[at-l] ATL Flame Wars

[Ryan Brooks]

Sloetoe wrote:
> --- JPL <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> What happened to the flame wars of old.  Have email
>> lists gentrified?  Not that I miss them, but just
>> curious.  The AT lists seemed particularly, but not
>> uniquely, prone to them.  Just curious.
>>     
>
> ### As I read this, I was sipping on Gatorade,
> pondering the southeastern US drought and the
> northeastern US floods, global climate change and the
> role of traveling AT hikers' automobile exhaust in
> contributing to same. My cellphone rang (complicated
> by the fact that I'd left it underneath my umbrella),
> and when I answered, it was someone claiming a
> personal emergency, and thanking their lucky stars
> that the call (dialed blindly) was answered. They
> asked me if my GPS was on, and if I could inform them
> where they were. I quickly threw a pen at the wall map
> and answered "Abbeville, South Carolina. You're way
> off trail. Head west and look for the high stuff. And
> don't treat your water anymore" and hung up. No call
> backs. The Gatorade was orange.
>   

Hey man, hike your own hike!