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i rarely "read" anything in spray - it's not exactly the magna carta, is it? "noting the role of space exploration in propaganda" did lead me to that hasty and it would appear erroneous conclusion, good sir - i assume you do/did see some value to NASA beyond fighting the godless reds? that said, regarding the castrated captain america on the news comment, is there ANYTHING the news doesn't get all atwitter about? firkrisakes', they shit themselves when some guy offs his wife, which is the most common kinda news-item ever - that sets the bar pretty high when a challenger type accident occurs

funny...insinuating that the challenger crew were mere cold-war pawns mostly makes me think you're a jackass space exploration is frig'n awesome, manned or not, and i'll gladly pay tax money to support it

if you're sport climbing you're gay anyway, so why NOT buy the knee-pads (and the ass-less chaps)?

did you know the word "gullible" ISN'T in the dictionary?

has it been shotcreted yet?

ah, now here's a story i havent' heard.... i don't understand the deal w/ my 9 lives - i've used several up all ready, including a bunch of huge unroped falls, and have yet to get anything like a real injury? i knocked on my whole house just then, btw...

i do, but my folks are in town this weekend or else i'd be out at beacon (and skipping a climb there on the last day of the season to yank some tools dumbass route is a poor choice, imho - wait till sunday!)

did you suspect it was a non-smoker (and did such people even exist in the wild and heady days of the reagan administration?)

that's awesome - it sounds like the culprit was never caught? did the trip end more quickly w/ nothign to smoke? joshk and i increased our pace through the p-traverse by 5000% after our cigs ran out

bummer dude - it's like that old cheech n' chong movie - things are tough all over worst case scenario, committing a major crime can secure you a lifetime of free meals and a (steel) roof over your head there was a thread in the general forum not that long ago about a guy looking for workers repairing wind turbines - i think the pay might have been crap though...

i agree - hooking in holes iz kewl! I'd disagree, patch'em. b/c you don't like aid - holes are essentially invisible and not going to ruin anyone's free-climbing experience - that salvages something good from the bad

i agree - hooking in holes iz kewl!

hey, he didn't fix her cable at all!

pm'ed you - last i saw jeff though he was contemplating seppuko after getting into poison oak like the ultimate dipshit on the west side of beacon

there are sure as hell worse ways to die - i hope my ending is nearly as quick fly on! man - chick on the right was totally rocking the 80's doo!

if your hands are set on fire by your battery powered gloves, i have no choice but to laugh at you

i like the black spot more - maybe i watched too much disney as a kid though?

from the pix, it kinda looks like ya'll shoulda strung up some police tape too the only thing these pix needs are some circles added to them and explanations on the back of them explaining what each one is

maybe someone can go ahead an attach to the first bolt a page from the bible w/ a black spot on it?

um, six? are you not counting the black one?

what was the last thing that went through christa mcauliffe's mind?

the first rule of rock'n'roll coolness though is you gotta die young though, right? mick jagger seems to prove it more every year

ya'll are some old mother fuckers! i was in 4th grade at the time and living in germany, so it didn't happen until after i had gotten home from school - i remember the endless stream of nasa jokes i heard, created and passed along for years afterwards more than anything! what's "NASA" stand for?

not for larry sabato or most of the profs i had at uva - jesus-fuck, 300 books it seems that mother-fucker's written and half on the required list!

isn't it awfully swell to have a stiffy?