and my art will sell one day and god will make me rich in lots of ways. actually im learning alot about stress management from the irs situation in my life. ive learned that bourbon is better than canadian whisky.
Maybe they over stated how much you owe figuring that you were going to get a lawyer and have the amount knowcked down some. I don't trust them to say how much is owed. They need to be watched and cross checked. They may be charging you more than your fair share. Just a thought...
I have heard of people going to the IRA at tax time and getting 2 different opinions from 2 different IRS employees.
Your being too trusting of the IRS. Get a second opinion.
Panzer
Panzer, My guess is that your 1040 forms for the last 5 years just got printed and dropped in someones "In Box". I got a certified love letter last week also. Guess a big bottle of cheap wine and a letter opener will fill part of my weekend.
Actually since I work for a large insurance company all my income gets reported to the IRS. My only other income is from my 401K, bank account and stocks and mutual funds which also reports my income to the IRS. I have no way to hide any of my income therefore I have to pay everything I owe. I think that the IRS knows that and which is why I have never been audited.
Panzer
saimyoji
12-16-2006, 14:06
Actually since I work for a large insurance company all my income gets reported to the IRS. My only other income is from my 401K, bank account and stocks and mutual funds which also reports my income to the IRS. I have no way to hide any of my income therefore I have to pay everything I owe. I think that the IRS knows that and which is why I have never been audited.
Panzer
A great way to get audited is to not report things on your 1040 that are automatically reported to the IRS via your financial institutions (IRA, 401K, social security, etc.) These are red flags.
mweinstone
12-16-2006, 16:19
the world is a getto.
im goin to bj's to get a humungus size shredded wheat for my ash. no lawers. and guess whos a thru hiking duke?
wyoming is.
Dances with Mice
12-16-2006, 22:07
All contributors to The Thread have been voted Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year'! No kidding.
Skidsteer
12-16-2006, 23:29
All contributors to The Thread have been voted Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year'! No kidding.
There goes the neighborhood.
Skidsteer
12-16-2006, 23:38
There goes the neighborhood.
Actually, looking at the last several years, we might fit in just fine.
All contributors to The Thread have been voted Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year'! No kidding.
DWM, I thought you were kidding until I saw the news on CNN. Congratulations to us!!!
This may be only the first award for The Thread. Nominations are currently being accepted for The Pulitzer Prize. I believe mweinstone is certainly qualified for the journalism award in category #4. Is there anyway to get the cash under the table?
4. For a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear presentation, in print or in print and online, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000)
Trillium
12-17-2006, 22:33
DWM, I thought you were kidding until I saw the news on CNN. Congratulations to us!!!
This may be only the first award for The Thread. Nominations are currently being accepted for The Pulitzer Prize. I believe mweinstone is certainly qualified for the journalism award in category #4. Is there anyway to get the cash under the table?
4. For a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear presentation, in print or in print and online, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000)
I don't believe Mathewski is qualified as it says lucid writing
I don't agree. He is one of the most lucid writters I know. He writtings inspire and entertain. His love of the trail can only be matched by a small few.
Panzer
I don't agree. He is one of the most lucid writters I know. He writtings inspire and entertain.
Panzer
Oh sure, but first you need to purchase the maddy meinstone decryto-ring... comes in five fruity flavors.
mweinstone
12-18-2006, 14:44
sly is a very funny man. that is why ill koll him last. but matrix! you promiised to kill me last!( matrix)...i lied.(drops sly off knifes edge.
and did we forget to remember that im making tee shirts and i just bought transfer paper and im goin to the store to buy an iron and marsha starlyte went thru the procedure of makeing shirts with me as she was slaveing me around at the cost of her sanity with ms goin on about armored combat bras or some ship.
mweinstone
12-18-2006, 14:53
heres how a bobed artist starts an idea. by wasting a peice of transfer paper printing out ms's crying sumit shot and tapeing it to his shirt and embarresing himself by posting the said bober for the whole world to see. with the crappy ms shirt.
now i have a baseline of crappyness to start from. from witch i cant possibly fall below.im gonna go buy the photo shop program too and end up with some really nice shirts for us all.
eye on the artist will be back after this word from our sponsor.
mweinstone
12-18-2006, 14:57
if anyone wants to start an armored combat bra thread i wont be mad. its a free idea. im just puttin it out there.
I don't agree. He is one of the most lucid writters I know. He writtings inspire and entertain. His love of the trail can only be matched by a small few.
Panzer
His love of the trail??:-? I'm confused by that statement.:confused: Perhaps what you meant to say was his love of MS? That- would be a true statement.:eek: ;)
mweinstone
12-18-2006, 18:53
todays crime dajor. came home an hour ago to a shooting. two men wounded by cops being saught. 4 storefronts shot. 5 cars. two guys smashed into each other( the van is one) and started shooting. 16th and snyder is closed.major crime scean.
Lone Wolf
12-18-2006, 18:55
I'm moving to Philly. Too boring here. Need some action!
mweinstone
12-18-2006, 19:04
dear ms. i want to mention to you about my reverse countdown clock. its an interesting statistical tool for putting perspective on a long hike. ive done this for years and i like its effect. count the days since your leaving the trail. when you reach the number of days that you were out on trail,...you see the difference between this same amount of time spent on or off trail. and along the way. for instance the day you reached damascus. note that days apole. the apoles of these moments in our lives act as spotlights on the original. giving new and seldom seen again perspectives leading to thaughts of returning to the traiil with matthewski!
mweinstone
12-18-2006, 19:12
and minnesota,....dont underestimate the trails call. the sirens of fables dont compare. the banned planet of thesolonia and the inhabitants mind abilitys dont compare.(capt pike episode) the lure of sofa and tv and soda and frys and home dont stand a chance. the trail,.... arrg!,...shes a stern mistress! ,..arrg!
theres a little somthing i wanna show you wolf,... we call it,..the territ of justis. hang on a minnute........
mweinstone
12-18-2006, 19:20
well, the territ of justis dosnt photograph well at night but trust me,.. its a five window bay window overlooking a bad ass corner. any time of night you could stand out there and do the vigillante. all the crackheads and junckeys and hos will approch you, hassel you and all for free! charels bronstens dream corner.
Mother's Finest
12-18-2006, 19:39
I thought it was the Tower of Justice. I guess you meant the Turret of Justice.
Too bad you cannot show everyone the picture of the Unkown Pizza Bomber. I think the fellow flunkies on this thread would get a kick out of it. I know that I laughed.
don't forget to tell them about the Italian American mens club down the street.
peace
mf
I parked my car there late at night with the passenger window open and gps gizmo, wallet, pack etc. all out in plain view and nothing was touched.
It was in view of the turret, though. They probably thought bat-manski was watching.
They probably thought it was a "sting" operation.
Panzer
saimyoji
12-18-2006, 23:06
todays crime dajor. came home an hour ago to a shooting. two men wounded by cops being saught. 4 storefronts shot. 5 cars. two guys smashed into each other( the van is one) and started shooting. 16th and snyder is closed.major crime scean.
This was just on the news. I missed the details though. A couple teenagers executed in their car? :-?
Dances with Mice
12-19-2006, 00:40
Greetings, Threadsters, from Gatlinburg, TN! My hotel only has WiFi in the lobby, but the Holiday Inn next door has a pretty good transmitter. So as long as I sit beside my window I'm golden. I wonder if their room service delivers here too? Last year at this time I thru-hiked the Vegas Strip. This year my quest is Traffic Light 1 to Traffic Light 10, attempting to survive without resupply until TL 6, Ripley's Aquarium. Believe It or Not!
The difference between here and Vegas: About $200 / night less in G-burg for a humoungous hotel room with jacuzzi. Also not as many shows but we are going to see the Chinese Acrobats tomorrow, who must feel really lost here in TN. But I'll get to see some jugglers that I haven't seen / met before and that's different too. They don't have Hillbilly Put-Put Golf in Vegas either.
BTW, Dollywood does Christmas with a Capital C. Just a touch of secular stuff for the kiddies, Hanukuh's not mentioned and forget Kwanza. This is a Birthday celebration with lights. Closed Sundays, of course.
