Hey 2Scoops!

“How's it going? I've been thinking about ya, and wondering if everything turned out okay with the car and gear? Hope you got your vehicle home and it didn't take too much of a bite out of your budget.”

“i am STILL waiting on those hillbillies in stanford to repair the damage under the hood. but thank you very much for your concern. : )”

“Not done yet???????

Holy shi!

8o”

“Hillbillies, oh is that right. let me copy and paste this and forward to the city hall in Stanford. Lets see now you wrecked your car in normal driving conditions no insurance either, well now that is interesting. Be cool dude you want your car back don't you. I bet they don't have insurance at the shop either.”

“go away.”

“C'mon waterdog, don't kick someone when they're down. Not cool at all, none of what happened to 2scoops was his fault.”

“actually, yea, it was. but waterdog is still a douchebag”

“It still ain't cool to kick a man when he's down! :-)”

“ive been kicking myself plenty for the last two weeks. i am an incredible dumb@ss and i know it. but for you to give me #&%!$ about it is totally asinine. ive never even spoken with you. and "hillbillies" doesnt have to be a derogatory term, just like some black ppl wear the label "nigga" with pride, or i call myself a "nerd" with pride. so piss off down the road back under your porch, you possum-eatin hilljacker!

heh”

“thanks for the back-up, arty!”

“Waterdog, I met those two individuals 2Scoops was talking about. I can assure you they would swell with pride if they were described that way. The helper was about 350 pounds, coveralls, and the biggest wad of chewing tobacco I have ever seen in a persons mouth. And practised too, you could understand what he was saying. Of course, no word was over two syllables.

And Waterdog, why do you think they call it an accident. Do you think 2Scoops was intending to slide off the road? The officer at the scene could have written all sorts of tickets for "failure to reduce speed" or "too fast for conditions" but choose not to because he knew those tickets were NOT warranted.

Waterdog, how was some person stealing all of 2Scoops backpacking gear the fault of 2Scoops? And finally, 2Scoops feels bad enough. His pain is genuine.”

“i am starting to get a little impatient, however. car rental is killing me!”

“I alway's heard that the hit dog always barks. Thats kinda ironic. Is it true that what goes around comes around. What you implied was insulting, to me and other people whom you don't know.”

“Hey Bubba, yeah Dog whatcha got. Wow man where did you catch all them suckers. Over there Bubba. Well Dog quick jerking them out of the water just reel them in nice and slow. Those guys got to thin of skin. Better throw em back they'll toughen up.”

“im sure youll get over it”

“"what comes around goes around" whatever. for using the word hillbilly, i deserve several hundreds of dollars of damage to my car and several hundreds of dollars of equipment stolen. they got everything, dude. my pack, tent, bag, camera, filter, on and on, my car is crunched in three places, and now i have to listen to your abuse. #&%!$ you. but i brought it on myself by using the h-word. oh how will you ever recover. go get some counseling, and get over your inferiority complex.”

“Just get your car back and then tell them how ya feel about them.

8)”

“as long as i get it back by wednesday (as they last promised) im going to smile and say thank you. any later im goin to be a little cranky. i would like to mention for waterdogs benefit, that the good ole boys who helped me out (for a price) did seem like decent ppl. they are also hillbillies. thats not a bad or good thing. its what they are. i can be a real a--hole at times, and ill be the first one to say i am. so dont get bent out of shape over a label. i didnt even insinuate that everyone in stanton (altho im sure a large percentage of them are) or in kentucky are hillbillies. if youre a redneck or good ole boy and you live in the hills, youre a hillbilly. if youre not, and you know youre not, then dont have a hissy.”

“You can do it!!!!!!

8D”

“You have mail.”

“bounce”

“i got it at yahoo. youll be able to send to the msn when i get a new pc (whenver that is)”

“Where are you buying that tent?How much are you spending?


8)”

“galyans
100
20 off”

“no insurance? what if you hit another car?”

“Good deal that is cheap!


Buy it!

Get the foot print!


8)”

“rad, wtf are you talking about?”

“waterdog said that you had no insurance.

i know it's probably not the most reliable source, but...”

“What are you talking about Rad?


8|”

“is there an echo in here?”

“You gettin' a new tent Scoops? For some reason I keep hearing the ALPS Tarus tent is good. Don't know why I think that...maybe I've just heard it so many damn times it is slowly seeping into my brain?”

“Good and heavy!


8)”

“Are you bringing it for Pictured Rocks?”

“......Chill out on the things that you are saying about 9/11 ok dude?

Be cool man chill out.

8|”

“too late. i just started another fire.”

“Yea you did. People are going to give you hell on that one.”

“i think i explained myself in a very rational way.”

“It's not a rational subject dude.

Please go back to you and sticky throwing turds at each other. ;)”

“Dang it, I asked a question of you on this thread and you never answered!

Start a thread and then never visit it again! ;)”

“...not to seem callous, but someone will cut & paste a news item to this board about some tragedy which befell someone in Bumfock, Egypt and half the people here get all depressed and wigged out, rattling on and on and on.
The WTC was a national tragedy. We can all get wigged-out about it (I give permission) just as folks got wigged-out about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. (leave me alone, I'm on a roll.)”

“Please see my post above.”

“Germans??? Pearl Harbor????”

“tango, have you still never seen "Animal House"?”

“NOPE!!! Aren't they dead?”

“Well, John Belushi is.

Anyway, "Animal House" just came out on DVD. You should rent it sometime. It's a classic on the order of "It's A Wonderful Life"...”

“Yeah, when I read the review that's exactly what siskel said! Hey Bit are making the Ocala trip this time???”

“No, I'm doing the Sipsey Bushwhack the weekend after, and I can't do more than one trip a month...”

“Ah come on! You can go to Sipsey anytime! How many times can you get to FL and hike with the Dude and CMB? Oh yeah, and me?”

“I considered that. I'll have to think it over. It's an awful long drive.

never mind that the 'Dude is driving further...”

“Carpool!? Hey maybe CMB will pick you up!!!!”