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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 12, 2006 - 06:45pm PT
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be it animals or the chilluns, if yer looking for quality child care, LEROY is the au pair of choice.
(rates and references available on request).
note TEAM DEADLY shadowbox on the wall, and 1st generation FISH products leopard skin toiletries bag on the desk
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 12, 2006 - 06:50pm PT
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'tar, if we keep this nonsense up indefinately we damn well MAY crack the speed of sound and bust a move on that there STONEDblaster thread/s......
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Mar 12, 2006 - 11:56pm PT
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Gawd, I feel like I entered an alternate Universe in these long "Mussy Nebula" threads - wow! Weird stuff man. What the hell are you guys smoking, drinking, or dropping?
Here is someone I got to meet through rather unusual circumstances at the Mountain Room bar in YV -- Earl Redfern. I met him through a mutual friend Joe Yaggi.
Joe, a friend, climbing partner and fellow "SDSU Leisure Connection" outdoor leader and I, lead a trip to Yosemite with a van full of European and Asian foreign exchange students who were learning English at the American Language Institute at SDSU in the Fall of 1988(?) It was bitter cold on that trip and snowing in the Valley, so we inevitably did short day hikes all over the place, visitng the museum, van tours etc. and spent the evenings in the Mountain Room Bar dancing late into the night before crashing in large group tents in the reserved campground each night.
Joe knew Earl, and one evening we all met-up at the MRB and Earl immediately hit it off with some of the girls on the trip (and definately ending up sleeping with one of them later that night). On the same trip, I met a very pretty (and rich) participant, a Chinese woman named Theresa. We ended up dating for awhile afterwards back in SD (all I can say is wow!)
Anyway, after a nice evening of group dancing he invited a van full of us to his place in El Portal, and we witnessed a private slide showing of some of his latest Baffin Island multi-element big-wall ascents. We all ended up crashing at his place afterwards and drove back to the valley in the morning.
Earl's team intented to Skydive into basecamp, do a 1st Ascent route on Thor(?), and paraglide off the summit. The static line jump ended up getting cancelled at the very last minute, the climb was successful, and they didn't end up paragliding off the summit due to inclement weather but rapped instead. Still an amazing adventure. Earl was way out-there combining incredible sports together into one amazing multi-element adventure. He left a very big impression on me. He was a visionary.
He was also really into designing great outdoor adventure clothing, with the trade name "Thor" and everyone on the team wore his climbing garments. I hear they were and are pretty coveted garments. He even designed a multi-level "condo like" bigwall bivy-ledge the team slept in together. He was into everything, even BASE jumping, and had one of the coveted BASE patches for jumping off The Captain. He was also a private pilot. He did so many things and very well. Very inspirational individual and very cutting edge.
Saw Earl again in San Diego, and we talked for awhile when he came down to give a slideshow at the Sports Chalet. We shared good memories of that night in Yosemite and El Portal. Like I said, he was way ahead of his time in my opinion. I still feel that is the future -- doing all these activities in one grand multi-element adventure and pushing the envelope in many different directions all at the same time. You have to be good at many different things not just one. A Will Gadd kinda climber. What an absolute grand adventure.
I miss him.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Same place as you, man...... (WB)
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Mar 13, 2006 - 12:42am PT
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Tardaddy: see if you can add to my story on the Danny Granduski thread... party at our house in JT, slide show on Dannys ass... kinda like this pic:
oh... and here is Strappo standing outside the TimeMachine in the Lodge lot.... Yummy!!!
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Same place as you, man...... (WB)
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:12am PT
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Dick always was real good with animals and children.
The Merced was always good for some diversion back in the day
On our way back from Juarez after a Grade VI tequila binge:
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:23am PT
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yo fish, beleive it or not the current hueco contingent beleives they invented bouldering -- at hueco, no less -- and that you and gill and cilley and murray are simply the contrived deluded inventions of a few deluded has-been never-were as#@&%es like me....
oh fukk, waitaminnut......
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 04:58am PT
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Yeah Russ i was hopin you would draw some fire onto that faited jtree bash, involving a slide show on Dan's passed out carcass.
I'll bust on over there threadside and see 'bout it.
'Nice bit on Redfern Klimmer, he was quite a guy, wore a sport coat to trade shows, seemed kinda amped and sqeezable...
Man, are we doin' Leroy PROUD or Whut!?
Ya, sports fans, I took thread notes on the flight back from Boston tonight and am ready for ramming speed... Let's git this jalopy rollin'. I think I smell Stonemaster oil burn up ahead-
"We know who's got the biggest Dumptruck"
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 05:26am PT
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Sometimes, Guys Had Ta Werk Fer a Livin'
But we never compromised our STANDARDS.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 05:55am PT
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So, Bruce Brossman Did a Really
Good Job of Indulging his guides at YMS.