I hear there's some kind of park nearby. Tomorrow we're checking out Cades Cove.
But that's not important. What is important and on-topic is that MS came over for a visit the night before we drove up here. The Stick returned home for a visit. Yep, it's shorter and a bit cracked from the weather (it also wasn't completely dried before The Hike.) I returned some pictures and looked at lots of new ones. His mother kept track of his hike on a strip map of the AT, making notes of his progress with dates as he went along. This is destined to become a Smith family heirloom so I scanned it for MS and gave him a digital copy.
Then we went out to the garden to pick some broccoli heads by flashlight, and with some cabbage, frozen corn from the summer garden and a package of pork chops we made supper. Unfortunately the broccoli was a little worse for the wear from earlier freezes.
It was a nice visit. MS looks great, the difference in his appearance from beginning to end was dramatic. Seriously. Without his glasses I'm not sure I would have recognized him.
Now the only remaining question from his thru-hike is where I am going to put my Time Magazine Person of the Year award. Where are y'all placing yours? And where are they going to hold the Award Ceremony?
Dances with Mice
12-19-2006, 01:23
Greetings, Threadsters, from Gatlinburg, TN! One more thing of importance about G-burg: Due to an unfortunate mis-communication between The Wife and I, we arrived without necessary survival supplies and were faced with having only generic hotel-brand coffee in the morning. We aaimmediately made a foraging trip to "Food City" to do an upgrade and were much more than surprised to find not only Luzianne but also 3 (!) different varieties of Community Coffee including the legendary "New Orleans Blend". Jackpot! Who woulda thought? Not only did they have Chicory coffee, but two different choices!
Is this the Katrina diaspora's influence or what?
mweinstone
12-19-2006, 09:19
no , the south is just cool like that. whatdja exspect? miss janets goodness sprinkles the land like glendas good witch sparckles.what some people think is that southerners drink postum. no , they are modern hipsters ,... as evidenced by wolf and other coolies of the southern good eatin states!
bad coffie in the south? no community ? wrong. southern rocks!
and my north sucks.....
mweinstone
12-19-2006, 09:22
whats your plan today" dances with a certian beastyality"? mouse dance instructer? breader of trick mouses. mice fetish guy? eating mice?
will you hike with ms?
Lone Wolf
12-19-2006, 09:24
maybe gerbils will come into play
max patch
12-19-2006, 09:28
One more thing of importance about G-burg: Due to an unfortunate mis-communication between The Wife and I, we arrived without necessary survival supplies and were faced with having only generic hotel-brand coffee in the morning. We aaimmediately made a foraging trip to "Food City" to do an upgrade and were much more than surprised to find not only Luzianne but also 3 (!) different varieties of Community Coffee including the legendary "New Orleans Blend". Jackpot! Who woulda thought? Not only did they have Chicory coffee, but two different choices!
Is this the Katrina diaspora's influence or what?
I used to buy CC dark roast on line. Publix started carrying it a couple years before Katrina.
Still have to get my peanut butter direct from Krema, though.
max patch
12-19-2006, 09:35
DWM, whats funny is that I discovered CC while on a business trip...CC was the free coffee in the hotel room. Of course I wasn't staying at the Motel 6.
mweinstone
12-19-2006, 17:59
yo the smith! where are you when your not our leader?
mweinstone
12-20-2006, 08:46
my little tee shirt factory is a real boom! its so easy to put ms's photos on the shirts and now i need to find the reverse image button on my mac. it will allow me to flip print so i can use words on the shirts. im bringin some to the ruck in pa to give away! ive been searching for the reverse image thinggy and cant find it. little help sly? frolik?
mweinstone
12-20-2006, 08:56
as with each of my endevors, i plan big. i hope making shirts for me becomes a multi billion dollar industry with my shirts espousing the cutting edges of politically relevent new sayings and slangs. my company will be called "REMOTE BLAZER" and will use the blaze as its logo.
my little tee shirt factory is a real boom! its so easy to put ms's photos on the shirts and now i need to find the reverse image button on my mac. it will allow me to flip print so i can use words on the shirts. im bringin some to the ruck in pa to give away! ive been searching for the reverse image thinggy and cant find it. little help sly? frolik?
If you check Frolicking Dinosaur's in the member list you will see she has "Left the building". She has left WB and does not post here anymore. :(
StarLyte
12-20-2006, 09:17
my little tee shirt factory is a real boom! its so easy to put ms's photos on the shirts and now i need to find the reverse image button on my mac. it will allow me to flip print so i can use words on the shirts. im bringin some to the ruck in pa to give away! ive been searching for the reverse image thinggy and cant find it. little help sly? frolik?
Matty that is an option directly associated with your printing program. It's there...look for it....it might read: mirror
StarLyte
12-20-2006, 09:18
as with each of my endevors, i plan big. i hope making shirts for me becomes a multi billion dollar industry with my shirts espousing the cutting edges of politically relevent new sayings and slangs. my company will be called "REMOTE BLAZER" and will use the blaze as its logo.
Not everyone will know what you're talking about Matt :D
If you check Frolicking Dinosaur's in the member list you will see she has "Left the building". She has left WB and does not post here anymore. :(
Why? Did something happen?
Panzer
max patch
12-20-2006, 11:03
riffraff movin in the neighborhood....property values going down down down...got out while the gettin was goood...this post written in the style of mski....but not very well done...drat!!!!
Why? Did something happen?
Panzer
People come and people go. I almost left last week too. She'll be missed by many. Including me. She's good people.
Two Speed
12-20-2006, 11:22
If you check Frolicking Dinosaur's in the member list you will see she has "Left the building". She has left WB and does not post here anymore. :(That's a darn shame. Didn't always agree with her, but thought her stuff was well worth reading. Like Panzer said, any idea what the problem was?
That's a darn shame. Didn't always agree with her, but thought her stuff was well worth reading. Like Panzer said, any idea what the problem was?
She PMed me with some reasons why she might leave but it really would not be right to post personal PM messages here. That, combined with the feeling that I must walk on eggshells now, I'll just have to say that from her PM it seemed that it wasn't fun for her anymore. So, she left.
mweinstone
12-20-2006, 16:18
wrong. another mole. beware threaders,...froliking dinasaurs is austex. just remote veiwed it. and everyone knows what remote veiwing is. everyone! got it? and ms is hillery and contrails are bromate. a fuel additive that kills mold in the fuel tanks of jets.and thru hiking gods abound and no one writes mattys writes.words. whatever.
mweinstone
12-20-2006, 16:21
is the thread stoned today? does the thread need a time out? wheres dances/ whats happened to minnesota smith? help! thread falling apart....ms abandoned ship long ago,........lights in sand die.....bad ,..kirk,....bad,... captain,,,,,,,,,lights,....in ,,,,,die.
mweinstone
12-20-2006, 16:31
if rantings what she needs,...rantings what shell get !did anybody hear the one about,.....its the end of the world?!
how bout this for some spice. i will now slander froliking.
you sir, or mam or trany or whatever you may be,....are not invited to come back to our presious thread. or blaze for that matter. and as i know for a fact that your human curiosity and vainity forces you to read each and every word i now say to you,.........your a poopty poopty pants.....please come back?
minnesotasmith
12-20-2006, 20:10
1) I've picked up my traditional Katahdin summit postcards for sending out to everyone that helped me with my thruhike and/or is otherwise close to me. You know who you are, you wonderful, kind-hearted, pro-hiker and pro-hiking people, you. :welcome :clap This includes anyone who did anything IRL or WRT information to aid me. Unless you are certain I already have your mailing address, please PM me with it so I can send you one. (I'm cleaning out a bunch more spots as soon as I post this.) I made 100 of them, FWIW.
Those postcards are of me next to the sign, reading. The caption on the postcards reads (no, it's not really busy-looking; this is all in the sky part of the pic):
MinnesotaSmith -- Appalachian Trail thruhike
Atop Mt. Katahdin, Maine October 14, 2006
Reading "Law of the Yukon" poem by Robert Service
2) I have complete records of how many miles (if any :o ) I hiked on each day during my entire hike. If there is any interest in this data, I'd be happy to type it up and post it.
