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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 14, 2014 - 07:21pm PT
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To the mice in the box with the gifts,
Wishing each of you a special Merry Christmas.
The Little-Known Rat Race Choir.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 15, 2014 - 09:11am PT
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Rappelling and water hoses.
Water they thinking?
And bluebirds flying up noses
Snot as bad as you're thinking.
"I brake for rappels"
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A word from Blue Bird Water Hoses and Blue Water Climbing Ropes.
"I hope you were thrilled,"
The little bird trilled.
"You could have been killed
And your wife gotten billed."
Using a hose to go down the Nose
Won't get an interview with Charlie Rose.
Nov. 13: In this excerpt of “Charlie Rose,” a conversation about "Rosewater," Jon Stewart's debut film. It is based on the real-life experience of Maziar Bahari. He was accused of being an American spy, was sent to prison, and was tortured by Iranian authorities until his release. Charlie is joined by director Jon Stewart; Gael García Bernal, the star; and Maziar Bahari, on whom this movie is based.
http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-11-13/jon-stewart-s-film-rosewater-charlie-rose
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 15, 2014 - 11:33am PT
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Juan Wayne, take note.Evelyn Way has her own way of showing her love for America (aka AmeriKKKa).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 15, 2014 - 06:58pm PT
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Andes candy.
Ishinca.
Shaqsha.
Ranrapalca.
Vallunaraju.
Pisco Oeste.
Chopicalqui.
Stunning photos and amost an actual story-line.
Very glass-of-wine, take-off-your-socks-and-hit-the-couch-worthy video.
Enjoy at your own (very slight) risk.[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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Nov 16, 2014 - 08:14am PT
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Good morning, Cosmic! Recognize this painting?
Good morning, feralfae!
Good morning, T Hocking!
Good morning, Amyjo!
Good morning, Central Valley climbers!
"Look, up in the sky!"
"It's birds!"
"No, looks like pigs."
"But pigs don't fly?"
"They're just pigeons, dumb basses. Pig-birds."
Good morning, Blitzo, wherever you may be.
Good morning, zBrown!
Good morning, neebee!
Good morning, MFM...you've been busted!There spelling sinks, what else can I say? Well, plenty.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor climberer
That struts and frets his hour upon the fire escape
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Were I sponsored this, too, should not pass.
But as it is, I'm caught out,
And feel free to call me "ass."
--Much Adoo-doo About Less than Nothing
WHAT I REALLY NEED IS A RIDE TO FRESNO early tomorrow morning. I have an appointment to have lab work and chest x-ray in preparation for hernia surgery NEXT Monday.
Should anyone be traveling the 99 south through Merced, please send me a P.M. or call me. My appt. is for 9:30 and the VA is about a mile, mile-an-a-half from 99 on Clinton Ave. near the 41 in Fresno.
209-947-5559.
Thank you for any consideration. I'm broke, so the bus is out. No one I know here has a car, and both sons have to go to work. The VA van needs more time in advance for notification than I could provide...and I'm getting old and forgetful and should have arranged it when I was there last, but so it goes.
I can always re-schedule, but would rather not.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 16, 2014 - 09:28am PT
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Water off a duck's back, really. Like smoke through a duck's nostrils.
The elevator don't go to the top of Middle Earth, not any longer, as it's being replaced with a n00bie. But it always was a crazy place.
There are no singers on the roof tops
BLR is pulling out all of their 'stops.'
They can then do their version of 'doo-wops'
While standing on the corner waiting for the cops
To come and roust the Mouse who's known here as 'Pops.'
There is no joy in Mudville
And the Raiders are heading for a perfect season.
San Diego is coming to town.
The Raiders will be eligible with a perfect imperfect record for the NFL's remedial course.
They probably will cruise through the grammar section, hopefully, knowing the past imperfect so well.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Nov 16, 2014 - 09:33am PT
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You do all know that:
you'll wonder where the yellow went when you apply Pepsodent, right?
So what color are all those trouble makers in the Middle East?
Is there a solution, or a paste?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 16, 2014 - 09:40am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Kafka esque... is the 'vator out, was it out at the time of your violation?
