Comments on: Rural Unexpected Profession #42: Goat Manicurist http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/ Personal website of author Doug Fine Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:18:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: oliver http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/#comment-3 oliver Mon, 07 May 2007 18:21:01 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/#comment-3 hey i recognize that t-shirt in the first photo.........wasn't that the year you rode on my team?...."team rode hard and put away wet" ha ha.....oliver hey i recognize that t-shirt in the first photo………wasn’t that the year you rode on my team?….”team rode hard and put away wet”

ha ha…..oliver

]]> By: admin http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/#comment-4 admin Mon, 07 May 2007 18:43:49 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2006/12/13/rural-unexpected-profession-42-goat-manicurist/#comment-4 Yep. I find myself an amateur student of how t-shirts age. This one, for whatever reason, can survive the basic as well as the secondary rigors of rural life: goat defecation, excessive washing and line drying, and of course lying-crumpled-in-the-back-of-the-truck-for-weeks-after-the-last-hotsprings-soak. For those not familiar with the Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay to which Oliver refers, it's a whacky tradition shared between the weirdos of Canada's Yukon and the even Weirdo-ers of Haines, Alaska. I think the link to an NPR story I did about it is under tthe NPR link here on the Dispatches blog. Oliver, by the way, chose the R-rated name for the team (was that really our name? What does that even mean? I mean, I perceive lots of innuendo...anyway, don't answer. I told the Web host this is a family site. And was that the year Ramsey rode across the border in his birthday suit, yelling, "Nothing to Declare!"?) Hope all's great with you, O. Yep. I find myself an amateur student of how t-shirts age. This one, for whatever reason, can survive the basic as well as the secondary rigors of rural life: goat defecation, excessive washing and line drying, and of course lying-crumpled-in-the-back-of-the-truck-for-weeks-after-the-last-hotsprings-soak.

For those not familiar with the Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay to which Oliver refers, it’s a whacky tradition shared between the weirdos of Canada’s Yukon and the even Weirdo-ers of Haines, Alaska. I think the link to an NPR story I did about it is under tthe NPR link here on the Dispatches blog.

Oliver, by the way, chose the R-rated name for the team (was that really our name? What does that even mean? I mean, I perceive lots of innuendo…anyway, don’t answer. I told the Web host this is a family site. And was that the year Ramsey rode across the border in his birthday suit, yelling, “Nothing to Declare!”?)

Hope all’s great with you, O.

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