Check this out. It's really cool. A kid throws a isopropane tank into a camp fire.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2d80df7f8
Panzer
minnesotasmith
12-21-2006, 02:15
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=14177&c=530
mweinstone
12-21-2006, 07:43
ms tee shirts looking great! marsha darling.my mac dosnt have a invert picture or mirror image that i can find. can you see what magic you got in you bag dat might help? ask someone dammit! you know i have only you at the blaze. my son is to uninterested to help.
StarLyte
12-21-2006, 07:52
ms tee shirts looking great! marsha darling.my mac dosnt have a invert picture or mirror image that i can find. can you see what magic you got in you bag dat might help? ask someone dammit! you know i have only you at the blaze. my son is to uninterested to help.
Matty what art program are you using on that cute little mac?
mweinstone
12-21-2006, 07:54
panzer. in ait, after throwing grenades, they made us clean up the shrapnal and fill in holes with helmets full of dirt. when you pick up a piece of warm shrapnal and look at the boiled metle shapes,.. you gain a high respect for exsplotions . those kids need the ba jesus scared out of them to make them act right. that was awfull. as someone who lost his brother to fire and exsplosion it was very hard to wait while watching to see if it ended good or bad. i think a fire safty class iis in order that i could put together and teach whenever their are enough newbees around a camp. some one should remind folks and burn a tent once in a while and blow off a siegg bottle cap and light an alcohol burner with gas and do stuff like that to demonstrate the horror of burns and laserations. sorry, its my touchy spot. i hate firebugs and will speak to them in a tone witch would normally get you beat up in my hoody.
StarLyte
12-21-2006, 07:58
People come and people go. I almost left last week too. She'll be missed by many. Including me. She's good people.
She is most definitely good people. :sun
mweinstone
12-21-2006, 08:10
some of the real easy lessons about fire safe hiking arent taught widely anymore. like keeping fuel 30 feet from fire. never blow out an alcohol burner with your breath or by waveing your hand to cause a wind as this speads dozens of dots of flame. dont walk and smoke ever. dont smoke at night without a light. dont burn a stove without water at the ready. dont cook in shelters or near other folks gear. dont use compressed canisters in the mountains. dont leave fires unatended.dont make fires in wind. dont be a pipe bomber, uni bomber, pizza bomber or a pyro. dont burn in a tent. dont drop a spent match or stow it untill you crush the head in your fingers. dont leave glass bottles in the mountains as they fill with h2o and catch the sun and start forrest fires. remove the child safty wheel on your lighter when in the cold mountains so as to not hurt your thumb and hald lighter level or up and away from skin. do not drink while thruhiking . do it in towns.never do drugs in the woods. pot is fine but booze impairs judgment and you may die.dont ever bring up saftey around mat as he never shuts up and is a woman with his worrying.be safe friends.
mweinstone
12-21-2006, 08:16
msld(marsha starlyte dear) i have no downloaded software. appleworks and iphoto and i checked the printer for it too like you said.
panzer. in ait, after throwing grenades, they made us clean up the shrapnal and fill in holes with helmets full of dirt. when you pick up a piece of warm shrapnal and look at the boiled metle shapes,.. you gain a high respect for exsplotions . those kids need the ba jesus scared out of them to make them act right. that was awfull. as someone who lost his brother to fire and exsplosion it was very hard to wait while watching to see if it ended good or bad. i think a fire safty class iis in order that i could put together and teach whenever their are enough newbees around a camp. some one should remind folks and burn a tent once in a while and blow off a siegg bottle cap and light an alcohol burner with gas and do stuff like that to demonstrate the horror of burns and laserations. sorry, its my touchy spot. i hate firebugs and will speak to them in a tone witch would normally get you beat up in my hoody.
Matt, Sorry to hear about your brother. My grandmother lost her sister as a child in a house fire caused by a candle on a Christmas tree. Christmas always reminded her of that loss.
I don't think anyone here will copy this, in fact, it's probably good to know how explosive those canisters really are. The real problem is all those kids who will try to produce bigger and better explosions to post on the internet.
Lone Wolf
12-21-2006, 09:31
Check this out. It's really cool. A kid throws a isopropane tank into a camp fire.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2d80df7f8
Panzer
Me and some friends tossed a box of .22 rounds that we found, into a campfire. That was dumb.
StarLyte
12-21-2006, 09:33
msld(marsha starlyte dear) i have no downloaded software. appleworks and iphoto and i checked the printer for it too like you said.
Mr. Dames would have known what to do.
I cut-n-pasted this off of Appleworks, I hope this helps:
Print Mirror and Flipped Images=
Added the ability to mirror (left-to-right) and/or (top-to-bottom) when printing. This is important for creating transfer sheets such as those used for printing t-shirts. This is accessed from the main options popup menu on the Print panel. The exact location will depend on the print driver in use. There will be a selection "EazyDraw" found on the printer's capabilities submenu. When the EazyDraw options selection is chosen, the new Mirror check boxes are shown on the print panel. Note that checking both selections (left-to-right and top-to-bottom) is the same as putting the paper in up-side-down, and will not cause a noticeable change on the final printed drawing.
Me and some friends tossed a box of .22 rounds that we found, into a campfire. That was dumb.
Try lighting you charcoal BBQ with denatured alcohol because you ran out of lighter fluid. BAA-WOOOF!!! Burning charcoal everywhere. I won't do that again!
We don't know how full/empty the isopropane bottle was. The kids didn't seem to know how full it was either. Its possible that the bottle was almost empty and that the explosion could have been bigger if there was more fuel in the bottle.
Panzer
We don't know how full/empty the isopropane bottle was. The kids didn't seem to know how full it was either. Its possible that the bottle was almost empty and that the explosion could have been bigger if there was more fuel in the bottle.
Panzer
I don't know if explosion size is a criteria, but what these kids did was produce a miniature BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion).
No firefighter wants to face these fires. Thats why they sometimes allow fires to burn themselves out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEVE
mweinstone
12-21-2006, 19:45
minnesota,... smith. no further information is available about,......minnesota,.... smith.
if youd like to make a call,....please hang up and redial the number.
messege 54
mweinstone
12-21-2006, 19:49
panzer,....whats up my broskidoo? what about this doo diddly minnesota smith ditchin us? hes really not needed here anymore but it would be nice of him to stop by and hang out at least once in a while. i tell ya. these hikers. if they could just learn to couch potatoe once in a while.
Skidsteer
12-21-2006, 19:50
Merry Christmas Matthewski!
The Minnesota Smith Katahdin Christmas Dance. (http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=46a9ede8acd40ae42c4d41fG06122114)
Go MS! :D
Merry Christmas Matthewski!
The Minnesota Smith Katahdin Christmas Dance. (http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=46a9ede8acd40ae42c4d41fG06122114)
Go MS! :D
Stop it; my side hurts. That's some funny stuff, Skids. You've got way too much time on your hands.
Skidsteer
12-21-2006, 19:57
Stop it; my side hurts. That's some funny stuff, Skids. You've got way too much time on your hands.
Oh anybody can do it. :D Just go to http://www.elfyourself.com/.
If you've got the photo on your hard drive, you're in.
Be nice, people. ;)
I saw this character (http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=7577547b63bd087ce94d512G06122116) on the CDT this year. As he passed me, all he said was "manamana"!
mweinstone
12-21-2006, 20:19
marsha, cant flip the damm printed image. spent hours trying. my upstairs neighbor showed me the function on his mac but it came from his printer info. my crappy lexmark z615 series printer may not do it. im so bummed. if only. its a function of preveiw and it allows you to flip horizontaly or verticaly. but its eluding me. its in the veiw drop down list once preveiw is veiwing a jpeg.
Skidsteer
12-21-2006, 20:25
I saw this character (http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=7577547b63bd087ce94d512G06122116) on the CDT this year. As he passed me, all he said was "manamana"!
HeHe. Merry Christmas Mowgli! (http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=76ff254b5a80b348dbfd99aG06122116)
terrapin_too
12-21-2006, 20:25
marsha, cant flip the damm printed image. spent hours trying. my upstairs neighbor showed me the function on his mac but it came from his printer info. my crappy lexmark z615 series printer may not do it. im so bummed. if only. its a function of preveiw and it allows you to flip horizontaly or verticaly. but its eluding me. its in the veiw drop down list once preveiw is veiwing a jpeg.