Is this?. This is actionable
Traipsing on Meeceis is not to be took.....
If fire escape is what they are worried about.....
Then a call is gone out....
We will give them Flames…
The army of mouse!!!
and we all will I will respond.
Got a feind of a lawyer friend????
I betcha’ you do,
Have it well crafted
The letter should spell out
What you can and will do.
Own their azzes If you want to
or
start an action and move with the threat,
cost em money, (could get ya put out Doh)
Maybe to rash
But let us all know if letters written on your behalf
Are an appropriate response??
I spent all night in hopes of My byrr story some how coming out
Went by way of old thread and saw Flyn’ Brian’s first post
talking to that chopneeds toget the chop piece of poo ca ca.
So the last that I schnook and now that is deleted and was good and not saved
I wish that I were HE going south when I pleased or anywhere really.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 16, 2014 - 09:54am PT
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I laud your good intentions, neighbor.
Tis to your name's luster, Gnomeo,
That a shine hath been applied
To a halo which waits on thee.
Pray, hold your pen and sheath your blade.
These know-nothing knaves are but sheep
With sharp tongues and low charms:
T'were good if they chewed the cud on Berkeley's farms.
But being not Berkeley enough,
They must act as if they are tough.
Though it pains me to see such foolery,
Soon enough shall their curls fill the woolery.
Justice. It's not just for people anymore.
Oh, that I might escape this fiery trap
For which I am truly to blame.
This I might cunningly arrange
With a shout out to another Flame,
But gently come and treat with them
On my behalf and then we shall laugh
And laugh and laugh and laugh some more.
And then we can do lunch.
"Otay?"
Gnome, can you give me a ride to Fresno? I'm desperately desperate.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 16, 2014 - 10:04am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]REAL for REAL?
NO... KNOW not a good soul from this end
I wrack the painbrain pan ... to a fault
got s kids sunday to do
be back at ya' soon
if I can help though And
Soon
yikes
it is one or -3
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 16, 2014 - 10:24am PT
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Non, non, mon ami.
I was, how mice say, being facetious.
Humor is the best medicine.
God smiles and give us trials,
Why for I don't know.
Churchly stated,
He's not dead,
Just a little under-rated.
Most folks like the old boy. I do. He'll fix it. I won't die from not making a lab appointment and the world with all its splendor will keep on turning.
Jesus told me not to worry. Ask neebee.
We've done some prayer work on it. I've done all I can do. It's up to the Cosmos.
Cosmo? COSMO?! Slowly I turned, like a 33.3 record...
CCR/Cosmo's Factory Outlet (full album)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VG4JaOUxuE
RAMBLE TAMBLE
Move
Down the road I go
Move
Down the road I go
There's mud in the water
Roach in the cellar
Bugs in the sugar
Mortgage on the home
Mortgage on the home
There's garbage on the sidewalk
Highways in the back yard
Police on the corner
Mortgage on the car
Mortgage on the car
Move
Down the road I go
They're selling independence
Actors in the White House
Acid indigestion
Mortgage on my life
Mortgage on my life
Move
Down the road I go
Ramble tamble
Ramble tamble
Ramble tamble
A Stroll Near Near Trapps With a Gnome and a Mouse
"Mouse, let me show you this roof over here."
"That one with the overhang?"
"Uh-huh."
"Done it before?"
"Uh-huh, many times."
"It looks hard."
"Naw, tis only Five Phoresy."
"Lay on, MacDuffer."
"Tis in the bag, good sir."
"Take my belay and go forth and I shall follow."
"Nay, tis your beast to slay."
"The hell you say. I'll yet wait another day. I felt a raindrop."
"As you say, sir. As you choose."
"Five Phoresy, let us hie to yon coffee barn. I'll buy."
[Gnome falls in a dead faint. Mouse kneels at his side.]
"Alas, Gnomeo, wherefore art thou, Gnomeo?
Would that my tongue were slashed from my yawp!"
[He jumps up. Running off stage left, he shouts into the wings.]
"Say there, Hay! RichRoss! Gunkie! I need some jug band music over here! Make haste!"
