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Grug
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2006 - 09:10am PT
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The man is a comic genius!
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Another reason for failing on a boulder problem:
"You're flat not good enough!"
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Leroy
climber
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Feb 10, 2006 - 05:39am PT
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Heres one Grug should remember.The Poway Mountain Boys and I were playing hackysack in the cafparking lot.When atourist asked what was that.I answered,A frog. Dont know why ,but the whole parking lot doubled over laughing.Funny ,I guess.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Feb 10, 2006 - 12:29pm PT
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" The second shot does look like me but I have more impressive calves. "
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Hummerchine
climber
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Feb 14, 2006 - 02:39am PT
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Gordo, the quote is best as:
"Rock doesn't even look good unless it has chalk on it."
I absolutely love this quote, use it all the time. Only climbers get it.
Climbed with Dick this fall, it was great to see him.
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Leroy
climber
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Feb 14, 2006 - 06:16am PT
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Lines that have either led to sex or to a girlfriend.Are u having as much trouble getting laid as my other British friends?I bet you are a jewish girl from Brooklyn.Her answer,No catholic from the Bronx. me, Thatĺl work.
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de eee
Mountain climber
Tustin
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Feb 15, 2006 - 11:13am PT
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Hey Dick, here is one you may or may not remember. While dancing with a young lady, it went something like this..."feel free to grind on my leg."
For the record, it wasn't me and it didn't lead to sex!
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belayon
Social climber
LA, CA
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Feb 15, 2006 - 02:52pm PT
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“In the 50’s Frank had them under his skin.
In the 60’s Mick had them under his thumb.
In the 70’s Dick had them under his boot heal”
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Dec 20, 2006 - 04:02pm PT
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bump for Leroy
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 20, 2006 - 04:09pm PT
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In case LeRoy is watching, I'll take this opportunity of saying hello.
Anders
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Dec 20, 2006 - 04:56pm PT
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This is a story...possibly urban legend....
Richard walks into the bar wearing the infamous coat he'd sport and said, "where my bitches at?"
~Susan
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Brawny
Trad climber
Hueco Tanks, TX
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Dec 20, 2006 - 05:20pm PT
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Was at Hueco Tanks, the 80's, season was late, after Easter all the climbers had gone away, hadn't seen any non local climbers for 2 weeks.
Was in the North Mountain parking lot doing my rangerly duties (picking up trash) and around the corner creaping up comes Dick Cilley's van. He slowly tooled it into a parking spot (the whole lot was empty) and turned it off. Shocked and happy seeing him still here I strolled on up to his van hoping to talk him into a bouldering session when I got off work.
He was wearing his swank panama straw hat, dark shades and a loud and colorful hawaiian patterned shirt. Excited to see him I greeted him and asked what was going on? He lifted his shades just enough to see the eyeballs, which looked like two bloody hen turds in a bucket of milk, and replied, "I'm a man, I'm a mess."
After I was done pissing myself from laughing so hard, I got the full scoop of his MIA episode. Apparently he ended up in Juarez drunk for about a week hanging out with some hotties doing the Disco thing every nite....said one nite he sobered up and realized while "helping out this young senorita arrange things in her uncles attic" that he was in a room full of dried up, stuffed frogs, iguanas, snakes, etc....all playing musical instruments, wearing blankets and hats, their glass and plastic eyes all watching him and his disco hottie doin it up.
" I'm a man, I'm a mess."
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Dec 20, 2006 - 05:31pm PT
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"You can't climb 10d wide? That's pathetic"
This is practically my mantra these days--directed only at
myself, of course.
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Dec 20, 2006 - 06:23pm PT
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One time Dick wrangled me into giving him a ride to the Joshua Tree bars on my BMW R60/5 motorcyle, whereupon he proceded in getting us kicked out of both bars in short order. The first one was because he told the bartender he was a dink (or the equivalent). Then we went over to the bar across the street, which was filled with military dudes and bikers dancing to the jukebox. He started hitting on one of the biker gals, asked her to dance, and moments later all I saw were fists flying. I rushed over as Cilley, armlocked with some burly dude, flew out the side door, then he somehow talked his way out of it amidst the drunken crowd.
Then, hammered by that time, we took a cruise up to see the Integratron, where one could find everlasting life and happiness, and then the boulders nearby. On the way back, my headlight on my BMW burned out, with Cilley (helmetless, of course) singing and rollicking on the backseat as I somehow managed to hobble the bike back to camp in the dark.
edit: actually, now I remember that we actually went to see the Integratron during the day, because I recall Dick and I tallking to the wife of Jan Van Tassel, who invited us into our house to explain the workings of the Integratron.
After the Integratron, we crusised the bars and got kicked out.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Dec 20, 2006 - 07:46pm PT
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"You look like you need a chalk bag"
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Dec 20, 2006 - 07:48pm PT
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Now that I think of it, it would be kind of pathetic not to be able to climb 5.10d wide. That's Dick just callin' a spade a spade.
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Dec 20, 2006 - 07:58pm PT
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Well I'm going through some changes. I upgraded myself from
aging OW Tyro to aging OW Apprentice. It seems to help if I
try to channel while I try to armbar.
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K. Fosburg
Sport climber
park city, ut
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Dec 20, 2006 - 08:19pm PT
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I like how Dick prefaces anecdotes with, "The crazy thing is..."
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Dec 20, 2006 - 08:28pm PT
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Going to the 4 Seasons Resturant every morning for coffee was beyond ritual. One morning we went and did not wake Dick up. He was in his van like usual, in the Lodge lot. He was bummed that he missed it. He never missed it, but this time he did.
So after we get back, he explains to Mari, that next time you are going, "just knock on my van real loud. I'll be there in 15 minutes.... just as soon as I have sex with whoever is in there.. or with myself"
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 20, 2006 - 08:48pm PT
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I was messing around with some gear in the Lodge lot after crack climbing one day when Dick sauntered up to inspect the activity. He sadly shook his head as he gazed at my bandaged hands and snidely proclaimed "Man, don't you know that only pussies use tape?" with the matching theatrical sneer and headcock. One synapse collapse later came my retort "Man, don't you know that only pussies top rope?"
Hugh Herr was working on a new route in the Gunks that DC had been on before with the customary TR. Dick ran into Hugh before he was about to head up to continue fiddling with one of his signature nests of RP's protecting the crux. "You can't lead that thing," said DC in a state of flustered exasperation, "You'll die!" Undeterred, Hugh arranged his nest and sent the desperate crux section. I am not sure if DC was present when the route was completed, but I'm sure he found out about it because Hugh called it Cilley Dickens!
Lastly one of my all time favorite Camp Four bulletin board notes. "For Sale: Languid sex and butt hair reefers. The really GOOD SH#T. See Dick Cilley in the parking lot."
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