[at-l] Word of the Day

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

red herrings - rings . . . kinda reminds me of something from the Trail
last year . . . for some perverse reason, I started counting and
collecting pack cotter pins and rings that I would find on the Trail or
at shelters/campsites . . . there was a place in VA somewhere in SNP
where I counted close to a dozen in ONE day!  Guess that proves that the
external frame pack is not yet dead! :)

Maybe the moral of the story is that you can't expect to hold it
together unless you've sealed the deal with an appropriate RING! :)

thru-thinker

David wrote:
> 
> >>red herring (red HER-ing) noun
> 
> >> A misleading clue; something used to divert
> >> attention from the real issue.
> 
> I've always said it "hair-ing"
> "Her-ing" sounds too much like a verb, the act of making something belong to a
> female . . . not that I mind that mind you; or the act of speeding up, which I
> DO mind . . .
> 
> So, is Her-ing a red herring? a bit o' jewelry? or a male ring?
> 
> no doubt shrinks could have a field day with jungian and freudian implications
> of all this . . .
> 
> but, just to make it not a red herring, and to bring it back on topic, only
> those who carry a frame pack care about rings and they don't care what color
> they are or whose it is, as long as it keeps the pack on the frame . . .
> 
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