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Oh, hi trask. I was just checking to see if you were awake.

Found a gray "Grivel Mont Blanc" ice-ax on the way up Mount Pilchuck yesterday (11/23). PM me if it's yours. I'll put you in touch with the guy who has it.

Ah yes, trask. Like walking down the street on a beautiful spring day... and stepping in a pile of horse manure. Eventually you learn to step over it or around it.

Well, who do you suppose she's talking to? Probably the guy she's going to visit after she's consumed the dinner you paid for.

What would this man say? Fight! John "Bluto" Blutarsky: "Oh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto. We might get in trouble."Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me. I'm not gonna take this! Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer . . . Eric "Otter" Stratton: Dead. Bluto's right, psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now, we could fight 'em with conventional weapons, that could take years, and cost millions of lives. No, in this case, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture, be done on somebody's part.

I just liked this headline. This is the greatest thing that could ever happen to her. A real kickstart for her career, just like what happened with Pamela Anderson. She can claim to have been wronged, uphold her virtue, and reap the benefits of the added publicity. Story

A well-known radio talk show host likes to say that if you go out on a date and she answers the cell phone while you are at dinner together that's the ultimate in disrespect. He says you should excuse yourself to go to the men's room and then walk out the door.

It seems strange to consider that cc.com has been around long enough for nostalgia to come into play.

Michael's motto is "winners never quit; quitters never win".

The weather has been rotten for weeks now. Of course no one has been up there. Conditions are bad with poor visibility and lots of unconsolidated snow and avalanche danger. The point is even if snow conditions are good, getting a weather window long enough to climb at this time of year is pretty tough, not impossible, but it's rare.

Here's what you do. Hike up to Camp Muir on a Saturday in winter and camp in the hut. Wait for some dudes to light up some joints. Suffer from the smoke inside or sulk outside in the cold, but don't say a word. Then, as soon as you get back home, go online and complain about it on cc.com. Tell everyone how inconsiderate those people were. Next, wait for the replies to come in. Pour gasoline on the flames and supply oxygen. Fan, fan, fan. Burn, baby, burn. Umpteen pages later, you have Muir on Saturday. By the way, I suggest you PM Bronco and ask him about "thread resurrection".

Kurt treats his chainsaw like Yoyo Ma treats his cello.

I brought you back up to three stars. Feel better?

Okay, MisterE, it sounds like you need to know. What am I into? I have a wonderful wife and two bright kids just starting college and still living at home. Besides climbing, I enjoy working on my house: carpentry, remodeling projects, and gardening. I replumbed my entire house in copper myself, built a 400 sq ft addition, remodeled a bathroom, laid a hardwood floor, tiled the kitchen. Until recently, I was doing a lot of competitive sailing- climbing has taken over that place pretty much. I have a greenhouse with several hundred orchid plants that I show all over the northwest. I play trombone in the Shoreline College Concert Band and in a jazz band. Last year I put in several days as a trail construction and revegetation volunteer with VOW. And no doubt Kurt has told you I'm active in the Everett Branch of the Mountaineers, where I've served as Chairman for the past three years. My current project is starting a new climbing course, an introduction to leading on rock or "Crags Course" for those who not interested in the Intermediate Course.

Yeah, yeah. You're just in a mood tonight, aren't you?

I certainly hope you have the new 70% cleaner two-stroke engine on your saws for your health's sake. I hear that Honda makes a four-stroke line trimmer.

Not besides sending 5.11 trad & sport, putting up new routes, hanging with the hotties of CC.com, snowboarding, riding singletrack, doing teak and mahogany carpentry on $400k yachts, loving my beautiful, intelligent wife, maintaining 6 bonsai trees and planning trips to BC for ice climbing. MisterE, that was my lame attempt at humor. You know, change one word in the sentence? You don't have to write your autobiography, as interesting as it sounds.

The only way we're going to win is if we can set up a government with its own military post haste and let them duke it out with the remnants of Saddam's regime. Those thugs know that if they keep it up long enough we'll leave. Perhaps if pitted against their own countrymen who can't leave, they'll eventually give up. We'll pull out. Then there will be a civil war before it is all over. There is a good chance that the Baathists will be back. Iraq may end up as two or more countries.

Kurt, where's the love, brother? Where's the love? You are sounding like Fairweather on steroids or somthing. You know where I'm coming from. No one wants to put you out of business. You just want to see me do some backpedaling, don't you? Jetskis, lawnmowers and snowmobiles have ready alternatives to the two stroke. I don't think anyone makes a four stroke for chainsaws that is light enough yet. The other issue is a chainsaw has to operate in any orientation, standard four strokes have problems with oil delivery. There are, however, modified two strokes under development that can vastly reduce emissions. You can read about it: Improved Two-Stroke Chainsaws Four-Stroke Snomobiles Four-Stroke Personal watercraft (aka "jetskis")

So when you say that Fu is Trask-like, do you mean that he is always putting his dick where it doesn't belong?

Flaming Erik (E-rock)

Okay, a computer geek, dammit!

Groan. BTW, what gremlin does one use for groan? ?

Dude, that's beyond the ability of mere mortals. You don't need an exorcist. You need a geek.

I thought MisterE had no life.