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zBrown
Ice climber
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Hi neebee
My brother used to say
Say again
Michele's mom says
Say again
Both Michele and her mom are very hearing impaired
But Michele is so good at lip reading I do not recall her saying anything
I just say
What
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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 - Apr 9, 2019 - 01:04am PT
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All I know is:
1. Do not overuse apostrophes, ampersands, & shades of gray when meaning is critical; they just get in the way.
2. Do not overuse adverbs, as Ambrose Bierce cautions us; in fact, avoid them like you'd avoid a rabid emoji.
3. Ignore red lines under the script when typing, as they are for stupid people.
I actually know more, I'm "JUST SAYIN'."
Note: I had a whole screed here on such things & some rather BOLD commentary on neebee's posts (quite good, too), but then poked one key the wrong way or somethin' and it all went blooey and disappeared in a puff of ether, a la Gnome.
Tant pis.
And I would never use the phrase "come again" on this website. They'd never let that go.
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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 - Apr 9, 2019 - 01:17am PT
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Lennypenny called this evening as I was going about trying to stream the first half of the roundball final.
She had a phone conversation with her daughter Jessica going yesterday. Jessica works in the Sonora cancer center at the hospital. She had her mom on speaker phone, told her she was, and that she was in consult/interview with a new patient, but Lenna just wanted a quick question answered.
Then the Reverend Mathis chimes in with, "Hi Lenna!" He was Jessica's new patient! Her professional self is all about patient confidentiality, and she slyly asked Jeff, did he know anyone named Bermingham? This avoided the lapse in confidentiality, to a point where it wasn't her responsibility. Jeff figured this out and said he'd recognized her right off because of the physical resemblance.
She was showing him the routine with the new IV he's getting to use chemotherapy. He's started down that road, I'm afraid. I spoke to Jeff just the other day. He wasn't real thrilled, let's just be sayin'.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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I am sorry to hear about your friend, Brian, but heartened that he’s getting good care from your loved one. Sounds like he’s right where he needs to be, if you’ll pardon that phrase, although no one wants to be, but ‘needs to be’ dealing with something like cancer.
?What’s the Big Idea?
Sometimes words
sit flat on a page
sullen desultory
dated and aged
Some words like others
enjoined by a sentence
sit awkward or malformed
don’t you know brother
It makes my knee ache
and takes up the time of the day
but what else to do
put up or shut up
when there’s something to say
But like fine cheese
or wine when it’s aged
and the dishes are all put away
don’t worry or bother
unless like tomorrow
we still haven’t turned the page
-bushman
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Disposable World
I imagined a life without meaning
of wastage and carnage and greed
I tried to imagine with the eyes of a fool
such desperate measures and bottomless need
To step on the tail so intentionally
requiring a lust for cruelty
a desire to inflict the maximum duress
with a fetish for the suffering
of others a must
an addiction for hatred to constantly feed
This is the person entrusted with power
the tick tocking time bomb who the hour by hour
seethes with such vitriol no bottom too low
that he would not scour
This is the delusion to which we’re subjected
the real time and presence
we all are connected
to the pain of a sick mind obsessed with himself
our planet and life forms all tossed to the shelf
and under the bus
I imagined John Lennon
would have never considered
himself as being so indispensable
-bushman
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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the pasture
the pasture is not the road
the map is not the mind
but sometimes my mind
is out to pasture
-b
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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the phenomenon of anticipation
it’s funny how we drive to the airport
to pick up a loved one or friend
It might take two hours to drive there
when their flight took an hour
to fly hundreds of miles through the air
and we wait at the gate or in baggage
watching the world all around
waiting and watching
is that their plane landing?
a heartbeat the only true audible sound
it’s odd how we see expectation
and wonder the what when and where
we might flutter or hover
or dither the hour
sometimes waiting is so hard to bear
-floatman
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, ZBrown...
yes! that works, too... yes, as to the sign language, too:
sign: *say* *again* ... :)
or, just sign:
*again* (and make your face show that you are asking for them to say it, again) ...
good for you, to share more detail...
:)
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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 - Apr 9, 2019 - 07:58am PT
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I just posted a link on the Climate Change thread, something I have never done.
