Skied during a couple weeks in the French Alps (visiting a friend with a gig there, so got to share a room.) Rank amateur, but able to navigate a bit of the intermediate section, etc. Thought I'd captured the flavour of this obsession (but I hear that, "skiing is going downhill these days?") -- but THIS is beyond obsession and the conspicuous public burning of $100 bills. Because you CAN (and have no imagination abour what-Else you might have done instead.)

Now as to the Carbon Footprint: My analysis of BTU/plutocrat -- overall, including cost of the construction ÷ est.number of players: Maybe it's as if each one of these pampered (and some, Pampered) pusillanimous popinjays -- drives a Hummer, everywhere. Probably also one used just inside the house (in Texas, say.)


Am I right, sir? Am I right?

Extra Brownie points for source of that query, and the circumstances of its utterance ...

The 39 Steps

..as Mr. Memory lies dying on the stage.