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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2015 - 09:36pm PT
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I see Daylight ahead!
[Click to View YouTube Video]This one takes me back. We still had steam trains when I was a young fella.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 13, 2015 - 09:51pm PT
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hey there, say... i like this caption...
mouse's photo:
(awww, i think he LIKES them) ... :)
(or, HER) :)
(OR, BOTH!)
thought it was sooooo cute!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 14, 2015 - 07:08am PT
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Jeopardy, nah, Wheel'O'Fortune
They know who they are
EDIT: Stinkin' to high heaven
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2015 - 09:47am PT
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That was a good caption, neebee! Thanks.
And to Skip and Mr.E, thank you for your constancy and cheerful attitudes.Exterminated skunks: 0
Exterminated dogs: 1
Exterminated pigeons: 2
Exterminated doves: 2
Exterminated deer: 2
This is my record, driving or in the shotgun, over my lifetime.
Impossible to count butterflies and other insects, snakes, rodents.
Cars have a large impact on animal mortality.
Ride low and cruise slow, please.
Esp. in trailer parks and migrant camps and climber camps.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 14, 2015 - 12:12pm PT
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Bible Class - top row right looks a lot like my sister.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2015 - 12:32pm PT
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Which reminds me of Caroline's line from Little Big Man:
"I just tarred-and-feathered my own brother!"
Not that you ever deserved or NEEDED t & f-ing...it probably isn't that good a deterrent anyway. And I've often thought that it takes too much effort...first, pluck a chicken, then boil up some tar, then, careful not to burn yourself, apply the tar and then the feathers.
And who gets to clean up? Huh?
"the wife"
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 14, 2015 - 02:02pm PT
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Speaking (figuratively of course)
Why spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar?
I do not know about the feather part, but tickle your ass with some tar somehow doesn't seem to work.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2015 - 02:46pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
This guy is a joke.
He exhibits enthusiasm, but no technique and no organization.
Of course, the object is not to burn up the ski! Keep the nozzle flow at the same spot, once you've established how much heat you need to get the tar flowing. Don't change it. Get used to it.
The windows need to be open! Ventilate or strangulate! The smell of tar bubbling is addictive, so be forewarned.
Any scraper you use should be free of burrs and sharp.
Always keep your tar flowing in one direction, beginning from whichever end, but don't reverse. Take your time, keep the nozzle the same distance from the ski all along its length.
Keep other volatiles well away from the work area (specifically GLUES, Locker...)
Use any old rag except high nylon content cloth will melt on occasion and catch fire unduly. Cotton and cotton blends are best.
Keep the radio turned up, or the TV, and have a good supply of "comestibles" and you can really party down.
Of course, no one uses wood skis now, so this is all just a dumb show for places like the Wawona History Center, or Williamsburg, where pioneer tricks are shown by the volunteers. The last wood ski I based was in 1979.
The three 'caretakers" at TM were one step up from the droogs by virtue of being on a payroll.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 14, 2015 - 03:53pm PT
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Would ya care for some cheescake with your X-C (ad)venture?
Those are not the skiis that McKinney gave Herr Braun, btw.
hören sie mich jetzt und verstehen sie mich bitte später
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2015 - 04:29pm PT
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I'll try the beefcake, please, if you don't mind.
Ski on the wild side!
Some waxin' didaction.[Click to View YouTube Video]
That was the entertainment package.
Here is the instructional package.[Click to View YouTube Video]
That's MR ZOGG'S!!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 14, 2015 - 04:53pm PT
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I still have a bar of Mr. Zog's.
I wonder if these things on Amazon are Chinese knock-offs.
Trying to stick(!) to the topic at hand or which was at hand at some point.
Back in the old days when I played a lot of round ball, weight-lifting was not as common as it is today. Hence very strong players were an anomaly. Today?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 14, 2015 - 04:57pm PT
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Just as I thought.
I'm larnin' Splanglish. It's real grande por aqui.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2015 - 07:38pm PT
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Sex wax is the reason for so many unwanted children.
Sex waxing is dangerous. Use at your own risk.She is particularly the patron of abused xives.[Click to View YouTube Video]Bob Dylan had a dream of Saint Monica's boy Augustine.
He became famous and converted to Christianity later.
So did Bob.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2015 - 06:01am PT
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MOONDAY
Safe Milk Week here in Middle Earth.
Cannes, 1968.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I can picture where I was then. I wasn't workin' at the Lodge. I didn't get there till '69.
There was a new display of Indian life at the Yosemite Museum.
And John Prine hadn't even put out his first album, John Prine, and wouldn't until '71, with such motivational songs as Flashback Blues.[Click to View YouTube Video]
And Pardise, featuring sideman STEVE GOODMAN!!!!
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I never met Julia's daughters until the mid-seventies at a parade in Groveland. My daughter was five and they all got on really well. Recently I've always tried to make it into the Museum to visit with Julia, who may well be retiring soon. She makes all feel welcome and has a rare gift that way.
It's not the best way to live, thinking of the past as much as I do, but I'm a history freak, and freaks just do what they do because it's in their nature.
Thinking about the past sometimes brings me grief and recalls sorrowful times; but then, too, I tend to appreciate the good times which come my way (fewer and fewer and further apart as I grow older) more than ever. And I appreciate words more, here lately, by far.
