MinnesotaSmith Update

[mweinstone]

i got crap here you dont wanna know about.know the story of matthewsilla from the bible? he was profosized to be the last man alive. he was homeless. but everyone made sure he got whatever he needed cause they thaught theyed die if he did. im pritty much like that. the part about bein the last guy alive.

[Dances with Mice]

I got a case of Mountainhouse Entree's. Oh dear, I had a case of that once. Drink lots of clear fluids and take double doses of Pepto-Bismal and your case should clear up in a couple of days.

[Lone Wolf]

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...

Got mine today. It's on the fridge with other famous guys I met like Big Tom and Lex from Survivor Africa.

[mweinstone]

by hooking up this foot powered generater /storage/ battery devise with a flexable solar pannel and a distiller, you can distill water from air and power it by the sun with a days stored reserve and foot crank back up. each unit will produce 2.5 gal per day in mid to low humidity. comments? i think ill buy the three devices.

[Panzer1]

Sorry, Can't be done.

Panzer

[mweinstone]

listen panzer. water can be distilled from the air useing electricity.you cant argue this point. the units on the market made to sit on a kitchen countertop cost about 500 bucks for a great one that produces 2.5 gal per day of disstilled water. another fact. all im sayin is they can be hooked up to alternitive power sources and run in a crisis. whats the prob?

[mweinstone]

Creating Water from Thin Air - Aqua Sciences has developed a machine that can extract up to 600 gallons of water a day from thin air even in locations like arid deserts. The 20 foot machine does this without using or producing toxic materials or byproducts. The machine works based on the natural process by which salt absorbs water." (Wired; Oct. 6, 2006) (See Slashdot discussion)

just one type.

[Paul Bunyan]

i got crap here you dont wanna know about.know the story of matthewsilla from the bible? he was profosized to be the last man alive. he was homeless. but everyone made sure he got whatever he needed cause they thaught theyed die if he did. im pritty much like that. the part about bein the last guy alive.

I thought he was the oldest guy in the Bible, like 900 years old or something like that.

[Dances with Mice]

I thought he was the oldest guy in the Bible, like 900 years old or something like that.Methuselah. Which in Hebrew means "Weary".

[mweinstone]

The AirQua AirWater Maker is defined by unparalleled quality, producing water that is safe and clean enough to drink from both the generator and the dispenser.

Whether it is low humidity or wet atmospheric condition, the AirQua AirWater Maker is able to produce water relative to the existing condition. Relative Humidity (RH) is one of the key factors that determines the rate of water production. The higher the RH, the better it is for getting more water from the air. Ideally, the RH level should be at least 40% or above to achieve the machine's optimum performance. The AirQua AirWater Maker also depends on the temperature to operate at its’ optimum level. The ideal temperature is 20° Celsius (68F) or above.



Air is drawn into the AirQua AirWater Maker by way of a suction fan. It will pass through a double-layered anti-bacterial air filter to get rid of impurities and foreign particles before hitting the condenser. The air, now dehumidified, will then return to the atmosphere, cleaner and less damp.

Meanwhile, water is simultaneously “extracted” at the surface condenser (coils) and “harvested” at the water collection tray below before storing in the water collection reservoir tank.

The water in the water collection reservoir tank then passes through a 4-stage proprietary purification process to remove organic odours and dissolved impurities, eliminate fine waterborne contaminants including bacteria, viruses, parasites and other disease-causing agents, and to further elevate and magnify water taste.

As a final safeguard, water is disinfected with UV light in the main reservoir tank to ensure the removal of bacteria and viruses before it is pumped into the hot & cold tank, ready for dispensing.

Water from the main reservoir tank and dispensing water tanks goes through a continuous cycle of filtration and sterilisation (a patented 24 hours recirculation system) to keep the water constantly clean and pure.

The AirQua AirWater Maker net result is clean, disinfected, pure and fresh water – totally from the atmosphere.

[mweinstone]

even ms would be satisfied not to refilter or treat.


but he would anyway.

[STEVEM]

The AirQua AirWater Maker is defined by unparalleled quality, producing water that is safe and clean enough to drink from both the generator and the dispenser.

Whether it is low humidity or wet atmospheric condition, the AirQua AirWater Maker is able to produce water relative to the existing condition. Relative Humidity (RH) is one of the key factors that determines the rate of water production. The higher the RH, the better it is for getting more water from the air. Ideally, the RH level should be at least 40% or above to achieve the machine's optimum performance. The AirQua AirWater Maker also depends on the temperature to operate at its’ optimum level. The ideal temperature is 20° Celsius (68F) or above.



Air is drawn into the AirQua AirWater Maker by way of a suction fan. It will pass through a double-layered anti-bacterial air filter to get rid of impurities and foreign particles before hitting the condenser. The air, now dehumidified, will then return to the atmosphere, cleaner and less damp.

Meanwhile, water is simultaneously “extracted” at the surface condenser (coils) and “harvested” at the water collection tray below before storing in the water collection reservoir tank.

The water in the water collection reservoir tank then passes through a 4-stage proprietary purification process to remove organic odours and dissolved impurities, eliminate fine waterborne contaminants including bacteria, viruses, parasites and other disease-causing agents, and to further elevate and magnify water taste.

As a final safeguard, water is disinfected with UV light in the main reservoir tank to ensure the removal of bacteria and viruses before it is pumped into the hot & cold tank, ready for dispensing.

Water from the main reservoir tank and dispensing water tanks goes through a continuous cycle of filtration and sterilisation (a patented 24 hours recirculation system) to keep the water constantly clean and pure.

The AirQua AirWater Maker net result is clean, disinfected, pure and fresh water – totally from the atmosphere.

Matthew, Why not collect and drink the water from your air conditioner drain pan? Same concept. Use a little coil cleaner first.

[Panzer1]

listen panzer. water can be distilled from the air useing electricity.you cant argue this point. the units on the market made to sit on a kitchen countertop cost about 500 bucks for a great one that produces 2.5 gal per day of disstilled water. another fact. all im sayin is they can be hooked up to alternitive power sources and run in a crisis. whats the prob?

Just the idea that you could do this with a foot pump, and make enough useful water to offset the manual effort of using the foot pump.

Panzer

[Topcat]

my folks used to have a dehumidifier that i had to empty every day. sucked gallons of water out of the air. Dont know if i would have wanted to drink it though.

[mweinstone]

one hour footing = 8 hours running 120. three hours running, a good distiller makes 1 1/2 gal.


as long as there is water and bread, there will be biscuts and gravy.

the trail is waiting. calling. hoping for some < smitty types to woop.

[mweinstone]

one hour footing = 8 hours running 120. three hours running, a good distiller makes 1 1/2 gal.


as long as there is water and bread, there will be biscuts and gravy.

the trail is waiting. calling. hoping for some < smitty types to woop.

[mweinstone]

dear panzer and all. wonderfoot just called about the new years day hike to the pa pinnicle.me her bag o tricks and others so far. come on mothers finest. goat? tank? 13.5 mi day.

[Mother's Finest]

New years day on monday? Or do you mean New Years eve on Sunday? Either way, that is a no go for me.

I will not even ask my wife. Her response would not make it worth it. Plus she has a migraine today.

I will call later this evening when I get out of the store.

peace
mf

[Panzer1]

Sorry, I can't make the hike either. We decided to have a New Years party and we are going to spend the rest of the week getting ready.


I have heard that there are some good times on Springer on New Years. I said to the wife that next year I wanted to drive down to Springer and spend New Years there. The wife doesn't do winter hikes so she's not coming. I may send her down to the Islands with her sister just so she doesn't rag on me. She bought in on that. Anyway that's a long range plan.
We'll see what happens.


Panzer

[Dances with Mice]

dear panzer and all. wonderfoot just called about the new years day hike to the pa pinnicle.me her bag o tricks and others so far. come on mothers finest. goat? tank? 13.5 mi day.
Damn, and I had you pegged as a mummer for sure.

