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- From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
- Subject: Re: Hats
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.012208.10757@ttinews.tti.com>
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- Organization: The Cat Factory
- References: <1992Dec17.081407.11568@midway.uchicago.edu> <1gqkhtINNq3g@phakt.usc.edu> <1gqrlmINN4e2@smurf.sti.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:22:08 GMT
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- In article <1gqrlmINN4e2@smurf.sti.com> alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn) writes:
-
- }"Six: A British-cammo field cap. It goes with the rest of my para cammo
- } gear. The last time it got worn was when we went caving in California
- } Caverns - the downstream circuit. My cammo mostly gets used as serious
- } grubbies, these days. Going crawling in the mud? Out comes the cammo.
- } It's seriously tough stuff, and if it gets filthy stinking dirty, who
- } cares?
-
- "I'm not a caving expert, but this does remind me of a friend's
- misadventure. Seems he had a cammo wallet to go with the rest of his
- cammo hunting gear. One day he dropped it in the woods. Oops. (Never did
- find it).
-
- "I bring this up because it occurs to me that wearing cammo isn't such a
- good idea in a situation where your life might depend on someone else
- being able to find you. If I were engaged in serious caving, I think I'd
- be more inclined to wear international orange, or maybe something that
- glowed in the dark, just in case."
-
- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
- Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp "If you can't stand solitude,
- 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (310) 450-9111, x2483 perhaps others find you boring
- Santa Monica, CA 90405 as well." -- Mark Twain
-