But today, I'm taking a stand. Like I always have. I don't drive, not any more. I have only travelled far afield to climb once and that was a road trip to Canada. I am poor, which forces me to reign in my desires in comparison to others who travel afar to indulge their climbing jones.
Yeah, climbers should be among the torch-bearin', instigatin' crowd, but we're not, really. We continue to play our international travel games.
All the big mountains have been climbed. What's left to prove? What the hell makes us so special? NOTHING!
I'm guilting you f*#kers that want to use more than your rightful share of the earth's resources to the detriment of the rest of us.
I was committed to riding a bike years ago, in my thirties, by a DUI conviction, but made that into a political statement of a kind. I felt guilty of a crime against Nature and set about making amends. I owned one VW and one red rocket Chevy for not more than three years in the last forty or so years.
I began riding a bike to transport myself around town. I lost interest in climbing, but still wanted to pursue fishing and golf and racquetball, all of which involved using fuel to my own selfishness.
I hate pointing fingers, blaming, etc, without doing something positive myself. I wish more of you would try to give a bike a ride, not jump in the car to run an errand. Plan your trips ahead of time, using green ideas. I have to do this when using the bus here in town. It's not hard, but sort of a time waster until you get it down. But the effects are enormous cumulatively.
This horse is a bit too high for me. I'll get off and shut the f*#k up. I just had to spew.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Ah yes I am
And
I am
And I am too
Green that is
Poor In a Fashion
That ~ If I dwelt on it
It would amaze even mouse
And so I don't much, except that I do
Every chance that I get . . .
Not Proud . . .
Just true . . .
Also
I'm So passionate about the fouling of the world
The needless waste And continued entitled abuse
by spoiled climbers who won't stop wasting
Always driving off to the precious place
in exchange for more developed spaces
to ply the bolting Yo-Yoing
that I've taken on the establishment,
been and had the climbing zones I'd offered,
rejected and now when their existence is most needed
those areas have been redacted
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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I just went to look
yup Oh for the love of . . .
A caster of stones
A straight edge among the stoners
A stoner from way back
Some might recall that
oh for the love of Doyle
Doyle Dykes, that is
[Click to View YouTube Video]
my childhood
my teens
my climbing till I was 30
all now illegal and so removed.
Understand this,
with the exception of the Palisades;
overlooking the Hudson River across from New York City,
where climbing has been & remains illegal,
When I climbed in these places they were wild and unregulated.
The hills & ridge-lines of northern New Jersey are have been "tramped"
climbed and hiked, there is no one enforcing a ban.
there is almost nothing posted along the trails there are no
"No Climbing" signs.
Make anything a crime and only criminals will climb
There are disadvantaged youth programs
take the hoods to the woods programs
teach the thieves how to pull second-story crimes
Teach thugs and gangsters who already rob mug and steal
teach them that there are cars parked at trailheads
and climbers tied to rocks in the woods
The perfect way to get away with
Smash and grabs
Oh for pete's sake
will wonders never cease[Click to View YouTube Video]
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, gnome and all...
say, i was just posting, as to the what some words reminded me of...
it was not to make anyone's post look bad, ...
i had read you post-- so please, do not feel bad...
i was just reminded of a 'phrase' that i hear a lot, and hear a lot,
when i was growing up, and still hear now-a-days...
:)
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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A` say-Hey neebbee
yea, not to worry.
Your conversation was ongoing, when I butted in.
I think that it is better For the continuity to have made space.
Then in the fun way that it happens
mouse posted about listening to
And maybe having the blues, too.
So given that what I had written fit in with that,
I posted my little song back up.
where I felt weird having just deleted it, hours before
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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 - Apr 9, 2019 - 01:12pm PT
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Slow cruise along the East Bay shore.
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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 - Apr 9, 2019 - 02:02pm PT
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untitled
let me grow smarter the more that I age--
there are so many things to learn and to see;
factoids and trivia, page after page,
googled and noted and it's all basically free.
thank god for wiki, John Dill famously said,
as he prepped for his evening lecture one day;
he doubted he has enough room in his head
for most of the knowledge that's there on display.
--Lex Icon
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