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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.

I gotta believe that the guy didn't have any idea of the principle. Apparently the lamp in the base wasn't working or wasn't generating enough heat. As designed the lamp doesn't get anywhere near hot enough to boil water. But on a stove you have a closed vessel filled with superheated water. As soon as the glass breaks, the water flash vaporizes into steam and you have, essentially, a bomb.

Another way of putting it is a little heat is good, but a lot of heat can be bad. Story

Basically what you do is this. You find some flaws or inconsistencies with a strong theory. So even though you don't have a competing theory that is better supported by data and experimentation, you discredit the strong theory and adopt what is essentially a Fairy Tale. Makes sense.

No, they are dermatophytes. That is a photomicrograph of an climber/astronaut's nether regions after six months without a bath.

As they say in Texas, it's time for the Canadians to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

I might throw out Erden for one. Some people say he's crazy while others say he's living his dream. People say he'll never succeed. I say he has already succeeded.

You can talk about Darwin Awards all you want, but what I was thinking was this. Did this guy have even a rudimentary understanding of physics, and if he did, would it have made any difference? Does curiosity always trump common sense?

I've done it, but I feel better doing it on 1" webbing.

It looks as though the new bridge will be mostly concrete. Less maintenance.

Hey, you euripedes, I ripados.

Doh! They had the Cassin C10L for $69 at the Pac Coast Feather company sale.

With Zeus standing on top hurling thunderbolts, it's no wonder you haven't made it to the top of Olympus. There is a word for mortals like you- hubris.

I get the blues when it rains red.

"I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."