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Both of those dudes are successful directors and producers. They are laughing all the way to the bank.

Nope, the terrorist survived and was even interviewed. Oh, I get it- rolleyes.

The pictures strike me more as being terrorist mugshots.

If you divide my age by two you get 22. Nalo, I guess the reason you are getting such a ribbing is in my experience it is quite unusual for climbers to worry about age. Climbing is a meritocracy.

Spam works to make money, therefore it's continued existence is assured.

In today's news we see that lists dominated by Shiite Cleric influenced parties will likely have a majority (up to 70%) in the National Assembly. The Sunnis are now shut completely out of power and the stage is set for civil war.

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Joel, are those Army issue rock shoes?

Okay, I'll bite. It is true that air cools faster than water, because of its lower heat capacity. However for the air comprising the headspace to cool, it must first lose it's heat through the bottle and this is also true of the water below. I just think the reason it freezes first at the top is that the water/air interface and film on the inside of the cap, provides a better place for ice nucleation than the body of the water below. We are not talking about ice forming below and floating up because that isn't what happens.

They have a funny way of drinking down in Texas. It doesn't lend itself to social settings.

As the mathematician might say, the election was "necessary, but not sufficient", or as Yogi might say, "It ain't over 'til the Fat Lady sings."

The large moon isn't necessarily too large, if the photo was taken using a telephoto lens. The presence of the small sun is rather weird if IT was the image that was photoshopped in. Under certain circumstances you can get an image of the sun called a sun dog, but the position of the image relative to the true sun is not right in this case.

They are heavy and they are expensive, but I know of at least one friend, who is a novice, who bought one after I told him not to.

I don't know about Gore floss, but I did this with waxed nylon marline and it has held up fine for almost a year now. It's easy enough to replace. It only takes a few minutes. I really like being able to feel the mark in the dark. My method is to wrap the marline several times around the rope and then make a series of longitudinal seizings using a needle to prevent the wraps from moving. This method is also useful for the ends of the rope to prevent them from unravelling.

Cigarettes are bad for your health.

Where the f--- is j_b, this is right up his alley. It's all they are talking about today. Instead all we're talking about is windshirts.

I could have used a windshirt climbing Dreamer in misty conditions. Does anyone know where I can buy a red fez?

It explains by 18 year olds make great cannon fodder- I mean soldiers.

I can't believe no one hasn't posted on this yet. It's too funny. My buddy at Microsoft hadn't even heard about it yet. The Scotsman "We look forward with amusement to explanations by a variety of psychologists and graphologists of how various characteristics ascribed to the PM on the basis of the doodles, such as ‘struggling to concentrate’, ‘not a natural leader’, ‘struggling to keep control of a confusing world’ and ‘an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure’, equally apply to Mr Gates."

They made it sound like the animal was super dangerous. It most likely was paralyzed, otherwise it wouldn't still have been lying in the road. I think it sucks when cops bust people who are trying to do a good thing. They ought to cut people some slack in such instances. I guess that is why some people call them pigs.

Not exactly a coup, because the King is part of the government, but a power grab, nonetheless.

I couldn't imagine a more cynical person than this ShinerTX. Must be a troll.

Seems to me that although most people are perfectly capable of driving safely at 0.08% blood alcohol, there are plenty of people who, when they reach that level at the bar, lose the ability to count drinks. Hence after 0.08%, they go all the way above 0.15%.

I heard a discussion this morning on the radio between opposing view points regarding the need for declaring a timetable for pulling US troops out of Iraq. One side declared that we should pull them out when conditions are right. The other side said that we set dates for both the establishment of interim government and for elections. We should do the same for withdrawl. In my opionion, not setting a date for withdrawl puts us in the position of letting the insurgency dictating what we do. Furthermore, it allows the new Iraqi government to think they can use us indefinitely. If they KNOW we are going to be gone by a certain date, you better believe they will have an incentive to have their defense forces trained and ready in time. Lastly, setting a date makes a statement to the Islamic World that we are sincere about allowing the Iraqis to govern themselves.