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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Remember to avoid the nastiffs and the plesiffs.
I doubt that you'll ever see either.
Nor a Yeti nor specters, neither.
Remember to take a wool sweater.
And I hope you enjoy some fine weather.
All the best in your winter mountains, Taco climbers.
Wish I could keep the f*#k up with you tigers.
MisterE, I must say that you have been on a roll recently! Man oh man!
Quinoa
San Joaquin is the patron saint of keen-wah, old bean-wah. lol
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Enhance, please, MooseOED.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dogberries, sirrah.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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dubiety: the state of being dubious
"She felt a great sense of dubiety contemplating her partners ability to send the route."
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2014 - 10:11pm PT
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What? Is dubiousness not good enough for you.
People always gotta make up words
I miss the Queen's English, where everything was all proper and processed and analyzed to the nth degree, and if you were not on board then you were considered a peasant.
OK, so that last part, not so much - but you haughty intellectuals get the gist of what I am saying here!
Just to stay current with the new month, I propose:
kinship...a rather outdated word, but always relevant.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 10, 2015 - 11:39am PT
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sphynx-like
s-finks-like
adjective
mysterious and not allowing people to know what you're thinking
"The Dubai Tea Girls just sat there, sphynx-like, while I made small talk that was all talk. One started purring..."
Cats are not so full of "mystery." They are layabouts and leeches.
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thebravecowboy
climber
just banana-jam it
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Feb 11, 2015 - 08:17pm PT
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libertinage: see sex party
liberated libertines are the best. sorry DSK.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Feb 11, 2015 - 09:26pm PT
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Tranny problems. Taint. Taint one taint the other.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 1, 2015 - 10:02am PT
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The word for March is Kerfuffle.
kerfuffle
/kəˈfʌfəl/
noun
1.
(informal, mainly Brit) commotion; disorder; agitation
verb
2.
(transitive) ( Scot) to put into disorder or disarray; ruffle or disarrange
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2015 - 12:16pm PT
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Alacrity
a·lac·ri·ty
əˈlakrədē/
noun
brisk and cheerful readiness.
"she climbed with alacrity"
synonyms: eagerness, willingness, readiness
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 11, 2015 - 08:56am PT
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Apperception
"the process by which new experience is assimilated to and transformed by the residuum of past experience of an individual to form a new whole."
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thebravecowboy
climber
Lost Park
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Apr 11, 2015 - 09:05am PT
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so, like, pass me on over some of that alacrity, if you would please.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Apr 11, 2015 - 10:51am PT
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Windgate
Sushi
Cactus flowers
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2015 - 01:13pm PT
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Alas, I lack alacrity in many things as I age, as does Roofus.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Apr 11, 2015 - 04:45pm PT
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Opalescent hobnail
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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Apr 15, 2015 - 09:13am PT
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Old word with a new meaning;
Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
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Flip Flop
climber
salad bowl, california
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Apr 15, 2015 - 09:24am PT
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Farcissimus
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Apr 15, 2015 - 11:02am PT
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syzygy: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/syzygy
Metaphorical usage in climbing contexts:
1) (astronomical) We climbed in a party of three; as a result of the syzygy, the middle climber eclipsed my opportunities for butt-shots of the leader.
2) (psychological) I was faced with the classic climbing syzygy: hardman on the sharp end crying like a little girl.
3) (mathematics) Here I come sharply upon the cliff giving way to the vast ocean of knowledge for which my prior studies and efforts have poorly prepared me. I got nothin'. I tried to understand what it means to have linear algebra over a ring versus a field as part of making sense of this, but a supertopo post isn't quite enough motivation for me to commit the resources necessary to gain this bit of knowledge.
4) (medical-zoological-genetic) When my belayer fell upon me, I wore an ass-hat; it was a perfect syzygy.
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thebravecowboy
climber
the Midcontinent Rift
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Apr 16, 2015 - 07:53pm PT
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I feel like windgate deserves a few lashes, or at least a handful of sand in the beer.
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