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From: neal@fear.UUCP (Neal Bedard)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Skiers?
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Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 01:33:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 01:33:26 1986
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Summary: net.singles takes a downhill turn...

Now, finally, a topic I can sink my edges into:

In article <5663@kestrel.ARPA>, ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin) writes:
> In article <1101@burl.UUCP>, rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) writes:
> > Besides, all you have to do with an atheist is strap two boards on his/her
> > feet and send him/her down Cupp Run at Snowshoe Ski Resort in West
> > Virginia. You'll have an instant Christian --

Only if I change my first name to `Fletcher' at that same instant, too...

> > [....] I guarantee you s/he will be praying to SOMEONE.
> 
> Come on, in West Virginia? 
> 
> > "There are no atheists on black diamond runs."
> 
> Oh, my. Come out West and take a lesson sometime.
> 
> Peter Ladkin

From what I'm told, what passes for "snow" in the East is more akin to sheet
ice. No wonder they think the rope-tow (see, there, at the end of that huge
queue of frostbitten skiers) is so gnarly...

[Short Skis Suck - Big Mountains Deserve Long Boards]

-Neal
-- 
"...one of the beautiful things about rock-and-roll [is]		
that I can retire, hopefully, at a very early age."
			- Dee Snider, to the Senate Commerce Committee

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