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Captain...or Skully

climber

or some such

Aug 18, 2011 - 08:48pm PT

OMG. Pete is Rick Moranis. I wondered why we never saw them in the same donut shop at the same time.
Or some such, eh?

bringmedeath

climber

la la land

Aug 18, 2011 - 08:50pm PT

I am laughing so hard right now! Pete posted what I have always thought! I about died when I saw the hoser comment with rick's picture and scrolled down to the next part.

WBraun

climber

Aug 18, 2011 - 08:58pm PT

Yeah fer sure Dingus

That's some funny ass sh'it ......

kaitb

Big Wall climber

Aug 18, 2011 - 08:59pm PT

I love this thread! haha. And pete - that post was way too funny! You do look like him.

Ok. So far the cast for the film is:
Johnny depp playing ammon mcneely
Rick moranis playing pete zabrok

I'm scared to ask who my cameo will be?

What about the first ascentists?

chez

Social climber

chicago ill

Aug 18, 2011 - 09:05pm PT

I knew there was a reason my computer kept shutting down every time i tried to open anything WOS.

Pathetic history, i hope A & K's ascent brings this to a close!

chez

Social climber

chicago ill

Aug 18, 2011 - 09:06pm PT

Oops, i guess not.

climber

Aug 18, 2011 - 09:08pm PT

Best thread ever!!!

graniteclimber

Trad climber

The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division

Aug 18, 2011 - 09:12pm PT

So the SA team is making a movie, PTPP is writing a book or magazine article and it's even possible that due to the publicity we may get a new edition of the FA team's book.

If they go mainstream, I don't see them helping the image of climbers.

Gene

climber

Aug 18, 2011 - 09:18pm PT

Kaitb says....

I'm scared to ask who my cameo will be?

You figure that out, but I suggest a 21 year old Jamie Lee Curtis to play your Mom.

g

BASE1361

climber

Yosemite Valley National Park

Aug 18, 2011 - 09:29pm PT

PtPP would be better cast in "A Clockwork Brown" as a sh#t stain.

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Aug 18, 2011 - 09:50pm PT

King Richard!

Didn't like my opening scene?

So nice of you to join us here during the intermezzo...

I thought that you weren't going to talk to me any more until I accepted your treatise on true enhancements...

I will accept this vastly more succinct operational definition of enhancing a placement for a narrow Leeper Logan hook taken straight from the Book of Dik.

So much easier on the brain.

Last time things went south I wanted to know if you guys planned on escaping over to the Aquarian after a month on the Great Slab when you left the ground or did you have a longer route in mind?

Rudder

Trad climber

Long Beach, CA

Aug 18, 2011 - 09:53pm PT

It does amaze me how long some people can hold a grudge. I'm way too lazy for that kind of thing. :)

TwistedCrank

climber

Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom

Aug 18, 2011 - 10:00pm PT

I like the font used in the book.

'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber

like Ontario, Canada, eh?

Aug 18, 2011 - 10:04pm PT

Miminsane writes,

"What people don't seem to GET is that when Steve SAYS something again and again and again, that MAKES IT TRUE!"

Steve, YET AGAIN, you raise the question about enhancements on Wings of Steel, as though Mark and Richard are either trying to hide something, or have lied, or have not been forthright in precisely what they did.

Steve you must know this: Richard has already answered - in his usual excruciating detail! - your [often repeated] accusations, and which you voiced yet again two posts above, right here:

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/963934/WoS-confessions-The-whole-truth-about-the-enhancements

Now, Steve, seriously. What's your point here? You have read his response linked above, right? Please explain your point for all of us. Or are you attempting to fulfill Miminsane's prophecy above?

Cheers,
Pete

P.S. Who do you want to play you and Mimi?

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Aug 18, 2011 - 10:40pm PT

Pete- Don't you listen to your fellow hecklers...My opinion doesn't count since I haven't been on the route other that inspecting the middle of pitch #9 where the Bwanadimples were readily apparent. Richard and Mark called me a lair for that report but Ammon and Kait's account will certainly shed some light on the situation.

Richard and Mark are committed to the position that 90% of their documented 145 narrrow Logans did not involve the use of a hammer IN ANY WAY. Scrape, sweep, set and stand up.

For a couple of guys fresh from the Riverside Quarry (and Richard half-fresh from the South Face of the Washington Column solo in somewhere between two and ten days) and with little relevant hooking experience, I seriously doubt the claim especially when it took several years of persistent badgering to even arrive at the fifteen accredited "enhanced" hook placements figure that you so blithely cite as long-established fact.

'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber

like Ontario, Canada, eh?

Aug 18, 2011 - 11:22pm PT

Concur with 90% number above. We await Ammon and Kait's observations.

Now we seem to be zeroing in on something here, and this is your glaring and apparent problem with pride, Steve. It seems to me that it is inconceivable to you that Mark and Richard, inexperienced as you seem to think they were - and certainly they were far less experienced than you on El Cap at the time - may have risen to do something that was really bitchin'.

You know, they really might be better climbers than you.

Furthermore, you are yet again attempting to "extract" information that has long and repeatedly and freely been given. The one thing you keep coming back to is that you presumed Mark and Richard to be liars because they had to be "badgered" for "years" before they would finally "come clean" about the enhancements. That, of course, is itself revisionist history. Mark and Richard offered that information without any "badgering" whatsoever, and even your reference out of their book [from years before they started posting on McTopo] says that they did indeed enhance some placements, how many, and exactly how they did it. So the notion that for years they wouldn't come clean is laughable. Truly, it appears as though you believe you have the power to make things "true" by simply repeating and repeating.

Steve, you are becoming extremely tiresome and lame. Dude, come up with something new, because what you write above NO LONGER MAKES SENSE. You are beginning to appear really stupid. Is your bitterness poisoning your ability to apply logic and reason to your arguments?

And for the record, I was able to do all the hook moves on your route Jolly Roger, although there was one really desperate move above what I called a "body-cleaving pinnacle", and which I found to be really hard. But by E's account, he didn't find it that hard, so I'm thinking I must have missed a hook placement. Then again, I hadn't done all that many El Cap routes before I climbed Jolly Roger, so I was kind of a n00b.

By comparison, the first two pitches of Wings of Steel are light-years harder.