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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Oct 15, 2007 - 01:05am PT
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Nice quote, sparky.
Wow, neebee, you sure like jade.
Nice thread.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 02:05am PT
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hey there sparky, yes, nice thread ... i remember the night you started it... someone finally dropped in after your six...
say, tahoe climber.. yep, jade's got a lot to say... but i like JAKE too---but he can't talk... course i will give some quotes of his thoughts if they had hit the airways :)
first jade:
"Oh Jet... how COULD YOU! I was being the most gracious hostess... truly I was, and you took off like a pig in the corfield... dragging the party to trampled-shucks, along with! You PLANNED THIS... YOU TRULY DID!"
JADE SMITH to her mute twin, JAKE (JET) after he sneeks off from her watchful eye, after he sidetracked her... from short story SHADOW IS, AS SHADOW DOES ...in the book, "INTRODUCING..."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 02:18am PT
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hey there...
"Didn't your mother ever tell you that today is always perfect once yesterday is out of the way, dear cowboy?"
SOFIA to JAKE (during their married years) encouraging him to look to the future concerning a head injury issue... from the short story, PERHAPS IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, in the book, "INTRODUCING"...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 02:36am PT
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hey there...
~~~Yeah, and a double yep... it's payback time all right... he's just trying to get my goat... but he sure as HECK won't get this blamed feeding-tube... yes sir... he knows I was staring at him now, and he's settin' my saddle to slip-off... dad-gum, yet, somehow I just can't stew-him-down over it none... I had it coming... looks like it ain't the scars after all~~~
JAKE SMITH to himself, when caught staring at a mystery worker at Ray's ranch...from the short story, PERHAPS IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, from the book "INTRODUCING..."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 02:58am PT
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hey there...
~~~but that's the bottom stain-line on the empty water trough, sad to say~~~
JAKE'S thoughts (meant for Bass, if he could talk to BASS)
concerning Jake's wooden penguins...
~~~me and my easy to read talking-face... dang if I don't go and mess up the works, here... I best be leaving --- no, best I be playin' it cool~~~
JAKE to Be^, as she thought he was a mite too happy over the wooden penguins..
both quotes taken from short story, MARCH OF THE WOODEN PENGUINS
from the book "INTRODUCING.."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 03:09am PT
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hey there ....
~~~Well Greg... seems she's trying to shove flyers down your throat last I heard~~~
JAKE'S thoughts to Greg, concerning JADE...
from the short story, THE CANDLES RETARDED FLAME, from the book "INTRODUCING..."
~~~my business skills have hit rock bottom... leaving no trace... not even an echo... only a hard thud, I'd say... but then you don't know that, now do you?~~~~
JAKE'S thoughts to Greg concerning his head injury and lost reading skills, from the short story, THE CANDLES RETARDED FLAME, from the book "INTRODUCING..."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 03:22am PT
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hey there...
~~I'll remain silent all right... that's what us mutes do best... we don't talk. Yeah... I CAN'T TALK... I can't talk to say one dad-blamed word, anyways~~~
(JAKE SMITH's thoughts to the officer when he get arrested)
~~~Phone calls? A phone's useless to me now... why ain't this making sense?~~~
(JAKE SMITH's thoughts when offered a phone call at the police station...)
~~~Jake ol' boy... what kind of a fix are you in now? Looks like you sure got dug into a hole, and more dirt's fallin' in by the minute~~~
JAKE SMITH to himself, in jail
*all three quotes from the novel JAKE ('I'm thinkin')
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabon movin on
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2007 - 12:33pm PT
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Everything comes if a man will only wait. -Benjamin Disraeli
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nita
climber
chico ca
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Oct 15, 2007 - 12:52pm PT
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If you can solve your problems,
Then what is the need of worrying?
If you cannot solve it,
Then what is the use of worrying?
Shantideva
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
San Fernando Lamas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 01:11pm PT
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"When anyone offended Mlle.de La Mole, she knew how to punish him with a witticism so calculated, so well chosen, so proper in appearence, so timely launched, that the wound kept growing by the minute, the more one thought about it."
--Stendhal
from The Red and The Black
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
San Fernando Lamas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 01:55pm PT
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'"Let's talk politics to please Guy!"
