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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 2, 2007 - 02:32pm PT
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Post up..
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L
climber
A Light Glider on a Rising Thermal
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Great photos, Bob! Those striped babies are to die for!
Ouch!...we need to have a little talk about just why it is that the word Lycra fills you with visions of Woody's chicken-legged crotch-shot...
...it appears to be rather Freudian. :-)
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Ouch!
climber
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"...it appears to be rather Freudian. :-)"
Make that Fraudulent.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Make that flatulent.
Or, in the chicken's case, flapulent. Bawk Bawk bawk...SQWAAAWKKK!!!!
-GaseousJello
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JAK
climber
The Souf
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Five posts in and this is already the best thread in the history of the internet. I damn near spit my drink right *through* my screen when I scrolled down to that Ouchterpiece. Jello, you didn't help dude. Brilliant!
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TradIsGood
Happy and Healthy climber
the Gunks end of the country
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I can think of lots of "best shots".
None of them have anything to do with Lycra.
Best Lycra Shot is clearly oxymoronic.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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So I just have to ask.....What did you guys all do about the in-you-face package problem? I mean, how could you NOT notice how a guy was hanging in those tights?
Was it like at a public urinal, where you are supposed to consciously avert your eyes? Were there guys who looked you in the buldge instead of your eyes when talking to you? Jokes about being cold?
I guess the wild, busy prints camouflaged a little, but still. I dunno....It just seems like an elephant in the living room sort of deal.....
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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I'm with Kauk...
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ghand
Sport climber
Golden,Colorado
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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They sure felt good at the time...kind of like Baryshnikov or something.
Oh well....
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Built in Maxi-Pads!
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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Baryshnikov....LOL! Damn I'm glad I wasn't drinking my beer while reading that, it surely would have gone out through the nose!
I always liked the shot of Mikey Waugh at Stoney in the candy-cane tights. Anyone got a copy of that? The black & white version in the old Stoney guide just doesn't do him justice....(and the plate is reversed, besides!).
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Quaken
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Happi,
look at ghand's picture. Now there's only 2 chicks around the fire and plenty of beer. Which one of these guys is going to get laid for sure.....the guy in Lycra. It was a natural progression. Lycra brought a whole different kind of women into the climbing world. The kind we liked!
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Happi, my ex wife only liked to follow. She used to say that watching me lead in tights was foreplay. She often proved that to be the case.
-BulgingJello
(in all the wrong places, now)
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guyman
Trad climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Happiegirl said....
" So I just have to ask.....What did you guys all do about the in-you-face package problem? I mean, how could you NOT notice how a guy was hanging in those tights?
Was it like at a public urinal, where you are supposed to consciously avert your eyes? Were there guys who looked you in the buldge instead of your eyes when talking to you? Jokes about being cold?
I guess the wild, busy prints camouflaged a little, but still. I dunno....It just seems like an elephant in the living room sort of deal.....""
It was a less up-tight sort of time......but really its more like an out of control tyrannosaurus in the living room.
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Quaken
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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It might be time for a Lycra revival. Lycra and Viagra. If I'm still climbing hard after 4 hours, someone call a doctor.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Orange is the answer.
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wack-N-dangle
Gym climber
the ground up
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The 80's? Baryshnikov... there's a name from that time. How about Nureyev? Definitely a different time.
Was that a subtle reference to the Ruskies? I couldn't imagine promoting a lifestyle throughout your career, and learning later that there might be an entire village, and possibly a 150+ year tradition that echoed "your" style. If there ever was a personal mecca... I remember an article about Kendo and Samurais in a climbing magazine. Many great climbers, fortunately few who have fallen.
From the crazy ruskie website:
I thought then it was natural for a human to be extremely careful otherwise the rashness may cost a life. Civilisation has spoilt people, whereas they subconsciously seek to risk. However, bull fights would sicken me, as well as fiercely competitive games, where malice is inescapable. Rocks is quite a different matter.
I asked Sergei why, a professional mountaineer, he let beginners go without safety ropes, and what he could do if somebody was slipping a metre off him. "Actually the rope doesn’t matter" - he says, - "I can spot when somebody is about falling and come up to give him a hand." - "All people need, is a bit of support, a small effort, because they hold perfectly by themselves".
Sorry if the above quotes were borrowed without permission. My guess is that they have fewer lawyers in Siberia (anymore).
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