[mweinstone]

no one knows what the mummers think. us philly born folk just kinda get embarressed by it.no offence to any good mummers out there but some mummers are drunken gay bashing alley pissin fuchs.


by some you know what i mean.

[mweinstone]

my minnesota smith exsperoment comes to a close with one final measurment. we must now gauge and chart for prosperity, the increasing waist line to non hiking ratio of increase. a sad but nessesary comparrison. rate of inflate.

damm yo ,.. this thread has sailed far enough from the coast of ms's hiking days,... that we could start a rumor that he never hiked and it was all an elaborate thread and no one would be able to go back and check cause they wouldnt survive the wilds of thr rear thread. its all overgrown and no trail and its suicide to even attempt to bushwack that puppy.

[Dances with Mice]

... I had you pegged as a mummer for sure.


no one knows what the mummers think. What can I say? It was an honest mistake.

[mweinstone]

im toying with the idea of hitting the trail this weekend and ending up on the pinnicle monday to greet white blazers with trail magik. i spent alot of new years alone on the trail above port clointon as a teen and havent for way too many years. its a wonderful way to reflect on the world at that time. you look out over the town lights and all the celebrating and you look at your feet and all the solice you have and its a cool dicottamy.anyone interested ? 215 668 0898. looking to do at least one night. today is the last work day of the year. happy day all!

[mweinstone]

sorry, port clinton

[Heater]

today is the last work day of the year. happy day all!

Not for some. Sat night/Sun morning is last of the year for me.
My job blows when it comes to holidays.

Who makes their employees work on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years when it is not absolutely needed?

[maxNcathy]

So how is Minnesota Smith doing? Did he finish?

[Panzer1]

So how is Minnesota Smith doing? Did he finish?

Yes, a long time ago.

Panzer

[The Old Fhart]

Ed Bell-"This thread has now taken the shark-jumping world record."Now that was funny, in a Fonzie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE) sort of way!

[Trillium]

Now that was funny, in a Fonzie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE) sort of way!
great clip :D skiing in a leather :banana


Matthewski, I hope you have a great weekend hiking and ring in the New Yrs in style.

but no work for me today. we get the last weekday before NY's off as a Legal Holiday. yeah, I know, damn civil servants. :p

[mweinstone]

im goin to faimount park to feed the bums. its the largest inner city park in the world. it has the largest war memorial in pa. the revolutionary war memorial, or wispering bench as it is known. if you wisper against the back of the 50 yard curved bench, it can be heard as if its in your ear on the other end. and we have perverts humping in the bushes. and junkeys shooting up under the bridge supports and then theres matthewski on his bike. im known as " the white guy". and we have the straightest natural mile of river for sculling. and canadian geese. but no minnesota smiths in resedence. there kinda scarce. there were more in the olden days. but not now. they were mostly replaced by the newer younger wyoming skateboarder types back in the 90's.oh and we have eagles fever. its like springer fever with violence and green food. and if your in philly , dont miss our poison tap water. mayor street says to run the water 3 minutes before drinking. funney,..he dosent mention why we should do this. maby for a treet , when i return, ill post some pics of homeless hiking gear and there uses.us hikers hang our food from bears. bums hang large multipul trashbags with all there stuff up high in trees so the trashmen dont get em. (while there out getting services and looking for work.(right)

[minnesotasmith]

my minnesota smith exsperoment comes to a close with one final measurment. we must now gauge and chart for prosperity, the increasing waist line to non hiking ratio of increase. a sad but nessesary comparrison. rate of inflate.


I walked 8 miles this morning along the beach in Biloxi, MS (subsequently measured the parallel road with car odometer). Did at least 7 yesterday. I've found that my stamina for yard chores has noticeably improved from January as well.

Oh, and I'm back from my trip, here on WB to see who has had the blessed event of receiving in the mail a Golden Ticket, ah, MS Katahdin summit postcard so far.

[minnesotasmith]

So far (from just The Thread as info source):

Matthewski
Mother's Finest
Lone Wolf

Anyone else at this point (12/29/06)? SteveM, Dances, Trail Angel Mary, Miss Janet? Baltimore Jack likely won't get his as quick as the others since I mailed his out from the second printing (1st 100 ran out). I do have more, BTW. (Hint, hint.);)

[MOWGLI]

Oh, and I'm back from my trip, here on WB to see who has had the blessed event of receiving in the mail a Golden Ticket, ah, MS Katahdin summit postcard so far.

I hear you're playing Bonnaroo in '07. Any truth in that? :sun

[Gray Blazer]

Happy New Year from Mr and Mrs Grayblazer (or as they say in Russia "Snovum Goddum!)

[minnesotasmith]

I hear you're playing Bonnaroo in '07. Any truth in that? :sun

*** is that?

[MOWGLI]

*** is that?

http://www.bonnaroo.com/2007/

[MOWGLI]

MS:

Stream the Matisyahu video "Jerusalem" on the site above and imagine yourself up on stage rapping some Robert Service to the hourdes. I know a few fellas here on WB that would be in the front row smokin' some fatties and bouncing to the beat. :sun

Happy New Year!

[mweinstone]

end of world update. the end is neigh.







that is all.

[mweinstone]

note to self. when i get to heven, look up hoss from bonanza and ask him if his teeth were really that bad.

[Panzer1]

ill post some pics of homeless hiking gear and there uses.

Its actually an interesting comparison that the bums are like hikers because they carry everything they have with them.

Panzer

[mweinstone]

hiker times pi is an exspression i would like to introduce. it is on the weights and measures table and describes a very large serving of any food. i just put a dubble decker lagsanna on a plate like a freakin thruhiker took a wrong turn on a desert island. whatever that means. my point is this . the rear thread is like trash. i feel bad. we need to recycle it. heres the plan. games and puzzels and walks down memory lane . all created from the best of the old. kind of like ,... go where lucy went with ,.. i love lucy,... heres lucy,... and lucy.

[Dances with Mice]

end of world update. the end is neigh.Again?! Damn.

Or maybe your message is a hidden code. 'The Mweistone Code'. You're saying the end is a sound made by a horse. That can't be right. Flip it over and you're saying the sound of a horse's end? Maybe sound is a misdirection and you just mean a horse's end! That's it!

Hey, wait a minute. Who are you talking about?

[Lugnut]

[QUOTE

Anyone else - I do have more, BTW. (Hint, hint.);)[/QUOTE]

I'd love to have one. They are sure to become collectors items! :banana
I'll PM my address.

[mweinstone]

panser sir,..my ass warms for the seat in your truck to the ruck.



can ya say that here?

anywho,..the homeless carry mostly cloths to be washed and soap and toothbrush and b oderant. and keep there other good stuff at there house. thats what you call the spot on the ground where they stake a claim.at this location they keep a radio . powered by the not so dead batteries from the recycle bins. they like the d cell radios casuse a dead d cell has lots left for there uses.they know the shift changes for the cops and so wash up in suburban station accordingly.they receive mail mostly at st jons hospis at sping garden street. rarly a cell phone gets passed around. sold or traded for. from a robbery no doubt. they all go to the free library. they all are computer savy.woman in camp high on crack seems to be the big tado. when this happens ,.. evryone chips in change. now,.. these women are known to hike . and many miles. without the comfort and companionship of those who would share squid snaks. and if ms ever did take one of these beautys hiking,..i imagine she would learn alot. like we did.

[eric_plano]

Again?! Damn.

Or maybe your message is a hidden code. 'The Mweistone Code'. You're saying the end is a sound made by a horse. That can't be right. Flip it over and you're saying the sound of a horse's end? Maybe sound is a misdirection and you just mean a horse's end! That's it!



Good for a chuckle :D

[mweinstone]

yo tungul/lugnut,...its a word from the bible. it means near. n+eye is how it sounds. and if you knew that and were making a joke,.. sorry, im to dumb for jokes. i never ever get them. unless there dumb. so yours must have been smart.

