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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.

When it comes to organ transplants, money talks and bullshit walks.

Every one of those guys is a great musician in his own right.

By "won't pour worth shit", he must be referring to excessive foaming?

It's not just arrogance, it is contempt. You have to read the biography to understand. He was a very bitter man.

Miles Davis can almost be thought of as several musicians, rather than one. He was constantly remaking himself and moving from one style to another. He never stood still. Every albumn is different from the one before it. If you don't like one of them, chances are you'd like some of the others. I agree with you about his arrogance. I read his biography. He was not a likeable person. I can easily look past all that, because he was such a great musician.

It certainly doesn't take long to present the evidence in favor of ID, because it doesn't exist. I guess that was a Gilliganism, wasn't it?

When beer is really, really cold, you might as well drink Coors light because the taste is the same. The reason IPA exists is because it was made to be brought on long voyages to India. The high hop content preserved it better at higher temperatures.

No that was Ehmic (sp?).

Good old Uncle Ben. What a guy!

Don Adams was a really funny guy. I still have an old comedy albumn of his called Don Adams meets the Roving Reporter. Mount Everest was hilarious. Re-released in 1997

I was thinking it was a hell of a photoshop job.

You'd think so, but I have little experience leading offwidths. Sometimes what looks like it might work, doesn't always in practice. It gets really wide up top, but could probably be run out because it's quite easy, almost a chimney. The guide book doesn't say anything about gear unlike the adjacent offwidth Blue Autumn, so it probably takes more standard gear.

If we are going to be drinking quality ale, we shouldn't serve it too cold. The idea is to actually TASTE it.