In Tuolumne, We had the Rat Room, a place where we cooked and ate. We had really great parties outside, replete with bonfires, Tiki Torches, A full stereo with records of Dwight Yoakam and the Like.
One night, a camper asked us to quite down and Bruce Told him "Fuh-Getaboutit!!!"
TM Herbert was there every Friday all Summer Long (Still Is).
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Leroy
climber
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Mar 13, 2006 - 06:01am PT
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Ya, Cilley Barber ,Thats the ticket.Did the first ascent.With my first wife ,Whitney Houston,Who I´ve seen naked.Barber didnt even make it out of the bar.But we included his name on the first ascent out of pity.Left whitneys name off because hey,she gets enough publicity.
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Jobee
Social climber
El Portal
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Mar 13, 2006 - 10:35am PT
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...utt-ohhh "help me Mr. Wizarrrrd"! Neb sucked me back in.
Yo Leroy...looking smart with that living slinky i've got a couple in my back yard if your'e still into snake charming!
jow
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 12:52pm PT
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Hey Jobini,
Here's me 'n Lisa in Boston over the weekend:
I call her the "Bunny", cuz she sets the pace like one of those motorized bunnies at a dog track (the one no dog ever catches).
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Same place as you, man...... (WB)
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:02pm PT
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Holy shit!!! That is the recent incarnation of Roy!!!!!!! Use the edit button man and get that thing off the page. You were doing much better about 23 years ago... let's keep the memory alive.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 01:14pm PT
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Serial Killer is right. If you look close, and I don't recommend it, I have braces too, so the resemblence to "Jaws" from the Roger Moore 007 film is quite striking...
Plus, T*R has been baraging me with cute little EMail notes, so this should eclipse that once and for ever.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 13, 2006 - 01:23pm PT
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Yikes! Hahahahahaha ..........
Why am I laughing? (asking myself)
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 02:08pm PT
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No Blinny- He Mocks!
Bwahahah.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 13, 2006 - 02:37pm PT
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twins, seperated at birth???
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 02:45pm PT
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whut a scream.
I'm gonnah git you...
sum day.
Promise.
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rbolton
Social climber
Glendora, CA
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Mar 13, 2006 - 06:24pm PT
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Gol-Lem,
You know I love ya, but this was too good to pass up.
"Twins, separated at Birth"?
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Mar 13, 2006 - 06:57pm PT
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I think I must be related to your wife.
Not only is the Bunny Cell Phone Headset stylish and distinctive, it's perfect for embarrassing your 14 year old daughter in public and entertaining bank tellers at the drive up window.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 13, 2006 - 07:11pm PT
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bunnyphone ACTIONphoto!!!!
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Mar 13, 2006 - 07:18pm PT
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It's hell being tall in a japanese car, I have to keep bending the ears down, really messes with the aesthetic.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 07:35pm PT
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Off Man,
You need what Dan Gurney (Sterling Moss generation tall race car driver) had: a special extra bump/bubble wich Facilitates interior headspace. (Doesn't make you smarter, just more relaxed, although you seem pretty darned relaxed). Also, I think you may be strangely related to my wife- you are both Looney Tunes!
Bolton: Right on, I'm cool, ya, Gollum, ya me and Mike Paul both resemble that natty dandy.
T*R, don't be in denial, your emails have been really sweet.
Wait till I get home and post up my "Cowboy Roy: Old Dad Mutant Ninja Turtle Disguise". It Rocks.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Mar 13, 2006 - 08:08pm PT
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What, I think I've already seen that one
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 13, 2006 - 08:35pm PT
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eppi and his posse, gettin' no f*#king repect whatsoever...
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Mar 13, 2006 - 10:19pm PT
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I just got home from work and you guys have been sittin around yuckin it up all day. I wish I could think of an insult but im jealous.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 11:30pm PT
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Hey Wonder:
Let me see if I can help Out:
As promised earlier today.
CowboyRoy Old Dad Mutant Ninja Turtle.
And again:
Proud photos by Lisa Goldsmith (Wife)
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 13, 2006 - 11:34pm PT
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T*R, Listen Up, Yer Off the Hook and can just come out and play now:
Lisa says I have to stop embarrassing you with these ludicrous fabrications or she’ll make me wear either the Bunny Ears or the Mutant Ninja Cowboy get up to work for a full week. Actually, 90% of my sales calls happen via phone, so I could get away with a hula skirt if I happened to be so inclined.