[MOWGLI]

Matthewski. Go to the link in post 5868 and stream the song referenced in post 5869. I think you'll dig this guy.

[mweinstone]

one minute and thirty six seconds and i was puking with regret. he sucks. his hasidickness sucks. his jumping sucks. his political veiw sucks. his brand of weed sucks. his taxidriver sucks. his balone and cheese sandwitch sucks. his pocket change sucks. his breath sucks,... you get the general idea. he sucks. but then thats the opinion of me. who nevert owned music of any kind. not one record. no tape. no disk. not interested in books either. just live action for me thanks. sorry if you hate that.

[mweinstone]

but thanks for tourturing the crap out of my ears anyway!


ever wonder why people like me have computers? i bought it to look up ingrone toenail. for real. pluged it in, went to the google, the bathroom, clipped a notch like the google said, wala! never really needed the darn thing since.

[minnesotasmith]

A packet of stuff from the ATC, including my 2000-miler rocker patch, a plaintive "please send us your dough" letter by a 1993 thruhiker, a list of trail maintenance clubs, a letter about same, and a comparable letter from some suit telling me to join the ATC. Nothing was said about getting to influence policy, just that they want money, need money, have to have money, and need money, so send them some money.:rolleyes: Sounds kind of like the colleges from which I have degrees. Oh, and they will sell me a plaque announcing I did a thruhike -- for $54.00. I expect that I could get one made locally for substantially less. The patch and certificate are nice to have, to be sure.

[terrapin_too]

Nothing was said about getting to influence policy, just that they want money, need money, have to have money, and need money, so send them some money.


What, they didn't appoint you to the board of directors? The nerve!

[Lugnut]

They really are soliciting members for the board. We shouild all apply! :D

[Lone Wolf]

A packet of stuff from the ATC, including my 2000-miler rocker patch, a plaintive "please send us your dough" letter by a 1993 thruhiker, a list of trail maintenance clubs, a letter about same, and a comparable letter from some suit telling me to join the ATC. Nothing was said about getting to influence policy, just that they want money, need money, have to have money, and need money, so send them some money.:rolleyes: Sounds kind of like the colleges from which I have degrees. Oh, and they will sell me a plaque announcing I did a thruhike -- for $54.00. I expect that I could get one made locally for substantially less. The patch and certificate are nice to have, to be sure.

Send any $$ to a local maintaining club of your choice.

[Dances with Mice]

Nothing was said about getting to influence policy, just that they want money, need money, have to have money, and need money, so send them some money.Gee, I hate to be the one to tell you this...

What's the best measure of influence? Hint: You used the word 5 times in your sentence.

[MOWGLI]

his balone and cheese sandwitch sucks.

He was mixing meat & cheese? :eek: Wait a minute. Is baloney really meat?

PS: He may "suck", but he sure worked that crowd at Bonnaroo into a frenzy.

[Panzer1]

Oh, and they will sell me a plaque announcing I did a thruhike -- for $54.00. I expect that I could get one made locally for substantially less.

Oh, go ahead and send them the $54. It's for a good cause. You'll feel better in the morning for helping them.

Panzer

[Sleepy the Arab]

Better yet, how about a weekend worth of trail maintenance?

[Dances with Mice]

Better yet, how about a weekend worth of trail maintenance?In Biloxi he could work on the fabled "Gulf Crest Trail".

[Panzer1]

panser sir,..my ass warms for the seat in your truck to the ruck.


The Truck is ready to Ruck.
Be ready Friday morning. We will be Rucking by noon.

Panzer

[Amigi'sLastStand]

Well, it seems we can add MS to guns, cell phones, dogs, trail shelters and lekis as subjects that get long winded, pointless threads going.

Can u pick me some lottery numbers, cause you were dead on... 8,000,000 posts ago.

[StarLyte]

You guys.....talk trash about the ATC and you'd be the first ones in line to ask a friggin question......yes.....I'm shaming you.....go take a damn hike......

[ed bell]

Tell 'em StarLyte.:cool:

[mweinstone]

im guilty of not being a member. i was when i was a kid before i ever saw the trail. it was a wannabee thing. i would flip out my wallet and brag about hiking skills and show my atc or amc thinggy. all lies. i only bought a membership in a missguided effort to pick up chicks.while minnesota smith was informing the atc ladie in harpers about the injustises of shelter placement or something,.. the male counterpart worker of atc majik came out on the porch where i was smokeing /keeping an eye on ms and the woman. i said," hi! i just wanna tell you,.. im with minnesota but i love the atc." he smiled and thanked me and said ms was grilling the woman inside. we laughed and he assured me that ms was no match for the woman. i listened to there conversation a minute just to catch the jist. all i heard was a dominant woman telling ms to wright a letter with his suggestions and ms assureing her politly , he would. all very rigid for the basement of the atc.i couldnt help but notice the workers lack of interest in anything hike that cold morn when they scilently walked past our freezing asses into a warm building while we waited till opening. if i worked there i would have let us hikers in early and talked .and offered warmth . no more than you get at , say ,..a strangers campfire. then beautiful marha starlyte mellow came and saved the day what with her starlyte action jeep! starlyte action jeep sold seperatly. starlyte easybake oven not available in some states.starlyte and wheathercarrot are trademarked muppets and property of the childrens television network and jim henson. void where prohibited. may cause love hearts to drift upward and burst into lovey dovey cloudes.

[Two Speed]

Can u pick me some lottery numbers, cause you were dead on... 8,000,000 posts ago.Well, thanks, but do you think I'd be working for a living if I could do that? :p

BTW, let's not leave asking questions about math and hammocks out of the things that can get long-winded and pointless threads going.

[Topcat]

I called this year earlier in the season because i was takign a group of kids to Harpers and wanted to know if the ATC office was open on weekends yet. It wasnt, but the lady offered to come in and show the kids some stuff if we called ahead. We didnt take them up on it that trip but the next hike we went in and got to talk to the same lady. They were very nice to us and the kids are hooked on backpacking after talking to one of the staff who had thru hiked in the past.

I felt like they were fullfilling part of their mission that day. If you dont want to give them money, then dont. You dont have to be sarcastic or holier than thou in announcing your patch delivery and the stuff that came with it. Some people may like to have those things and others won't. It is funny when HYOH only applies to you but everyone else is wrong. With all the complaining you did on your hike, i would think you would want to do some trail maintanence.

Good luck in your future hikes, hope you get to do your Alaska traverse.

[mweinstone]

yo tacpot.ms never complained. he bitched. and bitchin is one way to get over mountains. but complaining is diferent. ms diddnt do that. get your bitches and your complaints straight. bitching is a slightly out of control emotion witch deserves forgiveness. complaining is wrong and only shows the persons stiffness and unflexibility. anyone who hiked the whole trail is not stiff or unflexible.

[mweinstone]

salt pepper shampoo
firm toothbrush or battery orical
washcloth
sox
pomade tomatoe boxed marinara
plastic utensils
paper cutter
thruhikers handbook
water jug or glass
we sail the trails of city life. armed with list and striff.who can know us? only the trail. only the trail.

[mweinstone]

ive just entered the civil war era in my post numbers! scary years. im alot more afraid of a round from the civil war than a modern round. balls of cast iron hurt like hell i imagine. they just dont contain the killing power needed to put you out of your misery . more often than not, they leave you to suffer. id rather have a clean plus p mag safe do the job quickly so i could go swimmin in heven before dinner. speaking of killing power, wheres those mileage charts you teased us with?

[Topcat]

hey, who am i to argue with someone from the City of Brotherly Love. All i know is I dont know if bitchin is required to get off the front porch of a stone walled office, that might be complaining. And here i was planning on bringing you a cheesesteak when you got to Gathland Gap State park this year on your hike and you got to mispell my name and insult my vocabulary skills. Aw well, hope you have fun on your hike this weekend anyway.

