ivan

dude, have you SEEN me? 6'6" and totally unable to tan, i'm the living embodiment of the jackass nordic warrior - my blood fairly courses w/ mead and the aforementioned, including the desire to rape the horses and steal the women!

hang out on the n face in the middle of a violent thunderstorm and you'll see plenty of shit fall off that mountain!

whoops, forgot to add the 3rd leg of the trinity - drinking!

fuck n' fight in the hope that, should you fuck n' fight hard enough, you will be accepted into an eternity of fucking n' fighting? sign me up!

you bring pro for the corner bill?

why does jim look like he was photoshopped in? hey, that was the day ya'll brow-beat me into losing my rain-dawg cherry! nice bull durham revamp there joe, but is soloing really a team sport?

"my gawd, i'd hadn't been so thrilled since i first got fucked in grade-school!"

if universal healthcare is evil b/c its socialism, and socialism is evil therefore it cannot be tolerated, then why the fuck are we friends w/ so many socialist countries? why did we lobby so hard to get them to join the freedom (fuck yeah!) team in iraq and afhganistan?

if he were 'roudn today his rap name would be Kat2-luz (beyotch!) it is folly to ever think we've evolved away from the romans (or their predecessers) - we eat/drink to excess whenever possible, have sex w/ anything that moves, practice a corrupted form of republican government, believe all problems (especially those involving foreign nations) are best solved w/ naked force, hate fags (even though a bunch of us are of the alternative persusasion) and love entertainment that involves fuck'n'violence, no?

i like how she chapsticks up 'fore the big send!

it's impossible to talk 'bout climbing w/o sounding like a schmuck - that's why spray is the biggest forum here and the biggest thread there is about fucking cats and the muir hut

so this means pope is the worst climber ever then?

did this suddenly turn into a gay-sex chat room?

Roughly how many soldiers have you known, and how many climbers? i doubt it matters - common sense indicates that even REMFs have a much higher probability of getting killed in a front-less war than weekend warrior climbers - i'm in a 3rd generation family of armor-types (the only 1 of 3 brothers that had a problem being told what to do ) - those mofo's get killed just riding round their home posts w/ astounding frequency - turns out 60 ton war-hogs are inherently dangerous to everythign 'round them

gonna do a 50th anniversary ascent?

is it okay for me to feel a little bemused by a marketing vp being killed by a rock falling down a mountain while driving back to fuck-all flat kansas?

...living a life of quiet desperation, going to your grave with the song still in you?

i'd rather have the joker on my team then the previous dumbo

i'm confused - what can be more classically american than hating the goddamn godless red chinese?

i wanna post in this very important thread but am having a hard time thinking of something - suggestions?

trash fisherman on right ably displaying the essential truth: a brutha can put up w/ untold buckets of shit in this here life so long as he can get a smoke now n' again

read that a couple of summers ago - it's real interesting in places, especially the parts on iran i thought, but there's also some real long sections on corporate histories that made me want to suck a tailpipe - i'd advise skipping those bits happily, i've been too busy climbing for most of the summer to read, but i have managed to finish "they made america," a collection of biographies of 30 some odd inventors/innovators of the past 200 years which was pretty damn interesting - i never knew robert fulton, prior to "inventing" the steamboat, was essentially a dandy and male prostitute prior to settling into a menage a twois in paris - or that issac singer, the sewing machine dude, had 5 concurrent wives n' families in new york and had to flee the country after beating the holy hell out of one of them after being discovered - one of the underlying themes i liked, which maybe bill orielly would be good to understand, is that a huge number of america's most significant inventors/innovators were from totally poor/shit/disregarded immigrant families i read "salt" too, which illustrates how pathetic my life is (at least compared to fairweather) - learned why flamingos are pink, the origins of words like soldier, salary and "wich" in english place names, the significance of cod, and why its wierd that after 3 millennia of mankind trying to make salt white n' of uniform crystal size, folks these days are willing to pay extra for dirty salt

math, dude, math - it's a word problem - i was in on page 23 or so, and it's "gained 20 some odd pages" since then does that get me a carebear?

so, after a week in co, i notice this humble thread has gained 20-some odd pages - i'm an important man and can't possibly read all this - can i get a summary (and maybe a carebear too?)

you thought gran torino was kewler than the eiger sanction?!?