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- From: jym@cruz.denver.sgi.com
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- Subject: Re: A question of vanity
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.145709.21014@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:57:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.060659.17550@wam.umd.edu>, bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak Gohari) writes:
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- |> As far as dork factors are concerned, I remember this one incident in which
- |> I almost killed an eight year old boy. Seriously, we're in line and all of a
- |> sudden I hear that dreaded grinding noise. I look back and of course, this
- |> kid is trying to stop on my skis. Well, I ask him to get off. He gets off,
- |> barely, and as soon as we move forward a little, grind. His mother told him
- |> that he should be careful of other people's skis. We move up again, grind.
- |> This happened like maybe five more times (yes, it was one of those beloved
- |> Eastern lift lines). It was then that I decided to either get ski savers or
- |> at least a shotgun.
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- What's all the hubub about the tops of skiis. Don't ya ski on the bottoms?
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- jim t
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