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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2015 - 06:33am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2015 - 01:47pm PT
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Make wee-wee, not war!
Not a Bull Moose Navy landing party!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 02:22pm PT
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hi ff, it must be right to say you got it? The right stuff, yeah that too, but the colt45 pun.
Do crickets ever get tired?
When you hear them, is it ever possible to figure out how many there are?
I couldn't wait for the informed answers which I know will be forthcoming so I cheated and looked ahead. While not pertinent to whether or not they get tired, this vid does how that there were a whole lot more than 3-4 outside my window the other night.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 02:34pm PT
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The apparent model for the now famous El Capitan photo with the now famous climbing dudes.
Thankfully, y'all weren't smoking those nasty cigarattes and doing the handjive thing with the one glove.
I guess you really were pretty poor. One shirt for four guyz? Didn't they have Sir Guy in Merced?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 02:53pm PT
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Good to see that our good friend and fellow basketball aficionado/dead fan dropped by.
Of course, Dr. zBrown knows who the University of Arizona Lobos are. Their coach Mr. Tarkanian almost had a shot coaching his friend Sidney Wicks, though there was noway Hambone would have played in the Grand Canyon State (which until lately I thought was actually Oregon).
Are baby Chinakatz called coltz?
Veni, Vici, Veneta
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ditat deus, but
nil sine numine, right?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2015 - 03:45pm PT
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non sine numine, not nil.
Lucks ate veritas
dum Dozer cicadae comederunt.
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We're All Out Trout Fishing In America, Shorty.
PBR is best with our local crickets, they say. I wouldn't know, not without extensive testing.
Who knows where I can get me some Japanese beetle juice?
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The sound of one glove clapping is heard in the land.
It's slappin' time to the Song of the White Freightliner, the only song that driver know.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 04:26pm PT
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If the great marijuana state of Colorado says nil, it's nil.
-Buffalo Bill
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2015 - 04:35pm PT
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We could take it to the Suprema Corta for a ruling?
No, unfortunately, school's out for summer.
We never shopped anywhere, zBrown, at least not for clothing.
My best shoes, a pair of multi-colored bowling shoes, or the pair of cowaboynga boots with the horseman's heels, were all I had and were stolen from the box in front of the Salivation Army Thrift Store while practicing this scouting virtue.
We were reasonably clean, though. At least we washed our hands using only our feet, and vice-versa (which isn't all that hard in comparison).
Edit: I think my guitar is sleeping. Need some more good music here. It's your shout. I don't think Gnome's coming to work today, so...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 04:36pm PT
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Suprema you say, you mean Him, The Pope Hissownself?
Too bad Fra Serra couldn't have colonized Merced, he would have made everything all right (ma).
Apologies to Robert Hunter
Saint Serra with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes,
Country garden in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain.
His attitude and behavior were frankly and explicitly paternalistic. Along with probably 99 percent of the people in Europe at the time, he thought that non-Europeans were inferior to Europeans. There was a big debate in the early Spanish empire about whether or not the native peoples were fully rational beings or not.
By the time Serra got to the New World, many Spanish thinkers believed that the native peoples of the Americas were in a state of "natural infancy," that they were children. Serra shared that view and he basically had a paternalistic attitude towards them.
That paternalistic attitude could, at times, result in a behavior which anybody today would find very hard to justify. If people left the mission without permission, they were pursued and hunted by soldiers and other Indians. If they were brought back, the normal punishment was flogging. What the Spanish military and missionaries thought they were doing was punishing children to make them understand how they should behave.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2015 - 04:46pm PT
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Pain
main
sane
vain
It's all good, almost.
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You can give a man music to which to listen,
but if you give a man a steel drum, he'll boil water and cook de lobster, too.
F.I.L.M. at elevenses.
n.b., speaking for myself, alone...I feel we are celebrating different cultures here on The Flames, not bein' white-or-any-other-kind-of-bigots.
I'm tard and need to seek rest. Later.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 04:49pm PT
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Like the man said, Mr. Charlie (for the most part) can't jump or dance.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2015 - 06:05pm PT
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More potential cat-feces.
Life abounds, rebounds, and sounds like fun.
I wish I had one sometimes.
[Click to View YouTube Video]The Swan can almost be called, almost, triste.
but there are those annoying uplifting notes near the end...cygnifying hope.
Okay, I'm over that. Mostly.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Signed,
Simply Signe.
