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This is so cool. I always thought fish could talk. Now I have proof. I got to watch Leno tonight. He won't need any other material for the entire show. 'Talking fish' stuns New York Some Hasidic Jews reportedly believe people can be reincarnated as fish A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed, two fish cutters have claimed. Zalmen Rosen, from the Skver sect of Hasidic Jews, says co-worker Luis Nivelo, a Christian, was about to kill a carp to be made into gefilte fish in the city's New Square Fish Market in January when it began shouting in Hebrew. "It said 'Tzaruch shemirah' and 'Hasof bah'," Mr Rosen later told the New York Times newspaper. "[it] essentially means [in Hebrew] that everyone needs to account for themselves because the end is nigh." 'It's the devil!' Mr Nivelo told the paper he was so shocked he fell into a stack of slimy packing crates, before running in panic to the shop entrance and grabbing Mr Rosen, shouting: "The fish is talking!" It is very rare that God reminds people he exists in this modern world. But when he does, you cannot ignore it New York resident Abraham Spitz However his co-worker reacted with disbelief. "I screamed 'It's the devil The devil is here!', but Zalman said to me 'You crazy, you a meshugeneh [mad man]!" Mr Nivelo said. A disbelieving Mr Rosen then rushed to the back of the store, only to hear the fish identifying itself as the soul of a local Hasidic man who had died the previous year. It instructed him to pray and study the Torah, but Mr Rosen admitted that in a state of panic he attempted to kill the fish, injuring himself in the process and ending up in hospital. The fish was eventually killed by Mr Nivelo and sold. God in fish form? Many members of the city's Jewish community are now certain that God, troubled by the prospect of war in Iraq, has revealed Himself in fish form. Ah, enough already about the fish, I wish I never said anything about it Zalmen Rosen "Two men do not dream the same dream," said Abraham Spitz, a resident who visited Mr Rosen's shop to observe the site of the miracle. "It is very rare that God reminds people he exists in this modern world. But when he does, you cannot ignore it." The incident also relates to the beliefs of some Hasidic Jews, who say that righteous people can be reincarnated as fish, the British Observer newspaper reported. New York story Others are more sceptical, with New York comedians already incorporating the story into their stand-up routines and one fish company even contemplating changing its slogan to "our fish speak for themselves". Mr Rosen also seems to have become rather tired of being questioned about his incredible experience. "Ah, enough already about the fish," Mr Rosen said. "I wish I never said anything about it. I'm getting so many calls every day, I've stopped answering. Israel, London, Miami, Brooklyn... they all want to hear about the talking fish."

Are we talking about the gay trask? Or the Hawaiian woman professor who blames the US for 9-11?

The Index crowd need something to hold their interest.

I'm easy. Ballard Ale House sounds fine to me. Let's save Tacoma for when Dwayner is in town.

Lots of people say you don't climb. You never talk about what you are supposedly climbing, and you don't file trip reports. You prefer to talk about almost anything but climbing.

The Pres Blows: Bill Clinton Jam Session. I actually have this album. Clinton playing tenor saxophone with a jazz band in Prague covering Summertime. The guy wasn't bad for an amateur. No One Ever Said He Was Stan Getz "When the President has problems passing his bills in Congress, he should threaten them with one hour of his sax playing. Then he would have no problems with filibustering. What he lacks in skill, talent, imagination, technique and swing, he more than makes up for with desire and hustle." -- Jazz great (and Democrat) Wynton Marsalis, commenting on the President's new CD, Bill Clinton Jam Session: The Pres Blows...

Mack Bates did Snoqualmie to Stevens in a day about ten years ago. He talks about it in his book on Three Fingers Lookout. He ran the first 40 or so miles and then walked/jogged the rest.

There was only one line for (who is) "catbirdseat". catbirdseat is unstoppable.

Mark, your post implies 1,000,000 partners, one of which was NOT American. Damn, you must be very experienced.

Don't expect any current route report information out of the Park Service. They don't publish it in the winter. You might get something out of them if you call down to Longmire. The Ingraham was very straightforward when we did it last month. There weren't any seracs that looked like they were waiting to tumble, although the headwall was steep. You want to wait until the weather has been stable for several days in a row and no new snow for several days. There are all sorts of good trip reports on this forum. Go read them and come back if you have any other questions.

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Sixteen days if he stays out of the soup kitchens until his money's all gone.

And what is the current exchange rate? I want one of those tools.

I spent part of the day shoveling horse shit. Then I come home and log in to cc.com. More of same.

Fred, if I see you at Pub Club, I'll buy you a beer.

No, some of it is natural rock walls, but some was the result of blasting for a railroad cut, some one hundred years ago. The weathering over the years has made it hard to tell exactly which faces were blasted and which were there already.

Can't you recognize the great "art" of butt painting?

I'll be out in the rain at Granite Falls teaching people how to be trail maintenance crew leaders. We're gearing up for National Trails Day in June. No, it ain't climbing, but it beats moping around the house, in my humble opinion. It's on a new trail called The Lime Kiln Trail which is located on the abandoned Everett and Monte Cristo Railway grade. Someday we hope to build a bridge across the Stilliguamish and like to the existing Old Robe Trail.

No one seems to know how prion diseases are spread amongst herbivors. The infectious agent is a protein which is very persistent in the environment. Apparently, the protein is shed in the feces and when ingested causes the infection. That can be the only explanation that make sense. I remember reading about a laboratory that dumped some prion containing media in a flower bed outside the lab. Some years later they sampled the soil and found that they could still infect animals with it!

Political correctness rears it's ugly head once more!

Well, if you ignored most of the invective directed against the French, why then that would reduce your reading load considerably.

Okay, Dru. Will you please explain what's going on in the picture?

What is chronic wasting disease? Is that one of the prion diseases affecting the brain, like BSE? I went to a lecture given by an UW Botany student on plants that live in seasonal ponds in Eastern Washington. She counted the different plant species she found and compared their number between ponds that were affected by cattle and those that were not. As you might expect, there was much more species diversity in the ponds that were not trampled by cattle. Furthermore, there were fewer invasive species in the ponds that were fenced off from cattle.

I have never heard of Wickwire "bragging" about the partners he has lost. How could he recount a long climbing career without mentioning death? These new partners could indeed die because high altitude climbing is dangerous, not because of Wickwire's "bad luck".

For those who have climbed it, it is always someone else's idea. No, I'm not that guy. Not only is there broken glass and piss, but it's wet and mossy. BUT, it's got an easy approach and descent.