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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Check out the Crested Butte in this one
We don't need no stinkin' helmets, we gotz manos de piedra.
Never heard of him, does Jack Russell play lead or base?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Gee Nome interesting how you got those traces of green and blue in that otherwise black and white photo.
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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 - May 2, 2015 - 05:04pm PT
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That Darned Thumb was a Disney classic.
No, it was a carving knife wielded by a freaked-out farm woman.
No, wait!
It was when I fell at Tahquitz on the West Face. As I fell, the thumb lodged for a split-second in a crack, jammed, and gravity did the rest.
No, wait some more!
Now I "re-member!"
It was when I was cowboyin' out north of Crusted Butt, MT. This recalcitrant dogie was a-runnin' off from the bunch so I took off after the SOB. I had the loop on him, the pony stopped on a dime, and as I tried to dally the rope 'round the saddle cantle, the loop in the line came tight on my thumb, shearing it right plumb off! Happens a lot. Ya gotta pay attention.
No, the real story...I was a new worker in the CalPack peach cannery. I got my hand caught up in peach-pitting macinery, all sharp and fast-movin' and I couldn't get it out nor reach the red emergency stop button.
My supervisor was just as quick as a freaked-out farm woman chasin' mice and did it for me--he was standin' about ten feet away repairin' another one of those devil-machines.
Valium addiction followed, I went slowly to hell, and ended up a derelict in Camp 4. I owe my revival to a friendly climber named Rocky.
His advice was never to hurry, take your time, and check things a second time. Wish I'd not dropped the LSD the night before. I really do.
From Ben Hurry.[Click to View YouTube Video]Would have worked as a seasonal employee of CalPack for the rest of my life, had not there been divine intervention.
Rocky had his own problems. Mostly with women.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Lookin' back Saturday, huh?[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Ken "The Flash" - Mission Beach CA. Anyway he asked the other day if there was any good skating in the Central Valley, maybe say Merced.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Dude can't sing or box, but ya still gotta love him. Rumoured to have either attended or will be attending Facelift.
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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 - May 2, 2015 - 09:40pm PT
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In protest, I will do nothin' to nobody nohow.
Let 'em do unto others what they will, I simply won't.
A peace guy has a hard road to travel, it's best done alone.
So why are all these folks behind me?
I didn't do nothin' to nobody nohow.
Mr. Farmer Bruce, sir:
I am shut-mouth speechless.
Thank you and your/our friends.
MFM
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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 - May 3, 2015 - 04:43am PT
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Wait a minute, here...
then wait a minute over there.
Tom Waits for no man...
but it's Tom Waits for me.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Or better yet, Slow Hand.[Click to View YouTube Video]Too early to crow for day...
and you can't sleep? Like me?
then let us go to a car show!
This is "that car thread," after all.
(We're not just a bunch of shiftless bums.)
Low-riders United States of America and Mexico.
Let us roll slow and ride low from Merced to Oslo.
[I'm on the sat-phone in the glove box.]
Bueno, Carlow speakin'.
Hey, mon, it's Mouse. You busy? You wanna ride with us?
Lemme check my shedyool, Mouse. Chit yeah, bro! Where we headin'?
No where, mon.
What we gonna do when we don't get there?
Absolutely nothin', mon. We are...just west of...this place. we just caught the Tom Waits gig.
[bzzzt...silence on the line.]
Well, that was a bust.
We'll just have to go on our way without you, bud. Better luck next time.
I don't know about you, mon. I got the muunchies. Let us grab a cupcake, or some meatball sliders, then take a snooze and cruise some more.Later, skaters.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... just stopped by to encourage you to PLEASE POST that thread, that you were going to do... about the ahwahnee hotel and the medical
use, as to the war stuff...
been really hoping to see it...
hope to get that colorado road trip search, etc... been very busy, so could not get back about this...
