Maggots story in SKIING Magazine

[RS8750]

Hello Maggots,

my name is Rob Story, and I'm a writer for SKIING Magazine. I was an editor/writer at POWDER for years, and still write for them sometimes, as well as Backcountry and Outside. Anyway, I want to describe the Maggot phenomenon in SKIING.

Could you answer a few questions?
1. How many maggots are there? Do you have a geographical concentration (like the West, etc.)
2. How'd the name maggots originate? Did it have anything to do with Powder Magazine?
3. Is it true you were insulted/bothered by Powdermag.com and moved to TGR afterward? What did Powdermag.com do wrong?
4. What percentage or number of other maggots have you actually met face to face?
5. Do you ever ski with someone you've only met online? What's that like?
6. How would you describe the ski ability of the average maggot?
7. Do you get a sense that online forums like this one keep skiing alive 12 mos of the year? Is that good or bad?
8. What's the coolest advice/link/etc. ever shared by maggots?
9. How have your fellow maggots improved skiing for you?
10. How much more do you trust fellow maggots' opinions on gear than stuff you read in a magazine, etc?

All answers comments and even complaints are welcome.

Cheers,
Rob Story

[mitch buchannon]

This could help answer some of those questions:

Meet The Minions

Other answers:
1) Lots (no idea really)
5) Yes. I've never had anything but good experiences as everyone shares a pretty solid group of common interests.
10) Quite a bit as you're likely to get opinions from many angles here... There's definitely a herd mentality in dislike of some things but for the most part I've been very pleased with the items I've purchased at the advice of the forum.

Hope that helps get you started

[rideit]

The mythical town of Ophir still wants to string you up.

Those silly, silly Ophir-ites.

[snowsprite]

Isn't the answer to most serious questions here either "boobs" or "poop?"

I have skiied before with someone I only met online (otherwise known as "my crazy internet friends") and it was...how can I say this properly...fun!

Sprite

[oftpiste]

Boobs.

Poop.

I've been shown incredible hospitality and goodwill as a relative JONG here. I've bought gear at incredible prices and been given advice and counsel on a number of important issues unanswerable elsewhere.

I got a great day of insider skiing at Alta last winter form a pair of mags who took their day of skiing to show me and my lovely wife around their home area, and was offered another day with a different mag but the wires got crossed and it didn't happen. Hope to repeat (the actual meeting) this season and possibly meet some other utards.

Attended a longboard day and was warmly welcomed by perfect strangers. Of course, they did abscond with my Reisling bottle.



Met up with a mag who took me mountain biking, and hope to ski with more mags this season.

The skill level I've encountered is quite high, and my 13 yr. old son teases me about my 'online buddies'.

I hope I've managed to contribute a thing or two (at most) but it would be difficult to ever catch up compared to what I've been offered. Good bunch of knuckleheads here.

[cravasshole]

HI Rob, you comming back to Chamonix this winter? I'm trying to get some Maggots to book in with me, Gordy thinks they would fit right in with Vitamin Ski. I skied with some Maggots last winter, all excelent skiers. I'm on Maui till mid december then back for the season, e me at vitamin_ski@yahoo.com

[TWINS]

This should answer all your questions.

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79474

[vinzclortho]

edit: I'm not bored anymore. Eat a bag of dicks Rob.

[f2f]

just print this graphic and prepare your readers for us:

[irul&ublo]

Hello Maggots,

my name is Rob Story, and I'm a writer for SKIING Magazine. I was an editor/writer at POWDER for years, and still write for them sometimes, as well as Backcountry and Outside. Anyway, I want to describe the Maggot phenomenon in SKIING.

Could you answer a few questions?
1. How many maggots are there? Do you have a geographical concentration (like the West, etc.) Maggots multiply like flies on shit...there are many.

2. How'd the name maggots originate? Did it have anything to do with Powder Magazine? Ding, ding....give the man a kewpie doll!!!!

3. Is it true you were insulted/bothered by Powdermag.com and moved to TGR afterward? What did Powdermag.com do wrong?
It banned der poopenhausen during staff lunch breaks. We left in support of our fellow sodomites

4. What percentage or number of other maggots have you actually met face to face?

Maggots don't meet face to face, they rub butts

5. Do you ever ski with someone you've only met online? What's that like?

Well, you slide on snow, due to gravity. It is gnar.

6. How would you describe the ski ability of the average maggot?

9.5 out of 10 on the extremeo dude scale. Except for that guy str8line...he's a wuss who wears neon fartbags and picks up toothless Hungarian hookers.

7. Do you get a sense that online forums like this one keep skiing alive 12 mos of the year? Is that good or bad?

Keeps me from working. That answer your question?