[Curtain.]
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 16, 2014 - 01:02pm PT
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A Direct ! (Not your left exit don-perri yong)
The lost World Direct of the near traps
L.W.D. g.o.d's first ascent. with a barber,'breach' belay
L.W.D. with B.B.B,
So no blow it mon or see the sole of your own fooot
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above is for mellow yuks and
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below isfor yukktyphox
jimbyrr
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Chop your own choss if that is your thing
if you ever drop anything on my party again
I chop you>.
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now underneath many feel like this song saysV V V V V
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some thing hear tyo ,make a doh smolee smile
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The best in the sak, to kool with and look at
seem to have the below temperament V V V V
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 16, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
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Just went back in time and ether to the page numbered 500 on this thing of ours.
Looking at zBrown's string of videos, third post down, for some inspiration, it's too gosh darn bad but eight of the ten have been deleted by the Youtube account holder or 'arrested' by the Web Sheriff for copyright infringement.
First time that I have ever seen that one.
So what did that leave, my darling young one?
It left us the poorer for their loss from our pitiful laughingstock of a thread.
It tragically underlined the fact that you never can tell.
And it's a hard rain that may fall...but I don't think it's gonna today.
It left us these two:
Bob/Highway 51/Elston Gunn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8df0zNQHjwE
Bob/Town Hall Live/Elston Gunn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9D5R516XUE
Two-gunn zBrown shootin' down the juggler AND the clown
A quick brown fox with a gunn that cocks then talks
He'll do fancy-shnancy tricks for you.
Let 'er rip, Doc--we never get tired of seein' ol' Ringo get all sweaty and Latin-talkin'. He's no Daisy, not yet.
Howard Darby/Trick Shooter--the Henry Barber of the Wild West in cowboy boots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfr6hU5fic
And a little Lida Rose goes
a lo-0-o-0-o-0-ong time, GI.
She's doing tricks back on page 500, Web Sheriff! I'm tellin' ya, it's quite a show! 'member thet burro from Peru we saw last night?
I scored my ride to Fresno tomorrow morning. My bud Skip came through. Whew!
I was hoping for an adventure, for all that.
On the order of, let's say, a guy that looks like me but with a big gut like Oliver Hardy's, with an electrically-powered sleigh, unlimited generosity, and a smile to beat Tony Bennett's, and a guffaw to match Tami's.
We could say he looks more like a gnome than an elf, too, especially with his hat on. Real fake fur seal trim around da brim. Of course it's da brim. Cruising at altitude in a flying sleigh, you need it AND the polarized Ray-Bans. And he's got a cigaret holder like Hunter S.
He'd take me, but first he's an appointment himself at 06:00 in Nome, AK, with Nonny Nonny, the song writer. They are working on a parody of Jingle Bell Rock called Jingle Bell Schlock and he needs to work out the chorus, pick a bass player, you know, the usual trimmings for a production like this. He's also bringing along Yankovich, who's 'interested.'
Barring fog, sleet, rain, snow, lightning, and pigeons in the landing zone on the roof (you didn't hear that from me--shh), we should be in Fresno by nine. Plenty of time to stop at Starbucks. And he's buying!
"You're a saint, dude."
"That's a big load of bushwah. I'm actually Jewish. My name is Nick, but it's Nick Tucci. The Boys who back MY action call me Nicky Two Cheese. They like presents, but they are happy with groveling. It's tough when you're this heavy. And it dirties my beard. You want a shot of espresso in that Sumatran, Mouse?"
"No, I gotta raft of tests comin'--in fact, make that de-caf, Otay?"
"Otay's in San Diego, dude. We're good to go if you want to when you're finished with your labs. You know the Brujo de la Playa? He's an old surfing bud of mine."
"Yep, it's a small world in a big state."
"Glad I don't live here. International = pan-global you know. Can't have any favorites. Need to live in non-territory and nobody claims the pole but MooseDrool. He's a funny guy."
"Yeah, but he doesn't believe in you. He doesn't even believe in his own powers sometimes. He'd have been among the world's top climbers if he'd just started a little younger."
