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Actually, I don't think of ARBORIST.ECT as a lunatic. I've seen real insight and humor in his pieces--and please note that he actually did research the follow on the climber's fall after cutting his own ropes. I'd allow him using his "Sexy girls" title as his attempt to get our attention. Beneath that crusty exterior beats something pounding to get out. Then again, maybe it's like the movie, Alien--and I don't want to be around for that.
Yeah, I am a bit worried, but not about me. I've been upset at the responses to the women who have written in and gotten shotgunned from the crouchers in the pickup trucks on the grassy knoll. In a way, it's no big deal, hazing, teasing, and testing is how we handle most new-comers. It's just that most of this is more cruel than it needs to be and, even more sadly, shows how truly frightened we all are of our own images and sexuality. I don't particularly want to start up a theraputic wing for this group, so I've limited myself to poking a finger now and again in the eye of the ones who seem most to need it. That's my contribution for the day.
Also, I'm going out to speak to the Student Society of Arborculture on Wednesday, and speaking before a group on a number of heretical, blasphemous, new ideas on trees is one of thos life-pass-before-your-eyes contemplations. I am a little fuszzy about that.
About keepin' my back to the wall, my wife assures me my real protection lies in being so singularly funny looking. Who'd bother would be her comment.
Bob W.