:)
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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he screen shot idea is a fail...If you care , you can click to enlarge and the PLUS PLUS PLUS (+<,+<,+) and then it talks about an obscure route that used the pins i used to put up routes . The pins are Army surrplus and came packed in a jelly that was meant to inhibit rust , looks like it worked out well huh,
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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If I go to edit the above post I loose everything after the second 'Plus' sign.
So much for 'eyes on the prize' symbol, or this )(, .. .. )( = sweet spot . . .
hmm that seems to workout ...
not that my silly symbol wearing a hat is not not worthy of an appearance,
it is just that he or she must show at the bottom of any post,
see below.
good morning all
and now it is
time
for
the
silly
symbol
in
a
Hat
</;+D
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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 - May 3, 2015 - 09:01am PT
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The Formula
[(</;+D) + (:0) ] / [ zB ] = Flames Cure-all Tonic
patent pending
no more spending
than need be
add ons?
neebee
gypsy
feralfae
when taking all three
throwpie comes free
Our pit crew is pitiful with tire changes and oil changes.
It is fairly good with life changes, but only with the right music to motivate them.
[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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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2015 - 09:30am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
DO YOU KNOW?
If you want to find whether or not a certain video has been uploaded to SupremoTaco, all you need do is to plug the 11-digit URL (Uniform Resource Locator) into the Forum Search box and click it.
This will show you if it's been used here and where.
Try it at home!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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No I'm into reduce den seeing it again or redundency or dunce you C that it is more fun to be akimbo an' unsure if your mind is goin';
as in : "didn't i just post that last week?" when it was in -fact last year. More rULes TO eark-B sees that,,
but thanx for more instruction to follow r the inserections , don't place random letters in your you stuff. . . Your stuff is already un-read able t and I mean no trying to send cryptic messages & because no one gets it even U when you spell it Going' out that you are trying to be cute when every one and all the lurkers too, think what a. . .. .. .. hole !
puddles to you!! and puddles in wrist spoon before noon in 'zona day of ,
life if you get caught. . .
pull straws to raise gas money to get the Farook outa there
Gerrys' kids was the pitz and my climbin' bonefedese, at risk if i bailed on this
so i called in a favor of ole' Kenny Black he bought two visine bottles and i got him back stage at Tempe.... sorry that it was such carnage that stole yer thumb, what a man good on yu! haha he my one thumb brutha' frumu' nudda muthu' the 2Core ? values demands that directions be swallowed hook line and sinker, as for trip' the best time is that time as of now, info? I can not be sure though, but i can never see a way to get away.
The Jtree Fund raiser was not and if I set for COR then Yose is out - and I need to go home to the ditch - climbin' be what it is a YoYo thing, well maybe I an' the units would be better severed at the Ahwahnee, butter and bread provided by Grand ma? hmm that could work out.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Y'all of course remember when Bippin and Boppin got famous, right?
motorpsycho rocker take II
Down at the juke joint me and the boys were stompin'
Bippin' an a boppin', telling a dirty joke or two
In walked this chick and I knew she was up to something
I kissed her right there out of the blue
I said "Hey baby, meet me I'm a tough guy"
Got my cycle outside, you wanna try?
She just looked at me and rolled them big eyes
And said "Ooh I'd do anything for you 'cause you're a rocker"
[Click to View YouTube Video]
And if you're out tonight on your bike, stay Thin
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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 - May 3, 2015 - 02:04pm PT
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The Taco's own Thin Lizzie, an original and beloved by the Lord.On her behalf, since this IS Sunday, and because we flames aren't out at the drags burning rubber off our tires, nor are we at the crags burning rubber off the soles of our climbing shoes, it behooves us to recall another jail-break--one which freed the apostle Peter to go free US, in turn, from Satan's grip.
Text is Acts 5:18-20.
"They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the gates of the prison, and taking them out he said,
"Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life."…
An impromptu sermon from the bottom of the talus pile, so to speak. No need to spray from a mountain top. None of you are up there, you're here. It's cooler down here in the edge of the forest anyway.
I've known Jesus most of my life, promised Him this and that, over and over, time after time, ad nauseum.
