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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2015 - 07:36pm PT
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Bruce Hamilton, TNF designer and VP in the seventies and eighties, was the biggest Buddy Holly fan from Vanderbilt I ever met.
Mark Hannel, who worked in my shop and then ran the Palo Alto FO, was the biggest Emmy Lou Harris fan from Walnut Creek I ever met.
He also wore the same raggedy-ass rd head band I ever saw and drove a junked out old Ford Courier like me. One of the most laid-back individuals I ever met, I've not seen him since around 1980, though I've tried to contact him.
Mark McAllister.Mark, according to Larry Jones, is in Richmond and has a girl friend and has gigged in the area. He came by the FO in the seventies but I've not seen him since, and he was said to be on narcotics. Tsk-tsk.
That was news to Larry, however. His name's McAllister, so maybe we can just scotch that rumor. He's alive and hooked up, that's what matters. He could show up at any time.
Still no word on Yeates.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Feb 17, 2015 - 07:42pm PT
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one more...I'm her biggest fan.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2015 - 08:14pm PT
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Hot Tuna - 99 Year Blues
Well, now give me my pistol, man
And three round balls
I'm gonna shoot everybody
That I don't like at all
Like at all, like at all
Like at all, like at all
Gotta .38 special, man and .45 frame
You know the thing don't miss
'Cause I got dead aim
Got dead aim, got dead aim
Got dead aim, got dead aim
Well, the world is a drag
And my friends can't vote
Gonna make me a connection
And score some dope
Go, get high, go, get high
Go, get high, go, get high
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Feb 17, 2015 - 09:07pm PT
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now i Effed up big time.
I am big enough to admit it,
i went to far,
I took a swipe at a big dogs legacy, and paid a price by a hammering by that most talented largest craftsman . . .the big fish !
i am sorry, And it was not said In disrespect.
it was the passion what got me.
( PASSION: THE JOINING IN FLAMES OF MIXED EMOTIONS).... conflagration is a better word,
but my better half, also aghast a what I said,
said make the apology understandable,
a regretful acknowledgment of an offense or failure.
I am contrite :
adjective
feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt.
"a broken and a contrite heart"
synonyms: remorseful, repentant, penitent, regretful, sorry, apologetic, rueful, sheepish,
hangdog, ashamed, chastened, shamefaced, conscience-stricken, guilt-ridden
so I am asking for forgiveness, maybe just not in the right place.
what shall I do ?
No JOKES,
please accept my sincerest apology
I was wrong to bring up karma.
I am sorry for what I said.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2015 - 09:25pm PT
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Hang dog your head, old Tom Dooley,
Hand down his head, Monsieur Guillotine,
(Hang on that cross, MIster ScapeGnome)
Hang in there but never cry.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 17, 2015 - 10:35pm PT
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Look , seek and you may find,
The bird of paradise mates but what a dance it must do.
I'm Off the useful full service box reduced to the Shablet so only words.
But words will do.
Now I have to leave hang dawg in too,
That was a crux. . .
I will only cry in private,
Some times it works the hart does a body good,
I am scared to speak. . .
Adult
Did you make it to high school
Tomorrow we get to see what my daughter will have to survive,
My family sucks my wife's family sucks more.
Massive kudos to families who surf and climb generations worth of
Stories of grandpa taking 'em out for ice cream
Did I share that fishing story?
I think I did then wusses out?
Some times delete is the better part of valor
I just think it is pansy azz by the way have you seen the aspiring mountaineers thread asking for recommendations, of bigger than the Killer Washington?
Just yesterday a solo hiker died in the hundred mile an hour winds.half way up I think or down?
The thread generator says he and his girl have done the mnt twice and are ready for only bigger hills with more prominence higher bigger I can not keep to a strain of thought,
That was it, I recommended enchainments linking summits and such, the Shablet has just spit out the word suchlike, real sixth grade education this one rightch here.
I said to check out the continental divide. . .
Another classic thread that I hope is a troll was answered by three venerable Topians who posted in a chain your gonna die, each taking one of the words although it all may be one person, with three avatars don't taze me bro for saying is Tad Three Card Monty? he was
"Gonna" or maybe the "your" I can't remember and not gonna go looking
The thread was from a man who claims he has getting into rescue work helicopter evacuation
And the like. He says he needs an XL sized harness and what should he get ?
Oh man I'm lost and gonna drink some .....see you I the funny pages. . .
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2015 - 11:16pm PT
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CURRENT EVENTS
for the masses.
"Stories of grandpa taking 'em out for ice cream"
Google Doodle is not an ice cream flavor.
Alessandro Volta would have been 270 years old today.
Volta, California
Volta is a census-designated place in Merced County, California. It is located 5 miles west-northwest of Los Banos, at an elevation of 105 feet. The population was 246 at the 2010 census. Wikipedia
Area: 4.434 sq miles (11.48 km²)
La Volta
http://www.danceshistoricalmiscellany.com/2014/05/dancing-lewd-la-volta.html
[Click to View YouTube Video]Charry Garcia is not a fan of ice cream.
