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> Is there some story about the origins of skiing? Was there a progenitor
> that started skiing in the Tribes community? Even if it's just myth, I'd
> like to hear it. Having joined the mass of Tribesplayers a few years
> after the release of Tribes-1, I'm intensely curious.

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> The origins of skiing are a mystery shrouded in myth, wrapped up in
> religious dogma. For a time, it was believed that Zeno of Elatia was
> the one who discovered skiing in his quest for the absolute plenum of
> pure 'Eleatic Being'. Other philosophers such as Democratus took note
> but refuted that skiing was not possible in reality but only possible
> in thought, giving rise to the belief that skiing was not even real.
> Epicurean beliefs took shape: skiing could not be understood and that
> life was a thing to just be "gotten on" with, without worrying about
> some ancient ritual known as skiing.
> However it was from an Epicurean who theorised that skiing "for the
> most part (Latin: Plerumque)" took place whilst repeatedly pressing the
> space bar.
> Such a connection was not hard to have made and the theory was finally
> proven 2000 years later when the so called bug was discovered by one of
> the Tribes 1 devs during development. Upon the release of the original
> Tribes the Golden Era of skiing began with the invention of the skiing
> script, making an everyday chore fun! Soon after in what is known as
> the Silver Era of skiing, Tribes 2 was released without need of a
> skiing script. Nonetheless, skiing became a rudimentary task, lacking
> grace or skill. I refer to it as skill to mean the magnitude of the
> velocity of the warrior. And hence, as time drew on and as the Golden
> Era passed away the art of skiing was eventually lost from when the
> arrival of the third Tribes game redesigned the physical principles of
> skiing originally decided upon by religion 2000 years before by
> eliminating friction completely from the plane and the particle. This
> new design paradigm proved to be unpopular hence destroying the art of
> skiing forever.
>

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>
>"Adrian Ng" <adrian.j.ng@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1119378602.644361.287280@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
>^^^ That was my other story....

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> I heard that Picabo Street. and Suzy "Chapstick" Chaffee slept with
> the Dev Team in order to get skiing put into the game unheralded so
> that only they would have an edge over other players.

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> what the hell?!?

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> Money.
>
> She's getting loads of monies for the publishing rights.
>
> they both are

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>^,,^< Miracle

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>Adrian Ng wrote:
>
>
> That's exactly what *I* want to know!!
>
> I mean, what the hell is up with that dumbass
>'runaway bride' already getting a book deal when
>she hasn't even been sentenced yet!!
>
> I'm SICK of that bugeyed XXXXX already! Sheesh.....
>
> And the dumbass GUY still wants to marry the
>crazy woman. Oh yeah, that marriage will last. <snicker>
>
> So, what the hell, Adrian?!?!?

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> So I'm not the only one to notice the "deer in headlights" stare? At
> first I thought it was just a one-off. But when every photo has the
> same "I-can-see-your-molecular-structure" wild-eyed stare...
>
> She just LOOKS psycho.

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> Yeah. I think it's sad that even I, an englishman, even knows who you
> were on about.

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> The world is indeed a screwed up place. Except for
> you guys in here. Even Biggie is normal as compared to
> some "normal" folks elsewhere.
>
> Now *that's* frightening, eh? LOL

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> "Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:42be52a7$1_2
> @galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
>
>
> Yow! I never thought of it before, but I'd rather have him for Prez
> than the jokers running for the old parties lately.

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> ScratchMonkey wrote:
>
>
> I've got a great mental picture of Biggie sitting behind the desk
> in the Oval Office when some piece of crap legislation reaches him.
> He mutters "XXXXtards" as he shitcans it into the ole Round File.
>
> WTF *is* DEbig3, anyway?
>
>
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> One day, while skipping through the forest, I heard the voice of
> "Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net> coming from a tree, and
> thought, "Man, this is f*ed up," but carried on the following
> conversation anyway:
>
> too bad im far too politically incorrect for that to ever happen ;p