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can't say
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Pasadena CA
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Nov 14, 2005 - 03:49pm PT
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Hey Mike, don't nuke it. It's a worthy thread if it dies now.
But otherwise, when you log in, hit your edit button on your, original post. It should have a box at the bottom that says "delete post". Check it and then "save changes" and viola, thread nuked, or that's how it works for me at least.
If you don't see an edit button when you log in, then the ST world is not an equal one that's for sure.
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Landgolier
climber
the flatness
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Nov 14, 2005 - 03:56pm PT
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Man, I wasn't saying Bridwell or Largo aren't studly dudes, just that those pics are about the exact opposite of the two 3 amigos pics from before. Hell, I wish I could live a life that would leave me looking like B. at his age (and be in that good of a physical condition).
"Parallel Universe" was indeed the term that came to mind when I found that site, then I realized those guys do live in a parallel universe: Washington State.
It's not like this is the first time a ST thread has spiraled off topic and degenerated into philosophical debates and random pic posting. I didn't want to do this, but I'm exercising the nuclear option:
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2005 - 04:01pm PT
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thanks for the ST lesson :-)
Wow Lois! I'm glad you’re here with these great perspectives.
Thanks, mg
edit: I think that lower picture from the parallel universe is from a “story board” for the new Prana Liz C. line. :-)
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matisse
Trad climber
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Nov 14, 2005 - 04:33pm PT
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Please don't delete this thread. I too, appreciate Lois' perspectives. I've met Jim several times. There's a magentism about him.
Lines on someones face doesn't make them unattractive - it's a interesting life lived. sweet young things are just that, sweet young things. It takes time to make 'em interesting.
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10b4me
Trad climber
On that V2 problem at the Happies
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Nov 14, 2005 - 09:19pm PT
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tradhog,
climbing is not a beauty pageant.
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crotch
climber
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Nov 15, 2005 - 01:55pm PT
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LEB wrote:
The funny thing about "chemistry" is that it is unpredictable. To a large extent people are attracted to persons of the opposite sex who meet the "ideal" of what is considered desirable but the specifics are widely variable. People can have strong attraction to persons who vary widely from the "ideal" and this is what whe think of as "chemistry." It defies description. Might even have something to do with pheremones or as I like to think of it - "past lives."
The nose knows.
Polymorphisms in the HLA-linked olfactory receptor genes in the Hutterites.
Eklund AC, Belchak MM, Lapidos K, Raha-Chowdhury R, Ober C.
Genes in the MHC have been associated with mate choice and odor preferences in a variety of animals. Although the role of HLA genes in human mate choice has been controversial, studies in the Hutterites have demonstrated fewer than expected numbers of couples who match for an HLA haplotype, suggesting that in this population there is avoidance of mates with HLA haplotypes similar to one's own haplotype. Recently, 18 olfactory receptor (OR) genes have been mapped to the HLA region, telomeric to the HLA-F locus, providing a potential mechanism for HLA-based odor recognition and perhaps mate preferences in humans.
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steelmnkey
climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Nov 15, 2005 - 02:14pm PT
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radical wrote:
There is no getting around how strong a 200 pounders forearms have to be to climb 5.11, 5.12 or above.
Ain't that the truth. I been struggling with that one for YEARS. I'm sure Largo has lots of experience that predates mine by many years. It would have been interesting to see how I would have climbed back when I was young and silly and strong as hell from lots of time spent in the weight room. A few years ago, I went on a dedicated 12-week program and lost 23 lbs (down to a featherweight 191 for me). I was lifting weights the whole time, but also doing a lot of high intensity aerobic junk (running, road and mtn biking, etc.). It was pretty shocking how much power I felt like I had on the rock at the end of that time. Routes that I'd been just able to climb started feeling like warm ups. Scary. You'd think that would be enough to keep me there, but food is a harsh mistress.
That strength to weight ratio is absolute.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Nov 15, 2005 - 08:01pm PT
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Actually, I think this is the version of the shot which was used:
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Nov 15, 2005 - 11:11pm PT
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hanging on Your wall, Randy?
Nice
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Nov 15, 2005 - 11:18pm PT
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Wow, nice one Randy!! Nice photo.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Nov 15, 2005 - 11:19pm PT
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i know this is gonna sound kinda wierd, but for me, JL's best writing has been his eulogy/obit's of our fellow travellers who have gone on before. his account of billy westbay's busting the move into the next incarnation, i have it memorized; and his obit of yabo hangs next to my computer, cut out of the magazine with scissors and pasted to my filing cabinet with refridgerator magnets. brilliant writing about unique individuals who have shaped the way i chose to live my life.
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 15, 2005 - 11:39pm PT
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bvb -- would they be easy to post here?
mg
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Landgolier
climber
the flatness
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Nov 16, 2005 - 12:35am PT
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Yeah, the picture with the shadows and the smokes is way more classic and a better portrait, but I was posting it as a followup to the Huber Sandwich one, which is Bridwell in the exact same pose as the arms crossed version, only decades later. And I'm not taking any responsibility for any pheromones that got released over the highly sculpted german meatsacks, I only put it up for the humor factor. Y'all want Pr0и, there's a whole big internet out there for that.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Nov 16, 2005 - 12:42am PT
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bvb -- would they be easy to post here?
i'd have to type them in from scratch. but it would be a labor of love. i'll get to it...they are amazing pieces of writing, and strike right to the heart if you'd ever met/hung with the guys, altho JL, who is pathologically modest despite being the best and most consistantly excellent writer of climbing lore for the last 25 years, will never admit it.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Nov 16, 2005 - 09:05am PT
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bvb, that'd be great if you could post those obits. As I posted earlier, I didn't know that Billy had gone on to the next dimension. RIP BW and JY.
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Trashman
Trad climber
SLC
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Nov 16, 2005 - 11:10am PT
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I'm w/ bvb on this one. can't tell you how many times i've thought of friends who've passed and remembered the line that went something like
" . . I hope he's out there chalking the holds for us, showing us the way in the next life, like he did in this one."
(apologies in advance to Largo for butchering the quote)
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