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Wow, that was an interesting paragraph. The topic changed with each and every sentence. I had to read it three times.

I'm waiting to for someone to take a pictures of the desktop with the picture of the desktop on the screen.

Just like Steve Martin's cardboard investment?

I hope THE BIG ONE doesn't hit while he is spraying. [shake]...[sHAKE]..."what the f---!" Crash!

Seems like there is a need for a big gear bank. Nobody wants to buy the stuff because it gets used so seldom.

If they can't pay for gas, put them on the hamster wheel.

Is it Fay-Haas? Or is it Fee-Jas, or Fee-Jazz? It took him five months to recover from the Hump Fest.

Agent 99, I just kneeewww it! The old embarrassing-coif-messy-room-thread-resurrection trick. Promotes good inbox housekeeping.

Gay or Autoerotic Squid?

You nailed it. With religion, when you encounter a social problem, instead of saying, "Let's get together and decide on a solution that makes the most sense for the most people", you'd say, "Let's look it up in these 3000 year old scriptures and see what it says".

Either it is foggy today or the telephoto lens is crappy, or both.

My boss used to let us keep a sixer in the walk-in cold room in the lab. At 4:30 pm, three of four of us would proceed to his office for some "juice".

I have to agree with him on the US. We are majorly f'd up. So Dru, care to comment on the degree of religion-induced dysfunctionality in Canada?

Harding was being interviewed about his big wall climbs in Yosemite. He was asked, "what sort of mental preparation did you guys do before tackling those huge walls?" Harding: "Well, we sobered up, if that's what you mean".

Duck walks into a bar, jumps up on the barstool and says, "got any duck food?". Bartender says, "no we don't have any duck food. We don't serve your kind. We have beer, wine and whiskey. Now get out of here, before I nail your bill to the bar!" The duck waddles out. Next day the duck comes back in, jumps up on the barstool and says, "got any nails?". Bartender says, "no we ain't got any nails". Duck says, "Got any duck food?"

Don't tell us, your second "forgot" to clean the piece?

Indeed. Dru's wet dream.

E=mc^2

This is the 5800 ft summit? Interesting.

The parking lot for the group site is the solid brown box. There is a large, pretty much continuous area in the trees between the lot and the road that can accomodate more than a dozen tents. There are about three nice sites with tables along the river, each of which will take two or three tents. Then there are some additional small sites along a dirt road that extends downriver from the parking lot. I think there will be more than enough room for all. If the lot fills you can park outside the gate along the entrance or along the road. No problem.

They may not have considered themselves lucky at the time, but I'm sure they do now.

It sounds a bit like what they did in Zimbabwe and that has been a disaster for everyone.

I have found that any carabiner with this nice, round shape will tend to rotate unless it is kept under tension. The round shape is what makes this 'biner so good for rappelling and for the Munter Hitch, but it also weakens it and makes it less stable. If you turn the 'biner so that the rope is passing over the small end, you will find it has much less tendency to rotate into a cross loaded orientation.

Whatever happened to Crack_Bolter?

People used to ask Miles why he had that raspy voice of his. He stated in his biography that it was a result of a surgery. I think it was from smoking weed almost continually. The same reason why Louis Armstrong had his distinctive gravelly voice.