Portland, Oregon, WOW! I did not know that!
A broken neck, WOW! I did not know that either!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jun 28, 2015 - 07:29pm PT
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zB,
My knowledge of crickets is less than my knowledge of grubs.
Well, yes, I got at least part of the play on words. I am not sure how Thomas Paine fits in there. I think his time was a bit prior to Colt 45s. So, I missed that word play.
:)
ff
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 10:25pm PT
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ff:
I never really "understood" the song either, just a thing I keep in the back of my head
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 28, 2015 - 11:47pm PT
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hey there say, zbrown.. thanks for the cricket squeekies... love hearing crickets... :)
say, they are in montana, too, right feralfae... :)
http://arc.lib.montana.edu/msu-extension/objects/ext1-000208.pdf
regular crickets:
http://www.insectidentification.org/grasshoppers-and-crickets.asp
http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Field-Cricket
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/news/2007-07-26-cricket-invasion_N.htm
as to montana:
had to look that up, as, i did not know... and needed to KNOW for my jake books... as, they were from south texas, but made their home near libby...
at--yep, 'ye ol' imaginary place' in montana... old town... by name...
though, there is an OLD TOWN in los gatos, calif...
and--perhaps there was an old town, of sorts, in montana, though i did not know this, until recent, as it was just 'phrased this way' in this article... :)
and, oh my, it was libby, itself, :O
http://www.montanacityoldtown.com/index.html
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 01:05am PT
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neebee and ff and others--you probably think my bait shop video crude and so forth, but it's mild compared to some climbers' lights.
Having to apologize is not my idea of a good time. Thanks for not calling me on it, m'dear.
By way of making up for such a blatantly crude video, here is one that I found udderly charming (little Alpine dairy joke there). It was mentioned by Guido in commentary for a TR about the Matterhorn's Hornli Ridge.
http://www.supertopo.com/tr/TR-Whymper-et-al-were-amazing-Matterhorn/t344n.html
THE CHALLENGE (1938) - English-made Hollywood-style film about the FA of the Hornli Ridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE0wqGm6EVs
My favorite character in this drama is Madame Carrel, Tonio's mom.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 29, 2015 - 01:28am PT
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hey there, say, mouse... say, that is what friendship is about...
we may be different and not think the same on many issues, but, if something that a friend shares, like that video, well, we do not have to watch it, :)
and there we continue on... :)
(well, of course, if a friend accidentally might share something that really hurt one, perhaps in words, well then, yeah, it might be nice to share, in a polite way, just to help the friend shine in new ways... but that is different than someone's video preferences) :)
say, happy good eve from us nature lovers, :)
will check out the newer video, now, ...
say, thanks for thanking us, :)
EDIT, AND NEAT PS:
say, mouse... wow, i just KNEW i'd seen that name before...
well, hee hee, NONE of the actors, but--the director of the matterhorn thing:
emeric pressburger.. oh my...
(did the screen play, in that matterhorn movie, it said)
say:
he directed the RED SHOES... old movie...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 07:24am PT
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I love the sentiment at the end of that film...
when Carrel says to Whymper,
"You won and I am glad of it."
It's just too bad the rope broke.
Were he dishonest, Whymper could have blamed it on the same vandals who took the handle of that legendary pump, you know.
"Oh, some vandals came along and took everything: the rope, the candles, and the candle lanterns, too. What could we do?"
But they'd never have gotten away with that.
The "village folk," who didn't necessarily include the Village People, probably relied on stream-water, not wells. They may have been superstitious, but they weren't fools.
Why dig a well if you don't have to dig one?
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Twenty years of schoolin'.
Twenty years, son...
[Click to View YouTube Video]Always be a good boy, crickets or not.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 08:20am PT
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"In 1969, for one of my last commercial jobs, I selected a photograph,
Yosemite Valley, Winter, YNP, for reproduction on a Hills Bros coffee can. The idea was to produce something of lasting attractiveness after the original contents of the can had been consumed.
"The type on the can did not intrude on the picture and the imaged had a certain dignity. Potentially corny: Actually reasonable.
"There were thousands of three-pound cans filled with coffee sold nationwide in grocery stores for $2.35 each."
--Ansel Adams, A Biography
The can is useful as a camera, too!
http://masteringphoto.com/the-pinhole-camera-the-origins-and-how-to-build-one/
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