[Two Speed]

. . . And here i was planning on bringing you a cheesesteak when you got to Gathland Gap State park this year on your hike . . .Lots of deserving folks around, particularly in Georgia. Name the time and place and I'll be there if it's catered.

[minnesotasmith]

I figure that a hiker is analogous to a soldier in that as long as a soldier does his job, he is entitled to gripe. So as long as I hike, I'm entitled to have opinions about what I encounter as part of the trail experience. Concomitantly, people who don't hike would arguably not be entitled to much of any opinion about the AT...:-?

[Amigi'sLastStand]

I figure that a hiker is analogous to a soldier
PLEASE!!!!:mad:

[Gray Blazer]

PLEASE!!!!:mad:
Hey brother, what cha doin' up so early? Have you ever been to MN? There's about a thousand lakes up there. You shoulda told him to jump in one. Chuck, can you get off on Tuesday? If you can, let's go hiking.

[minnesotasmith]

PLEASE!!!!:mad:

I said that a hiker was analogous to a soldier in a certain aspect, which I then spelled out. If you disagree with my point, talk about the point I made, not some other point you would find easier to attempt refuting.

[mweinstone]

attempted refutation refuted.

[mweinstone]

spelling isnt a social responsibility. its a personal choice. no? am i wrong to not learn? are there concequences to my horrible actions? am i a social deviat?

[Topcat]

If you are trying to imply that i dont hike...well, you would be wrong. It is a free country and anyone is entitled to complain about anything they want. Just remember that good manners and civility is the oil of societies crank case. Knowing when not to gripe is an important skill too.

[Gray Blazer]

spelling isnt a social responsibility. its a personal choice. no? am i wrong to not learn? are there concequences to my horrible actions? am i a social deviat?
No, you're just not edumacated!:confused:

[Panzer1]

MS, are you going to post your journal or any portion of it here on WB?

Panzer

[Lugnut]

[QUOTE=mweinstone; am i a social deviat?[/QUOTE]

Probably, but correct spelling wouldn't make any difference. :D
Only kidding. See the little green guy?

[Mother's Finest]

Hey Minnesota Smith,
question about fuels available from biomass (example corn based ethanol)

what about using hemp (or cannabis for those that prefer that term) seed oil instead of corn? would it work as well? as for production, that is not a problem, our midwestern fields used to produce loads.....

peace
mf

[Topcat]

Hey Minnesota Smith,
question about fuels available from biomass (example corn based ethanol)

what about using hemp (or cannabis for those that prefer that term) seed oil instead of corn? would it work as well? as for production, that is not a problem, our midwestern fields used to produce loads.....

peace
mf
Dogs chasing cars might have big smiles on their faces too....:D

[mweinstone]

because i have a pirated signal, i havent been able to send luke all the photoes of his last day. now that i have his postcard, i have his address. next step is to buy a disc and burn on it the pics and send it to him.today i bought a paper cutter to help me make more tee shirts. people are asking if ms is comeing to the pa or the so ruck. people named goat who called yesterday to make me sick with envy that his life includes trailrunning near work.

[minnesotasmith]

Hey Minnesota Smith,
question about fuels available from biomass (example corn based ethanol)

what about using hemp (or cannabis for those that prefer that term) seed oil instead of corn? would it work as well? as for production, that is not a problem, our midwestern fields used to produce loads.....

peace
mf

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Short answer: biodiesel/vegetable oil cannot be used in gasoline engines, and ethanol cannot be used in diesel engines. (No practical conversion for engine types or the fuels can be envisioned.) This is for the same reason that gasoline engines and diesel engines cannot be converted to use each other's fuel. Neither ethanol nor biodiesel/vegetable oil matters much at all in any event when it is derived from massive petroleum inputs for fertilizer, pesticide, fuel for processing/transportation, etc., etc. Plus, only when cellulose-to-glucose conversion to feed the microbes is economic and practical on a large scale will ethanol be more than a footnote in replacing petroleum-origin gasoline and diesel IMNSHO.
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Some thoughts on using cellulose to produce ethanol...
As a feedstock for ethanol production. First off, if that ever takes off, it will be grass, not wood, that is used; it's easier to harvest, and to process.

I worked for a while at a research lab that was working in this area; along with my ethanol plant (2 different production plants) experience, that is where I acquired the info I will pass on to you here.

Cellulose conversion to glucose takes 3 enzymes to do it. All 3 are expensive, and relatively fussy about handling. Worse, each one does little or nothing to make the reaction easier for subsequent enzyme treatment. By comparison, current enzymatic starch conversion involves only two relatively cheap enzymes, one of which is not that particular about pH, and the first one measureably aids the action of the second one.

You have another set of problems with cellulose fermentation. First, half the sugars are pentoses (5-carbon sugars), which yeast can't metabolize. By comparison, all the sugars in starch are hexoses (6-carbon sugars), which yeast uses just fine. You have to get them out of the mash, or they will caramelize in the distillation towers. You also don't want to waste half of your feedstock. So what you do is use bacteria. Problem is, those die out around 5% ethanol concentration v/v, where yeast goes 11 - 16 %. This is a big deal not only because you are able to produce much more product with the same equipment if the beer (finished mash going to distillation) is higher concentration, but because your energy costs are far higher if the beer is less than half as concentrated in ethanol.

Then, to top it all off, bacteria has a food value for animal feed that is much lower than is spent yeast; under 1/5, if memory serves.

The point that makes cellulose conversion worth pursuing is that only then will ethanol production be potentially able to have the volume to replace gasoline. You just can't make enough of it from grain to matter much, even if the petroleum inputs to growing the grain weren't another issue.

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The practicality of ethanol as a replacement for gasoline is IMNSHO mainly dependent upon whether or not an economic method for using cellulosic feedstocks as the sugar source for the fermenting organism is developed. Yes, using starches for the input in ethanol plants is nuts, and there won't be a significant surplus of them once petroleum supplies drop off most of the way. However, if cellulose can be used, then yes you can produce some serious quantities of fuel, even in a post-petroleum economy.

Note that ethanol is NOT a substitute for diesel fuel, nor is it universally useful; its MPG is around half that of gasoline, and it is a pain to use at temps under 45 degrees F. Less pollution from vehicles that run on it (vs. gasoline) by far though, and bacteria rapidly digest spilled ethanol.

I also do not agree that growing crops, even just forage crops, inevitably and irreversably mines/degrades the soil. Land can be improved by cultivation, even without major fertilizer inputs. (Material that adds available nitrogen is the vast majority of fertilizer by weight currently.) Crops like legumes and alfalfa/clover improve its nitrogen content, and various established soil management practices can up the activity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in soil by 20x or more. The gardening/farming hobbyists can add far more to this last than I can.
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About ethanol as a substitute fuel for internal combustion engines... It can't be made in sufficient volume until the problems with using cellulose as the feedstock are solved. It takes 3 expensive enzymes to break down cellulose, and none of them make access easier for the others (unlike when starch is used as the feedstock).

Also, half the sugars produced (5-carbon sugars) from cellulose conversion are only practicably used by bacteria, which putt out at about 5% alcohol final content, whereas fementation by yeast on media derived from starch (all 6-carbon sugars) goes to 11% in so-so alcohol manufacturing plants, and 16% or so in the better ones. This is critical because the energy needed to distill the ethanol will be much higher for cellulose-source facilities, and distillation is a major operating cost for fuel ethanol production.

It is not OK to just leave the 5-carbon sugars (pentoses) unused and use yeast to ferment what 6-carbon sugars (hexoses, like maltose/gluconse/fructose/sucrose) are available, as they inhibit the yeast and caramelize in the distillation columns.