What image editor are you using? I haven't worked on a Mac in years, but I've never seen an image editor that didn't have the ability to flip/rotate images. Last resort, download a demo copy of Photoshop Elements from Adobe's website.
terrapin_too
12-21-2006, 20:27
If the image isn't too big, email it to me and I'll flip it for ya. Sheesh.
... rafeb@speakeasy.net
HeHe. Merry Christmas Mowgli! (http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=76ff254b5a80b348dbfd99aG06122116)
I gotta show up at Traildays with that get up. Wouldn't that be a scream? Even Jester would be jealous.
Darwin again
12-21-2006, 21:26
marsha, cant flip the damm printed image. spent hours trying. my upstairs neighbor showed me the function on his mac but it came from his printer info. my crappy lexmark z615 series printer may not do it. im so bummed. if only. its a function of preveiw and it allows you to flip horizontaly or verticaly. but its eluding me. its in the veiw drop down list once preveiw is veiwing a jpeg.
weinstonovich:
Bro, do the flip on your bud's computer, take a screen shot of it, save it as a jpg on his desktop, have him e-mail the image to you already flipped and printer ready, then push print. or play. or whatever.
Possible helpful hint: On my powerbook, the cursor-controlled screen shot function is apple-shift-4.
wa-la.
mweinstone
12-21-2006, 21:45
ahhhh,...what a feeling. to be obsessivly compulsively hunting down a technical tid bit for three hours and finaly sucsess!all ya do is draw crap,jpeg the poop out of it.preveiw that sucka. flip the ship. and print the bitch. and wallah! my company logo is born! whew! thanks all yall.
More idiots setting propane cans on fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP1ic8S7GII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPtpnZFBS38&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFzEgOjbmk&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrjpuZvUMKY&mode=related&search=
Panzer
Jan LiteShoe
12-21-2006, 23:48
Merry Christmas Matthewski!
The Minnesota Smith Katahdin Christmas Dance. (http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=46a9ede8acd40ae42c4d41fG06122114)
Go MS! :D
Man! That was a fun site!
Anyone know the guy?
Would you stay at HIS place?
http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=05ae43deb1f07ddf12bbdb9G06122118
mweinstone
12-22-2006, 00:08
panzer,.... do you really wanna be makeing that look so cool?its horrible.i wonder if tanks can be made that prevent this?
mweinstone
12-22-2006, 08:37
good morning america! wake up and smell that commerse! ahh ,.. nothin like the smell of commerce in the morning. you folks in the hills will just have to imagine along with us. breath in! hold,........exhale! now. lets get started. first id like to say that soup is made primarily of soup, there will be no bears while you are sleeping and sometimes some folks might be better off drunker than a fly in the corn squeezins but this aint one . its christmas and ms is a thruhiker. what a life! his dream was completed and hes gonna be quite the thaughtfull guy as the ball drops and 07 begins .(with some folks on springer havin a hiker moment too!) as life winds by , we note the mile markers and wait to pee at a good exit. this markers the first sad on. new years will tell ms, your thru hike is history and no longer current events. then he will meet the second sad waypoint at the start of next years hiking season. and his first cool ass moment of the next season will be , being a thruhiker giving advise to newbees with authority and kind funness. a lesson for us all, when you read journels and posts of people such as ms or wyoming,...look closely and fear not. the freaks our sociaty produces, searve the same god as the rest of us. and i love him. ms and god.
mweinstone
12-22-2006, 08:42
not in a homo way.
mweinstone
12-22-2006, 08:47
....when you look up at the night sky,...remember! the night rider.
terrapin_too
12-22-2006, 08:48
oh i love that Jimmy buffet line and use it once a day at least... "my head hurts, my feet stink, and i don't love Jesus."
mweinstone
12-22-2006, 09:13
may the force be with you luke.
minnesotasmith
12-22-2006, 10:14
1) I've picked up my traditional Katahdin summit postcards for sending out to everyone that helped me with my thruhike and/or is otherwise close to me. You know who you are, you wonderful, kind-hearted, pro-hiker and pro-hiking people, you. :welcome :clap This includes anyone who did anything IRL or WRT information to aid me. Unless you are certain I already have your mailing address, please PM me with it so I can send you one. (I'm cleaning out a bunch more spots as soon as I post this.) I made 100 of them, FWIW.
Those postcards are of me next to the sign, reading. The caption on the postcards reads (no, it's not really busy-looking; this is all in the sky part of the pic):
MinnesotaSmith -- Appalachian Trail thruhike
Atop Mt. Katahdin, Maine October 14, 2006
Reading "Law of the Yukon" poem by Robert Service
2) I have complete records of how many miles (if any :o ) I hiked on each day during my entire hike. If there is any interest in this data, I'd be happy to type it up and post it.
I still need several addresses from friends here at Whiteblaze (you know who you are...)
No interest in a table of my daily mileage? It kind of sums up my hike IMO.
Spent most of the (abbreviated) daylight yesterday walking around spreading chemical fertilizer and lime on my parents' lawn; involuntarily fell asleep from exhaustion (in the middle of meeting my widowed aunt's new male companion of 5 months) before 8:00 P.M.. 'Twas harder by far than doing the 6-mile near-daily trail walks I've settled upon doing lately to avoid having to change my trail name for future hiking to "Buddha". It felt like the night of a second-day-in-a-row big-miles day, albeit with different results to show for the day.
Have been searching online for jobs. My major fields are petroleum geology, fuel ethanol laboratories, and asbestos microscopy; as I found listed openings in every one of those within 15 minutes of searching, I'm hopeful that the job search won't take very long.
I will admit to already missing the Trail in some respects. (Not all! ;) ) What this means for the future IMO is that I will both do short (2-14 dayers) and some long hikes. I may have the bug to see places by hiking in some ways more than I did pre-thru. Whether it is confidence and practice, or just having encouraged the taste by having massively induldged it over 9 months, I haven't decided. I find that I am more efficient at packing and sleeping just anywhere than I was pre-hike. Likewise, if I have to just wait somewhere unexpectedly (and didn't bring my usual book to read during such situations), it's easier to avoid impatience with now. From waiting for rides while hitching, to sitting with Aqua Mira doses reaching readiness to add to a liter Nalgene, to waiting out the remainder of a long night, I'd say I had lots of involuntary practice with patient waiting during my thruhike.
Well, back to my postcarding. (I made 100 of them, but it looks like I'll need more.)
No interest in a table of my daily mileage? It kind of sums up my hike IMO.
Most of us know what binary looks like. ;) Just kidding.
Merry Christmas MS. Despite the chasm between our worldviews, I wish you and your family a good holiday. You provided a lot of entertainment in 2006. Thanks for that.
Most of us know what binary looks like. ;) Just kidding.
Lets keep in mind that computers can use binary to express very large numbers.
Panzer(the programmer)
At 6 mpd it would take a full year to hike the trail. MS's average was closer to 8.
Lets keep in mind that computers can use binary to express very large numbers.
Panzer(the programmer)
Yes, and it looks something like this 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1. :)
Mowgli (the former IT manager)
Yes, and it looks something like this 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1. :)
Mowgli (the former IT manager)
which I believe works out to a rather large number: 3,241 in the decimal number system.
Panzer
minnesotasmith
12-22-2006, 16:02
Most of us know what binary looks like. ;) Just kidding.
Merry Christmas MS. Despite the chasm between our worldviews, I wish you and your family a good holiday. You provided a lot of entertainment in 2006. Thanks for that.
You as well.
Have 55 postcards mailed out, 6 more addressed that are going in the mail later today. Be on the lookout...
Dances with Mice
12-22-2006, 16:16
Let's see the daily mileage table.
Let's see the daily mileage table.
You haven't begged yet.... but here's a preview, somewhere between 2 and 17 with lots of days off!
minnesotasmith
12-22-2006, 22:05
You haven't begged yet.... but here's a preview, somewhere between 2 and 17 with lots of days off!
