[at-l] i'm gonna spew

Thu Aug 23 16:44:17 CDT 2007

This is about the funniest post I've read on this subject.  It's a tad bit like dancin' on a grave but not really.  Maybe it's more like getting in the last laugh or the last word.  

It's like watching a free-for-all in an old western saloon in the movies.  I'm not sure if the pain is from laughing or from crying.  Alas, the human condition.

OrangeBug posted his description of it on WhiteBlaze.

Kinnickinic

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com>
To: Lilla Thompson <lthompson at hollins.edu>
Cc: at-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Sent: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 5:31 pm
Subject: Re: [at-l] i'm gonna spew

Well, Ryan did say it was a "dead" hard drive so you'd have to pay some big
ucks to retrieve them. That would lower the value a bit unless of course,
t just gives you a warm feeling knowing that the posts are in there
omewhere and this is *the HD* they were originally posted to.
On 8/23/07, Lilla Thompson <lthompson at hollins.edu> wrote:

  Yeah, and then there's Ryan's offer of his old 1996 hard drive with WF
 posts. That's gotta be worth thousands…

 Did you check out "the official patch for Wingfoot's 1987 Golden
 Anniversary Expedition, which served as the centerpiece of the Appalachian
 Trail's 50th anniversary national celebration". Only $500 each folks.Orfor 
nly $150 you can have 2 National Geographic magazines with articles
 about the AT, the second of which "was published to coincide with Wingfoot's
 1987 thru-hike to celebrate the A.T.'s 50th anniversary of completion of
 the A.T." That's coincide as in coincidence, mere coincidence.

 Wingfoot is mentioned once late in the article as being one of a group of
 thru-hikers the author encountered. No mention is made in the article of his
 "historic" hike, just his trail name along with Ramblin' Rose, Sourdough Bob
 and Hobbit (not to mention many other hikers mentioned throughout the
 article). Perhaps the author didn't realize that WF's hike was " the
 centerpiece of the Appalachian Trail's 50th anniversary national
 celebration" and that all the other hikers on the trail that year were
 incidental.

 What's sad about this is that apparently he truly believes himself to be
 an important figure in AT history. I have no doubt that he loves (loved?)
 the AT and is/was passionate about preserving it but he can't seem to
 separate his need for personal celebrity from what he wants for the AT.
 Consequently his efforts take on more of the appearance of
 self-aggrandizement than of service to the AT.

 On 8/22/07, *Lilla Thompson* <lthompson at hollins.edu> wrote:

 As ever, I'm just so impressed with the man's lack of ego ;)
 I think I'll throw myself a party...commemorating something or other.
 Gifts and cash welcome...

 Those are quite the prices. $125 for a used copy of the "Philosopher's
 Guide"? I have one I bought for $8. Of course mine wasn't "used by
 WingFoot".

 On 8/21/07, David Addleton <dfaddleton at gmail.com> wrote:
 >
 > relics are available for sale, but only if you are a SERIOUS
 collector:
 > http://www.trailplace.com/farewell/miscitems/miscitems.html
 >
 > On 8/21/07, David Addleton <dfaddleton at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > From http://www.trailplace.com/farewell/ty/thankyou.html
 > >
 > > Thank You Gifts
 > >
 > > You can say "Thank You" to Wingfoot
 > > for the many lasting contributions he has made to the A.T.
 > > and its hiking community over the past 25 years.
 > >
 > > Gifts and comments are being collected by Wingfoot's
 > > friends for presentation at a farewell party for him on Sept. 27th.*
 > > You can use a credit card to send a gift by clicking below:
 > >
 > > Well wishes and thank-you notes may be sent to:
 > >
 > > Wingfoot Farewell Party
 > > 1800 Brandy Woods Trail SE
 > > Conyers, GA 30013
 > >
 > > On 8/21/07, Felix J < athiker at smithville.net> wrote:
 > > > Ryan Brooks wrote:
 > > > > I've got a dead hard drive from 1996 that may or may not contain
 > posts
 > > > > by Wingfoot.  Taking offers.
 > > > >
 > > > > -Ryan
 > > > >
 > > > > ichard Mann wrote:
 > > > >
 > > > >> www.trailplace.com
 > > > >>
 > > > >> Buy it now!!!
 > > >
 > > > So...where is the party? And, where IS he going?
 > > >
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