At any rate, using ethanol as a gasoline substitute in quantity has some MAJOR technical impediments before it can become a reality.
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[minnesotasmith]

because i have a pirated signal, i havent been able to send luke all the photoes of his last day. now that i have his postcard, i have his address. next step is to buy a disc and burn on it the pics and send it to him.today i bought a paper cutter to help me make more tee shirts. people are asking if ms is comeing to the pa or the so ruck. people named goat who called yesterday to make me sick with envy that his life includes trailrunning near work.

PA Ruck: not too likely due to distance (mainly the expense when I'm not yet working and savings are hard-hit by recent thruhike), sad to say. I'm going back and forth between NW FL and Atlanta during this time in my life (between thruhike end and return to employment). Certainly, I would love to go, with all the trail friends that would likely be there.

Southern Ruck depends solely on whether I have work by then; if not, I definitely intend to go.

Oh, and I'd love to have a CD of those pics (and videos). Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Matthewski.

[Dances with Mice]

Southern Ruck depends solely on whether I have work by then; if not, I definitely intend to go.Cool! On Sunday you can do the De-Tuck.

[minnesotasmith]

Cool! On Sunday you can do the De-Tuck.

The De-Tuck??:confused: That sounds like a cross between detox and gaining enough weight by massive eating to overcome a tummy-tuck.:-? ;)

[minnesotasmith]

MS, are you going to post your journal or any portion of it here on WB?

Panzer

I'm pretty close to posting an abbreviated version of it. This one would have my miles per day, direction (NOBO or SOBO), where I started and ended the day, what my pack situation was (day slack/overnight slack/3-day & 2-night slack/lightpack/ fullpack), where I slept, comments on extreme terrain/weather, illness/injury, that sort of thing.

[Dances with Mice]

The De-Tuck??:confused: That sounds like a cross between detox and gaining enough weight by massive eating to overcome a tummy-tuck.:-? ;)11:00-2:00PM Tuckertime! Aspiring thru-hikers bring your packs and get Tucked at the Ruck! Read the Tale of Friar Tuck! (http://members.aol.com/pog2004/tuck.html)
-In Kleinrath Hall

[Panzer1]

PA Ruck: not too likely due to distance (mainly the expense when I'm not yet working and savings are hard-hit by recent thruhike), sad to say. I'm going back and forth between NW FL and Atlanta during this time in my life (between thruhike end and return to employment). Certainly, I would love to go, with all the trail friends that would likely be there.

Perhaps there will be people from down your way that are coming to the PA Ruck that you could car pool with and share the expense.

Panzer

[Panzer1]

Hay MS, I had to google this one:

IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion. Usually reserved for people who actually know what they are doing

Panzer

[minnesotasmith]

Hay MS, I had to google this one:

IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion. Usually reserved for people who actually know what they are doing

Panzer

That was how I intended that acronym to be understood when I used it. On subjects like fuel ethanol, asbestos, petroleum, oil shale, trends in U.S. demographics, age-related changes in human fertility, effects of fatherlessness on children, raising exotic birds, human nutrition, general futurism, what the AT looks like as of 2006, etc., I believe I can lay claim to substantially more background than can the average person.

[mweinstone]

hung out with wonderfoot yesterday and learned of her raising philly cain , what with trying to pool the philly hikers into one drinking group instead of many small not so drinking groups. at least thats what i think were tryin to form. in fact its true that hikers share a bond more primitive than stock brokers or geologists do with their own kind. two hikers share ancient secrets about stary nights and babbleing brooks that other tradesfolk dont allways get to know and love.

[Blissful]

Doesn't this thread along with the 2006 forum end tonight?

Long live the Class of 2007!

[Darwin again]

So far (from just The Thread as info source):

Matthewski
Mother's Finest
Lone Wolf

Anyone else at this point (12/29/06)? SteveM, Dances, Trail Angel Mary, Miss Janet? Baltimore Jack likely won't get his as quick as the others since I mailed his out from the second printing (1st 100 ran out). I do have more, BTW. (Hint, hint.);)

I got mine, MS.
I've placed it safely out of range of my new daughter's projectile pooping. She's kinesthetically precocious and pretty laid back for a three-week-old and I'm thinking she'll make a pretty good long-distance hiker some day.http://bp0.blogger.com/_bfEi5m058KM/RX5DxIgsoPI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5KeMaMvs8X0/s1600-h/finger.jpg
Dankeshorts, sir, and best wishes for 2007.

~Darwin

[Darwin again]

Link (http://bp0.blogger.com/_bfEi5m058KM/RX5DxIgsoPI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5KeMaMvs8X0/s1600-h/finger.jpg) that didn't take above.

[MOWGLI]

Doesn't this thread along with the 2006 forum end tonight?



It's kinda turned into the coffee shot bulletin board, hasn't it?

[Heater]

Link (http://bp0.blogger.com/_bfEi5m058KM/RX5DxIgsoPI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5KeMaMvs8X0/s1600-h/finger.jpg) that didn't take above.

Very cute! :)

Who's she flipping off? :D

[Lone Wolf]

Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep. His idea of R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: death or victory.

[Lone Wolf]

We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after Army.

[Gray Blazer]

They didn't have a VC Bob Hope? (BTW, I got to play in his orchestra at Gator Growl in @'81 ... no brag, just fact...George Burns the year after that) Would you go all the way for the USO?

[Gray Blazer]

We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after Army.Feeling a little post-traumatic? No matter what John Kerry says, the war is over. Happy New Year!!:) :sun :D :banana I don't know what happens when you use this combination of icons. Here goes nothing.

[Gray Blazer]

My New Year's resolution is to never post on this thread again unless I lose my mind.:p :banana :eek:

[Lone Wolf]

Feeling a little post-traumatic? No matter what John Kerry says, the war is over. Happy New Year!!:) :sun :D :banana I don't know what happens when you use this combination of icons. Here goes nothing.

We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "******" on their airplanes because it's obscene.

[Heater]

We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after Army.

Did Weinstone take over Lone Wolf's internet account? :p

[Gray Blazer]

I was wondering what brought this up. It's next to impossible to follow this thread if you have a regular life. BTW, this doesn't count as another post on this thread because it's not midnite here yet. I say let our boys be boys. It's not gonna hurt someone more just because someone wrote a mean-spirited missive on a bomb about to blow him up. It's not like they're gonna have time to read it. Absolutely my last post on this thread. Matt, I dare you not to post again on this thread.

[Lone Wolf]

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight...razor...and surviving.

[Lone Wolf]

minnesotasmith was one of those guys that had that weird light around him. You just knew he wasn't going to get so much as a scratch while hiking.

[woodsy]

We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "******" on their airplanes because it's obscene.

Keep it up and i'm gonna tell another one of my cold war stories!:D

[Dances with Mice]

I was wondering what brought this up. It's next to impossible to follow this thread if you have a regular life. So who wants to have a regular life?

[Lone Wolf]

Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedoms from the opinions of others...even the opinion of yourself?

[dixicritter]

Wolfie, you feelin no pain? ;)

[Lone Wolf]

I feel pain, ma'am. Just not right now. Marines are tough. And sometimes winos.:banana

[Heater]

I love ya, maaaaan. But you can't have my PBR.

[dixicritter]

I feel pain, ma'am. Just not right now. Marines are tough. And sometimes winos.:banana

Eyup... that's what I thought, ya got ahead of me! Knew I shoulda started earlier. LOL

[Skidsteer]

I feel pain, ma'am. Just not right now. Marines are tough. And sometimes winos.:banana

I'm in the same condition.

Just as well we aren't on Springer this evening.

[Lone Wolf]

What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans? That he had wisdom? Bulls**t man!

[Heater]

I'm in the same condition.

Just as well we aren't on Springer this evening.

