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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 28, 2010 - 02:03am PT
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I'm just getting started, but the humidity in the kitchen requires mass amounts of liquid barley squeezins.
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2010 - 02:18am PT
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I sent the link for this thread to the friend who sent it all to me.
So he knows he was responsible for all of this.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 28, 2010 - 02:27am PT
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All of what?
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2010 - 02:28am PT
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This.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 28, 2010 - 03:29am PT
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Fair enough.
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harihari
Trad climber
Squampton
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Jun 28, 2010 - 01:08pm PT
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Spotted outside Williams Lae, BC. This was an official government sign too-- greena dn white, metal, on its own metal pole:
NO SHOOTING
CHILDREN ON ROAD
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MH2
climber
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Jun 29, 2010 - 04:05am PT
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Apologies for bringing to attention what you all must have heard of, but a few minutes south of Squamish:
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 09:32am PT
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jstan, that reminds me of the japanese folktale about onara-bu music.
basically the protagonist gets lost up in the mountains and stumbles into the cave where the oni, the mountain ogres, live. it's probably the worst thing that could happen to you in japanese mountains, and don't try to tell me different.
he thinks on his feet, however, and having downed a batch of azuki beans carbing up before the hike, he decides to try to entertain the ogres with a musical fart performance. the ogres love it.
eat beans before long hikes.
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 11:25am PT
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My late uncle, very staid and proper, and a physicist at Los Alamos, once did something I am extremely proud of him for. One night he and several of his colleagues, with chainsaws, cut down all the billboards on the highway from Los Alamos to Santa Fe.
He also introduced me to climbing.
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 04:40pm PT
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Burma shave, way back in the 1900's, had some funny roadside signs. Here's a few:
Said Farmer Brown / Who's bald / On top / Wish I could / Rotate the crop / Burma-Shave
Around / The curve / Lickety-split / Lovely car / Wasn't it? / Burma Shave
Don't lose / Your head / To gain a minute / You need your head / Your brains are in it / Burma-Shave
Free! Free! / A trip / To Mars / For 900 / Empty jars / Burma-Shave
Does your husband / Misbehave / Grunt and grumble / Rant and rave / Shoot the brute some / Burma-Shave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1951/the_hobo
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 30, 2010 - 04:58pm PT
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One night he and several of his colleagues, with chainsaws, cut down all the billboards on the highway from Los Alamos to Santa Fe. Most admirable! Was this pre Monkey Wrench Gang days?
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 05:19pm PT
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Very much pre monkey wrench days, although I don't remember exactly when. Could have been the 1950s.
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