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New AND dramatically IMPROVED Ken! Laughing at how many biners can fit into hangers as they all start showing up to my belay stance when belaying JH on his new route here.

I agree with the substance of what Dawg says but not the non-literate and flaming manner of which he said it. The dude stuck around and has arguable single handedly done as much for that country as any other individual in the world, establishing schools and positive trading contacts in the region. I have never heard a single Nepali say anything other than good things about the man either. opps, I need to put this stuff down faster, I just saw that Dawg duplicated my post (and did it first as well!)

OK, lets watch that one instead. *blush*. 8D ________________________________________________________________ See you folks all there then.

OK. Thank you for the heads up.I'd suggest a letter to the editor as this misguided fools just have no clue! Link to an erroneous news story Let us know where your quest leads and if you are able to get this group of non-fact checking malingerers to correct their story! Good luck Mr Phelps. Your mission, if you chose to accept it..... (Music starting in the background) Duh duh, duh duh duh duh.......

haven't they saturated the market already? what are you seeing here? I do not believe so, I think that they are just starting. If you check out some other cell phone makers market cap/vs their market penetration, I think one can get an idea of where that might possibly go. As the iphone is but one of their new products....but one which alone could increase the market cap/income of the company in a substantial way.... As usual, this is but an idea, we must all do our own due diligence, blah blah blah. And Hugh, someone told me about gold when it was over $300 an oz an going down. Of course you do your own due diligence....which is why I bet the money on the bottom, ie, to make it interesting, however, I did bet in a big way for myself as well at $280-$290 an oz. Tips and ideas are often better from people like SC than fund managers. If you think otherwise, I'm fine with that, but no need to stay around and bag on those who feel other than you.

AAPL is the new gold?

I'd put a massive amount of money that you are wrong and elections will he held on the date and time scheduled.

Showing up and bagging on others without offering anything positive is a weak way to try and show you are smart. So bring it or stay home. I didn't diss on Jayb's DCA suggestion post, despite the horrendous negative return that shit pile has seen. Here's one: Apple (AAPL) currently selling at $175 or so. Check this in a year and lets see....

I thought you were a Bush supporter?

Hello?! Goatboy, wha buddy - move AWAY from that goat now. I was drawing a parallel to the Seattle basketball team wanting to leave as Kevin wanted to talk about Basketball and I wanted to make a point about who really owns the team (hint, it's not the people of the city unless you live in Green Bay) . It was suppose to witty and humorous, however as you seemed to find it neither I will just put the metal in my mouth and squeeze the trigger next time instead of striving for something interesting, humorous, satirical and topical. Mods, can you NOW lock the thread so I can have the last word?

Nice call SC, I think that the dividend return on Bank of America right now is over 6%, and the upside is better than metals as the sub-prime issue gets resolved. Don't jump on the bus after everyone else already jumped on and it's left the building. Look for the next bus and diversity, that way if you make an error on one... Back when gold was $280 an ounce, as it cost over $300 to pull it out of the dirt on average, that was an easy call long term where it would go once the Bank of England finished selling off. Now that it's $900 an ounce, you are guessing strictly on speculation, ie, that a greater fool will show up and pay more. However (I have not looked at this figure currently so it's a guess) if on aggregate, the cost to pull it from the earth is @$400, can you suspect what the supply and demand curve effect will be...eventually? AT some point, the Arabs will quit buying with all the extra oil money they have laying around. Watch where the herd is running and head the other direction is still not bad advice.

10 years ago, 1997, in Nepal, hiked to the top of Gokyo Ri with my brothers and our friends Rick and Deb. As we're gazing out at Everest, I see that there is a moraine damn holding back a lot of water, perched right over the lil town of Gokyo. I bet, that within 10 years, that the lateral moraine would break, resulting in a mini flood. Bet 2 people $500 each, at 2 to 1 odds. So if I lost, I would pay them each $500, and if they lost, they would each pay me $1000. I must have been high. (OK it was over 18,000 feet and I was trashed at the time, so I guess I was.) @2 years later I read that some Swiss Do-gooder organization had mapped and was going to do site remediation to fix this exact issue which they had identified in 40 different locations in Nepal (they didn't detail Goyko specifically). Turned out to be a common issue as these huge glaciers throughout the Himalayan range melted and receded and the moraines filled with water. Anyway the 10 years ended in September and Rick, one of the bettors, was kind enough to let me off the hook - sort of, all I had to pay out was dinner at El Gaucho for everyone. We finally got all our schedules sorted out and got together for a wonderful dinner and excellent time last night. Cost of dinner for 5, just under $600. Actually worked out great as we had a great time together, I got a diner out of it, and I saved $400. My brother reminded me that I'd lost another bet the same trip. On the flight home, when I'd said that gold prices might drop to as low as $270 an ounce, he (eventually) wrangled a bet on that one, claiming they wouldn't. He was sweating it as they hit a low of $272 an ounce, but I lost, and bought him an ounce of gold to pay it off. Cost = $280 on the money. Last night he proposed the same bet: except the bet was loser pays an ounce of gold to the winner, and the price (he was betting that it would) would exceed $1000.00 an ounce. I declined. Took a while to wise up, but even an old dog can learn new tricks.

