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What if Richard Simmons was your dad?

"I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that."

The greatest gust of wind ever recorded was 231 mph on top of Mount Washington, N.H. in 1934. The fastest wind speed ever recorded was 318 mph, in a tornado that hit the suburbs of Oklahoma City in 1999.

Dude! Don't listen to those envious fucks. Post all you got, as you get them.

Not WA, but Rob Cobb and I talked to Bob Braun in the Curry parking lot after he had come down from Salathe' Wall. He had a silver dollar-sized piece of hamburger where the heel of his palm should have been and another about the size of a credit card on the same elbow from leading Hollow Flake. He said the pitch was no big deal. From that day forward, Bob has been the wide crack master in my book.

One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks him, "George, what's the best thing I can do to help the country?" "Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington advises, then fades away. The next night, Bush is astir again, and sees the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moving through the darkened bedroom. Bush calls out, "Tom, please! What is the best thing I could do to help the country?" "Respect the Constitution, as I did," Jefferson advises, and dims from sight. The third night sleep is still not in the cards for Bush. He awakens to see the ghost of F. D. R. hovering over his bed. Bush whispers, "Franklin, What is the best thing I could do to help the country?" "Help the less fortunate, just as I did," FDR replies and fades into the mists. Bush isn't sleeping well the fourth night when he sees another figure moving in the shadows. It is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. "Abe, what is the best thing I can do right now, to help the country?" Bush pleads. Abe replies, "Go see a play."

Mt. Si via the Old Trail.

, Jon,

Please ignore my attempt to appreciate your adventure. No insults were intended.

I guess I missed where you mentioned hand size...

Those cracks look pretty wide toward the top.

And the Shrub variant: "Fool me once, shame ... shame on ... you."

We are the children who grew too fast We are the dust of a future past We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they Break Like The Wind We are the footprints across the sands We are the thumb on a stranger's hand We made a promise in the night Swearing to heaven Is this a promise we keep Or one we Break Like The Wind Hey! We are the guests who have stayed too long We are the end of the endless song We send our hearts into the night Soaring to heaven And will out hearts still beat on Or will they Break Like The Wind Ooh, Break Like The Wind.

This is a short poem made up entirely of quotations from George W. Shrub. Arranged by Washington Post writer, Richard Thompson. MAKE THE PIE HIGHER I think we all agree, the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty And potential mental losses. Rarely is the question asked Is our children learning? Will the highways of the Internet Become more few? How many hands have I shaked? They misunderestimate me. I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity. I know that the human being And the fish can coexist. Families is where our nation finds hope, Where our wings take dream. Put food on your family! Knock down the tollbooth! Vulcanize society! Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

fern beat me to it.

"colder than a well digger's ass" "hotter than a witch's tit in a brass bra" "dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope"

Mt. Lassen crags

That's why you tie them off close with a girth hitch. Looks at least body weight to me. I like the idea of the tape as a time saver...clip a draw to one eye as opposed to threading and tieing off all of them.

...or blindly following lessons previously learned.

"jazz" has 2 senses 2. roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk, etc.

DoBop

You're damn right!

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