Magnolia Wind
Words by Guy Clark
I'd rather sleep in a box like a bum on the street
Than a fine feather bed without your little ol' cold feet
And I'd rather be deaf, dumb, and stone blind
Than to know that your mornings will never be mine
And I'd rather die young than to live without you
I'd rather go hungry than eat lonesome stew
You know it's once in a lifetime and it won't come again
It's here and it's gone on a magnolia wind
I'd rather not walk through the garden again
If I can't catch your scent on a magnolia wind
Well if it ever comes time that it comes time to go
Sis' pack up your fiddle, Sis' pack up your bow
If I can't dance with you then I won't dance at all
I'll just sit this one out with my back to the wall
I'd rather not hear pretty music again
If I can't hear your fiddle on a magnolia wind
If I can't catch your scent on a magnolia wind
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No Lonesome Tune: Committing Guy Clark to the Air
http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2008-09-12/671528/
Have a nice one. non-Ramblin' Mouse from Merced
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 15, 2015 - 09:45am PT
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Nine mile skid
on a ten mile ride
Hot as a pistol
but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof
Dogs in a pile
Nothing left to do but
smile, smile, smile
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2015 - 10:36am PT
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Go Go Go Golden State!
Cavalier fans kindly STFU!
You weren't even around when Washington bit the bullet against a vastly superior Attles team in '75. I was living in Berkeley at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_NBA_Finals
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Back on topic, zBrown, and "running in greased grooves," as Steinbeck put it.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 15, 2015 - 10:54am PT
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I didn't know any of this. Mr. Kerr lives up in the Berkeley Hills. He attended Pali High and graduated from Arizona State. He surfs in San Diego.
His father was murdred by the Islami Jihad in 1984. And finally, there are some real ass-holz in the world. Read the Wikipedia article.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2015 - 11:29am PT
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Azz the Arab-Israeli World Turns.
Win this one for The Scholar, Warriors.
Selected publications of Malcolm H. Kerr:
Malcolm H. Kerr, Lebanon in the Last Years of Feudalism 1840-1868. A contemporary account by Antun Dahir Al-Aqiqi (American University of Beirut 1959)
Malcolm H. Kerr, The Arab Cold War. Gamel Abd al-Nasr and his Rivals, 1958-1970 (Oxford University 1965, 3d ed. 1975)
Malcolm H. Kerr, Islamic Reform. The political and legal theories of Muhammad 'Abduh and Rashid Ridā (Princeton University 1966)
Malcolm H. Kerr, The Elusive Peace in the Middle East (SUNY 1975)
Abraham S. Becker, Bent Hudson, & Malcolm H. Kerr, editors, Economics and Politics of the Middle East (New York: Elsevier 1975)
Malcolm H. Kerr and al-Sayyid Yasin, editors, Rich and Poor States in the Middle East. Egypt and the New Arab Order (Westview 1982)
Samir Seikaly and Ramzi Ba'labakki, editors, Quest for Understanding. Arabic and Islamic studies in honor of Malcolm H. Kerr (American University of Beirut 1991)
My friend and instructor in anthropology, Marcus Arguelles, spent time at that University in Beirut, researching old coins. He was nearly offed by a mortar shell which blew in the doors of the elevator in the lobby of one of the buildings.
He was standing at the panel punching in the code for the elevator and was spared being turned into jelly by that tiny little margin.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jun 15, 2015 - 01:04pm PT
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mfm ?
Did you see this ?:
(I think it was in a thread with the distasteful title; "How long do you give. . . .)
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
Jun 14, 2015 - 05:18pm PT
'Sold My Soul for a Song and a Dance'
Close calls and heartaches,
I've had my fill,
Hope I'm not done 'till I'm over the hill,
Once caught the clap,
Such an innocent girl,
She never knew what her gifts would unfurl,
I caught the pneumonia,
I should have been dead,
Drunken and rafting I wound up in bed,
Fell fifty feet,
Nearly flattened my head,
Fell twenty aplenty broke my back instead,
Totaled some cars,
Laid down some bikes,
Broke thirteen bones smoked them old Lucky Strikes,
Gave up the drinking,
The foolin around,
Should've hung on to the spirit I found,
Made a deal with the devil,
To borrow more time,
Made no sense of religion but that's all just fine,
Sold him my soul,
To live out my days,
Traded prayers for more sunsets not mending my ways,
Some people say,
I'll be sorry and sad,
But if dying's so easy it can't be that bad,
I sold my soul,
For a song and a dance,
And I'm dancing here still with my one true romance,
Close calls and heartaches,
I've had my fill,
But I might not be done 'till I'm over the hill.
-bushman
zBrown
Ice climber
Jun 14, 2015 - 06:19pm PT
Do I have to read this whole thing to find out what the interest rate is?
.??? I struck me that your list of innocent lives took by happenstance for wither or wit you could not help it one bit,
But as to thine own self do on to too much and it will catch up on you,
I played with it that line above if it was changed to be as mean spirited as could be,
Spat out at the world, not at anyone or one thing
Just piss 'n vinegar, bad wine, weak sauce, but
To thine own anus be kiss in' cause all the bad siht that you did added up , is killing you.
The first one might have been darker , harsher
WHY.???
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