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No, this is not about Al Gore. A Gore Point is the sharp angled point between the right lane and off or on ramp of a freeway. I've seen 3 gore point collisions in three days or 6 in two weeks, where people drive their cars into the end of the guard rail at off ramps. What's going on here? More drunks or more people falling asleep at the wheel? Why?

Bird, meet klenke. Klenke, meet bird. Stefan, meet bird...

When I was in college taking Organic Chemistry, our professor was a distinguished fellow, head of the department, H. Moore. He told a story about when he was himself a student and how his professor was talking about phenol. The prof. said to be careful with phenol because contact with skin will cause a blister. So what does our young Mr. Moore do? He puts some phenol in the palm of his hand to see what would happen. Sure enough, it raised a big, painful blister, just like his prof. said it would.

Woke up one morning and noticed there was a hard swollen area in the center of the palm of my right hand. It doesn't hurt or otherwise affect the mobility of the middle finger over which tendon the swelling is located. I was in the doctor's office for an unrelated complaint and asked him about it. He said as long as it doesn't hurt, don't worry about it. If it does start to hurt he would send me to a hand specialist. It is not a neuroma or a glial cyst. He thinks it might be a ruptured or torn tendon sheath, but is surprised that it doesn't hurt. Have any of you folks ever heard of this problem?

Since it's Friday, I say let's lift a glass to our fallen brethren.

If all the "insurgents" got what they wanted, which is presumably for the Americans to leave immediately, you would very quickly have a bloodbath that would make the US Civil War look like a picnic.

No, no, no, get with it. Greg's a D-cell in a sock sort of guy.

I have the Mistrals and like them a lot thus far. My only complaint is that the waist is fastened by a patch of Velcro. It works okay, but occasionally pulls loose. It would be easy enough to add a buttor or snap. Hey, Tom, what you need is a pair of suspenders. Here's a heavy duty pair for ya. http://www.cands.net/cands/SUSPENDERS.html

I heard on the radio that Chris Farney is a 250 lb prize fighter.

I was going to stick a phony bolt hanger with cut off bolt to the step across using chewing gum and watch people clip it and make the move with confidence.

I'd like to do some of the more moderate routes at Three O'Clock Rock on Sunday. Have wheels. PM me if interested.

Trask has successfully completed the new Spray Addiction Program at the Betty Ford Clinic. He has a new life now.

I was watching one of his commercials the other day. He seemed like such a warm and caring guy. I'm thinking about all the Americans watching this ad who are going to fall for the lie. It absolutely amazes me how the exterior belies the truth of the man. Americans are pretty dumb when it comes to falling for false fronts. But after they have been burned a few times more and more of them will come around.

Rantisi is the perfect definition for the word "monster".

I expect that Microsoft will never pay up its $600 million fine by the EU. They'll use similar tactics. They figure it's much cheaper to pay the lawyers. Even at 3% interest, they are earning $21 million a year, assuming no inflation. So they pay the lawyers a couple million a year. It's a good deal and good business.

This is one of the best Freudian slips I have seen in a long time.

"We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to all us," Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti said Thursday. "This is my iceberg; it belongs to me." Discuss Red Iceberg

I just love 'em. The thing about tricams is know where NOT to use them and how to recognize situations where they are superior to cams. Then you'll like them. There are situations where tricams will work great when nothing else will. I carry the #s 0.5, 1 and 2.

Alex, I know about that one. Some people call it the "hidden crack". I agree with you that the Alien is "Psycho Pro" at best. It's a good place to put one's foot. Greg, if I came out in support for hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet, you'd find a way to disagree with me. Now if I came out in support of gun rights...

When executing the step across, it is best not to dwell on the possible consequences of a fall. <<Insert Yoda quote here>>.

Wow.

Will, you will never fill Fairweather's shoes, try as you might.

The crack I was referring to that would take an Alien is just below and to the right of mvs' arm pit in this photo. At the very top of the photo is a flake with a slot facing down in which one can place cam of about 2 inches. Obviously, you would want a double shoulder length runner on it.

Ken, I don't get why people think the first pitch is hard. It is very easy if you know how to stem. Only the exit move is hard. The two moves onto the roof are hard because all you have are a couple of tiny side pulls for your hands and you have to move your feet twice on tiny edges until you can reach the big jug.