Any how, T*R and the rest of you Crazy Wingnuts:
Stick with us here in the ‘Neb cause ya gotta have community and we are the cats ears of community. Dig, you get wacko fabrications by me and BVB, “Fair and Balanced Reportage” by Off White and Mussy, along with the latest in wildly inaccurate spray by Doni Kofi Buttwipe and a whole host of other Zany, totally Burn’t Out Hipsters.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Mar 13, 2006 - 11:43pm PT
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Tarbuster, your the MAN!!!
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 13, 2006 - 11:57pm PT
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Tarbuster (Roy)
What's wrong with your teeth? Are they bad? Crooked?
I don't remember you having bad looking teeth?
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Jobee
Social climber
El Portal
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Mar 14, 2006 - 12:00am PT
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Giddy up Tar, Giddy up!
Lisa's going give you a run for ya money with that hot little bunny-do and by God with ole Off-White sportin them as well..Heck i'm gonna go get me a pair and wear'm all around town and to the crag and shoppin and doin dish's...an..an...an.
Lisa reel him in..pleeeeeease! Fell off my swivlin stool and Bodhi (my diry white boy cat) hit the road when he spotted those metal fangs... now that's what I can indentured!
I have to go get a cloth now and wipe the tea of the computer screen.
Hey t*m (Tarbusted really is a decent guy) it's just weird signals recieved through the mental in his head glad your'e still lurkin in the Neb...
jobee1
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2006 - 01:30am PT
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Wonder/Jobee,
Thanks a bunch -saddle up sports fans and keep yer goofy goggles on crooked at all times.
Werner-
Yes, I seemingly have great teeth, but I grind (clack actually) at night and that's bad for the gums.
Basically, I was told, get after it or loose them.
So, I'm getting after it.
How was your day Werner?
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 14, 2006 - 01:36am PT
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Roy
My day was great as always, seems strange these dentists to me.
I hate those guys and their big needles and drills.
You do not sleeep soundly? Are you thinking and dreaming at night?
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rbolton
Social climber
Glendora, CA
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Mar 14, 2006 - 01:47am PT
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Naw, Werner...
Roy got hisself a purdy mouth.
I seen it.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2006 - 02:11am PT
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Yes, Werner, days are a good thing.
I sleep great and dream richly.
This is an odd physiological clacking which loosens the teeth and prompts gum decay.
Thanks Bob Bolton, yer darn tootin' cute too.
Still with, um, 'membered yer wife's name a couple days ago...
Tina?
How's the no longer so young youngin'(s)?
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Mar 14, 2006 - 03:14am PT
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Roy boy,
You remembered! Yeah, Tina is still here. No accounting for some people's taste, really. Hers is rotten, but I'm grateful. Nikki (the not so little one) is 18. I'm 105. I showed this thread to Tina this evening and she laughed her ass off. She then stated that we have WAY too much time on our hands. I assured her that this was very important, sensitive work. Archiving great moments in time and historically significant people. Thats when she REALLY started laughing. "Right, All you guys. Significant". BWAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Ouch.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2006 - 11:37am PT
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Here's some Odd Love:
Everybody Loved Walt.
'Nice Arm Length Portrait from Billy.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 14, 2006 - 11:38am PT
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is that danny mcD in the middle?
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wildone
climber
right near the beach, boyeee (lord have mercy)
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Mar 14, 2006 - 12:29pm PT
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certainly is
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2006 - 12:45pm PT
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Hawkins said he was surprised Billy showed "that side of himself"
I ripped this from the rat room bulletin board in the meadows, sometime in the '90's.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Same place as you, man...... (WB)
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Mar 14, 2006 - 04:49pm PT
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Hey! I got that same photo of Billy, McD and Walt right here on the office wall... thanks for sending it a long way back Tardy. I see it everyday..... one of my faves for sure.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2006 - 05:19pm PT
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Me too: Walt is so Walt in that gem.
Billy looks way "Deliverance".
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 14, 2006 - 07:47pm PT
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hey 'bido joy, 'bout time to bust this off into part V. takin' forEVAR to load, and i'm on cable internet......
plus thse hangdogs over on the stonedblasters thread have been cheatin' and cutting off at 50 posts or so...
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 14, 2006 - 09:02pm PT
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i like to end each chapter on a high note: while the awestruck hoards looked on in stunned amazement, the crackbetty attempts to set the new record for back-to-back consecutive laps on jaws: here we see our heroin, uh, heroine, on lap #7, may 1986:
would i? oh, hell yeah.
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 27, 2007 - 01:18am PT
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Here's one fer ya. Nice socks Mussy! Mussy and Walt climbing without a rope on some quaint little route in Joshua Tree.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2007 - 01:29am PT
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He'll still stomp you all in poker at the sushi fest.
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 27, 2007 - 01:33am PT
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No doubt. Those are lucky socks.
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Feb 27, 2007 - 01:58am PT
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Sorry Mimi, it's all about the black socks now.
