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Re: Last Call for Adventure movies poll
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lugnet.adventurers
Date: 
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:22:05 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Roger D. Parks writes:
In lugnet.adventurers, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
Someone once defined adventure as someone else having a hard time a long ways
away.

{{SNIP}}

<grin>  The version of this definition that I recall from some time spent
hiding in Vietnam is:  'Adventure (or exploration) is the process of
travelling to beautiful, exotic lands to find new and extremely messy ways of
becoming dead.'

Cheers,

Roger
MACV 69-72

I like that one, too.  I remember getting swamped while river rafting, barely
escaping with my life, lying on the shore gasping for breath and saying NOTHING
was going to get me back into that river, when I heard a very polite but
pathetic voice requesting, "Help!"  Once the two of us dragged ourselves back
onto shore, I laughed because I realized I just had an "adventure"!

And yes, I have been back down the same river since.

Bruce
Glutton for Punishment



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  Re: Last Call for Adventure movies poll
 
(...) {{SNIP}} <grin> The version of this definition that I recall from some time spent hiding in Vietnam is: 'Adventure (or exploration) is the process of travelling to beautiful, exotic lands to find new and extremely messy ways of becoming dead.' (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)

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