My top 3 days were 18.2 (just south of Kincora), 18.2 (thru Boiling Springs to Darlington shelter in PA), and 18.5 (just north of Dalton, MA, I think). Only the last one was slackpacking, BTW. :D Heck, I had a 16.8 in the early, hillier (e.g., easily as rough as the Bigelows) part of the Hundred Miles. Overall, though, my mileage did go down when the 100+ degree heat and Lyme hit in central PA, right around Bake Oven Knob; didn't have any more days over 10 for a while...
Oh, and I have 63 postcards mailed out so far, including to everyone on WB who has PMed me.
mweinstone
12-22-2006, 22:13
hello. my name is michel anthony. a few years ago, the late great james bearford tipton, endowed me with autharity to bestow one million dollars to some person unknown who must promise never to try to find anything out about the benifactor. this money is yours . tax free,... to do with as you wish.
tonite is a special night. sin seams to take a rest right about now. sure there are wife beaters who freak out on holidays. but more are the do gooders this time of year. little gifts reprisent real feelings of the highest nature. giving. i love giving. its all i got. im happyest right after i give away my pot to piss in. alot of folks need a pot. and they need other things too when there poor or homeless. but we all need only one real thing. love from god. and envy from saten. and money and blingage! lets partay!
not. okay. lets joke around and roast ms some more. im still seein undone parts around the wings.
ever hear the one about ms and the lady in the shell staition? she was the spanish matrin cleaning the place and ms was dancing around waiting less than patently , about to burst his bladder,..... when suddenly,....she invited him in the bathroom stateing loudly,( i got four boys,...common!)
so ms hesitently approched the door and after faining sheepishness and a short politicaly correct espousment on male female primitive ways of old,.....ms entered and the door shut.there was a weird sceilance and the four of us looked at each other inocently enough. but another moment passed and the air became thick with suspicion." its too quiet in there" clothspin stated ,for a record it seemed. bone pac whispered under his breath and i asked ,... "what?". he restated in an even slighter whisper,"ther haveing sex,.. " and so me and ramble agreed it was time to peep a look see. we crept up and just then the door flung open and out came the lady and her hair was mussed!
all i know , is that if im ever hikin and come across a bilingual ms lookin kid about the right age,... well ,... im not sayin anything. but we all agreed,... her hair was mussed.
happy politicaly correct calender event everyone!
[QUOTE=mweinstone;290873]hello. my name is michel anthony. a few years ago, the late great james bearford tipton, endowed me with autharity to bestow one million dollars to some person unknown who must promise never to try to find anything out about the benifactor. this money is yours . tax free,... to do with as you wish.
Keep it yourself, pay the IRS the 70K you owe them, and go hiking! :banana
Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-23-2006, 05:37
Matthewski - you must rename post 5747 "Tails from the Trail" immediately to restore balance to the universe.
terrapin_too
12-23-2006, 08:49
Restore the balance? What balance?
Let's see the daily mileage table.
Yes, I would be interested in seeing the daily milage table too.
Thanks
Panzer
Wow,
"The Thread" has just passed 200,000 views...
Panzer
Jack Tarlin
12-23-2006, 16:35
Yeah, and 99% of them were viewed by the same six people, the same ones who contributed 99% of the posts! :D
mweinstone
12-23-2006, 17:44
mogwli the movie? its on tv now. with the wolves and the tiger and the flavin!
mweinstone
12-23-2006, 17:47
froliking dinasaur has graced us by returning. i am pleased.balance is restored
mweinstone
12-23-2006, 17:51
one of the tee shirts im printing has a pic of max my son and the mispelled quote(by accedent) "when you look up at the knight sky,...remember the night rider. i didnt notice till max pointed it out. so its one to give away at the ruck and it has my trademake misspelling im so dearly loved for. its troubling that i spelled it right and wrong in the same sentance and also didnt notice. i may actually be dumber than i first thaught. max said im a dumb genius.i think im a dumb ass.
mogwli the movie? its on tv now. with the wolves and the tiger and the flavin!
That's how I got the nickname. Cavorting in the jungles of Central & South America in the 90s.
Trillium
12-23-2006, 18:39
I've been thinking 'idiot savant' for at least the last month or so.
mweinstone
12-23-2006, 18:48
dudes,... mogwli jungle boy movie is really cool. did anyone ever read richard adams "shardik?"
ms the thru hiking king is a registered trademark of the lukeoil corporation and may not be reproduced under trademark law.
all simularitys to the wyoming skateboarder foundation are purely coincedental.
the symbol of the lightning bolt used with exspressed written permission from god.
all proceeds used to support the international confrence on *******
mweinstone
12-23-2006, 18:51
idiot sevant doesnt work for me caus im way dummer than those guys. exsept maby my art is good.
minnesota smith is not a tranny.
minnesotasmith
12-23-2006, 19:18
He was mid-20s, I think, Polynesian or something, and looked like a Mowgli. Trail name was "Blue". Last saw him in central VA, I think.
That's how I got the nickname. Cavorting in the jungles of Central & South America in the 90s.
Have close to 90 postcards mailed out over last 2 days, including to Miss Janet, Trail Angel Mary, about 4 outfitters, 6 hostels, and easily 10 posters on this thread. Be looking for your Golden ticket, uh, Katahdin postcard in your mailbox... :D
Dances with Mice
12-23-2006, 19:29
The Thread continues its long tradition of providing service to the AT hiking community with this important information:
If you ever find yourself hiking in the southern Appalachians and you don’t know exactly where you are, then come to a road crossing with a big parking lot and you hitch a ride into a town, you might be in Gatlinburg.
Here’s how to tell:
If every block has five different stores where in each one you can buy a t-shirt, fudge, a time share condominium and get a tattoo…
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If the tattoo corner of the above stores have body piercing ornaments and over half of them are Rebel flag themed…
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If there’s a ski slope nearby and all the skiers are wearing blue jeans and t-shirts and/or ball caps printed with big numeral “3”s ….
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If you see lots of billboards with a blond haired lady with substantial assets inviting you to visit her establishment but it’s not a Hooters restaurant advertisement….
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If you can’t even find a Hooters restaurant anywhere in town…
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If the entertainment options in town involve either the blond haired lady or a biblical themed theatrical production....
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If the outfitter in town smiles when you mention MS’s name...
You’re probably near the Appalachian Trail.
minnesotasmith
12-24-2006, 07:33
The Thread continues its long tradition of providing service to the AT hiking community with this important information:
If you ever find yourself hiking in the southern Appalachians and you don’t know exactly where you are, then come to a road crossing with a big parking lot and you hitch a ride into a town, you might be in Gatlinburg.
Here’s how to tell:
If every block has five different stores where in each one you can buy a t-shirt, fudge, a time share condominium and get a tattoo…
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If the tattoo corner of the above stores have body piercing ornaments and over half of them are Rebel flag themed…
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If there’s a ski slope nearby and all the skiers are wearing blue jeans and t-shirts and/or ball caps printed with big numeral “3”s ….
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If you see lots of billboards with a blond haired lady with substantial assets inviting you to visit her establishment but it’s not a Hooters restaurant advertisement….
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If you can’t even find a Hooters restaurant anywhere in town…
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If the entertainment options in town involve either the blond haired lady or a biblical themed theatrical production....
You might be in Gatlinburg.
If the outfitter in town smiles when you mention MS’s name...
You’re probably near the Appalachian Trail.
