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ElbowHornet
Boulder climber
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Mar 13, 2015 - 10:01am PT
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Hey There Say!!!!
How is this thread over 6000 posts? Unbelievable. Does anyone live close enough to Merced, swing by and put a pillow over Mouse's face for his own good?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 13, 2015 - 10:33am PT
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Pretty please?It is unbelievable.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Mar 13, 2015 - 11:34am PT
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WTF, the infamous and apparently horny eHornet.
There's one (or two) in every crowd - Friday the Thirteenth.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 13, 2015 - 11:53am PT
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Thinks it's a gadfly, but it's just an gnat-sized neebee wannabee.
Did you know that most health workers agree that the elbow is the body part most people fail to wash when taking a shower?
But Flames take an elbow in the ribs like old Josh in the New Testament: We forgive moronic n00bs seventy times seven.
Today's color for the "False Avatar Attack Probability" is now faint pink, kinda like a clean elbow.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 13, 2015 - 03:44pm PT
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I thank the Gnome for the illustrations. I won't need much editorial space here and don't need any more pix.
Let me say simply that the Flames model is The Spectator, published in England early in the 18th C. for a short time by Richard STeele and Joseph Addison.
I admit this was not the case early on, but has come to be so, at least in my mind, over the last year especially, when I swore off of snide remarks and sought to find the positive in things and people. Snarkiness is okay on the regular forum, for the Roman Forum was indeed a wild and wooly place, as is ours, on occasion.
I feel as if I'm in a garret looking down on that ST forum. Things get said, fights erupt, but it's like a panoply of clouds, for the sky is always changing as well. All I need to do is to avert my eyes for a bit and watch the clouds. I can't possibly get mad at clouds. I do not get angry at the way things go on the forum, either, though at times it resembles the floor of the Circus or the Colosseum.
Addison and STeele had some of the nastiest folks of the time with whom they dealt, apparently. The lightweight, almost bantering tone of critics here doesn't call for much in the way of retaliation...people get bored, frustrated, and hate to see things change, so the teeth are bared, things are said, names are called, and disharmony and choss reighn, along with poor spelling, horrible grammar, and some charmingly original epithets.
I stand on the shoulders of giants.
I play the sedulous ape.
Steele and Addison share the mirth
With every succeeding jape.
They also named a street in Berkeley for Addison.
Remington STeele is direct descendant of Richard STeele.
Aims
In Number 10, Mr. Spectator states that The Spectator will aim "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality". He hopes it will be said he has "brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee–houses". He recommends that readers of the paper consider it "as a part of the tea-equipage" and set aside time to read it each morning. The Spectator sought to provide readers with topics for well-reasoned discussion, and to equip them to carry on conversations and engage in social interactions in a polite manner. In keeping with the values of Enlightenment philosophies of their time, the authors of The Spectator promoted family, marriage, and courtesy.
--Wikipaedea
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/558792/The-Spectator
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 13, 2015 - 06:11pm PT
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Yep, it's all or nothing on a thread about nothing. Thx for the cheers, Dingus.
It's opening day in MLB pre-season play, a perfect day, Friday the thirteenth.
So we'll just kick back and watch the clouds on this beautiful opening day at Mickey Mantle, home of the Middle Earth Mousketeers.
We're hosting the Seattle Snickering Seven plus Two and the score in the bottom of the ninth, is nothing=nothing, if you can believe that.
It's been a defensive battle, a pitcher's duel, a hitter's graveyard.
We'll maybe catch you up on the action, if any, but it's looking like a Mexican stand-off.
Seriously. Pitching for the home team, Speedy Gonzales. Pitching for the visitors, Ron Gomez, one of the Plus Two, Chuck Cochrane being the other. He's gone hitless, struck out twice.
Pix taken this aft.
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard
Jerry Seinfeld/Jerry and the Mets or Magic Loogie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBz3PqA2Fmc
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mar 13, 2015 - 06:30pm PT
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What could Il Duce, See , from Prison In Gran Sasso?
CLOUDS
The hotel that was serving as a makeshift prison was located on top of Gran Sasso, a 6000-foot high mountain located about 80 miles northeast of Rome.
Benito*Amilcare *Andrea Mussolini
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 13, 2015 - 07:26pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Mar 13, 2015 - 07:44pm PT
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The Veneta show is a pretty good concert and interesting historical document.
Here's a piece of it. I know, but won't we all be missed when we're gone.
Plant acid with UV-B, gonna harvest wind.
-Black Peter
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 13, 2015 - 07:51pm PT
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Just when you thought climbing content didn't count much here...
along comes Bullwinkle to save the day, as Rocket J. Squirrel has the week off, as if he'd have any climbing content to share, anyway. Stuck on wing-suiting, he is.
Let's thank Dean using only our hands and our feet and any other body part you'd care to use.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Mar 14, 2015 - 07:48am PT
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What's the proper torque setting on those fasteners and, more importantly, how often are they checked? You only need think back to the ballad of Mussolini and Hitler to grasp what too much pressure can do to the workings of things.
Cat heads, fish heads, catfish heads, but no fishcat heads. Think about it.
Goat heads, yeah, they're OK in soup, but they don't fit the story line here.
Potheads? OK, I get it now, Robbie.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Mar 14, 2015 - 07:57am PT
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Well Zarathustra spake thusly
“Where you want this killin’ done?”
God said, “Out on Highway 99”
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 14, 2015 - 08:54am PT
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Gnome, for God's sake, you should've asked yourself, "What does this say about laterite?"
Not a damn thing.
This is interesting, though, because I had no idea where they made those Bose speakers.
Conclusions
In this study, the soil-forming processes and environmental
significance of the vermiculated red soils
(VRS) at Bose and Xuancheng were addressed based
on micromorphological, mineralogical and chemical
approaches. The results indicate three major forming-stages
of the VRS, i.e. formation of a red soil matrix,
development of the white veins due to iron depletion,
and formation of the juxtaposed latter textural
features due to alternating temperate-subtropical
soil-forming processes. Formation of the white veins is
crucial for the vermiculated characteristics of the VRS.
The white veins represent a strength extreme of the
East Asian summer monsoon. During the formation of
the VRS, the vast regions south of the Yangtze River
were under the control of summer monsoon throughout
the year. The wide spread geographic characteristics of
the VRS are mainly attributable to this specific climate
interval. However, good drainage of the parent materials
is also necessary for VRS development.
According to the available chronology, pedo-stratigraphy
and climato-stratigraphy data, the VRS in
southern China are timely correlative with the S4 and
S5 soils in the Loess Plateau region. Formation of the
white veins in the VRS should primarily correlate with
the development of S5-1 in northern China loess and a
climate extreme would be closely linked with the
changes in the strength of NADW (whatever the hell that is).
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"Now that's some magic mushroom."
Thanks, Mark Hudon.
And the Walls fell, one by one.
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