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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Bo diddley caught a nanny goat,
To make his pretty baby a Sunday coat,
Bo diddley caught a bear cat,
To make his pretty baby a Sunday hat
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
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Did lance show?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Live like you like it!
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"Oh, ho, ha-ha!"
FOR my Liz, whose ashes adorn this beach
Now out of sight but never out of reach.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Ho this place,
I am that ugly reminder
You drank too much
You drink too much
Don't drink anymore !
If what you do,
For fun has become
Your Nightmare and
Not your dream
It is time to stop the
Nightmare Activity
The time to stop !
You all know the sayings better than I
MOcERATION?! Weak sauce!
Thnxz DR SPOCK RIP / Lenny Nimroy
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
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It's a tortuous road we sometimes take.
Table or booth, sir?
Both
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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And this month's Sterling Mouse Skillful Driver Award goes to:Not a hundred feet from that plaque at the end of the row of date palms.
Honorable mention goes to:This pickup is in the Bank of America parking lot to the right of the patrol car.
Which brings me to my daily gripe--the VA's van ride system, which has me tied in knots.
I had an appointment for tomorrow. I have not heard a peep from the rides office in Fresno.
I was told by phone on Thursday of the appointment, just before four p.m., when they all shut down for the day down there.
I called the next morning and the switchboard put me through to an extension. The lady whose phone it is is named Susan and so is the woman who is the director of transportation. I thought I was leaving a message with the correct person.
It was the accountant for the rides system, though, and she called me and left a number on Monday morning.
Then I called her again, and she said she wasn't the one to speak to about scheduling a ride.
I called the switchboard and they gave me another extension. No answer, so I left my information for a call back. That fellow called me last night just before he left work and left a message number.
I called him this morning. He got back to me while I was on the city bus to the VA Clinic here in town to go for a six-month check-up. I couldn't hear him because I was sitting right on top of the motor in the back of the bus; and so I told him I'd call him back later today.
I called him just after noon. He said his office is for non-ambulatory vets. It wouldn't do me any good. He gave me the extension for the party who could arrange for my ride, the second Susan.
I called her three times this afternoon and left messages. She has not returned my calls so I have no ride scheduled and need to make another appointment.
This is all the truth.
Is this a cosmic joke?
Does God give a rat's asp about my hernia?
Will Susan go back on crack?
Will her boss find out and fire her?
I kind of doubt it.
But we invite you to find out on the next installment of
As the VA Turns the Knife in Mouse's Gut.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Bans y Nobel Bewk Newk
We talk about some of the book news that is not too old yet to get excited about.
“You might find this hard to believe, but until the 1930s, the Vatican Library had no proper catalog system. Books were stored by size and color. Size and color,” Donati repeated incredulously.
from Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva
This just in, like two weeks ago, but it got shuffled...
The team of S. “Brews” Wilson and Michael Malarchy are collaborating on a feature featuring the old game of trundling rocks from high places.
Both men are climbers and trundlers of some repute, each having won the coveted annual Talus Pile Prize for Closest Miss in different years.
Wilson is famous for the Zion Zinger which dammed part of the Virgin River for six days in ‘01.
Malarchy has been trundlin’ since he was only three: they call him “C. Rockett” on the Rolling Rock Wonderful World of Trundling.
We are looking forward to their contribution, if it ever arrives.
Let the chips fall where they may, and remember:
Petroglyphs are NEVER “in play.”
If you see a trundler attacking a glyph, call the local constabulary, take photos, and get a GPS fix, if possible.
One thing that Brews Wilson wanted us to say in answer to the question from Sister Slab is that glyphs which represent memes are not an exception as outlined in the Glyphs Left Behind Act of ‘08, Section Three, paragraph ten.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
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Long before folks were having it out on HWY61, they were going up (and down) HWY40.
Just can't wait to get on the road again, but don't look back, unless it's to check your backseat..
Thrilling.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Having too much to drink is no crime at this clam bake,
instance demands time as the Klause has let the stage wtf , I was half hopping that a few gemmzz he has told he might tell again but no, that appears not to be
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an appropriate, mention was crafted by no less than the great starting to be one of the few and only ,
the one and only Clint Cummins,
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=140009&tn=40
That is one cool cat when it comes to standing on edges. . .
then Dale, Perswig,? ha, snuck this in. . .
so I'm putting it Here,
http://onbeing.org/program/joe-henry-the-mystery-and-adventure-of-life-and-songwriting/7313
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Crossed Threads.
First time, pretty much, that MFM has ever posted commentary on politurd thread was in the one on Netayahu's speech.
Persia for the Persians!
http://www.facebook.com/ShahShiii
The Shahshank Reduction starring Steve Grossman as John Kennedy.
Ron Anderson as the Shah.
I'm willing to play the young and rising star, the Ayatollah Khomeini,
for three billion and a percentage,
but I need a string of imams who live by my words alone,
are willing to fetch my Starbucks for me,
and to lick my spittle.
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Fiendish Killers and Torturers on the Big Screen.
Dry them tears, pals.http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/sep/07/4
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina belongs to a fascinating category of songs purists refer to as the
geographically hortatory;
that is, songs in which a city, state or nation is addressed directly and exhorted
to take a particular course of action at the direction of the singer, no matter how onerous or implausible.
Examples include San Francisco (Open Your Pearly Gates) and New York, New York ("Start spreading the news..."),
but do not include O Canada, From Russia With Love, Oklahoma!, Kansas City, Here I Come or LA Woman.
Thematically linked to La Marseillaise, in which the "children of the fatherland"
are strongly encouraged to "slake" the "thirsting furrows of their fields" with "impure" blood,
the more decorous Don't Cry for Me, Argentina counsels the peons of the pampas
to avoid shedding tears for Mrs Peron, as no tears are required.
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The reason no tears are required is because Mrs Peron, all through her "wild years",
has kept her promise to her kinsmen.
Apparently, her promise was a stipulation in her will expressly barring Liza Minnelli
from playing her in the biopic about her life, because this would be unfair to the people of Argentina,
who had already suffered enough.
Michael Collins made similar pre-assassination arrangements vis-a-vis Kevin Costner.
Boy, George! You look fantastic tonight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsht3jLkMxo
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