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Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Sep 20, 2017 - 08:54am PT

"It has been 241 years since Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence," Warren Buffet said. "Being short America has been a loser's game. I predict to you it will continue to be a loser's game."

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Sep 25, 2017 - 10:42am PT

"This song fits any mood, situation, event, time of the day, etc. I can imagine myself driving in my car with my windows down as the sun sets and this playing in the background. But I can also imagine myself going into a fit of rage and bloodying my hand on a wall while this plays. I could make out to this song, get drunk, get dumped, scream in an empty field, roam around an amusement park, sleep, pick flowers or do literally anything while this plays and somehow it would still be appropriate." -Hannah

[Click to View YouTube Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4UtBYUMVJk

Orig, shorter version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ANlWQy7-I0

Beta: (1) Try it out gym climbing your project. (2) Add to your favorite sexual/ sensual playlist.

Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber

Old and Broken Down in Appalachia

Sep 25, 2017 - 11:27am PT

"Everything in moderation - including moderation."

-Sierra Ledge Rat, 1984

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Sep 25, 2017 - 12:32pm PT

"We haven't been slumming in a while." - me 91 yr old mum today

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Sep 28, 2017 - 10:03am PT

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.

British Airways Captain Eric Moody after his 747 flew into the volcanic ejecta of an unreported eruption, at night! Of course they sorted it out and then had a nice cuppa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Sep 28, 2017 - 10:55am PT

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.

- Eskimo Proverb

My uncle Sammy was an angry man.
He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

- Margaret Smith

Marlow

Sport climber

OSLO

Sep 28, 2017 - 11:01am PT

"Cast a cold eye/ On life, on death/ Horseman, pass by."

Yeats

originalpmac

Mountain climber

Timbers of Fennario

Sep 28, 2017 - 11:19pm PT

Indeed there has been no time in human history when mountains and mountaineering have had so much to offer... We need to rediscover the vast, harmonious pattern of the natural world of which we are a part-the infinite complexities of its myriad components, the miraculous simplicity of the whole. We need to learn again those essential qualities in our own selves which make us what we are: the energy of our bodies, the alertness of our minds; curiosity and the desire to satisfy it, fear and the will to conquer it. The mountain way may well be a way of escape-from cities and men, from turmoil and doubt, from the perplexities and uncertainties that thread our lives. But in the truest sense, it is not an escape from reality but to reality.
That men have climbed the Matterhorn and Denali, Aconcagua and Nanda Devi... means little. That should want to climb them and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp, and there is no conquest worth winning save that over his own weakness and ignorance and fear."
-James Ramsey Ullman in "High Conquest" 1942

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Sep 28, 2017 - 11:44pm PT

“All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)”
― George Michael Sinclair Kennedy

Larry Nelson

Social climber

Sep 29, 2017 - 12:35pm PT

"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." - Yogi Berra

Larry Nelson

Social climber

Sep 29, 2017 - 12:37pm PT

An unknown comic once said about Jack Benny, "he could not ad lib a belch after a Hungarian dinner".

Larry Nelson

Social climber

Sep 29, 2017 - 12:41pm PT

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children.
Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Oct 18, 2017 - 10:25am PT

"Here's a riddle, it's a killer
Who the hell is William Miller?"

Ouch.

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Oct 22, 2017 - 05:03pm PT

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Oct 22, 2017 - 05:25pm PT

That's a REALLY good one!

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Oct 22, 2017 - 08:42pm PT

“The whole face of the country as far as the eye can reach looks like a well shaved bowlinggreen, in which immence and numerous herds of buffaloe were seen feeding attended by their scarcely less numerous shepherds the Wolves.” Meriwether Lewis describing the upper Missouri plains of Montana

Lorenzo

Trad climber

Portland Oregon

Oct 23, 2017 - 02:35am PT

The perverted ingenuity of man has given water the power of intoxication where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

Plinus Maximus Secundus