The Wisconsin Skier

Skiers understand the term wedge in a different manner than teen bully pranksters. Skiing in a wedge is also called the snowplow stance and is when you ski by weighting the inside edges of both skis and point the tips at each other and the tails are spread apart, another term used to describe this stance is pizza.

That is different from wedgie, we all generally know what a wedgie is and we do not usually associated wedgie with skiing. Another great entry for the glossary!

I see stuff along this line frequently while riding up Ski Brule’s backside chair. Usually kids who are horsing around on the T-Bars will fall down or ride up solo with the bar between their thighs and the bar behind them.

Read on for an hilarious on the slopes wedgie!
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Below the fold is a funny video. The video stars a French downhill race skier straddling a gate, yes it features a common situation found in many sitcoms especially those of a more adult nature. The video is not funny because it is standard adult sitcom stuff. The video is funny because of what you hear from 15 to 19 seconds into the video, not watch, but listen. In addition, listen to the commentator’s comments.

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You may have heard of the Dancing Bears an iconic set of bears associated with the Grateful Dead. Well, I am working on putting them into ski gear!

It is a fair amount of drudgery, but it is funny how labors of love (an oxymoron) do not seem like drudgery but you keep pushing on and driving on till you reach your goal. I want to add boots and perhaps actual skis rather than the black lines I drew. Still I like it! Also, I am using images I captured and modified for a java applet I wrote around 15 or so years ago!

I took a scan of the bumper sticker, isolated each bear, and smoothed out the edges (in some cases pixel by pixel), and then cloned and colored the bears. So, each color set had one bear in each dance step. I then coded up a java applet to put the bears through their dance steps.

As you can see, I have other plans for the Dancing Bears. What I really need is larger images, the one above is 55 pixels square and a lot of detail gets lost when ski gear gets scaled down from let us say 200×250 to 20×25!

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Another version of the Olympic Theme Song (aka Bugler’s Dream) by MasterSchema:

Thank you MasterSchema for allowing me to use the video!

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More old material from the old site. I heard of a “grass skiing” competition and developed a top ten list for comments heard at that. Enjoy.

Here are the top ten comments heard at the International Grass Skiing Competition recently held in Iran.
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Are you obsessed with skiing? Read the top signs and see how many of them apply to you!
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Obviously, I strongly discourage you from doing this. Similarly, I would not suggest jumping into shark infested waters with a giant hook stuck through your mouth, nor would I suggest sitting in a limo full of angry bees and surrounded by marbles, etc. Still it is funny!

Hat tip to Gadling and to @SkiingExaminer via Twitter.

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If you have spent any time on any ski hill you will come to understand there is a set role of characters on the hill.

Here is a not quite comprehensive listing of the characters we find on a typical ski hill.
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With one exception our ski team did not do too well at the Turin Olympics. Here were some of the excuses heard. (more…)

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Here are the top ten reasons we ski in the Upper Midwest. Some may call them rationalizations, you be the judge!
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