"I'm giving him a rack for the Holiday, and when he comes around to believing in me, then I'll give him a lifetime supply of bras. He needs some re-direction, that fellow. Otherwise, he's a prince. And he knows his beer."
"We better get over to the hospital, JollyJowls."
"Now, MO, get it right. You can just call me Cheesie."
"Gotcha."
"Mouse, you ever gone climbing at The Trapps in New York State?"
"No, I haven't. Brujito is the roof expert in our gang, and he's not sanguine about the humidity. He likes the dry out west."
"I don't blame him. I sweat like a mule when I'm there. Foops is the hardest thing I've done there."
"Who's your second?"
"Just goes by the name Gnome. He's real solid."
And off we go, down Clinton, under the overpass. Through the forest of flags in front of the Vampire's Castle.
Now that's an adventure, as much as I can handle with a hernia.
Ciao, bellas.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 16, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... wow, you DID get the ride... wow...
say, now, as to the fire-escape...
say, maybe a plan???
could you see if they allow permission for 'legit photographers' for
a paper or magazine, etc, to have paid or signed permits, to use the fire-escape to roof, etc, FOR their purpose of photography?
then, if they do:
could you go to the local paper, or some local store, or someone and see if they'd 'hire you for be their photographer' for some very cheap pay?
and then, would they allow you up, to 'do your perhaps once a month'
small photo shoot?
or, would the building let you sign some kind of a waver, if you explained that your are a 'man on the street, merced photographer'?
you'd have to get some kind of real honest proof though, to do it correct...
would this be somehow possible... can you ask the building owner, etc??
just curious... sure do not want you busted and kicked out of your
'home base' ... :)
thanks for the happy good morning...
i LOVE tree-birds... coming, sitting, surveying and then: going...
job well done, there, mouse...
:)
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Nov 16, 2014 - 03:37pm PT
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Well here's one to try to make up for the censorship.
Like Tom Petty said (sort of), "it ain't nothing to you, but it's spomething to me". Hopefully, these simplifying techniques can be applied to a not-so-young athlete(ss). Me, I don't use no stinkin' surgery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzGrTYRIyt0
mfm
Which ones are you talking about?
Give me something like this
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1954729&tn=500
and I'll see what I can do.
I see some of the Jimi Hendrix stuff got whacked.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 16, 2014 - 03:45pm PT
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Aw, gee, shucks, it's nice to see you smile, neebee!
You've had a tough year. Not to worry, the photos that I took today were shot from INSIDE the door of the fifth floor and from the landing on the fourth on the other side, too.
It's too much hassle to hassle these bastions. I'll just do what I did this morning. Frankly, the sunrises look pretty much the same, but days like today are really worth shooting. I get out there, virtually every morning, but it's just a habit now.
Hardly Visible (bless you for the advice, Kevin) mentioned my plethora of "Merced sky shots" at the COR gathering; and it was a gentle chide that perhaps another subject might be good. Well, given that I've no wheels, it's tough. I'd love to be out in the country and get shots that I've done before in different light, with higher or lower fStops involved; and with this new tripod, which improves focus immeasurably.
And as far as the sunrises go, they are best in cloudy weather, dark like this morning. These fall colors will be gone by this weekend, as Thanksgiving is the time that the leaves have mostly fallen and bare branches are exposed (and more birds, one would think, but they are hidey little things, very quick to move before I can set the focus. It's aggravating fun, like a tough boulder problem.
Say, there, not to change the subject (HAHAHA), but do you know what an "angle piton" is? I've heard tell of 'em. I think they are related to "bongs," but you should ask Lilabiene, because I know she knows.
Thanks for the prayers. Thank you, thank you, thank you, as I've said before, countless times.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 16, 2014 - 03:50pm PT
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Drop your guns and reach for this guy.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Rated PIC (Plllitically Incorrect).
Ratings lie. But there is canned heat here, and it's not coolio for young eyes or young girls. Can throwing is hazardous to your health. Get tough with the hard-case at the door, and you got BIG TROUBLE.
Big Trouble in Little China/Coupe de Ville with John Carpenter singing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAyoUxd1pfg
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