[at-l] ELITIST = SNOBBERY

[cleek@csc.smsu.edu (Billie H. Cleek)]

Read definition #3. It's the one I like.

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, kahley7 wrote:

> Hey don't blame me, blame  Miriam Webster!
> Don't belive me?  Go ahead......look it up....I'll wait.
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
> 
> OK..so there is a degree of snobbishness among thruhikers.
> 
> But I say there should be a degree of snobishness among us all!
> We hike...there for we are.  And we are different.  And i fear, a dying breed.
> 
> Business is slow so Hub and I have spent more time than usual on our feet.
> We have hit trails and fields and parks in a fifty mile radius.  Other than
> ski trails, and the first 1/4 mile from the parking lot, we have seen 
> almost NO HUMAN TRACKS!!!
> I'm talking virgin snow that fell over two weeks ago.
> I'm talking about fields within three blocks of town and parks within 1 mile.
> I'm talking about playgrounds even...no tracks!!!!!
> 
> So we are different.  We go play in the cold.
> Some of us dress in layers and walk when it's -0 wind chill.
> Some of us go out when the stuff that flows from our nose freezes on our 
> moustaches
> or maybe we wish we had a moustach for it to feeeze to.
> Some of us walk when it's so hot that were blinded by our own sweat.
> Some of us love walking in the rain.
> We're nuts...sooo ..next question?
> 
> As a person who has never walked for more than 4 days at a stretch, I will 
> grant the thrus
> their snobbishness if they grant me mine.  I lord my legs over the couch 
> potatoes who never
> go out in the cold <g>.  Lord save us from a world where you no longer see 
> little kidlette
> prints in the snow.
> The sun is out and the sky is blue.
> The pork and saurkraut is in a slow oven.  It will cook till we return.
> We're gonna go find another virgin hill to climb  Happy football game <VVVSEG>
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