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Does anyone else remember the "50 ways to leave your lover" thread or the disastrous family thanksgiving TR? This one has that sort of possibility too, complete with the trembling lower lip while pleading for moderator intervention in one's ill advised google searchable excessively public brouhaha.

Yeah, that place is just one big hopper, and you'll find vicious political infighting cheek by jowl with a first person account of the FFA of Astroman. As a moderator, I'm less tightly wrapped about spray in this forum, unless you're being an asshole. I'm pretty intolerant of it in Climbing Partners, Newbies, and anyone's TR of anything. I'll occasional bunt some thread from here in the Climber's Forum down to Spray where it really wants to be anyway. Like, say, maybe a thread featuring nudie pics of your wife dangling from the lighting valence?

Is this an excerpt from that new calendar, Drywall Nudes?

Damn Will, you're cute!

I'm sure you and I aren't the only ones who recently wondered that.

And I'm thanking you for that.

Sorry, but that's old time Libertarian dogma, Ron didn't invent it. His anti abortion stance is quite Republican though.

PC, you're making it really difficult to decide which of the two of you is more hardcore. Dariousness, I think you overrate the value of the sex you won't be bringing to the endeavor, 20 year olds aren't half as good at fucking as they think they are.

I have some brush that needs clearing, but I'm not sure I can wait a year.

What was the first thing Jesus Christ said when they pulled the nails from his hands and pulled him down from the cross? "THE FEET THE FEET THE FEEEEET!"

Well Linkster, between this one and that article about the woman who's given up sex, you're in fine form today.

I don't get your point Raindawg, are you saying that sport climbers are skinny and talented?

plate of shrimp

I've always preferred to bike in flats rather than heels.

Sorry old man (though I don't think you're any older than me), but Pink's in the right this time. Those guys rock, and the recent reunion tour was not the least bit lame.

Okay, so my reply may belong in the Cafe rather than here, but that makes you golden as a parent. For some kids, their thing is absolutely not going to be what turns your crank, so all you can do is support them to do whatever gets them jazzed. Even if it's skiing or baton twirling.

Pfft, as an entrepreneur with the requisite asset level I'm a welcome emigrant to Canada right now; I'm sure I could get a green card in the future People's Republic even if they draw the line right at the lower tip of the Puget Sound.

Dude, you are so outed as a total freshiez kinda guy, I don't ever want to hear you griping about skiing again.

Yeah, as you're thinking you need to listen to Wired again, I'm thinking I need to re-listen to that whole Alien disc, as tasty an instrumental rock album as I've ever heard.

If British Columbia and Washington were to jointly secede and form their own country, it would be my favorite nation in the world.

So now I'm looking at the actual list, as compared to just the cc.com spray excerpt. - Nice to see Martin Barre get a nod, Aqualung was a guitar hero of an album - Funny that Neil Young doesn't make an appearance until #39 for Cortez The Killer. While hardly the most technical fellow, his lines and sound are so signature and lyrical, you can't mistake him for anyone else. I'd plug Like A Hurricane or Tonight's the Night ahead of this cut, if only because the lyrics are so hysterically historically inaccurate. - Steve Howe, there's a prog rock trouper I've forgotten about, good song though as far as my mysteriously fuzzed out memory recalls - Clapton is the most overrated player on the planet. Consider the signature solo pieces on his best song Layla are by Allman on slide and whatever that guy was on piano, his most popular pieces Cocaine and I Shot The Sheriff are covers, and most of Mr Slowhand's work is readily replicated by third rate wannabes at blues jams across the country - Not necessarily the Hendrix cuts I'd have picked, but there's ample homage to the man, as with Stevie Ray. - Surfing with the Alien should get higher marks, it's such a propulsive lyrical line, speaks volumes with nary a word in sight. - Is Metallica really all that and a bag of nuts? I've always thought they were sort of boring, but Kirk Hammet sure gets a frisky BJ out of this list.

What a day, I find myself agreeing with Fairweather and Kevbone about Eric Johnson, and with KK about Jeff Beck. Heh, hands across the water, eh?

Your first sentence, "I lost my kid at stevens pass yesterday" sure gave my stomach a serious flip flop until I read on and realized it was only temporary, rather than more grevious and permanent. I'm glad it worked out, it gets better as they get older and you realize they've learned common sense and are able to formulate plan b on the fly. I'm sure you'll spend some time in debriefing, and next time he'll have a better sense of what to do, and you'll know better what to expect. First time I ever took my son alpine climbing on the N ridge of Stuart I warned him, "you know, if we die, I'm going to be in so much trouble." Seriously though, I understand your reaction, but odds are in favor of survival: all of us lot made it through to adulthood through all kinds of sketchy situations with likely less parental attention than kids get today. The key is coping skills and confidence, not luck. I think it's important to share stories with your kids even if they don't reflect favorably on yourself, there are lessons for them to learn from a parent's missteps. Contrary to popular fears, it doesn't translate into permission to fuck up on their own.

PM sent. Tim, you'll do okay here for a summer.

It looks better than ferns, maybe not quite so good as devils club.