"Hiking the Appalachian Trail" re-redux

[Damien Hall]

Alice said:

'In the past week, we've speculated as to whether "hiking the Appalachian
Trail" will have legs as a euphemism for something like "disappearing
for a romantic tryst", in the wake of Gov. Sanford's failed cover story
for his Argentine adventure.

This morning I had my radio set to an XM baseball week in review show.
At it's open, one host welcomed the other back from his vacation on the
Appalachian Trail, and both took great pains to emphasize that he
*really, really* was *really* *just* hiking.'

It's reached Urban Dictionary as well:

http://tinyurl.com/HikingInAppalachia-UD

_Hiking in Appalachia_ is the 27 June 2009 Word of the Day; the lemma is,
_sic_:

'To have an extramarrital affair. Stems from the disappearance and
subsequent reappearance of South Carolina Governor, Mark Sanford(R). Gov.
Sanford was thought to be hiking in Appalachia. In actuality, he was having
an affair in the South American country of Argentina.

Example; Girl, I just saw Susie's man hiking in Appalachia.'

Damien

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