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Skiing is a very safe sport
It must be. I read it in the paper:
"It's a very safe sport," said David Ingemie, president of SnowSports Industries America, a Washington, D.C., area trade association that monitors trends and safety statistics. "It's safer than riding a bike, safer than baseball." http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/skier5e_20050105.htm -- //-Walt // // There is no Volkl Conspiracy |
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Walt wrote:
It must be. I read it in the paper: Sorry, I couldn't quite hear that...it was drowned out by the sound of the grinding axe. -- Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug. |
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Mary Malmros wrote:
Walt wrote: It must be. I read it in the paper: Sorry, I couldn't quite hear that...it was drowned out by the sound of the grinding axe. Zat what that sound is? I thought I was just clenching my teeth. -- //-Walt // // There is no Volkl Conspiracy |
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Walt wrote:
Mary Malmros wrote: Walt wrote: It must be. I read it in the paper: Sorry, I couldn't quite hear that...it was drowned out by the sound of the grinding axe. Zat what that sound is? I thought I was just clenching my teeth. It could be. Are there tooth splinters poking into your frontal lobe? ;-) Seriously, I get your point, but I'm of the, "When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses," school of thought. If there's an absence of comprehensive data on sliding accidents, it sure doesn't take a conspiracy, because compiling such data would take a bunch of work and a lot of cooperation and a big fat grant. And an absence of a smoking gun doesn't mean that someone is hiding one. -- Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug. |
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"Walt" wrote in message ... It must be. I read it in the paper: I've been skiing since before I could walk (no reallly) and have never hurt myself (touch wood). I think hurting yourself is optional, not mandatory. Which is why I get so furious and others thinking it's OK to hurt ME so long as it's "an accident". ant |
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ant wrote:
"Walt" wrote in message ... It must be. I read it in the paper: I've been skiing since before I could walk (no reallly) Sure. Got a bridge you'd like to sell us? -- Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug. |
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I started doing the wedge inside the womb .
Ron "Mary Malmros" wrote in message ... ant wrote: "Walt" wrote in message ... It must be. I read it in the paper: I've been skiing since before I could walk (no reallly) Sure. Got a bridge you'd like to sell us? -- Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug. |
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"Ron - NY" wrote in message ... I started doing the wedge inside the womb . Ron Me too, but I had to walk a couple years before I learned to flatboard. "Mary Malmros" wrote in message ... ant wrote: "Walt" wrote in message ... It must be. I read it in the paper: I've been skiing since before I could walk (no reallly) Sure. Got a bridge you'd like to sell us? -- Mary Malmros Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug. |
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And just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
.. . William |
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Mary Malmros wrote:
Walt wrote: Mary Malmros wrote: Walt wrote: It must be. I read it in the paper: Sorry, I couldn't quite hear that...it was drowned out by the sound of the grinding axe. Zat what that sound is? I thought I was just clenching my teeth. It could be. Are there tooth splinters poking into your frontal lobe? ;-) No. That would constitute a dental lobotomy, and it hasn't happened to me yet. But if I start posting about my newfound fascination with Andrew Lloyd Weber, Yanni and Thomas Kincaid, you'll know it has. Seriously, I get your point, but I'm of the, "When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses," school of thought. If there's an absence of comprehensive data on sliding accidents, it sure doesn't take a conspiracy, because compiling such data would take a bunch of work and a lot of cooperation and a big fat grant. And an absence of a smoking gun doesn't mean that someone is hiding one. Well, my guess is that it would take a phd student about 6 months and maybe 20k to collect enough data to present a reasonable summary, assuming that the resorts cooperated. No, I'm not volunteering to pay for it myself, but I don't think it's beyond reasonable. The hard part of actually collecting the data is already done, it's just moldering in the filing cabinets at the resort offices where it doesn't do anybody much good, other than serving as ass-covering evidence for legal. Dammit. I promised to stay off the soap box today. Oh well. -- //-Walt // // There is no Volkl Conspiracy |
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