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- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Message-ID: <kf38n7200VIGQFHVc7@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:59:19 -0500
- From: "Christian A. Pegher" <cp1t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: To all of you who call yourselves skiers...
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov19.122100.5638W@baron.edb.tih.no>
- References: <1992Nov19.122100.5638W@baron.edb.tih.no>
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- I like reading this Bboard, and I happen to take offense to being called
- a nerd. The bars and hotels part I can deal with - when I'm on a ski
- trip, I'm having fun on or off the slopes. In this sense, bars and
- hotels fit in perfectly to the conversation on this board. I guess I
- just can't see how you could fit the words nerd and bar in the same
- sentence, except maybe if you said, "Yeah, I was at this bar last night,
- and this slimy little nerd actually got in! He started hitting on some
- hot chick, and she just slapped him right in the face! Well, he started
- whining in this really high pitched voice, and one of the bouncers
- promply threw him out on his ear!"
-
- Comparing the above example to the text that you have submitted, It can
- clearly be seen that you have no real concept of the words "nerd" and
- "bar". I might even go as far as to say that you confused as to your
- own status in society. Thus, we may progress from this to bring forth
- the question: What kind of NERD reads their mail at 12:20 at night? At
- least I have an excuse - I'm a student at Carnegie Mellon, INC., and I
- only have time to read mail while working as a computer consultant -
- late night. In fact, I have to make time to read mail, with all of the
- work I have to do. (CMU was ranked hardest and most competitive last
- year, but only 8th in suicides - don't worry though, we're working to
- improve ourselves at that, too - we know a few people who may...). So,
- what's your excuse?
-
- Not that it really matters. By the note of your post, I've already
- pinned you as one of those scrawny, pencil necked geeks that we always
- see - running down the road in umbros and a tank top in the summer, or
- going cross country on two flat saplings with a little beanie hat in the
- winter - always with the same expression of agony on your face. Not
- that I'm knocking X-Country skiing - it is a great aerobic excercise.
- But, if you dare, look at the face of the down hill skiier as he cuts
- his S-turns, waist deep in powder, or as she does an aerial off of a
- mogul. There is the true nature of skiing. Fast and furious,
- thrilling, deadly.
-
- I know this will probably turn into a flame war with the X-Country
- skiiers, but I feel I must react to such an arrogant but feeble attack
- at my most loved past-time.
-
- Christian A. Pegher
- Donning Flame-Proof Gear
-
- Student of, but in no other way affiliated to:
- Carnegie Mellon, INC.
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-