8. What's the coolest advice/link/etc. ever shared by maggots?

There is some excellent redhead porn posted. http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=90777

9. How have your fellow maggots improved skiing for you?

At the end of a ski day, we all get in a circle, hold hands and sing Kumbaya. That gives me wood.

10. How much more do you trust fellow maggots' opinions on gear than stuff you read in a magazine, etc?

Tech Talk, bitch!!!!

All answers comments and even complaints are welcome.

Cheers,
Rob Story

You're welcome...now post some naked pics of your hot sister. JONG.

[F#*k you cat]

Rob Story

so you want to write about the maggots. get ready for your due.

Maybe you don't remember that Powder erased two years worth of the previous version of this forum. The maggots will never forget!

If you do make it thought all of the hammering from this forum please write about some of the many accomplishments this group of crazy internet skiers has made.

Like

sending mad cash to a Maggot in his time of need (shoesmith)
A internet Ski company (PM Gear)
Support for a Mag that was diagnosed and then succumbed to cancer (Plakespear)

and like the credit reel of any decent ski movie "and many more"

[El Chupacabra]

Hello Maggots,

my name is Rob Story, and I'm a writer for SKIING Magazine. I was an editor/writer at POWDER for years, and still write for them sometimes, as well as Backcountry and Outside. Anyway, I want to describe the Maggot phenomenon in SKIING.

Could you answer a few questions?
1. How many maggots are there? Do you have a geographical concentration (like the West, etc.)
There are 18 maggots. The rest are aliases.

2. How'd the name maggots originate? Did it have anything to do with Powder Magazine?
All 18 of us are hudge fans of MAGnum P.I. It's the steezy stache.

3. Is it true you were insulted/bothered by Powdermag.com and moved to TGR afterward? What did Powdermag.com do wrong?
It's a myth. The truth is that we were insulted/bothered by Harald Harb at realskiers.com, and so moved to TGR.

4. What percentage or number of other maggots have you actually met face to face?
All 18 of us get together regularly for World of Warcraft.

5. Do you ever ski with someone you've only met online? What's that like?
If "ski" is a euphemism for "sleep," then yes. It's expensive. Leave the $500 on the dresser, and get 'er done.

6. How would you describe the ski ability of the average maggot?
See #5. All 18 of us are hung like horses.

7. Do you get a sense that online forums like this one keep skiing alive 12 mos of the year? Is that good or bad?
See #5. The online escort industry doesn't need us.

8. What's the coolest advice/link/etc. ever shared by maggots?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g

9. How have your fellow maggots improved skiing for you?
See #5. This one time, in band camp, iceman loaned me $500 for a Thai hooker...

10. How much more do you trust fellow maggots' opinions on gear than stuff you read in a magazine, etc?
Lots. Without iceman, we would never have learned the joys of the LS9000.

All answers comments and even complaints are welcome.

Cheers,
Rob Story

Responses above.

[cj001f]

Could you answer a few questions?
1. How many maggots are there? Do you have a geographical concentration (like the West, etc.)
2. How'd the name maggots originate? Did it have anything to do with Powder Magazine?
3. Is it true you were insulted/bothered by Powdermag.com and moved to TGR afterward? What did Powdermag.com do wrong?
4. What percentage or number of other maggots have you actually met face to face?
5. Do you ever ski with someone you've only met online? What's that like?
6. How would you describe the ski ability of the average maggot?
7. Do you get a sense that online forums like this one keep skiing alive 12 mos of the year? Is that good or bad?
8. What's the coolest advice/link/etc. ever shared by maggots?
9. How have your fellow maggots improved skiing for you?
10. How much more do you trust fellow maggots' opinions on gear than stuff you read in a magazine, etc?

1) roughly 15,200
2) it stemmed from an earlier acronym Mostly Assured Gurus
3) the rumours of that are greatly exaggerated, it was more bribery by TGR than anything else
4) pretty much everyone here knows each other in person
5) they are your standard dentists
6) about standard for a dentist
7) they are the core of skiing. of course thats a good thing
8) tips for getting free subscriptions to Skiing magazine
9) they've created skiing for me. without maggots I'm nothing
10) I trust them as I would the word of god

[summit]

this place is going to be utterly overrun with JONGs (worse than usual) the moment that SKIING prints their story

it will be like Epic...

I read about this place in a magazine! Which intermediate ski is best to schralp 2-4" of pow pow pow? Is a Marker M51 a good binding?
Anyone want to show me around Blue Sky Basin when I come to visit in Xmas? Do you think there will be snow?
Are jester caps cool again?
Check out my cool groomer TR!

[Tele'ndaboat]

Robbie,
I'm surprised at how nice everyone has been. I guess we all have a little media whore lurking inside of us...


Hopefully not all of us, where's my popcorn...