I don't need to expose anything. You brag about yourself here endlessly. I don't care to venture beyond the walls of this site in my effort to help you temper your own ego - everything I know about you comes from your endless drivel here or links you have provided at various times to it. I simply choose to dismiss most of it as bullshit. Especially since you seem most inclined to break out your fantasy resume when you're trying to beat your own chest about a related topic. Everything I have posted here about you has been in-kind and well earned. I would also point out that I have repeatedly tried to ignore you only to have you inject some photoshopped picture of a penis or an insult my intellect. Frankly, you seem happiest when you are able to perceive yourself as physically and intellectually superior to everyone around you - and yes - it gets very annoying. Your Tiger Mountain challenge, honestly, made you look like a complete fool. Obsessed with Tvashtarketena? Um, no, not by any stretch of your imagination. But until you can produce the cards that demonstrate you to be the human being you claim to be, I'll keep calling your bluff. Blah blah blah This about him voting for Hillary, isn't it? Or perhaps you're just jealous cause he got to ride in the Space Shuttle to other planets and you didn't. Waaaaa PS, sorry SC, but I'm dropping the star rating on the thread. As an on topic comment: my son drug home "Balls of Fury" and made me watch it, it was going OK until I fell asleep, so thats all I have for a review. It may be a good movie. He thought so, but he gives anything that has Will Ferrell in it a 10 out of 10, so take that comment lightly eh? Theres more material today folks, as I F*ed my knee bad and will be hanging around the house all day.

Like to be there with you all. Although I like both teams, it will be hard to pick one for me as I understand that the Packers are the only community owned Football team. Owned by the city of Green Bay. I think Paul Allen owns the Seahawks, and he wants to bring in a good product within budget so you locals will pony up and then can support his bank account...otherwise he might move them to Oklahoma or some other forsaken place....hmmm - what was my point. Oh, I remember now, have fun!

Jim's house Jan 18th, (Friday) @ 7pm. ________________________________________________________________ Maybe we can use this thread to vote on potential movies? I have Masters of Stone V1 and 2. That's all I have. So I'll say-------------> on these. If you've see these thousands of times or know for a fact it's another poorly scripted, badly shot home movie with only a bunch of excruciating loud noises which they call music while 12 and 13 year old self-proclaimed "Bad Asses" claiming world records and first ascents doing endless 5' and 6'boulder moves with sit starts accompanied by screams and loud grunts as if to punctuate how bad assed they are while their parents are yelling at them to put those doobies down and come home to dinner: - if you do know that these movies are all that, then do this----------> Cause I have no clue and think we all need some solid mid-winter stoke. See you there.

It was just a crack in the pavement and 50 lbs of Crisco. Standard stuff, nothing uncommon, nothing to see here folks.....move along, move along now.

Sheepskin seats. Understandable. "Man who had sex with bike in court By Richard Alleyne Last Updated: 2:07am GMT 31/10/2007 A man has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle. Robert Stewart was discovered in his room by two cleaners at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr, south west Scotland, in October last year. On Wednesday Mr Stewart admitted to sexual breach of the peace in Ayr Sheriff Court, where depute fiscal Gail Davidson described how he had been found by the hostel workers. She said: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply. "They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white T-shirt, naked from the waist down. "The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex." Both witnesses, who were extremely shocked, notified the hotel manager, who in turn alerted the police. Mr Stewart was placed on the sex offenders’ register but his sentence was deferred until next month. He is not the first man to be convicted of a sexual offence involving an inanimate object, however. Karl Watkins, an electrician, was jailed for having sex with pavements in Redditch, Worcs, in 1993."

Damn. I used to work at Protocol Systems right up the street. I probably jogged past your house. company which wuz and is begging to be our fastener bitches ™ fixed

The last 36 words? Why did you stop at 36? Seems arbitraily short...hmmm BTW, glad you won the pot, but who won the tourny? Hey, do I need to ask how it is I never get invited to play with the cool kids? I'm curious, do you remember what the buy in was and how much $ did you get for winning?

Where in that Bible quote does God say to put a tourniquet on it b4 you saw it off? Not there, is it? What a weasel.

sure is - thanks for sharing it Wayne.

Back on topic: if any of you dudes or dudettes play and want a challenge, we have a Ping Pong table at work ready to go 24/7 and I usually get on it at least once a day, sometimes 2 or 3 times for sets of 3 games usually. Stop in anytime during work hours for a match. Kevbone, should have compared notes sooner as we use to be neighbors before you moved, we're on Nimbus ave in Beaverton. I use to walk down the creek for stress relief till we got it, so I suspect my health is going to shit with it here......sigh....

ha ha ! Nice catch.

you have no idea how stoked i am on my kids...not climbing per se, but in general... I know - I know. BTW, heading out in just a bit to play hookey and hang with my 17 yr old son and get some turns on the snow up at the mountain. He's graduating early and could be gone off the college anytime, so I'm trying to enjoy the lad while he's still around. opps, changed the topic away from climbing, my bad.

I'd love to have one, sent the funds. BTW, can you change me back to couchmaster instead of sprayprentic under my name? Graaacissssss