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If I had a wrecking ball crane, why hunt tigers? Why not skyscrapers?

Where's the sport in that? I'd use a bow and arrow and a club. So what if your aim isn't so good? It would be a much better thrill.

Say it was five years. I'd want to take more risks, but not TOO much risk. I could have an awful lot of fun in five years and wouldn't want to cut it short.

This morning on NPR there was a story about people attending classes about emigrating to Canada. This one woman said she worked in computer software and was unemployed with two kids. She said all the jobs have been offshored and that Bush is behaving like "there is no tomorrow". How else could one interpret the total disregard for the environment and for a huge debt burden that our grandchildren will be paying? And I got to thinking does Bush know something the rest of us don't? Maybe we're going to be wiped out by an asteriod in ten years? Maybe someone is about to nuke us? Well, I don't really think Bush has any knowledge of imminent disaster. I just happen to think he is someone who never learned to share his toys. So I went ahead and searched the word "armageddon". It turned up zero hits on cc.com. So I'm thinking, I can't believe we haven't hashed this topic! Maybe we have. What would you do if you knew the world would end in five years and you were the only one who knew? Would you tell anyone? They wouldn't believe you. Of course, there are lots of people in cults who believe this now, there always has. But suppose you were a scientist who had absolute knowledge. What would you do? For those of you who have read On the Beach, I think Neville Shute had it right. Behavior changes depending on the time frame, with increasingly wilder behavior as the end nears.

They make a foam peanut packing material out of starch which dissolves in water and can be put down the drain. This is a much more environmentally friendly choice than styrofoam.

Dave, someone HAD to say it.

I think a better word is "mitigated". A heavier climber WILL cause a larger impact force on the anchor for a given fall distance and rope.

So many people are absolutely clueless about securing their loads. I never rely on a single strap or cord for anything. But that is what the majority of people do.

I'll see you all down there from Dec. 26-Dec. 30.

Chirp, it all sounds familiar. Bah, humbug! If they are going to die they should get on with it and reduce the surplus population.

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Dude, you need to tell her that bouldering pads make climbing SAFER. Tell her that the chance of injury will be greatly reduced and the University will be less exposed to LIABILITY. Safety first!

So far, all responses have been in character. Dru, you need to come up with your usual tangential reference or non sequitur.

Many of you have no doubt been following the series of articles in the Seattle Post Intelligencer about the use of stun guns by police to subdue recalcitrant suspects. Every once in a while they'll get someone sky high on cocaine or PCP. They'll die from a heart attack and the coroner will say that drug overdose, restraint and the stun all played a part in the death. Various civil rights advocates are saying that the stun guns are lethal, even though there is no case of lethality absent the drugs. They say the use of the stun guns should be suspended, pending further study, etc. My question is this. Had the stun gun not been used in these cases, wouldn't it be very likely that the suspect would have died anyway? Also, wouldn't it be likely that the officers would have been much more at risk themselves? In some cases, the suspects might have ended up shot. If you take away stun guns, that leaves guns. I can't understand these people that want to ham string the police at every turn.

Yeah, if trask were here, he'd be saying the joke was about he and his twin brother, except he'd include a wheel barrow in the story...

Any route that is sufficiently brushy is the "klenke route".

Dru's joke reminds me of one in a similar vein: On the 16th hole of the golf course, Fred had hit his ball into the woods. Harry, his partner laughed and poked fun, but then somehow managed to hit his ball into the woods, just a few yards beyond. Fred looked for a long time, getting angrier by the minute. Finally, in a patch of pretty yellow buttercups, Fred found his ball. Instead of just continuing the game, he took his club and thrashed every single buttercup in the patch. Suddenly, in a flash and puff of smoke, a little old woman appeared. She said, "I'm Mother Nature! Do you know how long it took me to make those buttercups? Just for that, you won't have any butter for your popcorn for the rest of your life...better still; you won't have any butter for your toast for the rest of your life.....as a matter of fact, you won't have any butter for anything the rest of your life!" Then POOF!...she was gone. After Fred got a hold of himself, he hollered for his friend, "Harry!....Harry!...where are you?" Harry yells, "I'm over here, in the pussywillows." Fred screams back..... "DON'T SWING!!! FOR GOD'S SAKE!! DON'T SWING!!"

You mean acetone. Explosions are the way in which most meth labs are discovered.

I like this one.

Page top whore.

A climber friend of mine once taught in the Camano Island School district. The school board was populated with a group of creationists that insisted a watered down version of evolution be taught in the schools. She quit rather than be forced to compromise.

CPB, the authority on profanity!

Was it the movie Forbidden Planet where Robbie the robot saves people by carrying them through a stream of molten lava?

Silly boy, oil and water do not mix, hence no azeotrope (or as you you metalurgists would say eutectic) will form.

Science isn't about the meaning of life. A scientist simply doesn't use words like "purpose". What scientists resent is not religion itself, but representing religious belief as though it (creationism) is in some way scientifically derived, or equivalent to science. Science should be taught in Science Class and religion should be taught in Church.