Special bonus - take a close look at this photo and tell me if anything strikes you guys as odd.
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 27, 2007 - 02:00am PT
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Umm, the betadine?
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 27, 2007 - 02:08am PT
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Tape on right hand. Kneepad on left knee.
His hair is turning gray from ......
He's bangin his left knee into his head instead of bending it to the side for easier access to his feet
I thought this was discussed in some other thread here about the knees by mack the girl.
This is a classic example of ........
Hey Susan/Russ guess what?
hehehehe ..........
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 27, 2007 - 02:15am PT
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Is he trying to put a shoe on another shoe?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2007 - 02:27am PT
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He's wearing a black sock on his left foot?
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Feb 27, 2007 - 08:33am PT
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His kneepad matches his sleeves?
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Darnell
Big Wall climber
Chicago
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Feb 27, 2007 - 08:47am PT
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Is he tryin to put a right shoe on his left foot?
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 10:30am PT
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Putting your EB's on the wrong feet was the classic way to milk a little more mileage out of them when you had worn through the oh-so-important inside edge. That may not be a mistake, but rather some old school savvy.
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Feb 27, 2007 - 10:42am PT
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It looks like his kneepad is actually the left sleeve of the
jacket.
He's got some baby-sized chalkbag on, instead of the manly one
down in the lower left corner. That sucker could hold at least
17 dozen blocks.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2007 - 11:21am PT
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...the aider on a roll for the right hand is way odd fer this per'ticuler camper; musta' had a hematoma aquired workin' around the house or wrestlin' wit a pit bull?
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:57am PT
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I was tearing up scrolling through this thread but when I got to the 'Tusi- Gollem comparison I just had to post this manip. of mine!!
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:57am PT
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Is it that he needs a guidebook for Joshua Tree?
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 27, 2007 - 12:13pm PT
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I know I've seen that purple guidebook before but don't recall if it's for Josh. That would explain the riddle.
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Feb 27, 2007 - 02:32pm PT
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Wow, those are some good guesses!
Werner you are correct but not specific enough.
Tardy - tape is aid and you know that he won't run it unless he's got a goby (I mean "humidity-slide") the size of a silver dollar.
Offwhite - true we need a new guidebook but what will we ever do with the 4 copies of the '92 guide we run now?
Steelmonkey - is correct but should be disqualified as he was there that day.
Scuffy B- took it a bit further for the correct answer.
On this particular day, Russ was all jazzed to get up in some off-width. At which time he started to prep by taping his right hand and cutting off the sleeve to his Megalith shirt to make a knee guard. It was at least another 2 weeks before he cut off the other sleeve to match.
~Susan
What's truly missing....our #4 camalot that since that day has never been seen again. Who's got that thing?
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Feb 27, 2007 - 04:39pm PT
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All that PLUS whats with the gaitoraide?
Should be Olde E or coffee.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Feb 27, 2007 - 04:53pm PT
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Gatorade is for the Sooze... my crushed Milwaukees Best is right there with me.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Jarhead City, CA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 05:22pm PT
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You should also know that this was the third day in a row of wide climbing, with Russ in shorts all 3 days and no improv knee guard on days 1 & 2.
Did the knee pad help? You tell me:
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Feb 27, 2007 - 05:36pm PT
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Calling that shirt sleeve a "knee guard" or "knee pad" is like calling a potato cannon the precursor to the Space Shuttle.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2007 - 07:19pm PT
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"I'm gunna 'git my bread in that gravy while it's still hot."
-Hud.
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Mini
Social climber
Bishop, CA
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Feb 28, 2007 - 12:17am PT
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Man, that Mussy is a delicate gent...such thoughtful, bloody repose....
"Everyone's gotta die sometime--horses, dogs, men." also Hud.
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rmuir
Social climber
the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Feb 28, 2007 - 05:28pm PT
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Off White said, "...but rather some old school savvy."
ITYM "Wisdom of the Ancients."
(HTH. HAND.)
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Feb 28, 2007 - 05:33pm PT
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"huhhuhuuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuuhuhuhuhuuhu.....Old people"
Beavis and Butthead
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Feb 28, 2007 - 05:50pm PT
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Note;
Golem
Gollum
parts of two entirelly different, though symbiotic, paradigms.
or is gollem just clever?
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Gollum is what I had intended, perhaps a Freudian slip???
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 31, 2012 - 08:44pm PT
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Bloody Stumps Bumps...
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Mar 31, 2012 - 08:49pm PT
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What's happened to Tarbuster? Any word?
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Mar 31, 2012 - 09:26pm PT
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Spoke to him today--he's still havin' his physical problems.
Hanging in there. . .
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 25, 2013 - 11:55pm PT
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