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08-10-2008, 07:03 AM
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Rivet Master
Vintage Kin Owner
1977 31' Excella 500
Berkeley Springs
, West Virginia
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 1,637
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Stereotype
Hi gang!
We just returned from Cape Hatteras last night. We stayed at Camp Hatteras, which we like pretty well. But anyway, we took part of one evening and cruised through a couple of the other campgrounds to check them out to see what we could see.
Well we go into the KOA down there and we're riding through it. There are a few decent rigs there, but for the most part they were cheaper jobs like Coleman pop ups and the like. (In contrast to that, most of the rigs at Camp Hatteras were higher dollar....but not to sound crusty or anything as both places cost about the same) So anyway, we're riding around the KOA just looking at the sites, etc., and seeing all of the "lower end" trailers with guys around drinking beer. There at the front row it sat: the lone Airstream in the entire park. It was a newer bambi. The guy out front had a table set up, not a picnic table but a fancy one he'd brought along. He's wearing dockers and a long sleeve dress shirt, and was holding up a goblet he'd just filled in one hand and had a bottle of decent quality looking wine in the other. I busted out laughing!
Now if that isn't the stereotype of an Airstreamer, I don't know what is!
Around him is the sea of canvas and white boxes with bare bellied visigoths wearing only swimming trunks and swilling beer, while the one "man of taste" sat there with his pinky out, sipping wine from his crystal goblet.
Too funny!
I wish I'd gotten a picture...
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08-10-2008, 07:29 AM
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Rivet Master
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 2,190
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The world according to Mandolin Dave
I guess nobody really likes stereotypes, but sometimes the shoe fits.
I was at a music festival.
I saw a girl camping in a VW van, tie dye dress, played guitar
I saw a guy that slept in the back of a pickup, played dobro
I saw a guy all alone, played banjo (think about it )
I saw a guy with a big van, played upright bass
I saw a guy drive up in a Porshe, drank scotch.
There was nutty guy there in an Argosy, I play mandolin.
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08-10-2008, 10:13 AM
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Rivet Master
2002 25' Classic
Oro Valley
, Arizona
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 835
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Would anyone care to surmise (using stereotypes) any other of his "attributes" ?
I suspect him to be educated, of British extraction, and a conservative.
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Kistler & Brenda
2002 Classic 25'
2003 Expedition EB 5.4L, AWD, AdvanceTrac Class IV hitch pkg. Reese dual cam/Prodigy
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08-10-2008, 10:33 AM
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Moderator
1968 17' Caravel
Battle Ground
, Washington
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 12,253
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Who wears dockers camping? If I walk within ten feet of the tongue I get grease on my pants! Clearly I am not a stereotypical airstreamer
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Stephanie
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08-10-2008, 11:10 AM
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2 Rivet Member
1972 Argosy 20
youngstown
, Ohio
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 72
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t'was ever thus!
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08-10-2008, 11:49 AM
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"Cloudsplitter"
2003 25' Classic
Houstatlantavegas
, Malebolgia
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 19,977
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Idoidoido
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stefrobrts
Who wears dockers camping?
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Love 'em...comfy, cool: as in not kool, and da black ones stay kleen for a week of "dock'n". And they fit right in with our Ice Wine.
But I guess we not be very stereo either..
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"You don't know where you've been until you leave, enjoy life" RLC
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08-10-2008, 12:07 PM
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3 Rivet Member
2006 25' Safari FB SE
Peoria
, Arizona
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 228
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I'll bet his sheets are 600 thread count Egyptian cotton! There's no substitute for quality.
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08-10-2008, 12:15 PM
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Rivet Master
1983 34' Excella
1967 24' Tradewind
Little Rock
, Arkansas
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 3,825
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AZ-JH
I'll bet his sheets are 600 thread count Egyptian cotton! There's no substitute for quality.
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Err, I have 800 thread count sheets and a raw silk spread. Busted, I guess.
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08-10-2008, 01:02 PM
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Retired.
Currently Looking...
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, At Large
Join Date: Jun 2003
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I have Docker pants and shorts, Eddie Bauer shirts, Izod shirts... Goodwill has sales every Tuesday, you know...
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Terry
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08-10-2008, 03:44 PM
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Rivet Master
Vintage Kin Owner
1977 31' Excella 500
Berkeley Springs
, West Virginia
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 1,637
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400
Man, my sheets are only 400 count. And, I tried to spend the entire week not wearing a shirt or putting goop in my hair. And, I drank a lot of bier.
I guess I'm one of the visigoths!!
But I have a silver camper so that ought to get me a few points!
I wear dockers M-F most weeks...
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08-10-2008, 04:43 PM
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Rivet Master
1999 23' Safari
Perrysburg
, Ann Arbor
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 916
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I've left for towin' trips direct from my office (got permission to park the rig in a neighboring building's parking lot during the work day), wearing wool slacks and a starched shirt. Arrived at campground just as departed. But changed fast into "casual" duds once parked!
