Mr_Phil

Substitute today for '99 and "investment property" for "tech stock".

Try Ritalin. Works for ... . Let's go ride bikes!

Get a dog instead.

Too much information.

You can siphon this gas from your car's tank and put it in a nalgene. Gawd, another newbie assclown. The proper climbing protocol is to siphon gas from the tank of the vehicle *next* to you at the TH. Especially that stupid shiny SUV. Prepared climbers keep a small prybar to pop open the gas lid. It's stupid to steal your own gas, as you would hate to run out on the drive home.

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Kids these days. And you though that the home office was the ticket.

Trick question! Dru's never had sex (with another person).

Just call in Bao Xishun, the World's Tallest Man

Nice sock monkey.

I'll disagree with this. This may be true for the "hard-core" climbers, but there are a large number of folks (think the often derided Mounties stereotype) who are just looking for a nice day in the mountains. Everyone knows that there is risk in climbing, as there is in any activity, but not everyone out climbing is looking for 'danger'. Also note that the folks who place the bolts 5 feet apart at Vantage are also trying to make climbing 'safe'.

Shorts over polypro works best.

To be honest, no. There are billions of people who have very inexpensive material needs that would greatly improve their lives. People in this country have tremendous resources, but yet aid agency beg for money. I'm not of the "use every available resource to keep this person alive one more second" camp either. Hey, if I'm looking pretty bad, pull the plug. Use the money for a party to celebrate life.

Speculum is received by all members of the Medieval Academy as a benefit of membership. I guess membership has its privileges.

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Is this a religion thing?

The most annoying characteristic of many of the posts is they start out with a disclamer and then immediately ignore it I don't know anything about climbing and I don't mean to be disrespectful, but they were stupid to ... . Don't they care about their families?

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As has been mentioned a number of times, the vast majority of SAR missions are not for climbers, but for "hikers, boaters, hunters" and others. If someone's kid gets lost in the woods, a large number of folks are going to band together and go looking for them. You can use your arguement (Why force me to pay for people who I don't even know?) to deny everything from the military, to welfare, to public education. Other people in this country feel the need to band together for the common good.

Let's ride bikes!

Think Kentucky

Mt Si near North Bend.

Bartman, All of those questions have been answered in the Hood threads in the Oregon Cascades forum. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/7/page/1

Yes, I'll admit it. Although it was a shameful part of my life, I'm not strong enough to hide it any longer. I, too, was a pert. But with the help of this twelve step program, baby Jesus, and a mountain of blow, I was able to turn my live around. And with little humility, I can truthfully say that: "I am an Ex-pert." Bless you.

That's not pooping, that's spraying.