RobBob

Without seeming to be boastful I am a damn good muff diver...

Hey, DFA, if the situation's dire, maybe the heavy cutbacks are warranted. Nobody's ever called me Adolf before... MeatGoat, still haven't gotten the brevity msg, have ya? You might win some supporters if ya just CONDENSE IT!

quote: Meanwhile Not A Climber who was seated in the back of a classroom at Bellevue CC working on his Spray Certification noticed someone across the aisle with a nose that looked oddly familiar... ...someone with a garlic aroma that could level Tacoma...a steamy little...

If we are in fact changing the planet's climate as a result of our human activities, who among us could be against these modest proposals, which would yield results in just a generation or two: 1) institute mass spaying/neutering programs in nations whose indiginous populations are still growing. 2) on a worldwide basis, eliminate automobiles, and the internal combustion engine, immediately.

This thread is annoying because those posting on both sides of the issue on this thread do not know how to SUMMARIZE!!! It is an interesting issue, however, precisely because 1. humans tend to over-estimate their influence on the universe (it's an ego thing). 2. humans have a very hard time sorting out trends that transcend human history. Hell, I don't want humanity to change the climate. But I also want to get at the real facts. And I have this sneakin' suspicion that one good volcanic eruption can have more effect on climate than 100 years of human activity.

Cleophus=MF606 (or whatever that wanker's avatar was...)

What Jimmyleg said.. It's not about telling anybody else about what I'm doing. But it is an internal challenge about getting to the top, and telling yourself that before you die, you've seen some beautiful stuff that others can't/won't muster the energy to see. Call it the gumby mindset if you want. I took this up too damn late to ever get good at it like you lucky bums. BTW I'm on a bus. trip, typing this from a shitty motel room in Indianola, MS. And BB King ain't even in town...shit.

DFA, you MUST be trolling for a pissfest on this one. I always knew that Ed Asner was a dipshit.

DFA, try the Bukowski short story ("pamphlet") Bring Me Your Love...

Go Dru! I too was raised w/o a TV, which I see as a gift my parents gave us kids...we sure hated it at the time, mainly embarrassed lest our classmates know. Thank God my father turned down a local TV station's request to do a story on us for not owning one. Trying not to let my kids watch much either, but with twins it's almost impossible not to...sometimes we've gotta have the break. Everyone's covered the literary front well in this list. For good perspective buy a copy of the Rand McNally World History Atlas. This atlas shows what was happening around the globe during different periods of time, has lots of supporting numerical data, and is fun to study a little at a time.

Just Louie Louie!

I forgot to say: anything by Roald Dahl. As a parent, his refreshingly dark kids' stories like Matilda and Charley and the Chocolate factory were good. But his adult books and short stories are excellent. My Uncle Oswald, Switch Bitch, etc. E-Rock suggested Water Method Man (Irving). Read it if only for the chapter "One Long Mother of a Day," the funniest damn thing I ever remember reading. Best recent non-fiction book: Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. This is both the saga of a ship going down during a hurricane in the 1800s with unbelieveable survival stories, and a modern drama of a young man's success story. Thick, but you will not put it down once you start it.

I think this group's too sensitive for me. Cryin' over violence in a book? Brace up, man! Goddamnit, don't make the likes of Ernest Shackleton, George Patton, and Teddy R. roll over in their graves any more! Wait a minute...there are a few exceptions...kids...puppies...Bambi...oh never mind.

Trask's list was a very good one, the Kipling verse is great. Don't avoid the prose, though! The Man Who Would Be King, The Jungle Books, his short stories, all of it appeals to those of us who seek adventure and who have the frontiersman spirit. I would say that The Old Man and the Sea is my favorite Hemingway book. Anybody who has fished for big fish in blue water should read it. I would put On the Road, Electric Koolaid Acid Test, and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas all in the same group to read half-drunk or stoned one weekend. Fear & Loathing was my favorite book at age 23...I don't know how old you are today. Hunter Thompson's short stories are also entertaining. DFA's list was good, except for that Edward Abbey one...don't read that anarchist shit!

Trask, theLawGod is so obviously you...

How do you like my new offensive avatar? The man imortalized by the CIA...

Necro, now you have become a propaganda tool for Saddam,...what a tool!

Testing...

Oh well...I will self-censor...

I figured this was definitely the thread to test it...administrators delete if you must, 'cause I have to log off...

Is my new avatar cool, or is it just too much?

Latest happenings in the Middle East: (Dru, I owe ya... )

Lemmee checkit out...thanx...

Cute, Veggie, but yer pic in yr profile isn't working quite as well...

Dru, From trial and error, I find that most of the time I can insert a URL .jpg/other image IF I can click on it, but I can't extract an image from a website that is not "clickable." However, I have seen that others have been able to somehow extract images (ex: Trask did with the Spaceboy in tinfoil). How do you do it??? Thanks, Rob