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http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/735505/page/0/fpart/6#Post735165 This is you?

Testicular cancer? How'd that get into the thread?

Plus, lots of goats around Enumclaw.

Just in the last week or ten days I saw an article that said people who lost weight and kept it off had all sorts of different approaches to food but the one common factor across the entire sample was regular, vigorous exercise.

Was there banjo music wafting through the trees?

Yo momma so fat she has to use the driveway for an ironing board!

You can also use goats as pack animals. Reportedly they are quite cooperative and humbly follow along with you wherever you go. They are more sure-footed than mules and, being smaller, they can fit through ruggeder country than mules. Unfortunately, in most mountains in the western U.S. once you sack out for the night they become cougar snacks.

In fact there are quite a few farm operations in western Washington that have goatherds they rent out for land clearing. A couple years ago I took the 9-month Small Farming class at WSU-Puyallup where the method was discussed. Sitting here at work I can't recall any names but I'll guess there are at least 6. If you are clearing land to be used for agriculture, you'll need to get the roots too. The method of using animals for this extends to a finish operation using pigs. The goats take everything down to ground level, then you set up paddocks and let pigs loose. They thoroughly churn up the ground looking for grubs, tearing up the roots as they go. A pretty easy fork pass (tractor pulling a ground fork) finishes it up and your land is ready for whatever soil prep you need. Yes, there are operations that rent pigs for that, too. This goat-pig thing will knock out any blackberries for keeps, safer and cheaper than any herbicide, plus if you want an organic cert for your operation this is the only way to go.

I PM'ed him. In our own way, each of us has judged the other's character without ever meeting, thanks to cc.com.

How about when he climbs 13's barefoot? I dunno, does he chalk his feet?

I thought this was something about a spiritual connection to the rock. Like Bill Murray's character in Caddyshack: "BE the sloper!"

So you would need the high pressure model, I see. The hand pump would not be enough.

I wish my blow-up doll looked like her! I mean, IF I had a blow up doll.

Sharma, smarma. It's the shoes.

aw, shucks

"ascentionst" wooo, mighty fancy word sounds like the column title of the New Yorker's climbing critic

As in, it reminds you of some earlier film?

Who would do this? Is there a cc.com archrival out there trying to vacuum our bandwidth? Like a Jewish deli with a Muslim client base, dogs & cats, Mazamas and Mounties?

I don't know what you mean by "new driving laws" but many years ago I was told the state patrol goes after only crazy speeders because the faster you go, the more unsafe you are. They wait for people going heinous speeds. While they write a ticket for 63 in a 60 zone, they'll be passed by 3 cars going 80, so they ignore the easy prey to wait for the fat game. I was told that up to 9 mph over and they don't care. I have always followed the '9 over' rule and *never* been pulled over. I tested my speedometer: it registers 4 high (speedo reads 60, actual speed 56) so I set my cruise control on 73 (actual speed 69) and routinely pass through radar traps on the highway. In 70 mph zones I set the cruise on 83 (actual speed 79). I have never been stopped or looked at. Obviously in the city, 39 in a 30 zone is a different matter---the 9 over rule is for highways.

No, No, NO. "Cum gums," not jizz-gargler. Fewer syllables = better rhetoric.

The poster wrote "I am so sure BD employees from Salt Lake are lining up and saying, "Please, pretty please send me to a country that is an environmental nightmare and shows even more disregard for human life than the Bush regime." Can only imagine the quality of BD employees that would actually choose that serious hell-hole over the low grade one of America." I repeat that my post was responding to this one: about Americans, not locals.

I am campaiging in New Hampshire and had no idea this event was scheduled.

I know companies are outsourcing their manufacturing to awesome places like Burma and China and Vietnam on account of those little kids working 15 hours a day in the sweat shops have the coveted "combination of good judgment, long-term vision, and problem-solving ability to adequately protect the employer’s interests" Silly me, I thought it was a cost cutting measure . . . I was responding to a post stating that the *Americans* who would work in China are, in essence, losers. You are mixing apples and oranges to apply my post to the local workers. I have experience with Americans employed by American firms who are sent abroad but I have no experience with local workforces.

Only a drudge minimum-wage worker could say something like that. 1. The further from supervision (headquarters), the higher quality the employee. Management cannot afford to send below-average workers and managers far from their oversight. On the contrary, only the highest-caliber people would be considered for remote postings because only that class of employee has the combination of good judgment, long-term vision, and problem-solving ability to adequately protect the employer’s interests. 2. Believe it or not, there are people in the world who are unlike you: they are ambitious, driven, excited at being challenged with new problems to solve, new conditions to work within, and *opportunities* to succeed and create new successes. They have a wide vision about what is possible and they see the glass as perpetually half full. These sorts of people jump at the chance to re-locate to distant places and challenging conditions. They do so in order to prove their superior worth and ability.

Given the Marines' piss & vinegar reputation for combat, things must be pretty bad when even they run out of fight.