What I leaned from TT

“or should I have said communications”

“bacpac, I bet you learned that honesty was a liability way before you ever landed on TrailTalk.”

“scree, In the real world honesty it is not a liablily.”

“Honesty is an admired trait,
diplomacy is an acquired skill.”

“Tell that to Jesus.”

“bacpac..we need to talk”

“Amen TX

Bacpac I do have a sense of humor, I'm just a bit slow. Some girls are like that and I'm one of 'em. I laugh after everybody has gone home.”

“LEANED?.. hMmmm.. *ducks*.. oh. you meant LEARNED?..

uMMM.. well the biggest so far is that there are a kewl bunch of folks I can't hardly wait to hike and party with.”

“PedXing, does that mean I have to start wearing (to reference a recent flame war thread) a French letter when I talk to someone with whom I haven't had a long-term monologue-amous relationship?”

“No Pekka, just harness the power of prophilactic thinking.”

“I didn't know Richard Cranium was posting here. and by the way what the heck is an....... "emoticons"”

“Dick is a regular.”

“It can be fun to stir the pot!

Those that do not belong here never last that long anyway.

Even the most hated person on this site is always welcome on a hike!”

“AMEN to that”

“Did you also learn that being an ignorant, redneck, racist doesn't fly with some of us Jive Turkeys backpackers?

Anyone here about the plane that went down on the AT in MD? they closed the trail in that area! So what the hell with the Thru hikers do now? I would be pissed if I couldn't hike the whole AT because the police need to investigate. It's like accidents on the beltway, they close everything down in the middle of rush hour... sorry it just pisses me off!”

“I mean "Jive Turkey backpackers"

And

"Hear" instead of "here"

"Will" instead of "with"”

“an emoticon is a theatric

pekka- we hear what you're saying, but you're preaching to the choir..that it IS a bit dangerous is what makes it fun

hey. it's a chatboard”

“Even poor spellurs can learn to poofreed!”

“It`s one thing to look and yet another thing to see
what you make of a thing may not be what it is to me
both of us looking and not seeing it just right
should lead us to understanding it, not a fight
but, if it`s a fight you want, then just feel free
this is the right place for that stuff, here on TT”

“Didn't you all pick up a copy of these rules when you were born?

Rules for Being Human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".

4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you will then go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better place that "here". When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here".

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. The answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

10. You will forget all this.

Oh, I guess #10 explains it all.”

“Very true Kleetn..lol”

“sirpete, emoticon -- an icon signaling emotional content -- :)

Biz, when you post to an "urban" message board, do you go by "Bid"? ;}”

“Don't post a thread "looking for a hiking partner"”

“I like the list Kleetn, and think #7 is a useful thing to keep in mind... but it ain't true.

We can hate things that hurt us or resemble what has hurt us, and can love things that have been good to us or resemble it. In fact, I think this pleasure or pain link to love and hate comes way before the more "psychological" love and hate in #7.”

“BP,
I agree with you sometimes and sometimes I don't, but that's what makes people different.

I respect your opinion, right or wrong.

I try to have a sense of humor and remember not to attack.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Think before I speak and pick my battles.

Not everything is worth arguing about.

I still hate generators.......”

“I have to disagree with you bacpac. IMHO honesty is always a liability and lying is always beneficial in the real world. I have yet to either experience or witness a situation where honesty ever benefitted anyone.”

“pekka- Bid, good one

:P”

“what communications courses do you teach?

Interpersonal, Mass, engineering?”

“wsexson, I'm sorry you feel that way but I can't say I share the opinion. Honesty has ALWAYS worked for me and honesty benefitted anyone who wanted to work for me. If I caught someone lying to me they were fired on the spot. I can't afford dishonesty.”

“Biz: interpersonal, rhetoric, business, technical, mass -- the whole ballgame. Our department only has four instructors, and we're a big department at our school.”

“Well, honesty is the only way to operate in my life.

And I can honestly say that I've learned to respect bacpac...well, in some ways.

But it don't matter much so oh well.

I like the wisdom of Bigfoot. I think I'll make that into a poster and put it up in my office.”

“I learned that if you post a thread called, "Looking for hiking partner", The hottest chick in the forum may accept.”

“I learned that even after ya graduate, teachers come after ya with lessons

:)

pekka- how long have you been teaching?”

“Thanks Sonrisas, you saying that made me go back and read it again, I wasn`t sure what I might have said..lol”

“Hey Pekka... ever read Kenneth Burke?
If so whadya think?”