Short pants that reach only to the thighs or knees, depending on what you've got (legs, etc.).
Tighty-whities are not shorts. Shorts are outerwear. Neither of these should be visible at a formal dinner, for a lot of the same reasons.
A garment worn by both men and women over the pelvic area and covering the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to or even below the knee, but not covering the entire length of the leg. Usually an outer garment designed for comfort. (Yawn)
Hiker hot pants. (Now we're talking.)
Underpants. (Nope. Not unless you're all alone, way out there somewhere, and really, really sure that you're all alone, and still want to be tacky.)
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Me? Recently kicked off the island for violating the dress code (wasn't wearing a dress at all).
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Assuming that a waterfall is a thing, rather than a process, (Got that?), a "Ribbon Waterfall" is one that is much taller than it is wide — its height is much greater than its "crest width", the width of the stream at the top, or the beginning point of the waterfall.
So the stream of water going over the falls forms a relatively thin "ribbon" of water that falls a long, long way before it finally goes Splat!.
A ribbon waterfall, then, being much taller than it is wide, looks like a ribbon of water if you squint hard enough from far enough away, though it cannot be worn in the hair or used to wrap birthday gifts. (Too wet, eh? And cold too, likely smells of fish and/or bear poop, and is inconvenient to get ahold of when you need it most, etc.)
This type of waterfall tends to be seasonal, or even "ephemeral", coming and going with the seasons, or appearing and vanishing depending on the amount of water flowing in a particular year. As with the rest of life, ribbon waterfalls are not all that dependable, which can add to their charm, if you like that sort of thing.
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Me? Managed to get out of bed this morning. Woot!
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(1) If a tootle-flute and a drone pipe or two are attached, what you actually have is a bagpipe (aka agony pouch) with shoulder straps.
(2) For a long distance backpacker with an especially hearty appetite, this is a shoulder-strap-equipped bean bag, which handily doubles as a camp chair. The advantage of a pack stuffed with actual beans instead of plastic pellets is that beans have more calories and hurt less on the way out. Plus they are biodegradable, as you may know from personal experience. And they make their own music too, saving you the trouble of learning to play the bagpipe and having to dodge small arms fire from your hiking companions.
(3) A hiker hump.
(4) Pack, or anyway the thing that truly makes a pack a pack. It doesn't matter if you have an external frame pack, an internal frame pack, or a frameless pack, the bag's the thing. You can't do much with a frame all by itself, or just shoulder straps and a hip belt, and anyway the bag determines what the frame is internal or external to.
Yes, you could have a pack bag made of anything really (like cedar shingles, or fiberglass, or welded titanium), but as you'd guess from the word bag, fabric is the real deal. You probably wouldn't be happy with any fabric substitute, no matter how shiny, termite-resistant, or aromatic. With a correctly-sized and fitted pack bag you can carry as many cabbages or rutabagas as you need to see you through a trip, if any, or if you frequently fall into lakes and streams for example, you can augment your air supply with a windbag attachment (which, however, requires expert seam sealing).
Then again, as mentioned earlier, just stick a couple chanters on it and presto, you have your very own agony pouch to play on those lonely nights in camp when you can't sleep because you no longer have any friends. (This scenario is an example of what is called a "vicious circle" or "rotating rathole".)
(5) The fabric sack that holds all your stuff, a bag carried on your back or shoulders by means of one or more straps.
A pack bag really is the important part of a backpack. Without it all you have is straps, and that arrangement would not only identify you as stupid but would look pretty weird as well. But you're a hiker, so what the hey.
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Me? Really this weird.
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(1) One inclined to assume that only good things will happen. "The optimist claims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears that this may indeed be true." — Queen Elizabeth II (now dead), et al.
(2) Brand of mountaineering and backpacking stoves made in Sweden, from the 19th century through the present. (Woot, and so on.)
(3) A Swedish company founded on June 19th 1899 by three engineers, and still in business as a producer of outdoor stoves, cooksets, utensils, and cutlery. Although the company makes modern liquid-fuel and canister stoves, it still has in production two models that it has been making for many decades, one for 70 years and one for over 100 years. The company is now owned by the Katadyn Group.
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Me? Still trying not to burn my fingers while picking my nose.
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