Jason,

It was so nice to hear you use the alcohol stove user as the example of the know-it-all that doesn't answer the question.

If there is ONE topic on backpacking forums that irritates my nether parts it is the endless posts of alcohol stove users about how great alky stoves are. And if someone like me suggests they prefer ESBIT tablets for UL stoves it's as though I'm an unwashed heathen trespassing in the Vatican. AAarrgghh!!

Seriously, alky stove users need their own "exclusive" web site with a forum. (Or am I blissfully unaware of it?) I believe that alky stove users are closet pyromaniacs that just love playing with the little blue flames and stoves that make them. What else could explain their endless fascination with these tin can stoves?

As for spelling errors, I too am an English major, but MY misspells are merely typos. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Eric