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  1. I have an 79 bus, it doesn't run. The engine is full of "stop oil leak" gunk from limping back from Moab last time I went. For you, special price.
  2. Lets face it Mike, you would have failed without Proshell. " The next generation of Power Shield isn't the only excitement in the Arc'teryx pipeline. It also has teamed up with W.L. Gore this season to launch a new, three-layer version of Gore-Tex. The new product, called Proshell, has a “microgrid” back made of a nylon stretch weave that is more durable, lighter and more supple than GoreTex's former tricot back. “It often makes [the garment] more abrasion resistant on the inside and just [lighter] overall, which is key for outdoor enthusiasts,” Holding says. Proshell will be in Arc'teryx garments that hit the shelves in August, but Arc'teryx already is showing samples to its customers. Arc'teryx has found Gore's new product branding and in-store signage a tad too mass market in its approach, says Holding, and so Arc'teryx is working to customize a branding message that conveys the key points about its use of the new fabric. “We're not only saying it's Gore-Tex, we're saying our Gore-Tex is better than everybody else's,” he says. " So exciting! Throw away your old gear now!
  3. Sweet site ZimZam: bitchen but sold!: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=434880 check out the gun mount
  4. Damn, seems pretty spendy for a Euro with so many miles. I would advise looking around a bit first. Here is a camper with half the mileage: http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=221288549&dealer_id=55051645&car_year=1993&model=EUROVAN&num_records=&make2=&start_year=1981&keywordsfyc=&keywordsrep=&engine=&certified=&body_code=0&fuel=&search_type=both&distance=25&make=VOLKS&color=&min_price=&drive=&default_sort=priceDESC&max_mileage=&style_flag=1&sort_type=priceDESC&address=98116&advanced=&end_year=2008&doors=&transmission=&max_price=15000&cardist=20
  5. Sounds like good times
  6. and besides, Tarzan was raised by apes, so you're wrong.
  7. LOL...I like the part in the end where they mention her "respect and pride". 8.75 and 12.5 percent interest!!!
  8. Ken, The turnout was a little disappointing considering the number of people who climb at Index on a regular basis and the proximity making it not a huge inconvenience to get out and help for a day...but that said we had a some motivated people show up and build a short section of trail, as well as doing a bunch of maintainance of existing trail. We also had a BBQ at MisterMo's afterward. http://www.washingtonclimbers.org/Forums/showthread.php?p=1390#post1390
  9. http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?news_id=ap-d8ov1k780& "Deborah Beatty recognizes that she and her family could lose their home in Jersey City, N.J., across the Hudson River from New York, because they can't afford the mortgage. The newly constructed three-level home offers a view of the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty from Beatty's master bedroom window. "I'm going to miss that," said Beatty, 53, who collects disability payments and does not work. "When I come in, I like to see the lady (the statue), especially when it's a beautiful clear night." Her 29-year-old daughter, a graduate student with an annual income of less than $20,000, qualified for a mortgage of $600,000 with no money down, split into two different loans at 8.75 percent and 12.5 percent interest rates. With income from tenants, which didn't come right away, Beatty's daughter thought she could afford monthly payments of nearly $5,000. But she hasn't made a mortgage payment in more than three months, and she's receiving letters threatening foreclosure. Beatty's daughter had to take out a nontraditional loan because she would not have qualified to borrow that much money through a traditional 30-year-fixed mortgage, said Judith Brzuskiewicz, a loan counselor with Citizen Action, a nonprofit advocacy group that is helping the Beattys and other families avoid foreclosure. Beatty acknowledged the mortgage was probably too good to be true, and now her house is on the market. The family wouldn't be able to afford buying another house and would likely rent, she said. "It's embarrassing," Beatty said. "It hurts your pride, your respect." "
  10. Trip: Index - Rattle Tale Date: 5/6/2007 Trip Report: Went up with Pax and Jeff to look at Rattle Tale. I followed up the first pitch, but otherwise wanked around and took pickturs as I'm not supposed to be climbing. They also climbed the 5.10 to the left . It got wet later but we only felt occasional drops till we moved away from the wall on the way out. On the way home we stopped at "Best Friends Expresso" on Lake City way. After driving around the block once, we went back for more coffee. Then once more, but we couldn't drink much more coffee so we went home without a date.
  11. vlplACnr4T4
  12. When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys While a I became obsessed with Operation With hearts and minds and certain glands You gotta learn to keep a steady hand And thus began my morbid fascination Tore the spines from out of all of these self-help books Made myself a gun that not only shoots but looks So real It shoots through steel With rays of dark matter Do you wonder where the self resides Is it in your head or between your sides And who will be the one who will decide Its true location And does the thought of bile that’s red and black The thought of tongues that taste you back Fill you with a nauseouseous sort of elation A noose is loosed around our necks made of DNA And every day it’s growing tighter no matter what they do or say And you can shoot right through it with rays of dark matter Just before they kick out the ladder With rays of dark matter Like something catching fire Do you wonder where the self resides Is it in your head or between your sides And who will be the one who will decide Its true location
  13. it seems like there are a few of good deals in tools these days. a pair of quarks for $275 in the garage sale. some below cost BD tools at REI.
  14. Members Only!!!!! _k8sK2PdrRQ I believe in them. So should you. When you put them on, something happens. And that something is better than nothing.
  15. olyclimber

    OMFGLOL

    Dru, wasn't your avatar at one time a skull???? Was it a LAUGHING SKULL??????
  16. Awesome Jon!!!!!!!!!!!1111 Step one is complete! Now execute the plan! Step two: Get thrown in jail Step three: Bribe the prison guards to pair you in a cell with her Step four: Commence to get'in it ON!!!! Step five: Sell the story to Enquirer
  17. funny, I that all those shows were for dweebs. I was more into hip shows like MASH reruns, the Wild Wild West,and The Beverly Hillbillys. Also, who could forget Gomer Pyle. Truly a golden age of TV. Unfortunately all we had was black and white though.
  18. I've got to say....this has to be my low moment:
  19. olyclimber

    Candirú

    The candirú parasitizes other fish. It swims into the gill cavities of other fish, erects a spine to hold itself in place, and feeds on the blood in the gills, earning it a nickname as the "vampire fish of Brazil". Recent research [1] has shown that candirú do not suck blood, but rather latch on to an artery and have blood pumped into them. It is feared by the natives because it is attracted to urine[2], and if the bather is nude it will swim into an orifice (the vagina and even the penis—and deep into the urethra) and because of spines protruding from the fish, it is almost impossible to remove except through surgery.[citation needed] The fish locates its host by following a water flow to its source and thus urinating while bathing increases the chance of a candirú homing in on a human urethra. Natives have also been known to bathe facing the current, as doing so would decrease the chances of the organism lodging itself in the rectum.[citation needed] Other orifices such as the penis or vagina are covered up with the use of hands. A well-circulated myth is that the candirú is capable of swimming up the stream of urine in mid-air to a victim standing on shore or a boat. However this is physically impossible as the maximum swimming velocity of the fish is opposed by the downward velocity of the urine stream, and the further impossible act of the 5-14 mm wide fish maintaining position and thrust within a 2-7 mm wide column of fluid.
  20. olyclimber

    Candirú

    ugh
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