My friends come over Saturday night
Man its nice to make up some sangria wine
Its organic and it comes from the vine
Its also legal and it gets you so high

And I love that sangria wine
Love to drink it with old friends of mine
Yeah I love to get drunk with friends of mine
When we’re drinkin’ that ole’ sangria wine

Whoooah I love sangria wine
Whoooah I love sangria wine

Start with some wine
Add some apples and brandy and some sugar some spice
Ole friends always show up on time
That’s why you add _(?)_ in burgundy wine

I love ole sangria wine
When I drink it with ole friends of mine
Yeah I love to drink with ole friends of mine
When we get drunk on that sangria wine

Whoooah I love sangria wine
Whoooah I love sangria wine

In Texas on a Saturday night
Everclear is added to the wine sometimes
Nachos, burritos, and tacos who knows
How it usually goes, it goes

Whoooah I love sangria wine
Whoooah I love sangria wine

Yeah I love that sangria wine
Just like I love ole friends of mine
They tell the truth when they’re mixed with the wine
That’s why I love the lemons and lime

I love that sangria wine
Love to drink it with ole friends of mine
Yeah I love to drink with friends of mine
When we get drunk on that sangria wine

Whoooah I love sangria wine
Whoooah I love sangria wine
Whoooah I love sangria wine
Whoooah I love sangria wine

[Dances with Mice]

My friends come over Saturday night
Jer-Ree Jay-Yeff!! Man, I was listening to him before Michael Martin Murphy found Jesus.

[Skidsteer]

Damn straight, Austexs.

[Jack Tarlin]

Man, I haven't heard that one in a loooooongtime.

Jerry Jeff Walker is great. I remember seeing him on a triple bill with Commander Cody AND Emmylou Harris. It was probably close to 30 years ago, somewhere in Western Massachusetts. Great stuff.

[terrapin_too]

Man, I haven't heard that one in a loooooongtime.

Jerry Jeff Walker is great. I remember seeing him on a triple bill with Commander Cody AND Emmylou Harris. It was probably close to 30 years ago, somewhere in Western Massachusetts. Great stuff.


Holy mudhead, mackerel... Jack and I agree on something. :-? Oh, and Emmylou, too!

[Lone Wolf]

One Through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with, fractions - what are you going to land on- one-quarter, three-eights? What are you gonna do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.

[MOWGLI]

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight...razor...and surviving.

My favorite movie. Ever. Thanks Colonel. ;)

[Lone Wolf]

My favorite movie. Ever. Thanks Colonel. ;)

Damn! Busted! Mine too.

[minnesotasmith]

minnesotasmith was one of those guys that had that weird light around him. You just knew he wasn't going to get so much as a scratch while hiking.

Getting Lyme Disease and all my falls don't count? To be sure, they didn't stop me from finishing.

[Cookerhiker]

Nothing to contribute here but I wanted to post something on this thread since it's probably a record-breaker, perhaps for all time? Any threads with more entries?

[Dances with Mice]

The Thread is now a tourist attraction with souvenier posts.

[MOWGLI]

Nothing to contribute here but I wanted to post something on this thread since it's probably a record-breaker, perhaps for all time? Any threads with more entries?

Not even close! And the march to 6000 continues.

[Appalachian Tater]

Did he finish yet? If he doesn't finish within a calendar year, does that still count as a thru-hike?

[Dances with Mice]

Did he finish yet? If he doesn't finish within a calendar year, does that still count as a thru-hike?No! But keep checking back often for exciting updates! He's getting really close!

[mweinstone]

for the low low price of only 29.99, you can name a post after someone you love. your post will be entered into the library of congress catalog and you will receive the cordinates of your very own post!

[mweinstone]

minnesota smith update 2007 in theaters soon!

[mweinstone]

minnesota smith companion in stores now. wingfoots guide to the ms thread comes out in march. so far wolf 23000 is the only known thru threader for o7. he claimes he did it last night between 21 and sunrise. says he summited at 723 am. suspect?

[mweinstone]

minnesota smith companion in stores now. wingfoots guide to the ms thread comes out in march. so far wolf 23000 is the only known thru threader for o7. he claimes he did it last night between 12 and sunrise. says he summited at 723 am. suspect?

[minnesotasmith]

No! But keep checking back often for exciting updates! He's getting really close!

Funny as Hades, though.:D

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

minnesota smith companion in stores now. wingfoots guide to the ms thread comes out in march. so far wolf 23000 is the only known thru threader for o7. he claimes he did it last night between 12 and sunrise. says he summited at 723 am. suspect?Is he in an asylum as a result. If not, I'm officially doubting he did this....

[mweinstone]

today is a good day. wonderfoot is working with me scrubbing floors to be polyurethaned.all hikers should band together and take over the world now before its to late. if hikers were in the white house things would be better. they should clone us and kill the others. we are better than commoners. we deserve the earths resourses more. they are infidels those non hiking idiots. kill kill kill!!!!!!!!

we now return you to your regularly schedualed rant allready in progress.

............if that happenes the air gets cleaner and people healthyer and we would walk not ride everywhere. and fryed turkey would be the national food. and snickers would own florida cause they would need a really long place to build the next generation of snickers and ...........

[mweinstone]

while were on the subject of the next generation of snickers and minnesota smith,.. i propose a candybar named after smitty called," simply squid"... a snickers bar in the shape of a squid. with trail facts about the great ms. fact#17....while thruhiking the AT, ms likes to eat yummy snacks like spinnach and squid gummys.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

Gasp - an evil wizard has turned MN Smith and Weinstone into shelter mice

















http://www.raw.at/sub/galerie/images/comix/pinky_and_brain.gif

[minnesotasmith]

while were on the subject of the next generation of snickers and minnesota smith,.. i propose a candybar named after smitty called," simply squid"... a snickers bar in the shape of a squid. with trail facts about the great ms. fact#17....while thruhiking the AT, ms likes to eat yummy snacks like spinnach and squid gummys.

Someone's soon going to post pics of panels mentioning the "Mr. Squid" fast-food restaurant that one of the main characters in the comic strip "The Piranha Club" (formerly called "Ernie") works at. One of my favorite pieces from their starts with two guys up at the counter about to order. One of them can't make up his mind what to get. In the background (out of view) you hear some poor b*stard erupting with "Urp... Heave... Blorp!". Immediately the undecided guy crooks his thumb in the direction of the PB's table and pipes up with, "I'll have what he's having!". Shortly thereafter, sitting at a table with his puzzled-expression friend, about to chow down on a sandwich as enormous as it is horrid-looking, eyes and tentacles protruding from between the buns, the guy explains "I'm trying to lose weight.". :eek: ;)

[minnesotasmith]

So far (from just The Thread as info source):

Matthewski
Mother's Finest
Lone Wolf
Darwin again

Anyone else at this point (1/2/07)? SteveM, Dances, Trail Angel Mary, Miss Janet? Baltimore Jack likely won't get his as quick as the others since I mailed his out from the second printing (1st 100 ran out). I'd be happy to send Sgt. Rock/Dixicritter and ATroll postcards as well.

Anyone have the mailing address for the Murray place? I owe the owner one, though he wasn't there when I stayed there. Only shelter on the AT at which I washed (by hand, with packet of detergent I had along from last mail drop) and dried all my dirty clothes.

[Dances with Mice]

Received! And thanks.

[Mother's Finest]

minnesota smith,
thanks for the considered response. I will say this now for all to here. I know that your IQ has to be higher than mine.

peace
mf

[plydem]

As my New Year's resolution, I have decided not to go back and read what I missed since Dec. 22nd when I went on vacation and to no longer read this thread! It's done and should have been closed weeks ago. Goodbye and Good Luck!

[Heater]

As my New Year's resolution, I have decided not to go back and read what I missed since Dec. 22nd when I went on vacation and to no longer read this thread! It's done and should have been closed weeks ago. Goodbye and Good Luck!

Well OK then... your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.

[Heater]

Well OK then... your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.

I should have added :p :D :eek: ;)

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

Merciful heavens, there is a python loose in The Thread.

