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Overpriced resort food (which is usually left for someone else to clean up) serves as an excellent medium to discuss the morning's adventures. Conversation centers on how good or bad the snow is (usually worse than it was at Aspen last year) and how much better the new pair of skis are (as if the latest model really makes a difference for someone who's greatest accomplishment on skis happens to be their participation in the feat of engineering designed to haul them up the hill...
...think I was three or four," Parker recalled, speaking at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., two weeks ago, "I guess I had a problem with flushing the toilet. Like I would go poo and then wouldn't flush it. And my mother would yell at me and yell at me. And so my dad--the geologist on South Park is my dad--my dad said, 'Well, Trey, you need to flush the toilet because if you don't, Mr. Hankey is going to come out and kill you.' And I'm like, 'What do you mean...
...simply out to offend people but are exploring the surreal terrors of childhood. The show would not be so funny, and its outrageous humor would not be shaded by such fear and poignancy, if it weren't an imaginative re-creation of authentic experience. Speaking to the Aspen audience, Stone said, "Face it, fart jokes are funny." This is profoundly true, and no one would want to take these jokes away from South Park. But, yes, it offers still more...
...several fathers participating in the ski football game the day of the accident. I would certainly not have played with my 11-year-old son if there had been any evident danger. None of us were told not to play by any official of the Aspen Skiing Co. Ski-patrol members invariably skied behind us to complete their afternoon sweep, and ski-lift personnel routinely ferried our ski poles to the bottom of the mountain. Michael was the best all-terrain skier I have ever seen. He was skiing at a moderate speed on a well-lit and well-groomed...
...reach Kennedy. "Very quickly we realized there was one very injured man." He took over the CPR and helped fit Kennedy with a cervical collar. The ski patrol brought him down the mountain on a toboggan, covered in a yellow blanket. The Rev. Lawrence Solan administered last rites at Aspen Valley hospital and presided over communion for 15 family members. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 5:50 p.m.; the official cause of death was "massive head and neck trauma," and deputy coroner Tom Walsh found no trace of drugs or alcohol in the body. Michael's estranged wife Victoria...