Greetings (and a free stove!) from TinCa nStoveMan!

“"Greetings and happy Gnu Year to my dear, dear (and most perilously
endangered) friends,

Yes, the rumors are true, Tin Can Stove Man has returned!!!!Returned from the wilds of South America, from his comparative stove-testing
experiments in the warm and sunny southern hemisphere, returned to the snowy and frost-bitten wasteland that is the UnitedStates in January!!! And why, you
ask, would Tin Can Stove Man do such a thing? Because of YOU, dear reader!!
Because YOU are in danger!!! Great danger!!!!!!

For this, my dear thru-hiker friends, is the most dangerous time of the year for those who plan on hiking the PCT in 2002. Although most of you are safely ensconced in the bosom of your warm and secure home, as long as
you are assembling your gear for the 2002 hiking season, choosing which stove
you are going to bring for your 3-6 month trek, you are not safe.
During the upcoming months, you will face a danger far more terrible than anything you might encounter on the trail!! More hazardous than slippery snowfields
or rushing streams!!! More terrifying than rifle-wielding rednecks or shelters full of boy-scouts!!! More loathsome than swarms of ravenous mosquitoes or hissing, twitching rattlesnakes!! More ominous than the threat of frostbite, heat exhaustion, or a slow and gruesome death by hunger, thirst, exposure, scorpion sting, spider bite, hypothermia, loss of
vital organs, or any combination of the above!!!!!!!! This danger,
which stalks the minds and hearts and packs of thru-hikers from Maine to Manning, from Springer Mountain to San Diego, is the very real (and deeply terrifying) prospect that you will set off on your 2002 thru-hike with(>shudder<) THE WRONG STOVE!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although I was far away from you, high in the Andes mountains, deep in the amazon rainforest, I could not free myself of the terrible vision of many thousands of hapless hikers facing the 2002 hiking season without the
benefit of the Amazing Tin Can Stove, the most amazing invention since humankind perfected the wheel!!!!!!!! I could not just sit and let this happen, knowing that your needless suffering would be my fault!! So I have rushed back to let you all know that there is hope!! There is a choice!!
You don't have to set out with a heavy, unreliable, persnickety white gas stove!! There is an alternative to the needless pain and suffering that raises such cries of anguish, marring the serenity of our fair wilderness
areas and long distance trails!!! This alternative is the Amazing Tin Can Stove!!!!, and for a limited time only (well, actually, anytime this winter or spring), it can be yours for the introductory low, low price of NOTHING!!!!!!!!!

Yes, there is no need to clean your computer screen, you read this correctly! The Amazing Tin Can Stove, which will make you the envy of every hiker on the trail and bring you wealth, happiness, and sexual prowess (as well as convenient heating for your trail meals) beyond your wildest dreams, can be yours for the asking!!You no longer need to endure the agony, fear, and loathing of staggering miserably up the trail carrying a heavy stove which malfunctions half the time you use it!! All you need to do is send me an email at

tincanstoveman@hotmail.com

with your name and snail-mail address, and I will send you your very own Amazing Tin Can Stove.
There is no obligation to send any $$ in return (although small donations to cover postage are appreciated). What are you waiting for? You have everything to gain, and nothing to lose but your chains!!!!!

Up, Up, and Aflame!!!!!

The Tin Can Stove Man"
Pantscandy
01:01:23 AM
01/07/02”

“Joshman, TCSM is NOT me. I know him, hiked with him, and I too have a bag of 50 stoves sitting next me, but we are two different people.

I place the stoves in geocaches throughout world. Keep an eye open for one. :)”

“Then where the F@#K is our hero if he is not back from the Andes?
Nice impersonation Josh and quite funny.
Will the REAL TCSM please stand up?”

“Prowler,

I am going to bring mine, you can use it and if you like it keep it. You will need to make a pot support and windscreen.

John”

“I reveived my stove from the tin can stove man two days ago. It is well made - the burner holes do vary in size alittle but I gave it a test run and it has a pretty even flame all the way around.
The guy is for real - he just asks for a volentary donation of a couple bucks - after you receive the stove. It took about 5 weeks to arrive”

“That's pretty sad. Actually getting someone to mail you a tin can stove. Are you all such sissy's that you can't make one yourselves?

Take the time and make one, it'll make a man out of you.”

“I'll be your Missouri man, if you'll be my dixie chicken. I got a "TinCanStoveMan" Stove, and he guarantees it will increase my sexual prowess, lets check it out.”

“Becareful with AllWoman cause if she took the time and made one it might have made a man out of her.”

“Be skerd, be very skerd.”

“How do you guys know AllWoman isn't a guy?”

“Yuck......Good point!

8o”

“Minus 5 points Crazy Mike and Ewker.”

“So I take it I lost!

Dang!

So how do I get the points back?

8)”

“I never said that Allwoman was a he. I just took what was said and applied it to Allwoman.
Plus I don't think she is a he based on some comments:

"I looked at the pics and they were nice shots. Not enough women along for the trip though. We'll have to change that."
AllWoman
09:26:30 PM
04/11/02


"Make Him Scream" by Dr. Sheryl Brown, is one of my favorites."
AllWoman
06:11:53 AM
04/13/02

Maybe AllWoman is just a troll then its name can be changed to AllTroll”

“*Deep Sigh*




Radagast is right.”

“8o”

“Sorry to sound negative, but I'm tired of whiney men without substance. I've got no use for immature banter and childish jokes. Sorry to disappoint you, Ewker.”

“Wow...allwoman is on a tear today...all us childish fun loving men need to keep quiet today!!”

“TCSM thanks for the stove!!

Hey its a tin can stove MAN!!!”

“AllWoman, Disappoint me nah, it takes a lot to do that.

Hey Opie, don't keep quiet that is the worse thing to do.

Prowler, I got mine last week but didn't have time to try it out.”

“No imature banter and childish jokes? That woman does not want a man at all.”

“my God! AllWomen is the OfficialScorekeeper!!”

“Yahoo! A tin can stove!

You girly boys should make your own. Now go home, put on your diapers, and take a nap.”

“wonder what ever happened to him”

“The aliens mistook him for Marvin and kidnapped him instead.”

“tincanstoveman@hotmail.com

http://www.antigravitygear.com/about_us.php

I think he's still around...he once sent me a stove! He may be George of antigravitygear fame...”

“Yeah, he sent me a stove too.
I sent him a check in thanks.
Nice stove.
I passed it on to a fellow TTer that needed it worse than me.”

“I did the same stove except for passing it on. I still use it though it is getting in bad shape”

“They're not that hard to make. I have about a dozen I think, including one sitting on my desk here at work.”

“wait a minute..I think I asked George if he were TinCanStoveman and he told me he wasn't...so much for that idea....drat!”