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Notice the way he's tipping up the pistol. He wouldn't be able to hold it up if it were level. Notice also the redness of the skin below the ears...careful with that axe, Eugene!

Ahh, an illustration of Von Spanker in Yosemite this coming week perhaps?

I'm thinking of going to this pub club, but would be even more inclined to make the trip if someone wanted to carpool. I can drive if need be. Any takers? No curfew for me either, so we can leave/stay as allowances may permit.

It is NOT granite. It is sandstone.

You can also probably walk to every climbing spot from the hotel, the country is do darn small.

I was speaking of wads of $$$ green. The "green" was very quick into the pocket, so don't know what it was, but, based on the thickness of the $$$ wad, it probably wasn't weed. Happened long ago when I was a high schooler. We used to purposely drive down K-Street just for kicks on our way downtown.

Yeah, hilltop is great! K-street is the only place I ever witnessed a big drug deal in plain sight...at the car idling behind me at a stoplight. The stoplight's green wasn't the only green I saw at that moment.

Maybe the counter isn't capable of more than 4 digits. You know, like when we all used to turn over those Atari games when we were kids (Asteroids, Pinball, etc.).

Well, someone should test this hypothesis this weekend by using his/her GPS at a known lat./long. location (in the city using a topo or something). Will need to do more than one measurement to verify. Six readings in six different locations ought to be sufficient. Maybe at pubs during a pub crawl.

Allison, I think you better start holding up the first two fingers when posing for PC photographs. Peace out.

Nice TR Tom. Doesn't make me want to go that way at all. Oh, and I hate to be a nitpicker but... A. The picture you say is of Ruby Mountain is actually Mt. Logan. To the right of Logan is Stormking Mountain. Ruby has no glaciers and is pretty non-rugged compared to Logan B. The picture of you on Lucky Pass is reversed. From your vantage point, Mt. Buckner needs to be left of Forbidden Peak C. The picture of Klawatti Lake and Cascade Pass area is also reversed. Klawatti Lake is east of Klawatti Peak (the glaciated peak upslope from the lake). The peak on the left is Forbidden and the peak in the middle is Johannesberg D. The Primus Peak and Tricouni Peak shot is also reversed. Tricouni is East of Primus. Since that is Mt. Baker in the photo, the picture is reversed Cheers -- Paul

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What's your solution to this Iraq problem, sexual chocolate? Or what's your take on the France stance regarding Iraq? Just curious. Note that it is very easy to remonstrate one person's general and unsubstantiated point of view with an equally general and unsubstantiated but opposite point of view. That's essentially what politicians do every day. It's called politicking.

This weekend will see a historical event on Cascadeclimbers: Dru's 10,000th post! Tickets for this event are being sold at www.Drusbigmoment.com. Please, no scalping of tickets in the Spray forum.

Wang deserves a Darwin Award post mortem post haste, me thinks.

This coming from a guy who perpetually refers to himself in the third person. And thus, shouldn't Sheesh be put in quotes? As in "'Sheesh,' DFA says." I myself will be playing some Frisbee Golf. Not too much else planned.

I bet every one of the competitors in the Parkour Hall of Fame is....DEAD!

Nicely put, JayB. Re: Serbia, that movie from 2001 (Best Foreign Film Oscar last year) called No Man's Land did a good job regarding the absurdity of that situation and the foreign (media) take on it.

Make sure it's not the K-mart variety, Tom. Those aren't worth the panty label printing ink.

Dru, according to these, we're both right more or less: http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/7/messages/262.html http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010512/windows/roots.htm http://www.shipsandcruises.com/nautical_notes.htm And now that I've been reading some of these, I remembered a little more of what I knew of this: that to tar the side of the ship a sailor hung from this plank (and in so being, was between the devil and the deep blue sea). It was apparently a dangerous task, thus the expression's meaning of being in a precarious situation.

Yeah, I nominate GaperTimmy and Jon for collectively ruining our working lives. Aye, matey, thars your two rapscallions! To the devil* with thee. * The devil was the name for the plank cantilevered out over the water that unfortunate victims were made to walk out on on pirate ships, et al. This is the origin of the familiar expression "Between the devil and the deep blue sea."

The Usual Suspects who were in the police line up last night at Grady's: AlpineK Schuldt Thinker Tomcat To_The_Toilet Uncle Trickster Mattp (and wife) Beck klenke Allison Ehmmic Icegirl Wayne112 Chris_W Chuck Forrest_M Several pitchers of beer And a shot of hard liquor or two And some Unusual Suspects too: Jim Nelson David Parker Squid aint_this_great An unsually absent Usual Suspect: Col. Von Spanker I suspect I may have forgotten someone, as usual. One of the better turn outs this year and at a great venue. Roeper and Ebert gave it &

There is quite a lot of "truth" to it, but I'm not going to say what, where, and how much.

To quote R. King: "Can't we all just get along?"