I'm not a TarpTent virgin anymore!

““WTF is cold blathering about?
Work with us here, English man, English."
humanpackmule
8:19:57 AM
2/28/07

Cold wrote some email to Henry and Henry took too long in cold's opinion to respond.
If it was written like cold's post, I can sure understand that. LOL”

“Stove, for your INFO HS has just moved... and was sorry for no reply in two week time to ALL.HE is a nice man.

Like i said god gave as two ears and ONE mouth for A REASON.”

“luckily he also gave us two hands, 8 fingers and 2 thumbs so we can spew foolishness quickly and randomly on the internet, at need.”

“SIR,this is about HS and not a joke.And glad he is OK.”

“SIR, you should take note that the humor was directed at the way you posted and not about HS. Relax.”

“"If it was written like cold's post, I can sure understand that. LOL"

Effective customer relations is the right way for a successful bottom line.”

“That is the real story ....but some do not follow up before they post.”

“once again, could you say that in English to make your point clear.”

“Kings English or the stuff we commonly speak?”

“I think cold does OK for someone who's first language is not American English...”

“I understood what he said:

"Henry Shires didn't respond to his email for two weeks, it's not like him to ignore email; he hopes he's okay."

Some people should cut some slack to folks every once in awhile.”

“Oh, I understood what he meant. I am willing to argue that everyone else knew what he meant, also. My comment was directed at his "Like I said god gave as two ears and ONE mouth for A REASON” post. Some people should realize that if they post on a thread full of silliness that people will make jokes about your post if it sounds silly. Don't get so bent out of shape over it. And call people SIR. I was highly offended by that remark.”

“Yes, SIR!”

“hyway...um I am still in the dark...do we need to take these posts (especially the Fuego) seriously?”

“You SOB, what are you trying to say? Speak the King's English man.”

“So Henry moved? I guess he was finally so flush with cash from his TarpTent line that it was time to move to the big house in the 'burbs?”

“Fie on thee good sir, shouldest thou betwixt yemmen barfloogal mesump yakerbam?”

“God's fish! let's begone with your head, methink now I doth misinterpret yee yemmen barfloogal mesump yakerbam.”

“BARFLOOGAL?! lol!”

“You guys are funny and helpful and i dont mean to hurt anyone on here.

Yes he did move his shop and just happy to hear in the end that he's ok....that's all.”

“well you called me SIR. I am not completely over that yet.”

“Sorry,and it will never happen again....sorry.”

“(pssst, you should have said, "yes, SIR, it will never happen again, SIR.)

that'll do, pig. That'll do.”

“Why are you calling me a pig?”

“sorry, just my favorite quote from the movie Babe (the movie with the pig).

I don't really think you are a pig.

I apologize for not accepting your apology since I didn't feel an apology was necessary from you in the first place.”

“Does anyone own a contrail and can give some feedback on it thanks?”

“LOL, ya'll are in rare form today, but it hurts to laugh!!!”

“that was yesterday”

“I have a Contrail. It's good. I also have a Virga and Virga2. They are good too. Anything else?”

“contrails are bad for the enviroment. They are chemicals the goverment is testing on us...It's best to take cover when you see the jets making them.”

“If you are the result of the chemicals the government is testing on us, I'd have to say you are dead on.”

“Nimblefoot,would it be good for say someone 6'2?..thanks.”

“Well, I'm 2'6" and it works for me, j/k. Yes, should be fine, there would be room to spare both ways and, I believe, adequate headroom on the front end.”

“Thanks, just needed some info from s/o my size.

MUCH THANKS”

“Yup, that's me:)”

“BTW,pitched right can it handle fl rain?”

“What is cold's first lang?

cold, please fill in a bit of your profile. Empty profiles just scream "TROLL" to people.”

“First OFF I never asked for your help ,because i think you like to start stuff,seeing in other thread.....only REP.Please pick on others for info.”

“I never hiked in Florida, but I did live there and can only say it handled the rain everyplace I had it. The rain in south Florida, however, is quite a unique challenge. I really don't know.”

“S.S..WHEN you want to come here and swamp in summer...let me know......BECAUSE after you will have a love for DOWN,and happy to get out of here.

Easy to pack for cold...but can you handle the heat and what goes with it?”

“cold, I asked for profile info because I know nothing about you.
If you check my profile you will see I live in a hot area myself.”

“N.F. People that dont live here have no clue as far as rain....CRAZY RAIN.

Thanks Again for your input.”

“So my Contrail arrived! Wooooohoo. It's a mansion compare to my other solo tent.

Here's the dumb question of the day. I set up the tent and seam sealed from the inside of the tent. Somebody told me that I should seal from the outside, which now I think was probably right. The instructions on the tarptent website don't tell you which side to seal.

Do you seal the seams from the outside or inside?
last edited: 3/12/07 8:35:22 AM”

“Inside is my understanding. Yeah, I like my Contrail too and it was free!”

“Free! You schmoozer you!

Did it leak anywhere? The strut design at the back is interesting. Did you ever have to adjust the struts for storms?
last edited: 3/12/07 8:41:39 AM”

“Creek Dancer, are you trying to start the innuendo going again? ;)”

“When my son was here he slept in it on a rainless night. I had the Virga. On that particular night both exhibited virtually perfect water tight integrity. Which, of course, is something MarkO can't do and is why he wears Depends.”

“All I can say is I can't wait to try out the ribbed thing.”

“Yeah, that strut design is weird, but it eliminates that curved pole that kept breaking on my thru hike. I've only used it 2 nights and it's never rained so I cannot answer with honesty and temporarily am out of b.s.”

“Nimble says he is out of b.s but that's just b.s.”