I still need to send the outfitter in Gatlinburg (the one I went to) a summit postcard. They significantly helped me out when I couldn't get out of town and back to the Trail during a freezing rainstorm due to no luck hitching, and were genuinely interested in my hike. They asked to take a picture of me for their wall while I was there as well; I think that a summit pic is the perfect summary addition... ;)
Cute description of Gatlinburg, DWM, BTW. The tourist brochures in places like the Grand Prix are the best, too. :D As an aside, I left an envelope to mail to my family (maps I was done with and some of the better brochures) to be mailed with the clerk there at his suggestion (so I wouldn't have to hang around the next morning to hit the PO), but they never received it...:-?
terrapin_too
12-24-2006, 09:59
I thought Bryson did a pretty good job of describing Gatlinburg... ;)
mweinstone
12-24-2006, 10:22
dear ms, one of my tee shirts will be the poem you read printed fine all over it. email it to me so i can print it . or i have to coppy the original i have. its to tattered to scan and i still have plans to lucite it.when i was 10, my family went down skyline and the cherokee stands and gatlinburg. we stayed at zodars inn. on the rushing creek. we named g burg, "plastic town " cause the howard jonstons in the river on its own little island had teki torches and was so phoney. drank my first cup of coffie in the lobby before my p's woke.
mweinstone
12-24-2006, 10:23
mmmmmmmm,...lobby coffie.
minnesotasmith
12-24-2006, 10:59
dear ms, one of my tee shirts will be the poem you read printed fine all over it. email it to me so i can print it . or i have to coppy the original i have. its to tattered to scan and i still have plans to lucite it.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/781.html
I'm glad you understood the moment of my giving you the tattered copy of "Law of the Yukon" I carried for most of my thruhike. I never doubted your grasp of its importance to me during my hike.
Back to Christmas preparations.
mweinstone
12-24-2006, 14:05
ms. theres a problem copying and pasteing the text from that site. all ya get is the signature. no poem.
Skidsteer
12-24-2006, 14:15
ms. theres a problem copying and pasteing the text from that site. all ya get is the signature. no poem.
The Law of the Yukon This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:"Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane --Strong for the red rage of battle; sane for I harry them sore;Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core;Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat,Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat.Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen ones;Them will I take to my bosom, them will I call my sons;Them will I gild with my treasure, them will I glut with my meat;But the others -- the misfits, the failures -- I trample under my feet.Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,Ye would send me the spawn of your gutters -- Go! take back your spawn again."Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway;From my ruthless throne I have ruled alone for a million years and a day;Hugging my mighty treasure, waiting for man to come,Till he swept like a turbid torrent, and after him swept -- the scum.The pallid pimp of the dead-line, the enervate of the pen,One by one I weeded them out, for all that I sought was -- Men.One by one I dismayed them, frighting them sore with my glooms;One by one I betrayed them unto my manifold dooms.Drowned them like rats in my rivers, starved them like curs on my plains,Rotted the flesh that was left them, poisoned the blood in their veins;Burst with my winter upon them, searing forever their sight,Lashed them with fungus-white faces, whimpering wild in the night;Staggering blind through the storm-whirl, stumbling mad through the snow,Frozen stiff in the ice-pack, brittle and bent like a bow;Featureless, formless, forsaken, scented by wolves in their flight,Left for the wind to make music through ribs that are glittering white;Gnawing the black crust of failure, searching the pit of despair,Crooking the toe in the trigger, trying to patter a prayer;Going outside with an escort, raving with lips all afoam,Writing a cheque for a million, driveling feebly of home;Lost like a louse in the burning. . .or else in the tented townSeeking a drunkard's solace, sinking and sinking down;Steeped in the slime at the bottom, dead to a decent world,Lost 'mid the human flotsam, far on the frontier hurled;In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare,Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;Crimped with the crimes of a city, sin-ridden and bridled with lies,In the hush of my mountained vastness, in the flush of my midnight skies.Plague-spots, yet tools of my purpose, so natheless I suffer them thrive,Crushing my Weak in their clutches, that only my Strong may survive."But the others, the men of my mettle, the men who would 'stablish my fameUnto its ultimate issue, winning me honor, not shame;Searching my uttermost valleys, fighting each step as they go,Shooting the wrath of my rapids, scaling my ramparts of snow;Ripping the guts of my mountains, looting the beds of my creeks,Them will I take to my bosom, and speak as a mother speaks.I am the land that listens, I am the land that broods;Steeped in eternal beauty, crystalline waters and woods.Long have I waited lonely, shunned as a thing accurst,Monstrous, moody, pathetic, the last of the lands and the first;Visioning camp-fires at twilight, sad with a longing forlorn,Feeling my womb o'er-pregnant with the seed of cities unborn.Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway,And I wait for the men who will win me -- and I will not be won in a day;And I will not be won by weaklings, subtle, suave and mild,But by men with the hearts of Vikings, and the simple faith of a child;Desperate, strong and resistless, unthrottled by fear or defeat,Them will I gild with my treasure, them will I glut with my meat."Lofty I stand from each sister land, patient and wearily wise,With the weight of a world of sadness in my quiet, passionless eyes;Dreaming alone of a people, dreaming alone of a day,When men shall not rape my riches, and curse me and go away;Making a bawd of my bounty, fouling the hand that gave --Till I rise in my wrath and I sweep on their path and I stamp them into a grave.Dreaming of men who will bless me, of women esteeming me good,Of children born in my borders of radiant motherhood,Of cities leaping to stature, of fame like a flag unfurled,As I pour the tide of my riches in the eager lap of the world."This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,This is the Will of the Yukon, -- Lo, how she makes it plain! -- Robert Service (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/index_poet_S.html#Service)
Will this work Matt?
minnesotasmith
12-24-2006, 14:35
Was to copy and paste it into a Wordpad screen. Then, copy and paste from there; that way, it's still formatted for pasting anywhere else.
I did that, and see how it came out: The Law of the Yukon
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:
"Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane --
Strong for the red rage of battle; sane for I harry them sore;
Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core;
Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat,
Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat.
Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen ones;
Them will I take to my bosom, them will I call my sons;
Them will I gild with my treasure, them will I glut with my meat;
But the others -- the misfits, the failures -- I trample under my feet.
Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,
Ye would send me the spawn of your gutters -- Go! take back your spawn again.
"Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway;
From my ruthless throne I have ruled alone for a million years and a day;
Hugging my mighty treasure, waiting for man to come,
Till he swept like a turbid torrent, and after him swept -- the scum.
The pallid pimp of the dead-line, the enervate of the pen,
One by one I weeded them out, for all that I sought was -- Men.
One by one I dismayed them, frighting them sore with my glooms;
One by one I betrayed them unto my manifold dooms.
Drowned them like rats in my rivers, starved them like curs on my plains,
Rotted the flesh that was left them, poisoned the blood in their veins;
Burst with my winter upon them, searing forever their sight,
Lashed them with fungus-white faces, whimpering wild in the night;
Staggering blind through the storm-whirl, stumbling mad through the snow,
Frozen stiff in the ice-pack, brittle and bent like a bow;
Featureless, formless, forsaken, scented by wolves in their flight,
Left for the wind to make music through ribs that are glittering white;
Gnawing the black crust of failure, searching the pit of despair,
Crooking the toe in the trigger, trying to patter a prayer;
Going outside with an escort, raving with lips all afoam,
Writing a cheque for a million, driveling feebly of home;
Lost like a louse in the burning. . .or else in the tented town
Seeking a drunkard's solace, sinking and sinking down;
Steeped in the slime at the bottom, dead to a decent world,
Lost 'mid the human flotsam, far on the frontier hurled;
In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare,
Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;
Crimped with the crimes of a city, sin-ridden and bridled with lies,
In the hush of my mountained vastness, in the flush of my midnight skies.
Plague-spots, yet tools of my purpose, so natheless I suffer them thrive,
Crushing my Weak in their clutches, that only my Strong may survive.
"But the others, the men of my mettle, the men who would 'stablish my fame
Unto its ultimate issue, winning me honor, not shame;
Searching my uttermost valleys, fighting each step as they go,
Shooting the wrath of my rapids, scaling my ramparts of snow;
Ripping the guts of my mountains, looting the beds of my creeks,
Them will I take to my bosom, and speak as a mother speaks.
I am the land that listens, I am the land that broods;
Steeped in eternal beauty, crystalline waters and woods.
Long have I waited lonely, shunned as a thing accurst,
Monstrous, moody, pathetic, the last of the lands and the first;
Visioning camp-fires at twilight, sad with a longing forlorn,
Feeling my womb o'er-pregnant with the seed of cities unborn.
Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway,
And I wait for the men who will win me -- and I will not be won in a day;
And I will not be won by weaklings, subtle, suave and mild,
But by men with the hearts of Vikings, and the simple faith of a child;
Desperate, strong and resistless, unthrottled by fear or defeat,
Them will I gild with my treasure, them will I glut with my meat.
