[at-l] WB

[Bob C]

What? Not all serious.

Ponder this from White Blaze. 

Little JOHNNY AND Jesse Jackson 

Jesse Jackson, while visiting a primary school class, found
himself in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The
teacher asks the Rev. Jackson if he would like to lead the discussion of the
word "tragedy." So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of
a "tragedy." 

One little boy stood up and offered, "If my best friend, who lives
on a farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and
knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy."
No," says the Great Jes se Jackson, "that would be an accident." 

A little girl raised her hand. "If a school bus carrying 50
children drove over a cliff killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not," explains the exalted spiritual leader. "That's
what we would call a great loss." 

The room goes silent. No other children volunteer. Rev. Jackson
searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a
tragedy?" 

Finally, at the back of the room little Johnny raises his hand.
In a stern voice he says, "If a plane carrying the Rev. Jackson were
struck by a missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy." 

"Fantastic!" exclaims Jackson, "That's right. And can you tell me
why that wo uld d be a tragedy?" 

"Well," says little Johnny, "Because it sure as hell wouldn't be a
great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."

Weary, who borrowed it from a White Blaze to make a point -- a massively serious point to, mind you.
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> Whiteblaze is serious; at-l is friendly; depends on
> what you want. You can make friends on serious
> Whiteblaze, and you can get info on sociable at-l, and
> in either place, it helps to walk your talk.
> 
> (That having been said, I haven't visited Whiteblaze
> at least a year, nor have I been backpacking, nor hit
> a SoRuckPaRuckTrailDazeGathering even. Wuz *that*
> say?)
> Talkin'notwalkin'toe
> 
> So what's the hiker version of "all hat and no
> cattle"? All pack and no rattle?
> All boot and no dirt?
> All toque and no ______?
> All gorp and no grit?
> All talk and no miles?   (That'd be me, it seems...)
> 
> I need to go for a walk....
> 
> --- Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Me too. I joined WhiteBlaze but hardly ever look at
> > it. I'm also on an
> > Adirondack BB style list. I rarely look at that
> > either. I like having
> > the posts sent to my email. If I don't want to read
> > something it's
> > easy to delete but hunting through a BB to find what
> > I do want to read
> > is a PITA.
> > 
> 
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