I've known neebee just a little under three years. I think the effect she has had on my life is like the effect Jesus had on the apostles, an unruly gang if I've ever seen one.
But they were human and predictable. They needed a strong leader, an example of faith in providence, God's mercy, and faithful love.
neebee has been that for me, with her example and her prayers, and maybe for some of you.
I'm probably lots happier than I can remember being, with few exceptions, in that whole lifetime of accepting and ignoring Jesus.
And I'm past being afraid of what others may think of me for speaking up.
This is not a religion thread--it's a car thread, and a music thread, and when the urge comes on us, a climbing thread, all bound together in a ball of small threads.
Here's the skinny on my relationship with Jesus.
I wanted to be a missionary priest at a young age. I wanted to be a father to my child and raise her as a Christian when I first married. I tried Marriage Encounter with my first wife, which didn't do much except make me skeptical when she left. I became a Pseudo-Pentecostal and attended prayer meetings in Oxnard when I worked with my good friend Ike, and when I moved to Merced in '83, I went to church as I felt like it was necessary, which wasn't often.
Then, in '90, I married my own Liz and started worshiping with her family at the local Episcopal church. Then the Lord took back that gift and I began attending the Catholic services on Sunday with my aging parents, which made them glad; but when they passed, I stopped going to mass entirely.
Since I know many of you who now come to the Taco, and many who have gone away from here, too, have had very similar experiences, you can appreciate what I have gone through. It was all preamble to what's going on in my life now.
I'm now happiest when I can turn problems over to the Lord, like neebee does constantly. I considered it a cop-out for a while, but her example and her obvious joy in her faith have given me another go-round in this rodeo, and I mean to stick this horse, come what may. So I'm not copping out when I give troubles over to my friend Jesus. I believe in His power to get things done, in His own way and in His own time.
I keep trying to pray, silently or with others who feel as I do, and that's limited to neebee, because there is no Christian community here with which I care to share things. They tend to put me in a place where they feel safe from the wild boy I can be at times. So I'm happy to go it alone, with some fellowship with neebee now and again.
I'll be 67 this month and it's time I did it right and for good.
Thank you, neebee, and thank you Jesus.
A simple hymn, one of John Fahey's earliest to be recorded.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
It means to me that I need not fear the wrong trail, for Christ is all around me, like St. Patrick felt. I will stay on the right trail if I trust in Him and no other.
Now let's have us a skate party.
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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 - May 3, 2015 - 03:15pm PT
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My son Scott had a big hand in prepping the street and organizing this event, which was to re-introduce Merced to Madre Skateboards, which was here for a time and has come back again.There were ramps and rails set up between the Cinema Cafe/Mainzer theater on the sidewalk.As the crowd gathered, most of them, I could tell, knew some of the skaters who participated. Parents, of course, who were supportive of the activities of these kids with more energy than the average teen. It was cool to see no worries about helmets and pads. And if there were stoners out there, I'd have not been surprised, though there wasn't a shred of evidence of that. It was a blazing day, but the evening was soft and the moon came out full and round.
I was sorta bummed not to have seen Scott's kids, but the parents were too busy to keep an eye on the two boys, Noah and Jake. Little Lizzie and Sophie stayed home, too.
I had a great time and there is another event scheduled sometime soon over on Canal St. Jen didn't know much about it. I'll ask Scott about it when I deliver these to him, along with the dozens of other shots that I made.
I bought a maple-bacon cupcake and came home more tired than the skaters, NOT...such a huge amount of ENERGY!
Gnome tells me he began skating at ten years old as the sport was still in its infancy.
Whaddya think, Throwpie?
Bueno Boarding, succeeded by Madre Skateboards, lowered cars, and "pretty good music," and organized, too! Hard to beat.
Thank you, Scott, for making me aware of this, for being such a good person, and a source of pride for your own madre, Liz Freeman Bermingham, and myself.
Buenos noches de Merced, Taco!
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