[at-l] Bad travel plans... Re: Lost hiker [was: List slow?...]

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I knew you meant this. Had to explain it to another person who read it. On Capitol Hill, "hiking the Appalachian Trail" always elicits a laugh. 

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On Mar 22, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Tom McGinnis <sloetoe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Tue, 3/22/11, Allen Freeman <allen at allenf.com> wrote:
>>> I don't know. Was some UT professors wife missing for
>> a couple of days?
>>> 
>> 
>> Huh?
> 
> ###... Sometimes persons of prominence in the area of the GSMNP seem to *start* on the Appalachian Trail (or thereabouts) with great aims and ambitions, but then ... um, ... *lapse* into somewhat sordid adventures (generating similar degrees of sweat and salt), that gain more headlines than a simple "hike on the Trail" would have done.
> 
> So, 
> "Governor not available" turns to
> "Governor disappears" to, on June 23, 2009
> http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/0623/sanford-disappears-to-hike-appalachian-trail-on-naked-hiking-day
> which the next day turns to, 
> http://articles.cnn.com/2009-06-24/politics/south.carolina.governor_1_jenny-sanford-south-carolina-gov-buenos-aires?_s=PM:POLITICS
> 
> And so on......
> 
> mediatoe
> 
> 
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