"Lofty I stand from each sister land, patient and wearily wise,
With the weight of a world of sadness in my quiet, passionless eyes;
Dreaming alone of a people, dreaming alone of a day,
When men shall not rape my riches, and curse me and go away;
Making a bawd of my bounty, fouling the hand that gave --
Till I rise in my wrath and I sweep on their path and I stamp them into a grave.
Dreaming of men who will bless me, of women esteeming me good,
Of children born in my borders of radiant motherhood,
Of cities leaping to stature, of fame like a flag unfurled,
As I pour the tide of my riches in the eager lap of the world."
This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;
That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.
Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,
This is the Will of the Yukon, -- Lo, how she makes it plain!
-- Robert Service (http://www.whiteblaze.net/index_poet_S.html/lService)
mweinstone
12-24-2006, 15:20
just got off the phone with maria from salsberry. shes wonderful. she called as i was holding the coins she gave me that belonged to her husband. weird? and i had just made a cool pirate sack out of chammi cloth and wrote a dollar sign on it and was playing with it when the phone rang. its a gift for my son max. she says ms and me were the last guests this year.im sending her a homemade card for the fridge. she is worth inventing time travel for so i can go back and snatch her up.new humans are made cheaper and with lots of defects. old people were built to last back then when they used to make folks by hand.
terrapin_too
12-24-2006, 15:24
just got off the phone with maria from salsberry. shes wonderful. she called as i was holding the coins she gave me that belonged to her husband. weird? and i had just made a cool pirate sack out of chammi cloth and wrote a dollar sign on it and was playing with it when the phone rang. its a gift for my son max. she says ms and me were the last guests this year.im sending her a homemade card for the fridge. she is worth inventing time travel for so i can go back and snatch her up.new humans are made cheaper and with lots of defects. old people were built to last back then when they used to make folks by hand.
Maria is wonderful... even if she did (unintentionally) lock me out of her house that night. Had to call her from the White Hart to get her to open the door. ;).
If MinniSmith shows up at the SoRuck we'll have to ask him to recite: The Law of the Yukon.
StarLyte
12-24-2006, 19:18
If MinniSmith shows up at the SoRuck we'll have to ask him to recite: The Law of the Yukon.
I dunno Sly.
I wouldn't beckon his brain......I bet he has most of it memorized; remember......there was another person in Cabin C on Saturday night that recited every shelter on the A.T. starting in Damascus and calling them in reverse each way....in order.......
This is so sweet, you got to listen to this little girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVFF98kNg8Q
Panzer
Merry Christmas
I dunno Sly.
I wouldn't beckon his brain......I bet he has most of it memorized; remember......there was another person in Cabin C on Saturday night that recited every shelter on the A.T. starting in Damascus and calling them in reverse each way....in order.......
Nope, sorry, not in Cabin C!!! :eek: He'll have to do it some other place, a neutral area!!! :p
mweinstone
12-24-2006, 22:19
huston this is discovery. dicovery, huston go ahead. huston we are reconfiguring for a so ruck approach. please stand by.
mweinstone
12-25-2006, 11:59
i feel good! i knew that i would now! i feel good! like sugar and spice yeah! i feel good,, like i should now! i feel good.... i knew that i would now,.....i feel good,.. so good,.. ifeel nice! ahhhhhhhhhh1 huh! yea! alri! suga an spi!ha1 haa1 hu! do do do do!
mweinstone
12-25-2006, 12:01
riddle me this batman,....when is a dinosaur not a dinosaur.
when its froliking! merryness and christmasyness to all who will be merry. and bah humbug to the rest!
i feel good! i knew that i would now! i feel good! like sugar and spice yeah! i feel good,, like i should now! i feel good.... i knew that i would now,.....i feel good,.. so good,.. ifeel nice! ahhhhhhhhhh1 huh! yea! alri! suga an spi!ha1 haa1 hu! do do do do!
Sounds like you gatta brand new bag.... dida_lita_lita_lita_lit...
Where's the ONE?!!
JB_RIP.
mweinstone
12-25-2006, 12:03
im taking out a whole page add on thread page 300. its an add campaine called the thread must die. its gonna be a huge graphic of a tank pointed at the veiwer.
im taking out a whole page add on thread page 300. its an add campaine called the thread must die. its gonna be a huge graphic of a tank pointed at the veiwer.
The thread must DIE!
http://www.campbell.army.mil/LAO/images/Apache.jpg
mweinstone
12-25-2006, 12:56
exxxcellent smithers,....eggggsulent.
I like the Law of the Yukon, but my favorite Service poem is:
THE MEN THAT DON'T FIT IN
by
Robert W. Service
There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.
mweinstone
12-25-2006, 13:26
too long,...boring,....bla bla bla bla bla.
im taking out a whole page add on thread page 300. its an add campaine called the thread must die. its gonna be a huge graphic of a tank pointed at the veiwer.
you mean, one of my tanks??
Panzer
Maybe he will get a picture of me pointed at the viewer.
Blue Jay
12-25-2006, 20:41
too long,...boring,....bla bla bla bla bla.
Plus it's in english and makes sense. Mywe hates that.
too long,...boring,....bla bla bla bla bla.
MATTHEWSKI,YOUR RIGHT, "THE LAW OF THE YUKON" IS TO LONG AND BORING. IT CONTAINS ABOUT 788 WORDS INCLUDING THE AUTHOR AND TITLE. WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND "THE MEN THAT DON'T FIT IN" CONTAINS 254 INCLUDING THE AUTHOR AND TITLE. SO YOUR RIGHT MY MAN, THE FORMER IS BORING, AND LONG. THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT, AND LETS HOPE SMITTY TAKES NOTE OF IT TOO BEFORE HE GOES TO THE SO RUCK.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! AND STAY SAFE OUT THERE!
You counted the words? :eek: Good thing you had the day off! :D
You counted the words? :eek: Good thing you had the day off! :D
i have everyday off. i retired 3 years ago, now i hike when i want to and count words when i want to. love the retired life, more freedom than i've ever had, and can listen to awesome bluegrass from Dahlonega, Georgia at the same time. Mountain Echos Radio,24/7, good for the soul. Happy trails!!!!! Its the smiles, not the miles!!!!!
love the retired lifeOnly problem I've had with retired life is losing my weekends. My friends who work look forward so much to their weekends and derive so much pleasure from them. Me? Weekday, weekend, whatever. All the days are alike. I really envy them the pleasure they get from a weekend.
Not to mention they get holidays off, too. Me? A holiday just means more people on the trails.
Only problem I've had with retired life is losing my weekends. My friends who work look forward so much to their weekends and derive so much pleasure from them. Me? Weekday, weekend, whatever. All the days are alike. I really envy them the pleasure they get from a weekend.
Not to mention they get holidays off, too. Me? A holiday just means more people on the trails.
frosty, weekends are great too. more people out there makes it more interesting i think. its the people that make the trail what it is anyway, so week ends are ok too man. and for some reason the week end partys are livelier ,dont ya think? whatever, just enjoy it man. happy hikin, ya know ya loves it anytime.
frosty, weekends are great too. more people out there makes it more interesting i think. its the people that make the trail what it is anyway, so week ends are ok too man. and for some reason the week end partys are livelier ,dont ya think? whatever, just enjoy it man. happy hikin, ya know ya loves it anytime.You're right, I was just joking. I actually spend much more time hiking on weekends than I do weekdays because that is when my friends hike. I do some solo hiking in the summer weekdays, but tend to shy away from that in the winter.
insure ants
12-26-2006, 03:00
"This study shows that men who wait until they're older to have children are not only risking difficulties conceiving, they could also be increasing the risk of having children with genetic problems," said co-lead author Andrew Wyrobek of LLNL."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060606091933.htm
Lone Wolf
12-26-2006, 09:30
I'm fixin" to have a kid too. Better order a couple more short buses.
Dances with Mice
12-26-2006, 09:52
I'm fixin" to have a kid too. Better order a couple more short buses.Congratulations!! When will you be passing out the cigars?
Lone Wolf
12-26-2006, 09:56
Congratulations!! When will you be passing out the cigars?
No cigars. They cause cancer. Send a donation to Jerrry's Kids Foundation.