He plays a mean berimbau, though.
The berimbau consist of a wooden stick which is strung with a steel string to form the bow shape, a gourd with an opening on one side which acts as a resonator, a coin or stone, a thin bamboo stick, and is played with a basket shaker called caxixi.As for the bowed instrument, the Amatis made plenty in the mid-16th C.As to the harp, it's ancient
Voltaic cell
A penny. A nail. A lemon. Insulated wire.
Why did the battery go shopping? It was out of juice.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 03:46am PT
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The American Party Scene in the 19th Century
"What do I know? I know nothing."
It's still true today. We are grossly misled and unfortunately misinformed
as to actions of factions in days gone by.
It seems slavery doubled in the US because of the cotton gin.
More southern gents began raisin' more cotton, alienatin' more blacks by beatin' they backs,
but Django gonna git 'em, boy.
The Know-Nothing Party
http://law.jrank.org/pages/8005/Know-Nothing-Party.html
Anbinder, Tyler. G. 1995. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/82009/sec_id/82009
Tyler Anbinder, a specialist in 19th Century American politics and a consultant for the film had this to say in an interview on the History News Network of NPR (December 23, 2002):
“Scorsese has over-dramatized the amount of bloodshed and death there would have been in a pre Civil War riot. There were a couple of riots like that one depicted in the movie between native born Protestants and Catholics in the neighborhood, but, at most, they resulted in a death or two, not the huge carnage you see in the scene.”
The slogan “No Irish Need Apply” was more common in England, especially London, where it was turned into a song.
Joe Glazer/No Irish Need Apply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXkgUqD4_EY
A form of Knowing-Nothingism lives here in The Promised Land of Tacos.
In view of this, I'd like to quote Ari Shamron. "It's better to be a pickpocket than a mugger." (Thank you, Daniel Silva.)
I will be the first to admit I was perplexed by the film Gangs of New Yawk.
I had read the book, after all, and things just did not add up somehow.
I didn't like the acting of Daniel Day Lewis to begin with, but that is pure subjectivity on my part.
I had an equal amount of skepticism about the Priest's Son,
who was such an appealing model of nobility when played by such a matinee idol as Leonardo da Caprio.
In power struggles or in struggles to survive, lies come thick and fast from both sides.
Plus ca change.
It would be fascinating to see how our foreign contingent of posters view the antics of our vaunted Democraic System,
the so-called American Way.
R. Crumb had a field day with this type of thing, in his day.
The suddenly bloody fight between the Satirists of Paris and the rival gang,
the Muslim Fanatics, seems to be a latter-day version of the same sort of turmoil extant
in the time before the War for Southern Freedom.
And then there's the KKK. And the atrocities against the blacks is the most prominent feature of the Klan's dark history simply, I feel, because the Jews were too smart to stick around down in Dixie,
whereas the Negro Population were necessarily stuck in one place,
at least until Detroit became as accepting of them for their cheap labor as the Erie Canal builders had been of the Irish for the exact same reason.
This is not the place and time to go into all of this history, for it is far to complex (not to mention OFF TOPIC) to discuss here.
It is meant as balm for my buddy, my little brother, whom I don't want committing the same sins as rSin and having to pay the price of total ostracism and eventual banning.
Go now in peace to love and serve YOUR lord while I do my thing with mine.
Amen.
If you don't believe me, maybe you should watch this documentary from the archive of American dramatic historical events, University of the Tube.
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I once asked Boomer, my dad, what he would like most if he could have it.
His quick reply was, "I'd like a Mercedes." He drove a Mecury Monterey, one of the US auto industry's attempts at an American Mercedes.
In my day, the Beemer was the hot item. I had to settle for a Chevette.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 05:17am PT
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"You booze, you loose."--Boomer
It doesn't apply just to golf, ya dingbat looper.
"Cinderella story, from outta nowhere. This shot could lose him the Masters."--Carl Spackler, Caddy Shack
[Click to View YouTube Video]Back in the day, golf was a bastion of civility and manners, codified by the USGA's rules of golf.
At the same time, there were no rules governing who could belong to golfing "clubs."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 05:51am PT
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill
"I contented myself with trying to make him a man, such a man as he might have been," writes Stegner in the book's introduction, "with his legend at his feet like a lengthening shadow."
Defriending Joe Hill: Stegner's lesson for the Oscars
http://www.hcn.org/articles/defriending-joe-hill-stegners-lesson-for-the-oscars
The above article from High Country News lays out the same idea as the one upthread about the Know-Nothings and Martin Scorcese's movie Gangs of New York.
As for Stegner, his novel Joe Hill is a very good read.