"Sounds fine," said Mrs. Bowles. "I voted last election, same as everyone, and laid it on the line for President Noble. I think he's one of the nicest-looking men ever became president."
"Oh, but the man they ran against him!"
"He wasn't much, was he? Kind of small and homely and he didn't shave too close or comb his hair very well."
"What possessed the 'Outs' to run him? You just don't go running a little short man like that against a tall man. Besides--he mumbled. Half the time I couldn't hear a word he said. And the words I did hear I didn't understand!"
"Fat, too, and didn't dress to hide it. No wonder the landslide was for Winston Noble. Even their names helped. Compare Winston Noble to Hubert Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost figure the results."
"Damn it! cried Montag. "What do you know about Hoag and Noble!"
"Why, they were right in the parlor wall, not six months ago. One was always picking his nose; it drove me wild."
"Well, Mr. Montag," said Mrs. Phelps, "do you want us to vote for a man like that?"'
--Ray Bradbury
from Fahrenheit 451
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 15, 2007 - 04:22pm PT
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"I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four o'clock this afternoon."
Henny Youngman
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nita
climber
chico ca
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Oct 15, 2007 - 10:08pm PT
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- Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.....Aesop
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Oct 15, 2007 - 10:22pm PT
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I like the preachers wifes comment in Little Big Man when Dustin is being bathed "I will avert my eyes at the proper moment". I borrow that phrase every time I climb with a female. Another even more obscure one: When Roland fell off Rawl Drive while free soloing a party nearby heard him say "Looks like I am out of here" Thankfully he survived the fall and was able to walk away.
Ken
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
San Fernando Lamas
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Oct 15, 2007 - 10:44pm PT
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“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value”
--Stephen Hawking
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 16, 2007 - 02:36am PT
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hey there...
"I'm going to town now... or a minute from now... or an hour from now... it doesn't matter!"
JESS HARPER (character from LARAMIE), to SLIM SHERMAN,
in, "The Replacement"
[sure as heck, there was a disagreement on whether ol' jess should go to town--ain't that just like a western?]
"You might say I'm here for a lot of others that couldn't make it."
JESS HARPER to HALLACK, the reason jess went to town, same episode...
[seems town's a right-hard place to get to, for some folks, in these ol' westerns...]
"Yeah... guess I made enough mistakes for one day."
JESS HARPER to SLIM SHERMAN, same episode...
[hmmm, seems going to town, no matter HOW determined one is, ain't always the best thing to do in these ol' westerns...]
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabon movin on
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2007 - 11:41am PT
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If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. -Jack Dixon
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
San Fernando Lamas
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Oct 17, 2007 - 02:29pm PT
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Everywhere we go these days, it seems like, all of a sudden, reporters and people will ask us questions -- ask us questions about things that they didn't use to ask. It seems like everyone's concerned about our national problems, about the war in Vietnam -- as we have long been. And they say things like, "How do you feel about the Vietnam situation, the war in Vietnam?"
I'll tell you exactly how I feel about it. This past January we took our entire show, along with my wife June, we went to Long Bien Air Force Base near Saigon. And--
(loud cheering from the crowd)
And a reporter friend of mine asked, said, "That makes you a hawk, doesn't it?" And I said, "No, that don't make me a hawk. No. No, that don't make me a hawk."
(more cheering, not as loud)
But I said, "If you watch the helicopters bring in the wounded boys, then you go into the wards and sing for 'em and try to do your best to cheer them up so that they can get back home, it might make you a dove with claws."
(wild cheering)
--Johnny Cash
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ontos
Boulder climber
Washington DC
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Oct 17, 2007 - 05:11pm PT
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
-Kurt Vonnegut
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 21, 2007 - 06:28pm PT
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hey there..
“How’d I know that Jake… how’d I know to do that? Huh? How the blazing glory of the heaven’s sunrise, did I know that? How’d I know that I could bring you that far… through such a battle… and that you wouldn’t die in my arms. I never thought… I just knew to do all I did. Ain’t it funny?”
MATT MARTINIQUE TO JAKE SMITH, forty years after Jake's bull "accident", from the fiction novel,
JAKE'S RANCH AND THE SECOND GATE...
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