> a genuine USSR-surplus titanium crowbar

where'd you get that? :) and why? supposed to be stronger than steel?
i know it's lighter, but can't see how it would be stronger for prying
and smashing. ?

> and, well, the list goes on. I even see a few bits of bark in there
> from the last time I went out and cut firewood! Gasp (!), is that an
> oil stain?

no NATO gas cans? :) i got two of them ... for my
maybe-never-gonna-happen alaska trip. but i don't keep them in the
bus. i do keep blankets and a vietnam poncho liner. :)

> Vanagon ecosystem. And lest some of you are tempted to look down
> your
> long patrician noses, remember you share 97% of your DNA with a
> banana
> slug!

and some of us are damned proud of that 97%!!!
;)

hear, hear!
unca joel