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WingedMonkey
05-09-2012, 09:26
The following is attributed to which early trail legend?
"Ignorant people, even though they may have good intentions, do more harm than good when they try to enforce certain standards on other people, even when it is the will of a majority."
rocketsocks
05-09-2012, 09:33
The following is attributed to which early trail legend?
Hm.....was it Roger Rabbit? Nope Nope wait.....Mr Lone Wolf? Naw to wordy..........I give up.
Gray Blazer
05-09-2012, 09:36
The following is attributed to which early trail legend?
What kind of message are you trying to send?
Lone Wolf
05-09-2012, 10:00
there are no trail legends
rocketsocks
05-09-2012, 10:02
there are no trail legends
Damn,I never win nothin!
atmilkman
05-09-2012, 10:04
there are no trail legends
What about the legend of Bigfoot?
rocketsocks
05-09-2012, 10:22
The following is attributed to which early trail legend?
I alway look at that word "Ignorant" like this,To Ignore.Seems a little nicer,and that there is a lesson to be learned with out the personal bashing.
WingedMonkey
05-09-2012, 10:28
"An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out"
Will Rogers
rocketsocks
05-09-2012, 10:36
Will Rogers
Noooo,Whyyyy,say it ain't so Joe.I would have voted for him as President.....iffin I was around then.
Cookerhiker
05-09-2012, 10:37
The following is attributed to which early trail legend?
Haven't done any research, just a gut reaction: either Myron Avery said it about Benton MacKaye or Benton MacKaye said it about Myron Avery.
WingedMonkey
05-09-2012, 11:02
Haven't done any research, just a gut reaction: either Myron Avery said it about Benton MacKaye or Benton MacKaye said it about Myron Avery.
Wrong answer but still a funny one.
:sun
Sounds like something Grandma Gatewood would say.
Gray Blazer
05-09-2012, 11:49
... or Davey Crockett.
Ccooksey11
05-09-2012, 13:12
Sounds to me something Bill Bryson might have said.
Ccooksey11
05-09-2012, 13:14
Not a early legend though
daddytwosticks
05-09-2012, 16:09
Minnesota Smith.....:)
I think it's like Jeopardy...... You have to answer in the form of a question.
rocketsocks
05-09-2012, 16:23
I'd like to by a vowel,is there an "S"in there somewhere?
Haven't done any research, just a gut reaction: either Myron Avery said it about Benton MacKaye or Benton MacKaye said it about Myron Avery.
If it was one of the two, it was most likely Avery. Supposedly he built two trails from Georgia to Maine. One was the Appalachian Trail, the other was of broken dreams and shattered egos. Or something like that.
Lone Wolf
05-09-2012, 22:19
The following is attributed to which early trail legend?
who gives 2 poops? seriously
WIAPilot
05-09-2012, 22:30
I'll take a shot: Dorothy Laker
Wise Old Owl
05-09-2012, 22:39
I think it's like Jeopardy...... You have to answer in the form of a question.
Ohh OK What would Davy Crockett Do?
WingedMonkey
05-10-2012, 09:14
who gives 2 poops? seriously
I guess anyone who takes the time to reply to a thread twice gives two poops.
vamelungeon
05-10-2012, 09:17
Whoever it was, it has an elitist, arrogant flavor to it.
who gives 2 poops? seriously
...... Because asking to "critique a pack list" or "How safe is the AT?" is getting really old?
WingedMonkey
05-10-2012, 09:33
For those into historical archives:
The statement was made by Horace Kephart as President of the Appalachian Fish and Game Association, in a letter on April 4, 1919 to McDavid Horton Managing Editor of the Newspaper "The State" out of Columbia, South Carolina.
The subject was prohibition.
Source:Horace Kephart-George Masa Papers
Pack Memorial Library Special Collections, Ashevill, North Carolina
Gray Blazer
05-10-2012, 09:38
Warriggyaguy?
Interesting! Horace Kephart is also the author of "Our Southern Highlanders" mentioned in a recent thread and available free to Kindle on Amazon.
I just started reading it. Pretty amazing stuff.
vamelungeon
05-10-2012, 11:41
Some of the people Kephart wrote about were my relatives, and being a southern Appalachian native I have to say I think he gave us a fair shake, much more so than a lot of the literature of the day that purported to give an honest picture of the region, most of which was simply sensationalist lurid fiction produced to appeal to the lowest common denominator and that left behind many negative stereotypes.
Wise Old Owl
05-10-2012, 21:57
...... Because asking to "critique a pack list" or "How safe is the AT?" is getting really old?
Can I quote you on that? even better - can I add that to my signature line?:D:D:D;)
Wise Old Owl
05-10-2012, 21:59
Warriggyaguy?
No its spelled .....http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg275/MarkSwarbrick/einstien-1.jpg
Lone Wolf
05-10-2012, 22:25
I guess anyone who takes the time to reply to a thread twice gives two poops.
pretty unlikely chip
I'd like to by a vowel,is there an "S"in there somewhere?
I'll purchase a "u", and donate it to you to insert between the "b" and the "y". :)
rocketsocks
05-11-2012, 00:17
I'll purchase a "u", and donate it to you to insert between the "b" and the "y". :)
Sold...........
WingedMonkey
05-11-2012, 08:50
pretty unlikely chip
And now three poops.
Gray Blazer
05-11-2012, 09:36
And now three poops.
As if the guy needed more validation.
Now who are the ignorant people the OP was talking about?
Man, what's in the spring water you guys been drinkin?
kolokolo
07-28-2012, 22:02
The following is attributed to which early trail legend?
Will this be on the test? :confused: