----- Original Message -----
From: "Spike Jones" <spike66@ibm.net>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: new sports: extreme hiking
>First thing I need is a thobe, one
> of those flowing white thingies that the sheik-ey type Saudi
> Arabians wear in the desert.
I remember watching TV when some of those sheik-ey types surrendered to GIs
wearing T-shirts and camo pants in the Persian Gulf desert. Extreme hikers would
do better, I think, by discarding the fashionable throbe and going for something
more practical (unless, of course, this new sport involves some kind of ethnic
devolutionary regimentation).
--J. R.
"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_
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