Brian feels self-conscious about my making the following [tongue-in-cheek] statement:
Brian Connors, the Steve House of the Mid-Atlantic.

This would be somewhat like me saying:
Mike Golay: Mark Twight with only 5% of the attitude.

Brian wants to qualify the first statement¹⁴, but I maintain that it's funnier when left alone.

That was a really long way to go to make my good friend feel a little bit better.¹⁵

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¹⁴Only because16 I, along with Steve House, wear BD Sabretooth crampons(i)
   (i)A decision that is driven more [entirely] by monetary boundaries than by some personal ethos of doing more with less(a).
     (a)Which I do, silently and only in the deepest confines of my climbing consciousness, wear as a [pathetic] badge of honor.
- Brian Connors, Earl of Footnote
¹⁵Christ.
¹⁶Actually, I was just saying it to make you feel good. But since you brought it up, I figured I'd drag things way, way out. And yes, the crampons and Invernos, plus the no gaiters look you had going, reminded me of House. But now we're talking about fashion. And I must remind you, nothing can compete with the French [pants].17
¹⁷Someone needs their own web site.