At 10:58 AM 8/26/99 -0400, Kellerin wrote: >When you are out exploring beautiful wilderness areas nothing drives me crazier >than coming upon a pile of shit complete with a pile of toilet paper. This is >totally unnecessary and very inconsiderate. A few weeks ago we were camping on >crown land in Ontario and we found a wonderful campsite that even had a privy, >but believe it or not, some moron had chosen to take a dump right on the trail >about 15 feet from the privy. I guess they didn't feel that the privy was >sanitary enough so instead they left a little reminder of their visit. We were >back there again this week, and fortunately the feces have now decomposed, but >the toilet paper is still clearly visible. It seems to take forever for those >patches of white toilet paper that dot the landscape to disappear. Here at Cornell there is an event that take place every year called "Dragon Day". The students at the architecture school build a large dragon and parade it through campus while the students of the engineering school build a mock castle and essentially taunt the dragon builders (and the dragon). At the end of the parade the dragon is burned to the ground. In any case, as part of the tradition of the event there are a couple of areas around campus that are "decorated" with toilet paper. The students are allowed to do this but they must get the toilet paper from some "official" source. The toilet paper is some kind of biodegradable variety that basically melts when it gets wet. Dragon day usually occurs at a time of the year when there is a lot of rain so usually all the evidence is gone within a couple of days. I don't know where this particular brand of toilet paper can be found and I can't beleive that I have just written an entire paragraph about toilet paper. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 12:16:18 PDT
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