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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 12, 2013 - 10:10pm PT
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Battin' cleanup, Baton Rouge! As long as it tastes and looks good and doesn't leave a red stain on your hands, it's ok buy me. On the other hand, could be a badge of courage.
-Panamint Red
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2013 - 10:20pm PT
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Gosh, don't ya love the Net, WW?
[Insert Wilder here.]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2013 - 10:35pm PT
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]The notoriously hard-to-control Palm Beach Baton.
The delicate shaft known as the Flagpole Baton.
The opposite ends are the same, naturally. These photos are too long when the whole length is shown.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2013 - 11:17pm PT
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This ALSO happened at Beale AFB, but they managed to keep it quiet. It was a foggy day.
I heard the co-pilot was "reading" a copy of Playboy and didn't hear commands being issued in time to respond.
"Huh? What? Oh, shi..." or something like it.
And that was known as the Rat Fink Cover-UP. For some reason, all crew members woke up naked in a field outside of Moroni, UT.
Heads were scratched, behive it or not.
Meanwhile, on the Salton Sea, a giant biscuit resembling the Rat Fink was discovered that same evening. It was covered with mold resembling good quality duck down, but smelled awfully fishy, like it does, only worse by far. The discoverer, a desert prospector, came down with a fever.
Since the military was so paranoid, they sent a man down there and he came away scratching his head, but no fever was reported. There was cause to think the incidents were related. For some reason, the names of the two separate capers were confused (likely because of the time frame) and just reported under the Case Name, Rat Fink. They had to cover up the fliers from the first incident, too, since they had no flight suits any longer. With the loss of the plane, the experimental laser, the flight suits, and all the going and coming, the expense was ginormous. Of course it was all well-concealed for many years.
I got this poop from Johnny Feaver just yesterday evening at the 9/11 parade.
It's kinda unbelievable. And I am very gullible. So take it or leave it.
I seldom recommended a duck down sleeping bag. When you do duck down in a duck down bag when a bear comes along, they just love the smell and won't go away.
Always go with a good goose. But TT knows all this. He's trained to recognize quality down, surely.
Peace. Down & out.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 12, 2013 - 11:34pm PT
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Whaal! (you probably saw this coming). I met Big Daddy at the car show in Balboa Park at the end of the 1950's.
Sure wish I would have hung onto that weirdo shirt.
BTW: Did anyone ever explain to you just exactly how a Hell's Angel attained his red wings?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2013 - 11:44pm PT
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Composting reminds me of dairy air.
Prayer of Saint Cowlumbine.
Our fodder, which art in the manger, silage be thy name. Thy milk truck come, at rise of sun, over earth and parts of heaven. Give us this day our daily cud, and forgive us our methane, as we forgive those pass tresses in our pastures of plenty, and deliver us from lassos. Amen.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 12, 2013 - 11:50pm PT
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Is an Electric Cat a skin job?
Does a one-eyed eyeball never cry?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 13, 2013 - 12:08am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 13, 2013 - 07:11am PT
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Do it yourself, Barney. And we're out of beer. You'll have to wheel over to the store.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 13, 2013 - 09:20am PT
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IF you were so inclined, uke could climb or just do it all day with this in your headphones/head-space.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Enough of this drivel. Let's get on to the real climbing.--Johnsal
Please practice this, TT, otay? Maybe with a couple of new verses from me it will go viral.
Hear you to da Facelift, eh?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 13, 2013 - 09:46am PT
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Oh, God, I was always a total mess. I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable, and so competent it makes me envious. I was climbing with some hotshot Brit in Yosemite once, and he said, "My God, Harding, you can’t do anything!" I said, "I know, but I can do it forever."
--Worn Hard
Terry Drinkwater was the CBS correspondent who was sent to Yosemite Valley and took rooms in the Lodge while reporting on Harding's and Caldwell's Dawn Wall epic farce. T.D. received a Masters Degree from UC Berkeley.
Like Millis, who was engaged by the CBS affiliate in LA, KCBS, to explain rock climbing as practiced by our ascensionists, Correspondent Drinkwater died after long bouts with cancer.
It's the turth and the turth hurts.
Heading out to the footies in a few.
Adieu.
Don't post drunk tonight. There's a bad moon a-risin'.
People on the River Road are happy to live there.
If I were a diving duck, and the river were whisky, I'd be in Canada and the subjunctive were'd not be a problem.
I'd dive to the bottom and never come up.
Except the chances are fifty-fity that the river's whiskey, too, so I might could have a problem.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 13, 2013 - 10:14pm PT
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All my problems are likely solved.
The formula is quite uninvolved.
All my problems = sh#t in a lump.
I can relieve myself by taking a dump.
Dump da da dump dump,
Doo doo!
Thanks lots for the inspiration.
I have no more constipation.
--Hannah the Barbarian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuPx_oha4fQ
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2013 - 12:58am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2013 - 01:01am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2013 - 01:08am PT
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Bret Harte used to publish in the Sonora Union Democrat under the nom de name Grapeheart McNutt. They let him go cuz they had too many issues with him.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2013 - 01:27am PT
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I'm going out to Bagby tomorrow. I better be ready. I'm half in the bag now! Bye!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2013 - 01:38am PT
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It's Friday Night Boxing for the Heavyweight Championship of the World.
St. Louis vs. Louisville.
Spink Doc vs. the Greatest.
My jaw! It dropped so hard when Ali got decisioned that I thought I'd gotten my bell rung.
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In February 1978, Ali faced Leon Spinks, who had a 6--0--1 record going into their first fight at the Superdome in New Orleans, and lost the title by unanimous decision. Ali later won against Spinks by unanimous decision in their rematch eight months later, making him the first heavyweight champion to win the belt three times. Following this win, on July 27, 1979, Ali announced his retirement from boxing. His retirement was short-lived, however, after Ali announced his comeback to face Larry Holmes for the WBA belt in an attempt to win the heavyweight championship an unprecedented fourth time. It was around this time that Ali started struggling with vocal stutters and trembling hands.[27] Ali's rapid decline caused concern and Ali checked himself into the Mayo Clinic for checkup, later declaring him fit to fight. Ali fought against Holmes on October 2, 1980 in Las Vegas with Holmes easily dominating the weakened Ali, who had taken thyroid medication to lose weight though the medication left him visibly tired and short of breath. Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee stopped the fight in the eleventh round, citing the only Ali fight in which the boxer lost by knockout.
I have two cents and this is all.
Ali could have won this had he not covered up so much in R3. Just after I had been thinking this for the last two minutes till the bell ending the round, the broadcast announcer said basically the same thing, that he would not win if he did not throw more punches.
"R-3."
"Ringo!"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2013 - 02:16am PT
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Byrd, Terry, Keels, jBrown?
'sfunky!
I have just enuf fingers.
Okey, one, two, three, fo', the drummer!
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