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is this the real life?

if you don't have a hammer, using a big cam (#3 or bigger) to whale on the tool/piece helps i think cursing was mentioned too...

sounds like you're more interested in backpacking though? rock climbing and backpacking are pretty different things - backpacking and mountaineering are more similiar though - if you're interested in volcano climbing, then the mazamas are indeed a fine choice most enjoyable way for me to learn though is to find someone w/ a bit more experience than me and learn through them

i can't seem to find the cover sheet?

we like wild places - wild people and wild ways go well together there being a kid rocked - why wouldn't i want to stay one?

anecdote of remote significance: couple of years ago i climbed forbidden w/ a friend who wasn't a smoke at that time - we car2car it and get back after dark, pretty sleep - i fire up in celebration (well, the 30th celebratin of the day perhaps) and my boy hops in the driver seat and off we go - he's strait, but so mesmerized by the moth flying around in the cab due to the light he has on while searching for his phone that i have to save us by pointing out we're heading over the side of the road and down into a world of hurt seconds before it all comes true - an hour later, making the thunder run back to i5, strait guy's going 900 mph while frantically text-messaging - i'm smoking a bowl and looking out the window when i see 2 deer in the road about a hundred yards up - "hey, dude - look out" "hey dude!" "WHOA! dude - didn't you see the deer?" i was like the stoner ninja that night - the strait guy was clueless.

slightly different take on climbing, but for expedition climbing, pot is most definetly a performance enchancing drug - if i have to endure huge slogs, endless weather days, and nasty setbacks without, i'm cranky and bitchy and the team dynamic makes it easy for the whole thing to fall apart - but with, hey, shit, it's all good - we're happy - we can stay in the tent for a month and eat oatmeal if we have to, and who cares if its 8 hours trudging through slop?

served in the air force = you can give me advice on my golf swing

one of the wisest things i've ever heard in spray

i'm not an economist nor terribly fluent in business history (worst grade i ever got was econ201), so i have no examples at hand of unions succesfully defending a benefit they've won in the past - seems obvious enough though - every couple of years my school district negotiates a contract with its employees - who'd do the bargaining if it wasn't our union? i know from personal experience in my district though that employers are keen to cut expenses when possible and will take away things they've given in the past (sick days, proffesional development money, calendar days, etc) unless we collectively pitch a fit about it. i'm sure there are examples of unions killing the golden goose - what human endeavor isn't fraught w/ disasters? i know even the early 20th century unions weren't altogether benevolent and angelic organizations, but as tvash pointed out, i still wouldn't have liked being an industrial worker prior to their creation

unions are less necessary then in the past in that they have been succesful in winning the most important battles listed above - but no victory is forever, and organized groups of workers must maintain vigilance if their accomplishments are to be preserved

an issue that dues-paying union members have to care enough to correct - no need to throw the baby out w/ the bath-water my union boss taught elementary school for 24 years

Certainly. By way of example, let's say the market price of a draught beer is $4.50. The state then mandates that the price be capped at $2.00. Within an hour, hordes of thirst-crazed Irishmen descend from every corner of the planet upon drinking establishments nationwide like yellow jackets on the ass end of a dead possum. The first to go is the glassware, which, within the first 15 minutes, transforms the floor of every bar in the country to a crunching, glistening wrecking yard mulch. Next, the waitresses are dragged off, where they are cornered and regaled with tearful tales of personal loss, opportunity lost, and the salvation that awaits Madonna de jeur should she deign to accompany poor Paddy back to his flat. Finally, as the beer supply runs out (T plus 20), the taps themselves are torn from the walls as patrons intibate themselves with the keg hoses like starving Comanches devouring the steaming intestines of their first spring kill. Needless to say, such an event can only increase the cost of insurance, beer service equipment, glassware, floor refinishing services, security personnel, wait staff, encarceration, and rehab. Completely inflationary. Hope this helps. seems easy enough to solve - we got the paper and we got the presses! just print up a bunch more money for the wenches!

second best scene: "ahhh - hanz! you dirty little boy - you've got crabs! a whole army of them! a twinkie like that, they eat it to the bone."

my favorite scene from "das boot", translated into english: "christmas in macacroni-land won't be so bad" "stupid jerk - we've got to get their first!" "so?" "and so....gibraltar! try sticking your finger up your ass, eh? that strait's tighter than a virgin..."

wow, speaking of drugs, that would be a bit frightening, eh? a piece of paper acting like a lung? like the necromicon or something - die, die, die! unholy text! i still like my musket concept - how about imagining a gun battle 'twixt the crips'n'bloods? dudes in 'doo-rags w/ a captain sparrow-esque pistol cocked crazy-eyed style? the blunderbuss would still make an excellent home-defense weapon!

yeah, they're either in mexico or dead - mexico doesn't appear to be it though. might not be years 'till they turn up - i remember a couple of years ago two guys who went missing 20 years before on mt adams were finally found in the vicinity of the lunch counter which sees 3 billion tourists a year

let's legalize drugs and ban all but 18th century style muskets (isn't that what the 2nd amendment was protecting anyhow?) - most folks'll be too fucking stoned and clueless to have a gunbattle last more than a shot or two would like to see how that mall shooting in utah last week woulda gone down if white-bread had walked in like a fawking red-coat we can take all the contraband firearms and melt'em down into a statue of charlton heston the size of godzilla's great-goddamn-granddaddy

even a meat-eater's gotta draw the line somewhere...

olympus mons?

seems like a man so keen on scaring us w/ the evils of foreigners would have chosen an american beer to represent himself? myself, i like the irony of the taco-negro re-invading the country that stole 1/2 his heritage - on my hoot-list it ranks up there w/ the salmon-negro getting the suv-negro drunk on his own fire-water and picking his pocket at the local casino funny that you should compare the war on drugs w/ the war on immigrants - we appear to be having the same sucess on both fronts - maybe time to reconsider our original position, eh?

care to explain, o-verbose one?

WWATD? what would a tauntaun do?

hippos - are you our celebrity hood accident of the month at the moment? hope not...