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Grug
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 7, 2006 - 09:32am PT
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Two of the funniest things I've ever heard came out of Dick Cilley's mouth. Now I'm thinkin', I haven't seen Dick in 25 years, so, certainly he must have said some funny things since.
The first story was related to me (on several occasions) by the late Clean Dan Grandusky. Now Dan would tell it with the perfect Dick Cilley accent, which I can't obviously can't do for you here.
Dick speaking to Dan. "Danny, someday they should do a movie about us. Richard Gere can play me and I'll play you!"
Another story. The late George Manson was sitting with Dick at some Valley establishment...Degnan's, I think. As they were eating, a guy was talking to some other guy at an adjacent table, going on and on about John BaCHAR (accent on the second syllable). So Dick was getting agitated listening to this guy going "blah, blah, blah...John BaCHAR this and blah, blah, blah John BaCHAR that". When George and Dick got up to leave, Dick says to the guy "You know, I just saw John the other day, and his name's STILL BACHar"!
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Russ Walling
Social climber
This space for rent
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There are tons of nice wry statements coming out of that gob even today.... he was around about a month+ ago here in the stats.
always liked this one: Dick was quite the gear salesman and would walk the loop be it Camp 4 or Jt or wherever..... One day he is strolling his wares and a guy stops him and asks something like "how much for the #2 cam".... Dick says, "$20 bucks"..... the guy says "how about $15??".... Dick says, "this ain't Tijuana", and just keeps walking. Classic!!
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susan peplow
climber
area 29
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Just in last month or so.....
During conversation I ask what he's been doing to make money. You know, like what's he's doing for work. The response went something like this, "I just go on out to the forest to pick mushrooms".
Apparantely, you can still make enough money to live in a cave in Spain by selling wild mushrooms at the farmers market.
Fantastic!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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"when you're the world's most famous toproper, you take your life in your own hands every day."
"Yosemite squirrels are tough. You can beat 'em with a rock and they ain't dying."
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Dru
climber
HELL, BABY, HELL!
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"I became the best climber in Washington State the moment I drove across the border from Oregon"
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
On the outside looking in.
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As a young n00b (18?) just cutting his teeth in the climbing world, I happened to meet Eric Rasmussen and Dick at some Curry Company employee rec center (in the village, can't remember what it was called or if it's still there)and while shooting some pool, I asked Dick if he was a climber.
Cilley, completely straightfaced: "I burrow."
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kevin Fosburg
Sport climber
park city,ut
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What about the famous incident outside the Ahwahnee when Dick killed the seemingly innocent squirrel? Someone must have been there and heard what he said.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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paging Mr. Walling, or if the esteemed Leroy would care to chime in here.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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"Some day you'll be down on your luck, and I'll be there to kick dirt down YOUR throat."
"Without chalk it's just a pile of rocks."
"You gotta chalk the thumb..."
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susan peplow
climber
area 29
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Marty,
I believe the quote is "there's only one good time to chalk up your thumb".
Susan
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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"What's up Dick?"
"Me 'n' Bachar are going to go climb A-Pollo. That means chicken, in spanish," he sneered.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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I believe the quote is "there's only one good time to chalk up your thumb".
Susan
"...and it's on the ground..."
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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What ever happened to Wendy White?
or Ira Hicks?
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rbolton
Social climber
Glendora, CA
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Cilley walks out of the darkness one new years eve at Josh. He's wearing his red silk smoking jacket. He states:
"We're trolling for bitches. Seen any?"
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todd-gordon
climber
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"Don't have any interst in repeating routes."
" I think that most people have enough problems taking off their ties. Get your clothes off. It's the first step in getting laid."
" By the way, the Midnight Lightning of crack is in Madrid."
" What's my wildest trick? Dousing my Cadillac with gasoline and dancing on top of it while it burned to the music of the Pychedelic Furs."
" Favorite climb at Joshua Tree? Persian Room."
" I've probably done as many boulders as anyone and Midnight Lightning is amongst the best . If it were a crack, it would be better."
" How much money could you live off? I spend $400 a month in Spain, and that's with the dollar hardly worth anything."
" I've been called in Climbing Magazine the best dancer in America. No brag, just fact."
" The late Walt Shipley once asked me if I had health insurance. I told him, guys like ourselves don't need health insurance. A toothbrush pretty much covers it."
" They don't call it Supercrack in the Gunks for nothing."
" Madrid probably has the best granite bouldering in the world."
" Best climber pick-up lines. A look and take em' by the hand."
" You haven't had a compliment unless you have a girl you met 5 min. before, drop her pants at the base of the boulder you just did."
" I have toproped with everybody from Bacher to Moffet, and when they TR free, it's free."
" He's pathetic. He can't even climb 5.10d."
" Do you explore? Climb one day, explore the next. 365 days a year."
" I'll quit climbing when they pry my boots off my cold dead feet."
" I have climbed the majority of hard cracks at Vedauwoo without tape. It's all about technique and power. The beauty of climbing is searching for the limit and finding there is none."
" Who is Chongo? Chuck is a god. He gave The Fish and I like a case of tuna when we were starving in the bad old days. And we didn't know him from Adam."
" Don't buy hexes. I can tell you from massive experience, that they are garbage. "
" I only climb on a single 9, but might drop down to an 8.6. I know how to handle a rope and don't spend all day hanging on it."
" Feet don't leave the rock."
" When I was a kid, I could do 1 arms all day. Now I can't do a pullup, but I climb 13's pretty easily. It's more important that you relax. When I'm about ready to fall, I say to myself; calm."
" The only regret I have in life is that I didn't quit school when I was 16. Go for what you want and don't listen to those that say you need a diploma."
" Start drinking in the Womb."
" Rock is ugly until it has chalk on it."
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Russ Walling
Social climber
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bwhahaha! Good ones Todd.... along the lines of Boltons:
Cilley just taught me how to drink ( "tip the bottle up and make the bubbles go" ) and we were in the loop at Josh trolling around going from fire to fire.... we walk up to a large fire and Cilley pulls out his wallet and flops it open like an FBI guy would to show a badge of authority. He pans it under about 4 guys noses (as their girlfriends look on) and says, "rock police.......... we're here to take your bitches"
Should have seen the looks on them guys faces.... in the end they loved it and gave us beers and all the fire we would soak up.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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" He's pathetic. He can't even climb 5.10d."
A corallery
Me'n Dick walking across the lodge lot encounter Todd S, down from working on freeing the Salathe.
"Hey, could'a used you yesterday, there was 10d wide section, we had to do a 13a variation."
"You can't climb 10d wide? That's pathetic," said Dick.
About a week later we traversed the same tarmack when the elastic in my cheap warm up's blew dropping them down around my ankles.
"Jay, you're such a card," he said, never breaking stride, looking straight ahead.
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Gomp
climber
San Diego
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I'm sure I'm paraphrasing but...
"If you fall off a problem it's because you hadn't chalked up enough."
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Russ Walling
Social climber
This ain't Tijuana
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"We didn't come here to check them out.... we came to check them off"
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WBraun
climber
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I can't remember any funny lines Dick said (I can't remember anything period); but I wish he was still around.
He was an all time classic.
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