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Now that's funny.

No, no, no. A micrometer you dimwit!

Oh my god, what a surprise.

why? you don't fall enough??? You never had trouble insulting someone before. Why not now?

For one thing, a good flip flop has to have rhythm.

Indeed it would be used exclusively in reference to OTHER climbers. Definitely pejorative.

Waddayamean? Climbing is the best thing since sliced bread.

We can make it happen, we have the power, to introduce the new term "muffpointing" into the climber's lexicon.

I was wondering, because gyselinck doesn't post to spray much. But I agree that rap "sucks donkey balls", as trask would put it.

Scooter Bug!

Whether this is good news or not may depend on your point of view. As a moderate liberal, I saw her as perhaps the lesser of possible evils. The next nominee is almost certainly going to be an ideologue, more conservative and more to the liking of the far right.

I'll take my odds with climbing. At least if I die climbing, chances are it will have been my own damn fault, or possibly my partner's fault. The thing I hate about riding bicycles on the street is time and again handing responsibility for my life to countless other people I don't even know.

I feel your pain brutha, I hates that shit too. I read the ingredients on everything packaged that i buy, and it's so hard to avoid either HFCS or MSG that I wind up making things like vegetable stock from scratch. Try avoiding hydrogenated vegetable oil in any prepackaged food. Trans-fatty acids are all pervasive.

Sure, if money is a problem, use the old shower curtain.

Is more likely than the US Government telling rich people they won't insure their barrier island homes rebuilt on the sand.

Interesting reading but it doesn't put any of my concerns to rest. It all depends on scientific disagreement with regard to how susceptible humans are to excitotoxins relative to rodents, something that my never be resolved.

Anyone can go do an internet search of the two words "aspartame obesity" and come up with a large number of articles that purport that aspartame and related compounds, like monosodium glutamate, cause obesity because they are "excitotoxins", that is, they either kill brain cells or interfere with the appetite supression activity of serotonin in the brain. Now my impression is that that the doses people are getting are low enough that toxic levels are not being achieved. On the other hand, I decided long ago, not to take any risk and avoid these sorts of products to the extent that I can. I am curious as to what some of the voracious internet readers like Dru think about the whole issue.

Nothing like a nice wax job to keep those floors looking smart.

No carpet? Hardwood floors maybe?

I thought K & K was a pretty good place. We had a fun little gathering with Toast, Gary_Yngve, Geek_the_Greek, Snugtop and Erik.

Tom, I am surprised to hear statements like that from you, a son of the South, yourself.

All depends on your definition of "somewhat close".

I like to tell my partners, "I'd rather owe it to you my entire life than cheat you out of it!"

He may be a crony but at least he actually once actually served on the Federal Reserve Board.

Now that I am somewhat better read, I know where Pope's ethos comes from. It's a synthesis of Royal Robbins, Rheinhold Messner and Jean-Claude Droyer. His conception is a lot less nuanced than any of these men.