[STEVEM]

Just reporting in (rather late) that we received our summit postcard. Thank you. Thanks also to the USPS for delivering this valuable keepsake in very good condition. Our postcard is on display on the refrigerator along with photos of Autumn and Pumpkin our 5 month old Maine Coon Kittens. MS you should be honored, not many "people photos" are worthy of display alongside the babies.

[STEVEM]

I GOT THE TOP OF PAGE 300!!!!!!! And kind of patch, certificate, of cash award for that notable accomplishment?

[STEVEM]

So excited I typed "and" instead of "any". Matthew, I need some spelling lessons.

[STEVEM]

If I keep going I'll get both post #6000 and page #300 within the next half hour. There MUST be a prize for that.

[Skidsteer]

Well OK then... your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.

You forgot: "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

[emerald]

You forgot: "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

Keep that up and I will be compelled to help keep this thread alive.:p Now, quit with that Monty Python stuff already or I'll cyber-catapult something in your general direction!:D

[Skidsteer]

Keep that up and I will be compelled to help keep this thread alive.:p Now, quit with that Monty Python stuff already or I'll cyber-catapult something in your general direction!:D

Run away! Run away! ;)

[Paul Bunyan]

Gasp - an evil wizard has turned MN Smith and Weinstone into shelter mice

















http://www.raw.at/sub/galerie/images/comix/pinky_and_brain.gif

What i wonder is, which ones Pinky and which one's Brain?

Oh and the idea noone has posted on my axe thread, "its just a flesh wound" :D :eek: ;)

[Panzer1]

Another milestone. The thread has now reached 300 pages.

Panzer

[Jan LiteShoe]

Keep that up and I will be compelled to help keep this thread alive.:p Now, quit with that Monty Python stuff already or I'll cyber-catapult something in your general direction!:D

SPAM!!!
:banana

:)

[Dances with Mice]

It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating The Thread's 2000th post (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showpost.php?p=244459&postcount=2002).

[Paul Bunyan]

I..........

[Paul Bunyan]

Just......

[Paul Bunyan]

Want......

[Paul Bunyan]

to...........

[Paul Bunyan]

have.........

[Paul Bunyan]

the..........

[MOWGLI]

This thread exhausted its usefulness long ago. Stick a fork in it.

[Paul Bunyan]

six.........

[Paul Bunyan]

thousandht post yes..

[Paul Bunyan]

I got it YAY.

[emerald]

I got it YAY.

Only because even Matt has lost interest.;)

[Dances with Mice]

This thread exhausted its usefulness long ago. Stick a fork in it.How much is it worth to yuh? I will make a $40 contribution to W-B's Pay-Pal account to keep The Thread open. If I am overbid by any combination of donations from posters that want to close The Thread I will recommend that The Thread be locked.

Game on?

Gang up and pledge The Thread to death! I'm off to Pay-Pal now.

[the goat]

This thread exhausted its usefulness long ago. Stick a fork in it.

i second the motion.....

[minnesotasmith]

As of 1/3/07, the count of blessed recipients is up to (from just The Thread as info source):

Matthewski
Mother's Finest
Lone Wolf
Darwin again
SteveM (Thank you for the fridge honor, BTW.)

Anyone else yet?

I've got a third wave of cards going out tomorrow. (Several are going out to places at which I was judged not likely to finish. :D ) I still need to find mailing addresses for the Murray place, Woodshole hostel, the YMCA camp on p. 134 of Wingfoot, Graymoor, and the couple next door to Friendly's Burgers in Bennington, VT.

[Dances with Mice]

Step right up, line on the right for those wanting to put "The Thread Killers" in the February sponsorship block. Just five with ten will getcha going, ten with five gets yah the same. Step right up, any comination will getcha on the board, three shots for a dollar winyah bear for the little lady.

Line forms on the left, way over there on the left, for those who'd like to list how much better uses they have for their money. They can't contribute to W-B right now because they're having tea with Mother Teresa and they give to this charity and that charity to save the world from ... developers or childhood diseases, they give all their money to the home for aging Shriner clowns, gout research, or electing gay whales to Congress. Some, very few, maybe one, maybe two might actually think they can shame me. Step right up and take your best shot. The winning essay may get their charity on my sponsorship block if nobody can scrounge enough to top my W-B donation.

Step right up. Three shots a dollar to dunk the clown in the water.

[minnesotasmith]

they give all their money to the home for aging Shriner clowns

http://www.zooass.com/games/killtheclown/

Or, there is this pictorial alternative (often mentioned as the answer most likely to be resorted to for elder care when Social Security, Medicare, etc., run out):

http://www.cthulhucoffee.com/images/conphotoslg/supercon2003/ice-floe-big.jpg

[MOWGLI]

As of 1/3/07, the count of blessed recipients is up to (from just The Thread as info source):

Matthewski
Mother's Finest
Lone Wolf
Darwin again
SteveM (Thank you for the fridge honor, BTW.)

Anyone else yet?



MS, you're starting to sound like Tom Carvel with those postcards. Give it a rest already, or we'll start referring to you as Fudgie the Whale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudgie_The_Whale). :rolleyes:

[dixicritter]

Ok here's the deal, any more posts just to increase the number of posts in this thread will kill this thread... by order of the administration (we have discussed it). If y'all want this thread to stay open then find something to talk about other than the number of posts and pages. Thanks.

I now return you to The Thread.

[Dances with Mice]

Ok here's the deal, any more posts just to increase the number of posts in this thread will kill this thread... ...or... they could ... donate money ... to your website ... y'know?

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

It would seem the Admins have given us the means to kill the thread :D

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[Dances with Mice]

It would seem the Admins have given us the means to kill the thread http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/lowcarbscoop/tombstonethread.jpgThey must not need the money. I tried. I really did. You saw me try, didn't you? Wasn't I trying?

So, FD, do you think The Thread could be killed by post 6015? Or will is last until 6025?

[mweinstone]

minnesota smith thruhikes the appalachian trail in just over 9 months.

analysis:ms was overweight and out of shape. he started in georgia with too much equiptment and quickly and steadely droped both body weight and packweight. his hiking proweless increassed as time passed leaving him at the finnish , a consumate hiker and ablebodyed camper and exsperienced hitcher and a resupplyer extrodinaire. his support team had alot more to do with his succes. the constant talk of his hike in media and hiking circles enhanced this shy mans image of himself and once again we see how important self image is to confedence. his body and mind and support team all became strong as they were needed most. his ability to suffer lonelyness seemed to out score the stats for most folks and he complained about lonlyness very little. this may have been due to the large support team or to his own personal spirit. it has been sugested ms cheated and skipped lonly sections and stayed in hotels without reporting such moves. this is beyond ms's ability to be corrupt. he demonstraited old fashoned honesty and was a boon for the trails reputation if not one to his own. and as he came closer to his goal he showed just a christian bit of dissinterest in the ney saying and moved it would seem to a more secure spiritual fortress. here he remains to this day changed by his trip and by our beloved trail. in conclution, it can be said with accuresy, minnesota smith hiked the trail in the hike your own hike fashion as demonstrated by all the greats from granny to earl, from pirate to lonewolf, from blisteh to gorpy, and he is forever included in the list of folks from whom we choose to teach lessons to the young about this thing we call trash.

[woodsy]

The Trail kicked his arse and now it's the volunteer maintainers fault that it was such a struggle for him.....whine, whine, whine.

[STEVEM]

This all reminds me of the 2000 elections. Done, but not over. Is that the Supreme Court waiting with a newly polished gavel to finish this whole affair?

Will MS grow a beard, accept a teaching job and write a book on global warming?

A gory end, indeed.