Skidsteer
12-26-2006, 10:02
Congratulations Lone Wolf!
Dances with Mice
12-26-2006, 10:08
No cigars. They cause cancer. Send a donation to Jerrry's Kids Foundation.No prob, Jerry's gotten a check from me 26 years in a row. So WHEN?
mweinstone
12-26-2006, 17:27
panzet, your tank fetesh has gone far enough with nothing to show. i insist you put your most menising tank shot up as a warning to those of us who will or cannot stop posting on this , has been of a thread that beggs for closure. do it. i recomend an m1 at 60mph firing point blank all guns and missles.
mweinstone
12-26-2006, 17:34
speaking of raw killing power,...i just got a kindler gentler note from the irs telling me to just sit tight for 45 days and they will figure out what cell im in. i mean what hell. i mean what their going to do with/to me.
mweinstone
12-26-2006, 17:56
mi5 and the american cia released statements today clarifing what was a joke turned international incedent concerning retired operative lonewolf of damascus va.the ultra secretive mj12 oprative who was outed by a russian double agent in the 90's,known and reveired localy ... only as lonewolf. ....sometimes refered to as wolf at dots for unknown reasons. the shroud of secresy rumered to be concealing apparent children of the legondary cold war assasin,..were in fact rumers and untrue. the man is a solitary deep six mole sleeper black opps specialist. they dont have kids." a spokesman for the brittish agensy who worked with lonewolf on the infamouse hanging chad affair said. his counterpart in the cia had only a four word statement " lonwolf aint your daddy"
in related news, the head of the gillete corperation anounced a new product line of shavers for the heavily bearded man. to be called "one wolf" the product features a single blade that is said to be able to cut long hairs.
mweinstone
12-26-2006, 18:08
tank,....shut up. your scielence is deafening!
speak tank speak! common boy! speak!
i envy folks that can hold there toung. im a stupid blabber. how dow you do?
mweinstone
12-26-2006, 18:09
if i could be as quiet as tank. id have women galor. what exactly is a galore anywho?
. what exactly is galore anywho?
Tall tales about the Peach State.
mweinstone
12-26-2006, 18:17
if you dont have end of world supplys on hand,.. run out and get them now.
mweinstone
12-26-2006, 18:19
cheerios and snickers baby. should be all youll need.
mweinstone
12-26-2006, 18:22
according to ted nuget, each child in your household over the age of 6 mo should have two pistols and a long arm.
leeki pole
12-26-2006, 18:34
is mattthewski really e e cummings? :-? hmmmm....
stumpknocker
12-26-2006, 18:35
Originally Posted by mweinstone http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=292233#post292233)
. what exactly is galore anywho?
Tall tales about the Peach State.
Uh oh, I understand that!! :eek:
if i could be as quiet as tank. id have women galor. what exactly is a galore anywho?Honor Blackman played the female lead opposite Sean Connery in the 1964 James Bond flick GOLDFINGER. Her character's last name was Galore. Have to click the Internet Movie Database for the cast to see her first name. Wouldn't want this thread to get shut down.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0058150/
Mathewski,
Seeing all those Snickers makes me think of "Heald" in the 2000 Miles to Maine video. When talking about Snickers bars he said he doesnt so much eat them as take them, like a pill. I think that is the best discription ever.
minnesotasmith
12-27-2006, 02:41
Do feel free to brag about it on THE THREAD. :D They should be arriving anytime now for multiple regular posters here.
No, don't put yours on E-Bay! The market value can be expected to rise over time, so it would be way too soon to think about doing that sort of thing. Wait until some time in the future when you get laid off from your job and need to make up several mortgage payments real quick. ;)
BTW, I will be out of town the next 3 days, so likely will not have online access during that time. I WILL work on my AT book some during this time, I promise...
mweinstone
12-27-2006, 09:03
got my card(s) yesterday. wonderful print. you have really good printing jerry. i always told him his printing was good. diddnt i jerry? i allways said," jerry has great print."" hes a wonderful printer"
The Solemates
12-27-2006, 11:44
im gone for a few weeks, and come back to 5000 posts! and over 20% from this one thread!
mweinstone
12-27-2006, 17:26
attention humans,........i am back.
Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-27-2006, 17:39
Matt, you stole my line ;)
mweinstone
12-27-2006, 18:30
correct me if im wrong but didnt minnesota smith make this year better for us? i really miss the thrill of the chase. im hoping no one takes this wrong but if i need to push my start date back,...ill do it at the last minute while holding out hope for feb 18th. i remaine commited to walking in his steps as much as hyoh is concerned. when i find myself chaseing friends at a pace i cant keep,.. ill think of ms. he hiked his own hike well.
Mother's Finest
12-27-2006, 18:47
hey minnesota smith....
my postcard has been duly posted right next to the cash register/computer in my store. So everyone gets to look at you when they are paying for their shoes or orthotics....just put it up today, I am sure it will work as an interesting conversation piece.
Hope your 2007 is as good as 2006 was for you.
You push your date back Matty and no one will think the less of you. I just need some advanced notice to give you the proper ride south.
peace
mf
mweinstone
12-27-2006, 19:03
dearest andropolovski, your mailing center will be delivered and i am being rfid chiped so i can be the first AT thruhiker to be trackable live in real time via a paid subscription link i think but it may be free.
you will receive raw unfettered boxes and postage and supplys and will pack the drops per phone request two weeks in advance. this is the new system i wanna try. it requires a phone in town about once a month or more. i call. i blab. this manny macs, this much tea, bla bla bla .you make up two or four at a time about four times during my hike.gabish?it will require one small closet packed to the ceiling i estimate. nothing will be freash or atractive to rodents and nothing will need repacking. just assemble, add zipsloks,pour a little soap in a small bottle,throw in candles and tp and go baby!
mweinstone
12-27-2006, 19:08
oh and finest? you da mamma!(joke based on mothers finest.)
jokes may not be funny. spelling may not be funney? funny may in fact not be spelled right. what can i spell/ lets see how long i can type from this moment without mispelling a single word. okay lets begin.the circumfrince of a circle is,....okay. stop. circumfrence? forget it.
mweinstone
12-27-2006, 19:17
iodine radiation pills? 11.00$ tammiflu? 179.00$ ristrocket and shot? pricless!
iodine radiation pills? 11.00$ tammiflu? 179.00$ ristrocket and shot? pricless!
Wow! You really got the Tamiflu! :eek:
I gues you are ready for anything, Huh? :D
This thread has now taken the shark-jumping world record. An update on mailing postcards? Oh, well. Onward and upward we go.:)
Mother's Finest
12-27-2006, 19:27
We are hanging on here Ed....with any shred of life available....
peace
mf
mweinstone
12-27-2006, 19:30
next for show and tell on the minnesota smith update worlds end special edition,...from rad alert! audience ooos and ahhhs. jay tell the folks at home what youve got comming down the isle.well monty,.. its a directional radiation detector as issued to nato forces1 msrp 180.00$!
directional radiation detector? 180.00$ having one in a radiation emergency? worthless. radiation aint scared of no battery gizmo.but it would tell you witch way death was comming from. so i guess you could turn and watch.
next for show and tell on the minnesota smith update worlds end special edition,...from rad alert! audience ooos and ahhhs. jay tell the folks at home what youve got comming down the isle.well monty,.. its a directional radiation detector as issued to nato forces1 msrp 180.00$!
directional radiation detector? 180.00$ having one in a radiation emergency? worthless. radiation aint scared of no battery gizmo.but it would tell you witch way death was comming from. so i guess you could turn and watch.
:cool: I got a case of Mountainhouse Entree's. :cool:
And some tuna... and some Chili, I think... :-?
mweinstone
12-27-2006, 19:41
and finaly for the thread that has everything,....this powerful small innocent looking lump of lucite is the single most important end time need. inside this blob is a liquid thermometer. it is calebrated to turn blue at only the moment boiling tempretures have been recorded for three minutes. the time needed to sterilize the water we are all going to be drinking soon.the beauty of the devise is that it adjusts for alltitude to 20,000 ft! so water is not 212 degrees up there when its boiling and it wont turn blue till it is ,.. for three minutes. cool?