RobBob

Ahem, Mtngoat, sir. This is your employer. Get back to work!!

Fock, another day going to hell...

This is ponderous as shit, people.

Did the guy who posts as Dru forget his pw or what?

...okay, well...just watch yr back!

Shit. It's taken me days to figure out that you've been pickin' fights with yourself.

(only on edge of thread) ...anybody see the show on Natl Geo channel on the SAR in NZ? Pulleying that guy out of that tiny crevasse? Ugggg!

I'm beginning to think that there's, like, really only 12 people on this board...

I think I'm gonna try one of the Golite six-month night parkas...they are in the bargain basement now at $109. I bought an overshirt from golite for running. When I got it, I thought, what a piece of shit for $40...there's nothing to it and it's gonna rip. Turns out it's warm, extr.light, and I love it (the orange faded a little after a couple of washings though).

I'm only ing

You're exactly right, trask. If I want a half-hour of relative peace for my wife and I to talk when I get home, what do I do? Pop in the old Aristocats (or whatever the flavor-of-the month is).

You guys debating slavery are wandering into the soft stuff. While you're at it, ponder this: Is it a mitigating factor that the descendents of those slaves are living in the US, rather than, say , Sierra Leone?

I know I'm fantasizing here, but I really really hope to keep the kids away from the videogame world as long as possible. Maybe it was Dave Barry who said that he never wanted his kids to watch videos; he pictured them doing good Amish things like weaving and churning butter. Then he gave in, and eventually his family bought the entire Disney collection. Well, my kids watch too many videos already, so my Maginot Line (for now) is videogames. They're not yet 5, but hear their friends talk about 'em, so their interest is piqued. I guess I think of videogames the same way my parents thought of TV---new opiate of the people. My folks succumbed to their first TV set when I was 14 (after my siblings and I were already into books). I'm probably obsessing like my parents did. Shit, child-rearing is scary. Wish we were back in the pre-AIDS, pre-crack, pre-internet, pre-Columbine good old days.

Now THAT would be bullshit! Climbers are paying more to "play," so they (and I guess the Paradise guests) should park toward the front.

Iain, I see Pat Robertson's face, and wonder if there isn't some secret blood relation between him and Jim Bakker.

Hey Fairweather, I'm not one-sided on this---Reno was absolutely awful. But I don't believe in martyrdom, and RFK was no great shakes either. Most of us were kids (or not alive) back then; from what I have read, Bobby was quite the operative for his brother in his job, and not exactly acting as the preserver of freedoms.

let me introduce you to an old swim buddy and his girlfriend ...

trask, as you can see, my mama is very supportive of my fighting career...

trask, I'd give you the spankin' yo mama never dealt ya.

I want all you kids in the audience to note that none of us on this thread today have threatened to punch, spindle, mutilate or violate each other, despite our obvious difference of opinions.

Gotcha!! Now I can sleep tonight.

Okay, Goat. Let's talk about mountains. When you get really cold, do you ponder the relativity of the coldness, or the relativity of how your body senses it?

freeclimb, I'm with you, but we both know that there's no reasoning with a zealot with a big badge...

Yes, Dr. Flash, it IS a platypus.