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David Whitelaw's guide for Darrington (available as a CD only) is the ticket for that area, though one could easily get by for an enjoyable introductory visit using Mattp's website.

This is where Dru really went, isn't it? All that blather about the Icefields Parkway was just chaff. Dru: The Plastinator

Happy solstice to you too.

"It's like no cheese I've ever tasted..."

Is that Dru in his halloween costume? Damn, he's hot, no wonder he's in such demand over on that Assendyouwish.com sausageland. What a sport plastic climbing wienie. I bought my membership in the Olympia gym about three weeks ago.

Live longer, the funniest part is when that actually sounds like a good year.

Pfft. Silly is cool, "I'm going to hunt you down and kill all your family because you said I was gay" is not. I'm sure a discerning dandelion head such as yourself can distinguish the difference. Churn on oh ineffectual paddle, the bubbles you generate are oh so tickling to my psyche.

Too bad that stuff ships poorly, I like the other white meat.

Sorry AK, but Icegirl got the full IP ban there before she ever even tried to register. That's a hard achievement to top. From the IPO invitation:

Hah, if I recall Mike, you brought up this question around the fire at the first Smiffy Tuffest last year. Weren't your issues about physical distance and different hobbies, rather than some more fundamental disconnect? You're finally getting a little good advice here, but I agree with Fern, don't take the Catbird path. That's fine if you just want to be a buddy, but creepy if you have other motives.

Scott, if you wanna stir the shit, you should make your own paddle, not borrow someone else's.

You really got a thing for wide cracks, don't you? My holdovers from the Valley in 1978 include Shaky Flakes and Freewheeling.

work safe - high speed connection recommended

Well, it's not climbing related, but I've always been partial to "Lugnut" though I have yet to use it.

Thai Crepe? Sounds like it ought to come with avocado and roasted hazelnuts, with just a drizzle of bittersweet chocolate sauce.

Linda Blair Was Born Innocent

Sven and Ole worked together, and both were laid off, so off they went to the unemployment office. Asked his occupation, Ole said "Panty stitcher. I sew the elastic onto cotton panties." The clerk looked up panty stitcher. Finding it classed as unskilled labor, she gave him $300 a week unemployment pay. Sven was asked his occupation. "Diesel fitter," he said. Since diesel fitters was a skilled job the clerk gave Sven $600 a week. When Ole found out he was furious. He stormed back into find out why his friend and co-worker was collecting double his pay. The clerk explained: panty stitchers were unskilled and diesel fitters were skilled labor. "What skill?" yelled Ole. "I sew the elastic on, Sven pulls on it and says, "Yep, diesel fitter."

Well, that last shot is a fair representation!

That was a good time. I was in bed by 1:15, asleep by 1:17. The restraint that an hour and a half drive home imposes tends to limit the crispy hangover potential.

source My point Fairweather, is that Jesus was a dangerous revolutionary, and his redefinition of old blood-and-guts kill-all-your-firstborn Yahweh into the present (albeit merely lip serviced) God of Love was both radical and a distinct threat to the powers that be. It's no wonder they killed him. It's disheatening that you salute GW Bush for being a smorgasbord Christian, striking a pose and adopting a few bits for the sake of self promotion, but lacking any appreciation for whole message or commitment to the ideals of the prophet he claims to adore.

Hey! Ed Abbey was a freedom fighter! Granted, Jesus wasn't a violent insurgent, but what he promoted was pretty damn revolutionary, and would be just as unacceptable to the powers that be today. Turn the other cheek, love your enemy? Fuck that, did you see what they did to the Trade Center? The assertion that you shouldn't charge interest on a loan? A lot of people profess love for the long gone jewish carpenter, but there's no way he'd ever get elected.

In the big picture, Seattle area residents pay more in transportation taxes than they get in infrastructure. In fact, all you liberal Seattle latte slurpers help pay for roads in all those red counties, not the other way around, so if they've got to pony up a little more, it's only fair. It's a pity you don't get more credit for all you pump into the state economy. That viaduct scares the shit out of me anyway. I had a friend who missed being pancaked in San Francisco by two minutes, and I've never looked at Alaskan Way the same since.

If you want to get the Christians all riled up, all you have to do is give Jesus the dark skin and a hooked nose he likely had. Think of him as an Arab proto insurgent at odds with the occupying force.

don't worry - the Republicans can perform vehicular manslaughter and deny responsibility just like the Dems, except at least Janklow had to serve a trivial amount of jail time. Hmm, and I was assuming you were referring to Laura Bush's unfortunage killing of her ex-boyfriend, ran a stop sign at 60 miles an hour and tee-boned him about a half mile from his house, he was dead on the scene. No charges though. Word about town was that she had told him she was pregnant and he dumped her. It's okay, turned out she wasn't pregnant, so at least she doesn't bear the stain of unwed motherhood.