From robert@deltanet.com  Tue Feb 27 18:19:09 1996
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:18:42 -0800
Subject: Re: ugh?
To: Garrett Hildebrand <gdh@uci.edu>, Sandy Herring <sherring@ACM.ORG>

Garrett, you wrote: 

> [snip] 
> What in the heck is an, "ugh?" 

..and Sandy added... 

> Well, it's not the fuzzy boots by the same name. Ya hadda be there!
> I'll let Robert elucidate ;-) 

Actually, Shawn tells the story best, being my primary 'observer' during
the incident. I'm surprised, Garrett, that you haven't heard this story
after all these years. Anyway, I'll give you the short explanation: 

The setting is a nice restaurant during the Winter of '85. If memory
serves correctly, it was the Whiskey Creek in Bishop, CA. A group of
(mostly) Technical Support people were on a skiing vacation in Mammoth
Mountain. The cast included myself, Sandy, Shawn, Kaz, JD & Linda, my
Mom, Su (an ex-girlfriend), and a guy named Jeff-something and his
girlfriend that JD was friends with at the time. 

Anyway, here we all are having our dinner and enjoying it. I happen to
have ordered ribs this particular evening... and I was _really_ hungry!
So, there I am, chomping away on my ribs like a caveman that hasn't
eaten for a week. I probably had BBQ sauce all over my face, too.
Unbeknownst to me, Shawn (who was seated directly across from me) had
been staring at me for a minute or two thinking 'This guy is devouring
his food like a caveman'. Suddenly, I look up and notice Shawn staring
at me. Feeling like the aforementioned caveman, all I could think of to
say at that moment was a growling "UGH!", after which I immediately went
back to my rib-chomping ways. 

Shawn cracked up so hard I thought he was going to split his own ribs.
The whole table was laughing since others had caught the moment as well.
But it took Shawn a good 10 or 15 minutes until he could stop laughing
enough to continue eating, and even then not without brief bursts of
chuckling. It was truly a historical moment. 

Anyway, that was all it took. From that point on I had the earned a
reputation for one that could be expected to belch out a nice gastral
"Ugh" at the appropriate time. Not exactly the kind of reputation one
would want bestowed upon them, but it has proven to be a source of fond
memories and humorous story-telling over the past 10 years. In fact, I
can think of a couple other good stories that were born out of that trip
to Mammoth. Sandy Snow is one, and a ski lift blunder that involved Kaz
and I is another. But I'll save those for another time.


Regards,
  Robert


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