Maybe the wine swiller had just unhitched and was celebrating his "escape" from the work world!
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08-10-2008, 05:01 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1979 31' Sovereign
Baton Rouge
, Louisiana
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 72
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Airstreamin' Visigoth here!! Just for the record...I love classical music, Glen Morangie scotch and most of my clothes are Murano or Dockers (compliments of Goodwill too) though I won't be caught dead in them while camping. However, I do take the crawfish boiling rig along on most trips and I LOVE Coors Light for recreational drinking! I imagine I get my share of looks...Tchaikovsky on the CD player, the crawfish boiler roaring, me in battered denim shorts and LSU T-Shirt sitting in front of the Silver Bullet smoking a Cuban or nicaraguan....I guess I'd look at me funny too!!! Bottom line...watch those stereo types, they don't fit as well or as often as you'd think!!! -D
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08-10-2008, 05:52 PM
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Cyclist
2007 28' International CCD
Windermere
, Florida
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 457
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RV parks do tend to bring out an interesting assortment.
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2007 28' Int CCD.
2011 F 250 Big Honking Diesel
DTV 5lnb on a tripod.
Wilson wired repeater with YAG.
Two big screens
15dB Backfire WiFi antenna and WaveMagnum
Centramatics.
Hawkshead Tire Monitors.
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08-10-2008, 08:45 PM
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Rivet Master
2005 19' Safari
1968 24' Tradewind
Rural
, Delaware
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,476
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"... Goodwill has sales every Tuesday, you know..."
Yep, and Salvation Army has theirs on Wednesdays. Heck, if it wasn't for thrift stores, we wouldn't have been able to afford that shiny new Airstream. I'm kind of partial to Columbia shirts, Patagonia pants, and we buy our fine wine in a 5 liter box.
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2005 Bambi
1968 Trade Wind
2007 Ford F250 4x4 Crew
WDCU
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08-10-2008, 09:21 PM
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Rivet Master
1972 25' Tradewind
North Vancouver
, British Columbia
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,421
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverRanger
"...and we buy our fine wine in a 5 liter box.
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We call that "Vin du Sac".
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Cameron & the Labradors, Kai & Samm
North Vancouver, BC
Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! - Mame Dennis
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08-10-2008, 09:36 PM
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Rivet Master
1968 28' Ambassador
Cedaredge
, Colorado
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,542
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Use to have a 85 coleman popup... real white trash looking.... But had my wine and $10.00 a six pack beer, flip flops, shorts, button short sleeve shirt. Haven't worn a watch in over 6 years.... now I do it in an Airstream....
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May you have at least one sunny day, and a soft chair to sit in..
2008 5.7 L V8 Sequoia
AIR # 31243
WBCCI # 6987
FOUR CORNERS UNIT
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08-10-2008, 11:44 PM
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Rivet Master
1960 22' Safari
in the wilderness
, The great Mojave Desert
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 4,077
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Trailer: Airstream
Thread count: 1500
Shirt: Hawaiian
Beverage: Miller High Life
Am I swank or what?
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I'd rather be boon docking in the desert.
WBCCI 3344 FCU
AIR# 13896
CA 4
Yes, we have courtesy parking for you. About an hour North of Los Angeles.
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08-11-2008, 04:25 PM
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"Cloudsplitter"
2003 25' Classic
Houstatlantavegas
, Malebolgia
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 19,977
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This is us...
Us Streamer's got CLASS
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08-11-2008, 04:41 PM
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Rivet Master
1999 27' Safari
Kent
, Ohio
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 806
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Thayt is cool. To bad you didnt ask him to Pass the "poupon" (Mustard)
remeber that commercial. to funny
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08-11-2008, 06:34 PM
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4 Rivet Member
Currently Looking...
Fort Walton Beach
, Florida
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 478
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Mis (stereo) typed
If you really want to test your "stereo typing" acumen, attend a few motorcycle rallies/functions. Having moved from the Biker World to the Airstream World (aka trading long necks and wet-t contests for wine tasting and pot-luck dinners), I discovered quickly that it is next to impossible to peg the average Harley rider. Some of the "baddest looking dudes" are "real life" professionals living their "alter ego" for the moment, dressed as pirates. The movie "Wild Hogs" was a great parody on that subject. There are many similarities between Airstreamers and Harley riders.....almost fanatical product loyalty, the desire to band together for events or rides/caravans, and I even noticed in a recent Airsteam publication that a lady had gotten an Airstream tatoo (just hope the desire for the wet-t contests does not catch on because of our age group). I've also noticed a few pirate flags have been mentioned in postings (don't know what's up with that), but if "dew rags" start showing up in place of "berets".....I'm there!
Now where did I put that wine opener.....Oh well, I'll just punch a hole in the box with my pocket knife.
Chief
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