Dechristo

Go out, RIGHT NOW, and buy you a can of Honey Roasted Cashews!!1 MMMMMmmm....GOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!! BWAAHAHAHAHA!!!

This thread MUST have a link to this website as well.

The Rockies swept their way into the Series and were promptly swept out.

As a broad generalization, that may be true. But, I live east of the "Front Range", west of I-25, and your statement doesn't hold true for my situation. People can choose tract-subdivision-living or, as in my case, semi-remote, private, forested land in beautiful canyons. It may be a choice balancing convenience.

Just maybe, his generosity was fueled by concern for his own ass.

With alpine as my first love, and solo exploration my lifelong mode of operation, I had gotten into some very precarious situations down-climbing class five in the dark (Fremont Peak) in vibram-soled Redwings. Prudence interceding, as usual shortly before death makes its claim, I started asking around in an attempt to find a mentor. I found a guy who'd just come away from a month-long NOLS course out of Lander. In my twenties, single, and a working stiff, I had a decent stash of cash to draw from. So, I asked Jack to help me spend it on the stuff I'd need to progress in the exploration of the vertical world. I dropped over four hundred bucks at Teton Mountaineering on hexes, stoppers, carabiners, perlon with which to sling all the little bits of aluminum, 1" webbing for runners, a Whillans (sewn from what looked like white seatbelt webbing), and a colorful 150" rope. Most of the expensive shit had a label on it of "Great Pacific Iron Works" or an insignia of a diamond with a little "c" in the center. We marched up Garnet Canyon where Jack lead a few pitches explaining chock placement technique, the importance of the webbing runners to allow the rope to remain fairly straight minimizing the pull and displacement of pieces, belay technique using my new Sticht plate, belay anchor construction with three pieces and equalizing webbing, and how to construct a rappel device from my oval biners. I led a few pitches that same afternoon, in the summer of '77.

Detroit... OK, maybe Cleveland... but no, Detroit.

The entire "carbon-footprint" argument is made specious by the sentence in the final paragraph: "The issue is where to best locate a motocross facility."

If you're a Saran Wrap expert, it can be used also as a diaphragm. sorry, I don't have a diagram for the diaphragm.

so, what am I so afraid of.

just bein' a sassy peep. Heck, I've got big trucks 'n' shit. Even one of these fuel-efficient crag buggies: I probably would've sold it to you, but, Mother Superior, you jumped the gun.

Fessup. The Partridge Family is in there.

perception is everything

If he is a bonafide "believer", his explanation may be more along the line of, "I value more greatly the affect my faith has in my heart and mind than the cachet of this car and its effect in others."

"Heaven" is his pet name for his wife's trust fund.

I don't know. I'll ask my short, squat, ugly, and dim-witted servant how the task is performed.

Bringing this thread back on track. I'm Halloweened out. In the past forty-eight hours I have made/put together the following costumes for my three kids: For the Irish dance costume reel competition tomorrow: Dorothy, Scarecrow, Toto For the All Hallows Eve gathering: St. George, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Rose of Lima For Trick or Treating on Halloween night: 50's girl, Special Forces Army guy, Snow White For Saints Museum on All Saints Day: St. Lucy of Valois and St. Bernard of Menthon (patron saint of mountaineers). If there was a Halloween equivalent of Scrooge, I want to be it. Thank goodness I already bought the candy and visited the pumpkin patch because I'm done. You must feel like a zombie.

Racism can be evidenced in the offense and defense.

serves the Basstards right

interesting

I wasn't stooping to correcting spelling, pedantic peon.

I could say his juice comes in a box, but I won't. It's just too much, even for me.

The nancy-boy-fuck is probably wearing a thimble in his panties for an "athletic cup protector".