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Q:How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb A: Fish! Surrealism, such as I conceive of it, asserts our complete nonconformism clearly enough so that there can be no question of translating it, at the trial of the real world, as evidence for the defense. It could, on the contrary, only serve to justify the complete state of distraction which we hope to achieve here below. Kant?s absentmindedness regarding women, Pasteur?s absentmindedness about "grapes," Curie?s absentmindedness with respect to vehicles, are in this regard profoundly symptomatic. This world is only very relatively in tune with thought, and incidents of this kind are only the most obvious episodes of a war in which I am proud to be participating. "Ce monde n?est que très relativement à la mesure de la pensée et les incidents de ce genre ne sont que les épisodes jusqu?ici les plus marquants d?une guerre d?indépendence à laquelle je me fais gloire de participer." Surrealism is the "invisible ray" which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents. "You are no longer trembling, carcass." This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. - A.B.

Everyone knows that whatever happpens in Europe, happens to the world as a whole. Just like however what happens in the East happens to all of North America. How did YOU deal with the blackouts?

well whomever said that, obviously was running a defective model.

i used to have atc's and i burned through 2 or 3 of them, the keeper cable always broke at the device. switched to pyramid and they lastyed a lot longer and had more options for belaying (flip upside down for more catch) and lasted longer still use em for most belaying but reverso for alpine due to autolocking & double belay of seconds. i think the B-52 autolocking mode belay is weird cause you have to clip right into the slot instead of a loop like you can with Reverso. looks like it can offset load the device? unless you clip a biner into both slots....

the applicability of the first quote cited to spray is of course the reason i quoted it. in this light the trollers, especially adamson and borbon, also dan -, may be considered as surrealist exemplars. perhaps especially dan -, whose actions have not ceased to incite the same responses over a period of almost a year. obviously the game is not yet played out

"Enemies tend to forget offences committed against them and a carefully aimed insult or provocation is occasionally necessary to keep them in a satisfactory state of bilious indignation." -Alastair Brotchie, "A Book of Surrealist Games"

of course any review in a british mag tends to rate the british made product the best

I heard it was almost an exact copy of the Ushba but with a softer cam that grips more slowly allowing for a bit of slippage and thus increasing the force rating (cuts rope at ~8km vs ~5 for the Ushba IIRC)

I am guessing Hopsing is up in the clouds on Slesse right now (socked in but not raining) but for anybody else planning to go here's how the pocket gl. looked in late July. It may be gone now. Anybody with more recent details please post, feel free to use this photo and draw lines on it showing what ice is gone or left.

Yeah well....my vacation starts next Friday and I am off to the Homathko, so there!!!! I'll tell you all about it at Clem's wedding.

according to Bubba he usually climbs leashless but decided to use leashes for the climb and it was a direct result of going leashed when he was used to leashless that resulted in the dropped tools. supposedly woul;dnt have had the same problem with a non-detachable set up

you would have as much luck setting it up on autolock belay mode at the top and climbing up on one strand while pulling down on the other to keep your own rope tight. you wouldnt be able to lower off partway up, must climb to top to descend, due to autolocking i still think the splat potential is big ditto the cluusterfuck potential if you want a device that's much more safe as an auto belay spend the $$ and get a soloist, soloaid or ushba basic. but hey maybe the extra $60-70 is to much to spend on your own safety right

It is named as follows: so its named after the CPR bureaucracy. I guess you are protesting the company decision to make the Canadian Rockies a mountaineering destination in an early example of ecotourism promotion

Was it the leashes or the people using them that were responsible for dropping their tools? yeah, Blanchard, Pellet and Dumerac what a bunch of gumbies

androids were responsible for a party of 3 climbers on robson last year finishing the route with only 4 tools between them

eating s

Radio: Come in Officer Labeef do you read me? Radio: Chuck will you stop fooling around? Sheriff: Years ago I saw five cows mutilated. Legs sticking up in the air. Their ah their ah testicles were gone. I think Canadian bacon is better myself. I've never seen the like of that. Radio: I have the stats on that car Officer Labeef. Radio: Ten-forty Baker Sheriff: What could have done that to him? Gasoline? Napalm? Agent Rogersz: It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.

Fern: "Is this block solid?" Dru : "I dont know I didn't come up that way" Disclaimer: nothing like that was actually said

they made him a moderator "To make a [moderator] you first take a failed [sprayer] and drill a hole through his skull and suck the brains out. Pack the cavity with horseshit and give the guy 25 lbs and a donut and your [moderator] is ready to go." - a paraphrase of a certain G. Smaill rant about Alaskan border guards. What I want to know is WHY IS THE QUALITY OF SPRAY DECLINING??? Back in 2001 the spray was high quality. Now the spray is Trask saying "eat ballz asseyes". Ban trask, and bring back the high quality spray

drul you and chinook are going to have a special rope up, super special and secret as long as the real world las vegas is playing

news story

Labatt's is junk

you are gonna go splat.