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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 03:11pm PT
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Do not ask on whom the bell tinkles -- it tinkles on thee.
But it's not its fault. It's biology.
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 04:36pm PT
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barracoda
pointless and useless
it's all so excuse-less
we should never oughta
pollute the earth's water
yet we poison ourselves
with the stuff on our shelves
and we don't seem to mind
all the crap left behind
from our industries' waste
to old tubes of toothpaste
it's more than we can handle
burning both ends of the candle
--mfm
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 05:06pm PT
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"Oops! Where'd I put the umbrella?"
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 05:11pm PT
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"Don't forget to buy a case of water, dear."
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 05:18pm PT
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Take the shuttle or walk, doofus.
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 05:28pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Directed by Marc Swadel, 2013. Filmed in the Christchurch Red Zone following the 2011 earthquake.
'Simpletons' from The Bats - 'Free All The Monsters'
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 05:30pm PT
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Big deal.
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 05:47pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Never could toe the mark
But I once climbed The Line*
* Several trips up The Line, in fact. Once with Throwpie. With Ike. With Cowboy Larry. With Mark Irwin.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 11, 2019 - 06:33pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Psycho_deliic guitar player mouthpiece
BTW bB, I had to rewrite the whole damn wZ chapter because of your review.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Feb 11, 2019 - 06:45pm PT
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Love it or hate it, the Flames thread is a one of a kind lolapalooza of music videos, photography, poetry, commentary, stories, other things melded to form a kind of ‘Mouse Variety Show.’ with over 19,000 posts now and going strong.
Brian, I love what you’ve done with the place!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 11, 2019 - 07:07pm PT
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What is your point?
Why, I am glad some one asked that
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 11, 2019 - 07:08pm PT
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 4, 2012 - 06:38pm PT
zBrown, knowingly or annoyingly you pulled a chain and the sh#t came rushing up over the top of the toilet bowl of my memory and it was colored brown and blue, pornographic as heck
It's pointless to worry about people like these. They come into our lives and leave, we are changed, they are changed. It takes time to mellow into how. Who cares why?
ZBrown's a case in point, in my case.
CosmicCragsman is another.
Mouse from Merced is yet another.
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 07:25pm PT
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Boy, howdy!
Simply put, we place a lot of trust in one another simply as pals or climbing partners, let alone as lovers.
Without love and respect (and good grammar and punctuation and spelling) everything seems rather pointless.
Like trying to turn a haze-obscured distance shot into something of worth.
It seems hard to believe we can ever be satisfied with no love.
The devil is in the desire.
The reward is in the journey.
The trust is where you find it.
Look in the Chick History Thread, maybe?
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=53589&msg=3173399#msg3173399
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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 - Feb 11, 2019 - 07:52pm PT
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It all began as a quiet morning trip to Starbuck's.
Ahab was on the helm when he saw a giant white turtle on the horizon.
"There! She blows, me hearties! Show me what this sleigh will do, boys!"
And they all pulled hard and caught up to Leviathan, who was bigger than Captain Trump, the giant octopus from the last chapter, where the crew never did get their Arby's.
[It was closed by the time they landed the squid, so they had several Clif Bars that Queequeg had stashed for emergencies like that. They happen frequently with the crew of the Flame of Nantucket.]
Well, looks like our time's up. See what happens with the giant white turtle next time on Whaling With Style.
--Dirty Bandana from Salinas
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