 Poster: A snowHead
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This is probably more a reflection of my boardom at the moment than anything else, but ...
The last line of this story:
http://www.welove2ski.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=201&id=53
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"By the way, one story that's doing the rounds in Val at the moment is that the older people are cutting extra wood for the winter - because, apparently, they can feel the coming winter will be a hard one..."
But you cut wood in the spring. It needs to dry out over the summer to be usable in winter. Any wood cut now will be useless.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| ami in berlin wrote: |
This is probably more a reflection of my boardom at the moment than anything else, but ...
The last line of this story:
http://www.welove2ski.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=201&id=53
is:
"By the way, one story that's doing the rounds in Val at the moment is that the older people are cutting extra wood for the winter - because, apparently, they can feel the coming winter will be a hard one..." |
It is an old and very poor French joke.
A Val d'Isere, en Savoye, un anglais coupe son bois pour l'hiver. Après deux journées de coupe, et plusieurs stères transportées, il en vient à se demander si sa provision de bûches sera suffisante. Les hivers sont très froids, dans la région. Il va donc voir un vieux paysan, pour savoir si l'hiver sera rigoureux. Il pose sa question, et le vieux Avallin lui dit: - Ugh ! Hiver sera rude. Alors l'anglais retourne couper du bois, encore et encore. Au bout de quelques jours de durs labeurs, il retourne voir le vieux et lui repose sa question. Et le paysan répond: - Ugh ! Hiver sera rude, très rude ! Alors l'anglais retourne bucheronner. Pendant quinze jours. Puis il retourne voir le paysan. Qui lui dit: -Ugh ! Hiver sera rude, très très très rude ! Alors l'anglais demande au paysan: - Mais, M'sieur, comment peux-tu savoir cela ? Et l'paysan répond: - Quand les anglais couper beaucoup de bois, c'est que l'hiver sera rude !
BTW we have had our 10 steyrs stocked since the spring, as you say, otherwise it will tar up the chimnee.
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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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davidof, it's not much wonder it's the Brits who are renowned for their sense of humour is it? 
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I head the same joke about Native Indians and the National Weather Forecasting service...
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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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nuttin worse than an anal correction...
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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barry, from the patient's or surgeon's point of view?
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Scarpa, that's just what barry was sayin in Japanese.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Mosha Marc, 
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Infinitely more amusing than a recent Mail on Sunday feature on Avalanche Tranceivers.
How do the authors write this drivel? They must surely have some sense of embarassment, or otherwise it would appear that the entry level requirement for practicing this type of 'journalism' is Mental Defective. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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BernardC, I agree - where, oh, where does mountaincraft come into the equation?
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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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| BernardC wrote: |
| Infinitely more amusing than a recent Mail on Sunday feature on Avalanche Tranceivers......... |
Did it recommend avalanche cords?
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davidof, that was certainly very poor. However, it was good to know that my rudimentary French was enough to understand it.
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You know it makes sense.
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Umm, I know of several villages in the Tarentaise who have only cut their wood in the past couple of weeks.....and on the subject of anal corrections, what is 'boardom'?
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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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Boardom is what happens when your spelling goes to pot after a long day at work. I'm sure I'm the only one who's even misspelt a word in an internet forum, though.
As for the wood, far be it from me to tell the French when to cut theirs, but where I come from you cut in the early spring so as to let the wood dry out over the summer. Standard practice, really.
And about the joke, I don't get it. Then again, I don't speak French, either.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Guvnor wrote: |
| Umm, I know of several villages in the Tarentaise who have only cut their wood in the past couple of weeks.....and on the subject of anal corrections, what is 'boardom'? |
not for this winter though.... unless it is to sell to English chalet owners!
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Fri 28-09-07 11:49; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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davidof, ami in berlin, I am happy to stand corrected.....it appears that the community of Villaroger had previously felled the trees, but in the past couple of weeks have cut into logs, distributed and stacked.....their allowance is 4 trees each from the National Park.....
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davidof, another old joke. And there are better versions. 
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