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Jan 16, 2006 - 03:44am PT
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"Apologizing is definitely off-topic for a thread drift topic"
In that case, I apologize.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jan 16, 2006 - 04:04am PT
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Garuda guards the Emerald Buddha Temple in Bangkok
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Roger Breedlove
Trad climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Jan 16, 2006 - 09:11am PT
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A friend of mine sent me Yvon Chouinard's book, "let my people go surfing, the education of a reluctant businessman." Anyone else see it?
Not much climbing or adventure stuff. He sounds like most successful entrepreneurs who convince themselves that they are somehow doing business differently when in fact they just did it well enough to be successful.
I wonder what will happen to Patagonia when he and Melinda give it up.
What else is anyone doing on MLK day?
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2006 - 09:31am PT
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Yes....I had to go to sleep, and get up at 6:30am.....an ungodly hour, when it's work one's getting up for.
Anyway - I *did* expect the thread to focus on why we *wished* people didn't post off-topic on *serious* threads..... But, clearly, I am one of the biggest offenders.
I actually like to see the tangents interspersed amongst the more somber. It's entertaining. But I also don't like to piss people off, and I did notice when I got "told" by someone(I think it was Karl) when I drifeted on that one thread a while back(I can't remember which thread it was, but it was one in which I had absolutely no interest, except for the tangential possibilities.) i enjoy a dadaesque thread quality, and this one certainly has it!
But seriously, I thought maybe this thread could serve as a forum for politely discussing why we wished others would behave, or defending our right to misbehave. And those of us on either side of the fence might at least come to understand how our behavior was affecting others.
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Carry on with the drift.
(Hey - somebody's got to be the stratight man in the comedy.)
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Jan 16, 2006 - 09:35am PT
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To drift, or not to drift? -- That is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the flames and vitriol for drifting on a normal thread
or to come here and continue with the topic of a prior post.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 16, 2006 - 10:13am PT
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A gal I knew long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away (or so it seems), decided to give her goldfish a bath. She put it in a pan of water, and thought he'd like a warm bath. So she lit a burner and put the pan, with fish, on the stove to warm up.
Then the phone rang...
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Hootervillian
climber
high ground, twix the carson forks
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Jan 16, 2006 - 11:21am PT
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He sounds like most successful entrepreneurs who convince themselves that they are somehow doing business differently when in fact they just did it well enough to be successful.
gave up on the patagucci about when he ranted about his many homes, why modern climbers suck, and why surfing's better now.
not that he wasn't a badazz in the day but there's been a whole lot of advances in climbing since he's been 'retired'.
Lot's of people surf and climb way harder these days...
You guys know him, rub any of you the wrong way? or did i totally miss his point?
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Mary Prankster
Social climber
Bumphuque, Eqypt
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Jan 16, 2006 - 12:20pm PT
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Thread drift. Much faster than continental drift. Much shallower than snow drift. Get my drift?
The Prankster
Garuda Barracuda
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jan 16, 2006 - 12:42pm PT
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Happi wrote
"But seriously, I thought maybe this thread could serve as a forum for politely discussing why we wished others would behave, or defending our right to misbehave. And those of us on either side of the fence might at least come to understand how our behavior was affecting others. "
I thought it was a great idea for a thread but it didn't go that way so I'm going with the flow. It might be worth another try somewhere else.
I think there are threads that should drift and threads that shouldn't. One's that require serious discussion, analysis, or have some other importance like tributes to a fallen climber should be treated with more respect than light-hearted threads. Just like real life.
There's drift and there's drift. Lois drives me crazy.
Peace
karl
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Loom
climber
167 stinking feet above sea level : (
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Jan 16, 2006 - 01:10pm PT
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One nice thing about this thread is that it makes just as much sense whether you read it down from the top or up from the bottom.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2006 - 01:10pm PT
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Where IS Lois when you need her!!!??? And why is she, oddly, silent for this thread? Don't give me the "MLK Long Weekend BS!" I have a conspiracy rumour fire to tend to, dammit.
Well, maybe if she reads this thread, she woul dbe gracious enough to start one to broach the topic. I think hers would carry a lot more weight. Although it would be really funny if she did, and the response was exactly the same.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 16, 2006 - 01:25pm PT
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You don't need Lois, you need a good creative original imagination to exploit it and have a productive result.
Now get to work and quit phucking wasting your time just babbling!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2006 - 01:41pm PT
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I must have just eaten too much sugar and my brain is temporarily dead....I have no idea what you are talking about.
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pc
climber
Eastside
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Jan 16, 2006 - 01:51pm PT
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Speaking of Cisco Routers, did you know Ashcroft negotiated and got level 15 access for the gov't to all routers? Gov't intercept at will...
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2006 - 01:54pm PT
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But back to my sugar overdose. I am crashing fasssssssssssssssssttttttttttttttttt...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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....drrrrrr. I neeed coffeeeee....
Or mabye it's just because I had to get up so early. I'm having my midaftrenoon lull a little early. Yes! That must be it!
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Jan 16, 2006 - 01:54pm PT
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This thread like box bad fortune cookies.
Lois like what happens when food disagreeable.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Jan 16, 2006 - 02:26pm PT
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When you can snatch the fortune cookie from my hand, it will be time for you to leave, grasshopper.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 16, 2006 - 02:32pm PT
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rec.climbing is dead.:-(
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jan 16, 2006 - 05:13pm PT
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Still, not That far from gwondonaland.
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Loom
climber
167 stinking feet above sea level : (
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Jan 16, 2006 - 06:16pm PT
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I believe it is spelled Gondwanaland.
If there are any people from Gondwanaland visiting this site maybe they can tell us.
Now, would they be Gondwanalanders or Gondwanish?
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