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Yes, shamelessly resurrecting a thread with nothing less than REAL data.

a wank under the aurora is pretty special too. Classic lummox.

Here's a case in point. In the 30 ft fall that dryad described in another thread, her belayer said he brought in some rope as she slid down the slab. How much rope it was, he couldn't say exactly. However, it was enough to prevent serious injury as she stopped about two feet above her belayer, who was anchored. Asked how it felt, he said it was a surprisingly "soft" catch, probably a combination of dryads light weight, the amount of rope out and fact that the slabs were not vertical, but rather 60-70 degrees or so.

That's intereresting. I haven't tried that one yet.

Butt Pirate?

Barbed for Your Pleasure at Kingpins. Dirty, loose and sandbag.

Never forget that the appearance of a man always matters more than his substance to the voters. They will always elect a good-looking villain before an ugly or wooden statesman.

You are such a cad.

Uh, yes. The idea was to highlight the most amusing portion of the article. It's a common practice.

RobBob, of course he's self-promoting. That's the movie business. No one will last long if they are not good at that.

The director told the National daily: "The men are happy with what they are being asked to do. They do it for fun. They only get whisky and energy drinks during shooting but they are not complaining."

As usual, I am the one scratching his head and wondering, "what happened?" What I do sense though is that klenke is gradually getting addicted to spray, like the rest of us.

Everyone has opinions. Some people are able to express them more eloquently than others. Moore's only weapons have been words and yet there are those that appear to have been gravely wounded. They want to kill him for ideas. If that were to happen he would be a martyr for sure, and his ideas would be even more powerful.

Trask, are you going to read Moore's new book? It got a pretty good review. Publisher's Weekly: "Flush from the success of Stupid White Men and an Academy Award for best documentary, Moore continues his rhetorical assault on the Bush administration. The book shares much with Al Franken's Lies besides liberal sentiment and satirical tone; not only do both authors rely on the hoary device of having God tell them He doesn't support the president, but they each claim to pack their carry-on luggage with baseballs to bean would-be hijackers. But where Franken attacks individual conservatives, Moore focuses on issues. His first chapter is a series of unsettlingly specific questions (based on rigorously footnoted facts) about the political and financial ties among Bush, the Saudi Arabian government and Osama bin Laden's family, though he leaps from the facts to speculation when he wonders whether the September 11 attacks might have been hatched within the Saudi military. Other chapters attack the public's susceptibility to what he casts as the fear-mongering tactics the administration has used to justify foreign military interventions and, he says, the erosion of domestic civil liberties, and he lays plans for a Democratic victory in 2004: in addition to a half-serious nomination of Oprah, he offers a prescient, reasoned and highly favorable evaluation of Wesley Clark as a candidate. Moore's arguments work best when delivered mostly straight, since he isn't always as funny as he seems to think he is. Straightforward propositions leavened with humor, like a guide to talking to conservative relatives, work fine, while efforts at flat-out farce ring hollow. But expect liberals to once again eagerly support one of their most prominent spokesmen by checking this out at the cash register. (Oct. 7) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. "

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Would you mind cutting out the italics? It is very hard to read. Next time, I won't bother.

I saw Bowling for Columbine and I thought Michael Moore was being really mean to Terry Nichols brother James. What do you think?

It's that antenna that the government put into your head. It's amplifying the rays and channeling them to your brain.

Here we go again. Top Stories - AP Powerful Geomagnetic Storm Strikes Earth Wed Oct 29,12:43 PM ET Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo! By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer DENVER - The most powerful geomagnetic storm possible hit Earth early Wednesday, threatening power outages, disrupting airlines communications and damaging some satellites. Space weather forecasters at a federal laboratory in Boulder said the first pulse of highly charged particles from the sun collided with Earth's magnetic field at 1 a.m. EST, about 12 hours earlier than predicted. The storm is rated a G5, the highest intensity on scientists' scale of space weather. The last time a G5 storm hit Earth was in 1989, researchers said, which damaged the power grid and caused electrical blackouts in Canada's Quebec province. "It is extremely rare to get this level of geomagnetic storming," said Larry Combs, forecaster for the Space Weather Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder. "This is one of the strongest storms that we have received during this cycle." There were few immediate reports of damage related to the geomagnetic storm. However, Combs said, "We know that our power grids are definitely feeling the effects of this." Those charged with monitoring electrical grids are watching "very closely for their triggering devices," he said. He also noted that there had been radio communications disruptions in recent days for airlines, especially those on North Atlantic and polar routes. Another strong storm, although weaker than Wednesday's, occurred last week. The sun generates particle storms in 11-year cycles and storms of this magnitude are rarely seen, scientists said. The current solar cycle peaked nearly three years ago, and such a powerful event occurring on the cycle's downside is especially surprising. In Tokyo, Japan's space agency announced the Kodama communications satellite malfunctioned after being effected by the flare. The agency said it was temporarily shut down and would be reactivated after the storm subsided, but there was no major communication disruption. The G5 storm was spawned early Tuesday by a spectacular eruption from a sunspot blemish on the surface of the sun that sent charged particles hurling toward Earth. The cloud is 13 times larger than Earth and travels at more than 1 million mph. The explosion of gas and charged particles into space from the corona, the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, was the largest observed in 30 years, scientists reported. It isn't harmful to people. In Southern California, wildfires already have knocked out many microwave communication antennas on the ground, making satellite communications important to emergency efforts. Researchers said safety personnel might encounter communications interference. Federal researchers had turned off instruments and taken other precautions with science satellites. A positive note: Strong geomagnetic storms can produce colorful auroras in the night sky visible as far south as Texas and Florida, beginning late Wednesday. Scientists compared the latest flare to the "Bastille Day storm" of July 14, 2000. "The Bastille Day storm produced considerable disruption to both ground and space high-tech systems," said Bill Murtagh, a space weather forecaster for NOAA.

I suspect that "down the Pub" must be the closest British equivalent. That's the beauty of American English. We have words for things which in other languages take two or three.

It seems to me that by letting that washout get covered in 50 ft of snow, it will take it that much longer to open in the spring. They won't be able to use the regular snow plows for fear of running into rocks. Then they'll have to use front loaders to get at the site to work on it.

So has everyone documented what climbing gear they own? Do you go on memory alone? How do you prove to the insurance company what you actually had? There might be a half melted residue of a camalot, but cloth items would be incinerated.

Turnabout is fair play aye, what Stan? Say high to the boys in the UK for us.

No, Dave is just the sort of patsy- I mean person- they are looking for. You know a pliable- I mean open- mind.

Erik is free now to take off the kid gloves and put on the brass knuckles.