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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 25, 2013 - 05:56pm PT
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oh silly you is right... this ain't my fuking dissertation... nor are it geology.
Besides, I were educated but 2 ours from Idaho... what does ya spect?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2013 - 06:23pm PT
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Idaho is blessed with Jennie and Fritz.....euridition, humor and kindness from both.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 25, 2013 - 06:25pm PT
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People without the land under their home shouldn't be allowed to vote. Renters don't take care of anything.
yeah, wealthy land owners are the only one's who REALLY know how things should be run. I'd feel much better about those lazy renters voting if we could just get them to contribute something to the system... there has to be a way...
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Apr 25, 2013 - 06:32pm PT
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Bite it, "Krab"....you no honor bastage. The Exiled return at THEIR peril.
Up yours, now and always, you POS. Honor your GD exile, you puke.
You have no idea.
edit: Ol' Rox IS an Alabaman. Or an Alabamchild.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2013 - 06:37pm PT
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My oh my! I never intended this thread to spawn so many reactionary comments.....i'm talking about California not Alabama.
Only landowners voting.....that still leaves too many intelligent people, perhaps you should say people with at least ten acres.....that's sure to lower the IQ.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Apr 25, 2013 - 06:46pm PT
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seems like you could get that one Kenny. I did a move or two free when i nailed it lol! Its endurance fest bu that crack is a STELLAR one truly, and is highly under rated..
It's on the list for this summer
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Apr 25, 2013 - 06:57pm PT
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edit: Ol' Rox IS an Alabaman. Or an Alabamchild.
Krab would know better than anyone.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Apr 25, 2013 - 10:13pm PT
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Well you know, California is known as being famous for its' fruits, and nuts. Jus sayin'
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 25, 2013 - 10:42pm PT
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Yeah, CA uses all that water to feed the rest of the nation and support the people who fuel the state with the largest GDP in the nation... and of course to grow grass for our pitbulls to sh#t on.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 25, 2013 - 10:43pm PT
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Sigh.
I will point out that the thread title & meaning is California.
But since my name keeps coming up: I ain't running for political office in Idaho.
Back in 1967, After I spent a few months as an Idaho Legislative aide (page), whose work mostly consisted of running bribes to state Senators from cigar-smoking lobbyists: I swore off politics for life.
I do want to comment on a comment Sullly made back a ways in this thread:
Erudite in Idaho? Try Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway.
Yes, Ezra Pound was born and raised in Idaho, but got out as soon as possible.
Hemingway chose to live in Ketchum, after U.S. politics forced him out of his beloved Cuba after Castro’s rise to power.
Despite being quite friendly to us locals, Hemingway committed suicide here a few years later.
Hemingway & I would exchange greetings when he walked by our house, and my father was one of his many local friends.
Rumors that Hemingway was despondent that the conversations with us locals, consisted mainly of variations of “Get your elk??” ------are just mean and untrue.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Apr 25, 2013 - 10:51pm PT
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California is so 20th century,
Chile & Argentina is the place to be nowadays.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Apr 25, 2013 - 10:59pm PT
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I believe in REAL people. I met Roxy. F*#k you Roxy.
Like I said, I believe in REAL people.
Same advice to you as Crazy Blue. Stop. Breathe. Think. Don't obsess. Above all, RELAX, you Dumbass.
Ranting is for FOOLS. G'Head, prove me right. Again.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2013 - 11:14pm PT
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Hemingway.....let's see, Africa, Spain, pre Castro Havana and....oh yes, Idaho. Hemingway was forced to leave his beloved Cuba on July 25th 1960. A brief visit to Spain and then to Sun Valley. Depressed, he had several sessions of electro shock therapy at the Mayo Clinic, the last in June of 1961. He returned to Sun Valley on 6/30 and dispatched himself with his favorite shotgun on 7/2/61.
Has anyone reminded Larry Craig that fellatio with his favorite shotgun (everyone in Idaho has one) would have avoided the embarrassment of the lewd conduct charge in a Mpls. airport bathroom.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Apr 25, 2013 - 11:46pm PT
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There's quite a list of well published writers from Idaho. Hasn't anyone heard of Heather Sharfeddin, Beatrice Sparks and Mimi LaFollette Summerskill?
O.K. how about Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan?
What's more erudite than Tarzan...
But the publishing industry was back east and after a book was written there were many weeks of editing with the publishers there. Many writers moved closer to Madison Avenue.
I supposed that's a moot point since we've hijacked the thread from our blessed and favored cousins in the southwest...
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John M
climber
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Apr 25, 2013 - 11:55pm PT
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What i want to know is for every Californian who moves to Idaho, how many Idahoans move to California? The complainers never mention that.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Apr 25, 2013 - 11:57pm PT
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My younger brother moved to Antioch...I'm definitely NOT complaining!
:-)
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 26, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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There's quite a list of well published writers from Idaho. Hasn't anyone heard of Heather Sharfeddin, Beatrice Sparks and Mimi LaFollette Summerskill?
Nope.
hmm, I wonder how that list compares to well published writers from CA...
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Apr 27, 2013 - 09:34am PT
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In 1842 the Sawyers (from St Joseph, Missouri) set out with others from Missouri on the Oregon Trail, as I understand it, there was some discussion about swerving south on the California Trail, but it was still a 'rough' trail, so to Oregon they went and then to Washington, settling in what is now the Olympia/Tumwater area. Where my dad was from, mom was a West Virginian.
Just think if they decided to take the California Trail. How would that have turned out?
Both my brothers and a sister were born in Seattle (I could live there - Cascades, alpine climbing, Leavenworth rock, Washington Pass, BC to the north, Olympic rain forest, Puget Sound). My other sister and I were born In Walnut Creek CA.
So if we ever win the lottery, I (and Jennie) need to live by the sea, hence northern California, Provençe, Corsica, Seattle or thereabout, maybe Oregon. Though Lake Tahoe is big enough to remind us of the sea.
Nevada is beautiful and so is Colorado, and I understand that even Boise is up and coming, but no sea in those places.
EDIT
i wuz bornded in LANCASTER,, when it was A through F street period..
Jeez Ron, I drove through Antelope Valley back in 1992, after many years of not being there. It's dreadful, Lancaster and Palmdale are like, merged. HIgh desert environments are so fragile.
I was with my then Irish girlfriend Marie and my mom heading back from a cousin's wedding in Malibu (actually from my aunt's in San Bernardino).
Driving through Lancaster, my mom remarks: "Where will they find work?"
I replied: "Mom, we must have passed both a K-Mart and a Wal-Mart, and fast food joints, long commute to La La land. The question is, where will they find the water?"
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 27, 2013 - 09:58am PT
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Roxy, when did your ancestors move to Boise? You part Shoshoni? You think you bought your property fair and square, doncha? Sucks that you don't have the smurts or quality facilities to attract responsible renters.
The last 3 houses I rented in Tahoe got: a new kitchen faucet, a new firewood storage shelter, a stone walkway, some drywall and painting work, the woodpecker holes patched, the shed door repaired, and under the stove cleaned for the first time in probably a decade.
They were cool. They deserved it and they appreciated it... and they were all "from" CA.
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