Poster: A snowHead
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As we know, skiing is in the blood and this Viking snowHead is almost certainly a relative of yours.
If you'd like to ask him a question, I'll see if we can communicate with the dead. He's on the internet, so it shouldn't be a problem.
Of course, he'll need a name and amusing email address. Any suggestions?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mr Thor Feet (come to burn, rape, pillage and poach fresh tracks).
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Of course, Thor: The Scandinavian god of acheth and painth. And then there's his brother -
Thor O'Lee Alpless
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...And there's Mr & Mrs BennetTheseSkisAreShort, and their son, Gordon.
© 1972 Graeme Garden
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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...by the time Mr G. Bell finished the downhill, his gear was a touch out of date...
(sorry, Martin)
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Mr Thor had found the solution to ditherers at the exit to the chairlift...
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After a snowboarder cut up his tails, Bjorn Karvin decided that it was open season on the tray boys
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After the Norwegian Ski Federation's financial troubles, a Mr J Major takes over and institutes a "back to basics" campaign.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Before lifts were invented, skiers used to shoot themselves up the hill using a bow and arrow.
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Apparently he's a viking from what's now called Finland. Somewhere just outside HellsInSkis.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Martin Bell, I was pleased to see that you were able to link the image into a discussion over on Epic about the Physics of carving turns!
Off-Topic PS. On Epic you said that you use the term "Centrifugal Force" to your students when describing what the skier feels in a turn. As a Physicist I can confirm that you are quite correct to do so. To the skier in his so called "Non-Inertial Frame of Reference" (a posh way of saying he is moving along a curve, not a straight line) the Centrifugal Force is quite real.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Alastair Pink, "Non-Inertial Frame of Reference" . Great! At last a phrase to totally befustercate the managers. I like it!
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Teemu Hautamaki, new mean and moody heavy metal star from Finland, combines influences from 50s and 60s in his style of dress: his wild winkle pickers and a fur trimmed mini skirt are taking the fashion world by storm. To repel unwanted attention from determined teenagers intent on checking his plumbing, he has taken to keeping an Environmentally Friendly Organic Peacemaker with him at all times.
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You know it makes sense.
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Alastair Pink, go to Epic and tell Daslider
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the Centrifugal Force is quite real.
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and maybe we can stretch that thread to another 6 pages!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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But what would daslider know, i mean he lives in Scotland...
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Poster: A snowHead
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>... Alastair Pink, go to Epic and tell Daslider the Centrifugal Force is quite real. ...
Yeah! I could use some help, buddy. Don't be shy!
BTW, in his public profile, daSlider says that he skis Arthur's Seat. From the couple of times I've been up there, I seem to remember that it is some sort of protected natural area. Is there actually skiing there, referring to the dry slope (I forgot the name) a mile or two away, or is he just putting us on?
Tom / PM
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Arthur's Seat is in a Royal Park and hence closed to commercial vehicles and activities (unless someone has changed the laws) but the road round it is open to private cars. Super views of Edinburgh if you hike to the top. AFAIK there isn't even any grass skiing on it never mind dry slope or the real stuff. He's winding you up.
Midlothian Ski Centre is probably about 3 miles away as the crow flies. There's another thread about that in this forum which has buried in it a pic of Arthur's Derriere in the distance.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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He probably is a relative of mine.
You may remember I did a spoof thread on the old SCGB about my own private ski resort called Dane's Hill. Well in Ireland we have areas of countryside that are split up into what we call "townlands". Well Danes Hill is on of the townlands on our farm, probably about 100 acres or so. It is believed that Viking's settled there after sailing up the River Bann.
The name "Lynn" can also be traced bask to Ofling which I believe to be of Scandanavian origin.
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Think I went out with him once? ahhh no that was a neanderthal not a viking
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Nadenoodlee, you've been out with Eric Cantona ?
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It it wasn't for the time lapse, Erik the Viking could well have been based on Monsieur Cantona!
But we shouldn't knock him. After all, he's an adopted Englishman now.
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kuwait_ian, not yet- id definately have a crack at him tho!
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