Message #21149

[ToddW]

Self-righteous?  More like self-denigrating.  And paying respect to Dan's efforts at improvement.  Because of his lifetime of fine balance and delicate neuromuscular control from his former profession, Dan may one day become quite the skier.  His eventual upper bound on performance vastly exceeds mine.

The verb to ski is in many ways like the human performance  verbs to sing or to dance.  Anyone can open his mouth or move a leg or two.  And yet we're unlikely to say "he can sing" or "he knows how to dance".  Similarly anyone can don ski boots, wedge glide around, and twist ze skis.  That doesn't merit the accolade skier. (A trophy and a 1st place prize for every kid?  Or a little bit of honesty?  Which is it to be?)

On your 2nd point, I've heard B say that too and seen him write it on Epic.  I take it at full face value and actively disbelieve his almost every word after years of paying attention to him just in case.  He makes a poor advocate for the Devil.