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showing that movie today in honor of the 65th anniversary of operation torch! "okay, i'll drink to that - one son of a bitch to another!" my grandfather, while a major in a war game in lousiania prior to the war, attempting to "kill" patton when patton drove through an opfor check-pt, whereupon my pop was upbraided and insulted as patton drove off, saying "generals can't be killed goddamit!" pop never did speak well of the man...

"to wives and sweet-hearts...may they never meet!"

"there was me, that is alex, and my three druugs - that is pete, georgy, and dim - and we sat in the korova milk bar trying to make up our razodoks what to do with the evening"

predator! from the same movie "one ugly motherfucker!"

that movie rawked! "them" or "they live" or something like that - later quoted in the duke nukem video game!

"well isn't it a small world, spirtually speaking - these two soggy sumbitches just been baptised n' saved - looks like i'm the only one who remains unaffiliated!"

Ok....here is an obscure quote from a REALLY famous movie Shes richhow rich? Well, more rich than you can imagine..I dont know.I can imagine quite a bit. there are no obscure lines from star wars - can you think of one that doesn't give it away?

smaug from "the hobbit" my favorite from the same cartoon - "bilbo, he's gooooooone!"

thanks

this is why betazoids rawk to climb w/!

got any pictures of the spur itself?

you could write crack-man on the board here - he had a dyslexic descent of the spur last weekend after climbing the elliot - sounded like it was pretty hairy

raiders of the lost mother-fuck'n fuck- now let's try to make this hard! you gotta get mine above, plus here's one for your troubles (i'll try to think of a flick fitting yer proletarien tastes ) how 'bout: "it is very bad to drink jaboo's rum!"

"8 year olds, dude!" and oh-my-fucking-christ, if you can't nail this one (and even if you can) check it out: http://slacklalane.blogspot.com/2006/07/eight-year-olds-dude.html

"37!?!"

think i almost had an anuerysm laughing at this! GODDAMN YOU VISCIOUS HAIRY FUR-FUCK-BALLS!!!

man - looks a helluva lot simpler to walk around it now!

all routes on hood are day climbs, even the technical ones, though bivying at the bases might accentuate your expereince - check the trip report database on the site here - the fun, technical routes that have reports here are the reid headwall, yocum ridge, sandy headwall, north face, black spider and illumination rock - several of those being truly difficult and dangerous and probably not real friendly to a person on the mountain for just the first time. my recommendatino to you is the reid headwall - for the money and effort, its the most enjoyable and coolest route on the mountain, assuming you have confidence and a 2nd tool

if you're unfamiiar w/ hood and volcano's in general, do the south side slog route up from timberline lodge - if it's a nice day you'll have a hundred new friends around too - it's an easy route (and apparently a fun ski/board descent), but be aware that weather and being stupid can still easily get you killed up there

whaaa? jesus, dude, i mean, i'm like, tryiiiiiing to like you "the only thing that really worried me was the ether. there is nothing more hopeless, senseless and depraved then a man in the depths of an ether binge, and i knew we'd get into that rotten stuff soon..."

wow. sorry to all. it never really occured to me how dangerous that trail could be.

now do you see what happens when you fuck a complete stranger in the ass?

john, are you wearing a kevlar vest in case some insurgent decides to pop a cap in yer ass while getting yer pump on?

enjoy - teaching yourself to climb, if you really commit to it, brings an excellent feeling of self-sufficiency - don't be one of these wankers that climbs 1 mountain a year and goes around telling everyone "i'm a climber" - it's a life-long pursuit -hood's an excellent mountain to start w/ (assuming you do the south side first) - buy "freedom of the hills" and study/practice w/ it like its da bible - get yourself scared - make mistakes and learn from them - make friends on this site and elsewhere that climb and apprentice yourself - then climb w/ other newbies and share the knowledge

came down the trail y-day - it'll be another week i'd imagine? several huge boulders smashed a bunch of stuff out but they're obviously hard at work fixing it up - i'm curious to see what becomes of the big rocks that are now fixed in the middle of the path