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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 19, 2011 - 10:20am PT
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Funny thing about Twight, he developed the "Dr. Doom" persona but never learned how to rock climb.
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badcom
Gym climber
Ewing, NJ
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Oct 19, 2011 - 12:36pm PT
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"Of every one hundred men they send me, ten should not be here. Eighty are nothing but targets. Nine are real fighters, they make the battle. Ah, but the one, he is a warrior, and he will bring the others back"
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2011 - 02:56am PT
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:18am PT
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(Brian Eno about Mark Twight Really? Brian Eno?
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:41am PT
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Thanks again, RM, I'll take it (once again, again) to heart. ;)
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:58am PT
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"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."
-unknown
"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
-me
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 23, 2011 - 11:52am PT
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re: favorite (ludicrous) quotes
"The President has been a failure when it comes to foreign policy."
Michele Bachmann, U.S Republican Presidential Laughingstock (2011)
Face the Nation, 23 oct 2011
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 23, 2011 - 02:21pm PT
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"it never dawned on me till the first day" - yup, that's the difference
between high flying conceptualization and ground truthing
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 24, 2011 - 01:21pm PT
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"We are the Animal Kingdom's way of knowing its evolved drives and feelings reflected in human terms; and because we speak – of expressing this reflection in words. In words."
 a rockclimbing evolutionist, 1996
This might even be better:
"We are the cat's way or the dog's way or the chimp's way or the honey badger's way or the sea lion's way or the dolphin's way of knowing its evolved drives and feelings reflected in human terms; and because we speak – of expressing this reflection in words. In words." HFCS
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 27, 2011 - 03:44pm PT
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." (President Merkin Muffley (Dr Strangelove))
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noone
Trad climber
mountain tornado alley
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Oct 28, 2011 - 03:50pm PT
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From "Horrible Bosses"
"I'm a drag racer"
"In a Prius?"
"I don't win a lot"
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Oct 28, 2011 - 04:56pm PT
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"Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others."
"No, we have an agreement. The flies don't practice law, and I don't walk on the ceiling."
Groucho Marx.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 28, 2011 - 05:03pm PT
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"People ask me why I drink so much. It’s because of a morbid fear of dehydration."
"I don't know why they call me working-class. As far as I know I'v never worked a day in my life."
"There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones."
Thatchers secretary: "Mr Whillans, Mr Whillans. Your flies are undone”,
Don: ”Tha need not have worried, yer know. Dead birds never fall out the bleedin’ nest!”
— Don Whillans
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 28, 2011 - 06:17pm PT
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Nancy Astor was a native Virginian who became Britain’s first woman member of the House of Commons. In the 1930’s she headed a clique in the House of Commons that found something to admire in Hitler’s Germany. Churchill described an Astorite as an appeaser "who feeds the crocodile hoping that it will eat him last." One time shortly thereafter, Churchill found himself at Cliveden, the Astor mansion.
After dinner Lady Astor presided over the pouring of coffee. When Churchill came by, she glared and said. "Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee." "Nancy," Churchill replied to the acid-tongued woman, "if I were your husband, I’d drink it."
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Oct 28, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
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Yeah, it's a total sandbag -Todd Gordon
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Hilt
Social climber
Utah
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Oct 28, 2011 - 07:18pm PT
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What lies build, fools believe. Don't play with fools.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 29, 2011 - 04:46am PT
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"Assuming that one wants to praise at all, there’s a refined and at the same time noble self-control which always gives praise only where one does not agree:—in other cases one would be really praising oneself, something that contradicts good taste—naturally, a self-control which provides a good opportunity and provocation for one to be constantly misunderstood. In order to permit oneself this real luxury of taste and morality, one must not live among spiritual fools, but rather among people whose misunderstandings and false ideas are still amusing for their sophistication—or one will have to pay dearly for it!—“He is praising me: thus, he admits I’m right”—this asinine conclusion ruins half of life for us hermits, for it brings the asses into our neighbourhood and our friendship."
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Trusty Rusty
Social climber
Tahoe area
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Oct 29, 2011 - 04:51am PT
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"Jesus built my car, its a love affair"
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 15, 2011 - 08:15pm PT
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"Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for."
WILL ROGERS
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