I'm still trying to find a way into the novel I'd like to write about my Nana and her man, Leonard Larson the heavy equipment operator. I'd like it if it could be half as good as Wallace Stegner's Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Or the one Ring Lardner wrote about Jack Keefe, the ballplayer, in You Know Me, Al, another of my favorites from the early twentieth century; meaning that you know how I hate outlining and have relied on SOC and whimsy.
"Jack Keefe is a headstrong, gullible, cheap, naive, self-centred, egotistical and uneducated rube -- but he has a strong pitching arm."--Wiki
Words of Whimsy about Lenna and Timmsy would be too hard to rhyme, too. I haven't the need or desire to write whimsically about my own fam dambly, or do I?
You think you know me, pal, but I'm still not here.
Were it a song that I was writing, it would be "gal" instead of pal.
"Where'd ya learn to write like that, MFM?"
"Incomprehensible gibberish and drunken mumbles."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 06:01am PT
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This belongs on this Flames thread.
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I'm proud of Rick Monday every day of the week.
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When you know how you feel, it's easy to deal
With the other guy.
SHOW him he's wrong, and EDUCATE him instead of bombing his place of worship, disrespecting his flag, the symbol of UNITY, which is never more than an ideal in the first place, or by burning his store to the ground.
Stained glass shards from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
in BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, in 1963.
Four girls died when it was bombed and this galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
RIP:
Carole Robertson, 14.
Addie Mae Collins, 14.
Bernadine Mathews, 15.
Denise McNair, 11.
Sarah Collins, Addie Mae's younger sister, survived.
This is all on Wikipedia.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 18, 2015 - 06:36am PT
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hey there say, mouse... just sholved drive...
say, i got married in 1972--so never saw tv etc after that...
say, wow, i never knew this about rick monday... will read up on it...
thanks for sharing...
:)
not able to see other stuff yet... will still check out the neat finlandia, later... and those little ol' 'in sync' critters...
THEY will MAKE MY day, later, :))
i miss the birds, here...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 06:52am PT
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We love to get out and away into the wild
We hate to read of or hear 'bout the death of a child
Because some moron heard another moron talking and went wild
and decided to...
shoe bomb a plane-load of travelers
fly an airplane into a skyscraper or pentagon
kidnap an innocent heiress
send a letter bomb
murder a pregnant actress and her friends
douse a field of weed with paraquat
drive drunk in spite of all warnings
or use a book of matches instead of a Zippo
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 07:21am PT
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If Jorma an Jack were forming the band today could it be Hot Shit!! Come to think of it, I don't think that name would be allowed in the Finnish Brotherhood Hall.
Where did HT come from? "I really would like to know" - The clue is here:
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 18, 2015 - 07:35am PT
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Now iz the winter of my dis.
[Click to View YouTube Video] And the fish takes out the family and friendz in way to many ways I maybe shouldering a long simmering grudge me thinkz...
that And I got me no flapo flab hiding my junk from me,
and some sort of europa ducation past vocational school
I needto retoll, and then retool,
BY the way it looked
not that I looked
I Mattie , argh! that I was so on with an ol' jump rat
the albatross, like ollfred E, Madd I was ...
with O'blame, and shots of Jamison iz ya feelin' it
son? see here is Otto's list his dad was no slouch either,
https://portal.slac.stanford.edu/sites/ard_public/people/tora/Documents/Publications%20List.pdf
my Cherry got popped In every way there is to pop one when the listed one,
blessed be he, and me, went to a school with a gun range in it's basement
Why , because it went well with the Presidential, white house Bowling ally
Five lanes
TEE HEE! HEE !!
I seem ed Diquieted ed H works with the Partical collider bossman who's adoppted grand
fathers and MINE too were The Hanz And Fritz.,
thats at the DAWN WALL
OF TIME HANDS AND FEET!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 07:40am PT
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The last thing I heard, one of the Twin Yellow-jacket Gnome Brothers, sez to the dynosower, 'bite me". He did. Woulda been a good name for a band though.
What TYj Gnome Brothers? No, Dinosowers.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 07:54am PT
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I went trollin' for tuna 'n' came back accompanied by two of the Tuna Hotties, the groupies of the group.
They were inventive.
So was I. Normally trollin' never catches any self-respectin' tunas.
The Hotties weren't self-respectin' in the slightest bit, however.
They said they liked a bit more flash than Hot Tuna provided.
They got taken by the spinnin' spoon.
They offered to cook me a tuna casserole but I asked 'em not to and would they please just give me a tuna sandwich.
[Blush]
I've always been a huge fan of Kinks.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 18, 2015 - 08:07am PT
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There was a bunch of very funny on topic
(cause I can't stand me CRYPTIC )
abrv. that could m/w soo many dif. things that it just seems
like a lazy op thatis F .O .T
nothat it is safev to go into the D.E. WTF?
Water.
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