Happy Thanksgiving and ....

[johndavidjr]

[Thou art] spacious in the possesion of dirt.

[Thine] breath stinks with eating toasted cheese.

Thou bootless hell-hated lout!

I think thou wast created for men to breath themselves upon thee.

You starvelling, you eel-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, you bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish--O for breath to utter what is like thee!-you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck!

 

Thou cullionly half-faced fustilarian!

 

Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit.

 

[Thou art] a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.

 

Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,

Thou lily-liver'd boy.

 

http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html

[denalidave]

Shouldn't you be camping out at Malwart so you can be the first one in the door Friday am? I hear they have a smokin deal on a pup tent that is functionally equal to those fancy schmancy expensive tents all the posers use to look cool in the mountains.

 

None the less, HAPPY THANKSGIVING JDJR...

[denalidave]

Tofurkey is functionally equal to a real turkey. Just sayin...

[Sherri]

Tofurkey is functionally equal to a real turkey. Just sayin...

 

The fake gizzards in the stuffed Tofurkey creep me out. We do the Quorn "Turk'y" Roast. It ain't pretty, but it allows us to fly under the radar at the holiday table(we're the only vegetarians there).

[G-spotter]

Do they make Tofurduckens?

[Sherri]

Do they make Tofurduckens?

 

Gawd I hope not.

[denalidave]

Do they make TofurSoyuckens?

 

Gawd I hope not.

Fixed it fer ya

[johndavidjr]

To all you chicken-shit weakling & utterly stupid self-described "climbers:"

 

Thou art unfit for any place but hell.

 

[Thou] appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.

 

Thou froward weather-bitten pumpion!

 

Thou warped ill-breeding moldwarp!

 

Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.

 

Thou wimpled doghearted lout!

 

O illiterate loiterer!

 

[Thou art] a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.

 

Thou dissembling beetle-headed giglet!

 

Sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear.

[denalidave]

To all you chicken-shit weakling & utterly stupid self-described "climbers:"

 

Thou art unfit for any place but hell.

 

[Thou] appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.

 

Thou froward weather-bitten pumpion!

 

Thou warped ill-breeding moldwarp!

 

Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.

 

Thou wimpled doghearted lout!

 

O illiterate loiterer!

 

[Thou art] a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.

 

Thou dissembling beetle-headed giglet!

 

Sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear.

Thoust shall see thine self at thou neareastith MalWart in thine camping department loitering for thine bestesteestes MalWart Puptent. Which thoust has behested as functionally equalistavant to thine overpriced nameth brand tent.

 

Thoust shalt also relaxith and enjoyith the Festivus season bestowed upon us at the current fort-night. So deluged with sadness am I that thou mighty dealeth maker and supremeth gear criticith JDJR must hath missed thine MalWartith Black Fridayith Superith Saleith on the MalWart Puptentethith... Which we all knowith to be functionally equalith in function and quality...

[johndavidjr]

I used almost exclusively an REI tarp from 1971 to 1979. From 1980-1988 I mostly used a K-Mart pup-tent-- sometimes in circumstances for which it wasn't intended and a few times to my great distress.

 

This tent only slightly under-performed my COTTON REI puptent with coated nylon floor circa 1968. It was probably half the weight.

 

A version of the REI tent for years was seen in editions of FOH textbook in foreground of photograph of Mt. Fury, a place I've never visited.

 

During this period I also acquired a Eureka four-pole dome tent & eventually a Sierra Designs single-person single-walled bivouac tent which I used almost exclusively until not too many years ago, despite its fairly dubious performance. (Nice design with canted front arch much deserves revival; "breathable" textile very poor).

 

Today I mostly use a Go-Lite "Hex" "tarp tent" almost always with very light bivouac sack & not uncommonly without sleeping bag. (I try to preserve the costly stuff for when actually necessary).

 

I think all of these tents worked very well within their intended parameters, and all but the Eureka & REI cotton tent were acceptably light.

 

Their prices were quite variable.

 

Other tents I've owned include a Mt Hardwear one-person, Sierra Designs Half-Moon, MSR Twin Peaks, an ID tarp tent, a Mt. Hardwear tarp tent with netting, and potentially others that I can't remember.

 

PS: I've also thatched two lean-tos with conifer sprigs, built a tiny log cabin with hand tools, and used a poncho and a cotton tarp sewn by my long departed mither.

 

I currently can't afford & don't want, to buy any other tents.

 

 

 

[Fairweather]

Thoust shall see thine self at thou neareastith MalWart in thine camping department loitering for thine bestesteestes MalWart Puptent. Which thoust has behested as functionally equalistavant to thine overpriced nameth brand tent.

 

Thoust shalt also relaxith and enjoyith the Festivus season bestowed upon us at the current fort-night. So deluged with sadness am I that thou mighty dealeth maker and supremeth gear criticith JDJR must hath missed thine MalWartith Black Fridayith Superith Saleith on the MalWart Puptentethith... Which we all knowith to be functionally equalith in function and quality...

 

[Fairweather]

I used almost exclusively an REI tarp from 1971 to 1979. From 1980-1988 I mostly used a K-Mart pup-tent-- sometimes in circumstances for which it wasn't intended and a few times to my great distress.

 

This tent only slightly under-performed my COTTON REI puptent with coated nylon floor circa 1968. It was probably half the weight.

 

A version of the REI tent for years was seen in editions of FOH textbook in foreground of photograph of Mt. Fury, a place I've never visited.

 

During this period I also acquired a Eureka four-pole dome tent & eventually a Sierra Designs single-person single-walled bivouac tent which I used almost exclusively until not too many years ago, despite its fairly dubious performance. (Nice design with canted front arch much deserves revival; "breathable" textile very poor).

 

Today I mostly use a Go-Lite "Hex" "tarp tent" almost always with very light bivouac sack & not uncommonly without sleeping bag. (I try to preserve the costly stuff for when actually necessary).

 

I think all of these tents worked very well within their intended parameters, and all but the Eureka & REI cotton tent were acceptably light.

 

Their prices were quite variable.

 

Other tents I've owned include a Mt Hardwear one-person, Sierra Designs Half-Moon, MSR Twin Peaks, an ID tarp tent, a Mt. Hardwear tarp tent with netting, and potentially others that I can't remember.

 

PS: I've also thatched two lean-tos with conifer sprigs, built a tiny log cabin with hand tools, and used a poncho and a cotton tarp sewn by my long departed mither.

 

I currently can't afford & don't want, to buy any other tents.

 

 

 

Tell us, JDJR, do your mother and sister come for your laundry even as you dine with Ralph Waldo's wife and squat on his land?

[johndavidjr]

Not exactly, but Herbert Hoover is said to have provided my grandfather with personal laundry services at Stanford University back in the 1890s.

 

Gramps is said to have left San Fran. after the '06 quake for NYC, and long after a gilded and doubtlessly amusing youth, died there a drunk and unfortunately, quite broke in 1945.