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    How'd you break your arm?

    I just got this via email:

    HOW DID YOU BREAK YOUR ARM??

    Even if you aren't a skier, you'll be able to appreciate the humor of the slopes as written by a New Orleans paper:

    A friend just got back from a holiday skiing trip to Utah with the kind of
    story that warms the cockles of anybody's heart.

    Conditions were perfect...12 below, no feeling in the toes, basic numbness all over...the "Tell me when we're having fun" kind of day.

    One of the women in the group complained to her husband that she was in dire need of a rest room. He told her not to worry, that he was sure there was relief waiting at the top of the lift in the form of a powder room for female skiers in distress. He was wrong, of course, and the pain did not go away. If you've ever had nature hit its panic button in you, then you know that a temperature of 12 below doesn't help matters. With time running out, the woman weighed her options. Her husband, picking up on the intensity of the pain, suggested that since she was wearing an all-white ski outfit, she should go off in the woods and no one would even notice. He assured her, "The white will provide more than adequate camouflage." So she headed for the tree line, began lowering her ski pants and proceeded to do her thing.

    If you've ever parked on the side of a slope, then you know there is a right way and wrong way to set your skis so you don't move. Yup, you got it!!! She had them positioned the wrong way. Steep slopes are not forgiving...even during the most embarrassing moments. Without warning, the woman found herself skiing backward, out-of-control, racing through the trees...somehow missing all of them and onto another slope. Her derriere and the reverse side were still bare, her pants down around her knees, and she was picking up speed all the while. She continued backwards, totally out-of-control, creating an unusual vista for the other skiers. The woman skied back under the lift and finally collided violently with a pylon.

    The bad news was that she broke her arm and was unable to pull up her ski pants. At long last her husband arrived, putting an end to her nudie show, then summoned the ski patrol. They transported her to a hospital. While in the emergency room, a man with an obviously broken leg was put in the bed next to hers. "So, how'd you break your leg?" she asked, making small talk.

    It was the stupidest thing you ever saw," he said. "I was riding up this ski lift and suddenly, I couldn't believe my eyes! There was this crazy woman skiing backward, out-of-control, down the mountain, with her bare bottom hanging out of her pants. I leaned over to get a better look and fell out of the lift."

    "So, how'd you break your arm?"
    "I knew in an instant that the three dollars I had spent on wine would not go to waste."

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    Arty,

    That is older than most of us. Less time reading email, more time writing trip report.

    BobMc

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    Funny, but would've been even funnier if you threw diarrhea into the mix...

    You know, she parks her ski's the wrong way.....pulls white one piece down around her cankles.....brown ejection.....ends up getting in an awkward position on her ski's and begins accelerating backwards dragging the white one piece through the brown ejection and heading away from the tree cover onto one of the main arteries of the resort directly under the 6 person chairlift at 11am on Saturday after a 24 inch dump.....
    Last edited by Theodore Huxtable; 03-21-2005 at 09:53 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobMc
    Less time reading email, more time writing trip report.
    that's what I was going to say.
    so many mountains...so little time

    www.splitboard.com

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    I'd like a ruling from the Ref...

    Delay of game.
    "if the city is visibly one of humankind's greatest achievements, its uncontrolled evolution also can lead to desecration of both nature and the human spirit."
    -- Melvin G. Marcus 1979

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