[mweinstone]

minnesota smith represents a small thing god raised up . and the anger and critisizm the threadsters dished out was a testiment to gods advise, "take the beam out of your eye so you can then see clearly to remove the spinter from anothers eye"and," when they curse you for loving god, take it as meat" and anyone who thinks im quoting the bible, im paraphraseing. and im not prostelatizing, im trying to exsplain in my way of thinking, what has transpired here during, before and after, ms hiked the trail.i think ms represents truth and many were offended and unable to enjoy and some were driven over a cliff like swine released into hell by god.the truth is like unto a two edge sword, able to seperate even sinue from bone. the truth about ms is that he wasnt going to listen to anyone anyhow. and he was flexible and had the resourses to learn what and when and from where or who he chose.and his education shows just that type of bent . his bent is an honest godly one. its offence is the same stench that jesus is to all who denie him. he stinks if you dont belive in him. jesus and ms.and to belive in another human being cant quite compare to belife in god, to belive in ms is to allow him space to grow and not feel threatened and to be open to the idea that you can learn something from anything.ms isnt a god, not a thruhiking one even. hes a regular man . who just hapens to also searve as a little mirror reflecting even a morsil of gods light off his heart and into the world. i made a leap of judgement at the start of this year by supporting ms ,"all in." and now at the beginning of this year 2007 i will make another leap. one of faith. when i tell you this.

luke will grow into something along the lines of a layed back pipe smokin professor everyone loves and he will write books and he will be one of the minds of our times. and his veiws of the world will turn and come around a few times before settleing on a bent not all can live with, and love, but respect.

[Two Speed]

...or... they could ... donate money ... to your website ... y'know?Well, WB did get $25 out of me due to that mutual pledge we talked ourselves into. BTW, did YOU pony up?

[saimyoji]

Ok here's the deal, any more posts just to increase the number of posts in this thread will kill this thread... by order of the administration (we have discussed it). If y'all want this thread to stay open then find something to talk about other than the number of posts and pages. Thanks.

I now return you to The Thread.


Sounds like a great idea. Does this one count? :D

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

This post exists purely to increase the post count on this thread :D

[saimyoji]

Hey, no fair. Let the record show that mine should have been the last, as this one should be. :D

::bares teeth at toothy dino::

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

::: bites saimyoji on the toes :::

[saimyoji]

Ahhh, yes. A fitting end to this thread. Toe biting indeed. I'll have you know I lost all my toes summiting Everest one summer. I was a bit disapointed that the path wasn't a little more accessible though, what with all that damn snow. And those foreigners who carried my luggage.....:-?

::waits patiently for Dixie to have a free moment, while sewing toe-less shoes.::

[Dances with Mice]

Well, WB did get $25 out of me due to that mutual pledge we talked ourselves into. BTW, did YOU pony up?That does sound vaguely familiar and I haven't. Well, it's dues paying month. GATC got theirs this year before they had to dun me.

[Lugnut]

I have a folder in my documents for items that don't fit anywhere else. I labeled it 'The Attic'. It appears that this thread has become the WB attic. We need a place like this! :banana

[MOWGLI]

I have a folder in my documents for items that don't fit anywhere else. I labeled it 'The Attic'. It appears that this thread has become the WB attic.

Can we clean it out and hold a yard sale?

[dixicritter]

Y'all know all you have to do is stop posting to this thread and it will die all on it's own right? It just takes will power people.

[Heater]

I am not posting to increase the post count.

I just wanna get one_more_post in before it is closed... :cool:

[Jan LiteShoe]

Y'all know all you have to do is stop posting to this thread and it will die all on it's own right? It just takes will power people.


...must....
...stop...
:)

[Blue Jay]

...must....
...stop...
:)

Nooo, his ego is planet sized and growing at geometric pace, sucking in all light from the multiverse. It should blow up and become the black hole he truly deserves to be.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

::: bites Smitty on the ego and is blown into next year :D :::

[mweinstone]

the accepted smithian way of doing things. aminnesota smithlike approch. the ms of packs. dont give me any ms. are yall ms'n me? if minnesota smith can,.... smith, minnesota smith. now you sound like minnesota smith. oi,minnesota smith. a minnesota minute is defined by the time needed to walk a mile while sleepwalking. a minnesota mile is the breath of chasim bettween two political opposites. a minnesota morning is another word for zero. moderatly minnesotalike milage is a nero. when one hiker askes another for some minnesota, there asking to borrow toilet paper. a red circle with a line thru it on a diaganal over a picture of a hiker wearing an anvil means , minnesota smith crossing. a circle with a line thru it over a picture of a roll of toilet paper means watch for aggressive ms.mess or messy are endearing nicknames for ms. according to the atomic weights chart, the element ms has the property "reverse chick magnetism". the idea that ms can be exsplained by the splinter group branched from ausriolopithicus have been debunked . ms is actually related to deep ocen lava tube feeding alge. and finnaly folks, a red circle with a line thru it on a diagnal over a picture of jim morrison with the letters ms, means ms is not jim morrison.

[Paul Bunyan]

Seriously guys, this thing has to end. THere is no way that this can stay alive in 2007. Its a 06 thread for pete sake. Is there any way admins can just shut it down?

[MOWGLI]

. and finnaly folks, a red circle with a line thru it on a diagnal over a picture of jim morrison with the letters ms, means ms is not jim morrison.

Can someone please start humming "The End" for us please?

"This is the end, beautiful friend."

[mweinstone]

ggod one jungle boy. see how upset folks get just cause the thread is alive? how much will that guy pay to shut it down? he could do it himself by just attacking it with multiple accounts all posting trash. and he could go nuts on us and hunt each of us down and kill us dead with blood and guts and end. die mine thread die! it is kinda fun to hate. once gone, life around here will suck for me. i got nothin after the thread goes. nothin. nothing at all to type for.

[Jan LiteShoe]

Nooo, his ego is planet sized and growing at geometric pace, sucking in all light from the multiverse. It should blow up and become the black hole he truly deserves to be.

He probably thinks this thread is about him?
:)

[Lone Wolf]

Ok here's the deal, any more posts just to increase the number of posts in this thread will kill this thread... by order of the administration (we have discussed it). If y'all want this thread to stay open then find something to talk about other than the number of posts and pages. Thanks.

I now return you to The Thread.

There's 0 left to discuss. I'm posting just to increase the # of posts. Close this mofo down.

[Paul Bunyan]

Hey, i have a question, how do you make a custom avatar?

[terrapin_too]

Hey, i have a question, how do you make a custom avatar?

You pays your dues. Become a "donating" member.

[Paul Bunyan]

So you have to pay them something? Like about how much?

[terrapin_too]

So you have to pay them something? Like about how much?


Dunno what the minimum is. Try $10 and see what happens.

[Paul Bunyan]

uggh, i hate being underage, i cant make a paypal account.

[Dances with Mice]

Hey, i have a question, how do you make a custom avatar?See? On what other thread could kids learn the answers to life's important questions?

[MOWGLI]

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
Ill never look into your eyes...again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...strangers hand
In a...desperate land

Lost in a roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

Theres danger on the edge of town
Ride the kings highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...hes old, and his skin is cold

The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and well do the rest

The blue bus is callin us
The blue bus is callin us
Driver, where you taken us

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...i want to...

Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin a blue rock
Cmon, yeah

[Lone Wolf]

Post #6044.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

:::grins at LW and hits sent for post 6045 :::

[STEVEM]

Seriously guys, this thing has to end. THere is no way that this can stay alive in 2007. Its a 06 thread for pete sake. Is there any way admins can just shut it down?

PB, You seem like a really smart kid. Why aren't you in school? Anyway, given your contributions here and your success with the "Axe Thread" it seems to me like you could become the next Minnesota Smith. Those are big shoes to fill, young man.

[Lone Wolf]

#6047. close it dixi, i dare you.

[terrapin_too]

#6047. close it dixi, i dare you.


Yeah, but then we'd have a thread about the closing of the MS thread... :rolleyes:

[Paul Bunyan]

I think that already exists in the general area.

[dixicritter]

The End!!!!

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