tvashtarkatena

There is excellent ice and a long season in Canuckistan within 5 hours of Seattle, and less reliable ice in Washington closer than that. During cold snaps there is ice 45 minutes from downtown Seattle. 12 hours gets you to the best ice climbing in the world. Sharpen your tools. You'll be just fine.

I started in 1980, FW, but you go ahead and do the math however you want to there, lil' pup. so that's like what, 2 or 3 jovian years then, eh? Earthbound journalistic accuracy was never FW's strong suit, but he does have a good eye for space facts.

You'd probably need a glacier for that, since, you know, that's where the seracs are. Besides, serac fall is also commonly called an ice avalanche. Dumbass. Cool photo.

I started in 1980, FW, but you go ahead and do the math however you want to there, lil' pup.

speaking of high AND high strung....

The term 'take' has been in common use for decades. Given your post, you apparently thrive on a different kind of public recognition.

Don't run too far with the 'recognition' ball, there, puppies. She's getting the recognition. That's a fact. Whether she wants it or not, well, you'd have to talk to her about that, now, wouldn't you. This thread is the first time I've heard her name, so speculate away if it makes you feel better.

You'd have to be either a) high or b) strung up to sit (or dangle) through either one of them.

Sci Fi: Forbidden Planet War of the Worlds Robinson Crusoe on Mars The Time Machine Soylent Green Logan's Run Omega Man Silent Running The Aliens series Pitch Black Supernova Blade Runner Minority Report Dark Star I Am Legend A Boy and His Dog

Last Tango in Paris The Man Who Fell to Earth Two of the worst movies ever made. Avoid. Particularly the Bowie flick. You'll want to kill yourself with a butterknife before it's through. Bowie makes Klaus Kinsky look like the greatest actor of all time.

As for training for five months for an athletic contest, I guess you must not get out much, Raindawg. That's the standard training period for the average person to run an average marathon, nevermind something that's never been done before by anyone. It may seem ridiculous to you, but who's now enjoying worldwide recognition within her sport for her accomplishment?

5 months of rehearsal doesn't. Not so. There is a pattern to my discontent. Much of it involves environmentally dubious "sport-climbing" and secondly, it's stylistic practices, some of which have been incorporated into trad-climbing(e.g. hangdogging, seige-climbing - like the above 5 month exercise ). 5.14 trad crack...nice effort; siege climbing, however, doesn't impress me. If you're not into 5.14s, that's fine. Neither am I. I can appreciate the accomplishment in the abstract sense only. I'm not sure why you want to shit on somebody else's parade, but OK, if that scratches an itch. What gets me is that you continue to claim, like an underfed dog chained to a clothesline, how environmentally unfriendly sport climbing is. Really? I was always of the opinion that rock gyms and sport climbing areas 'soak up' the majority of the climbing population, which means they're not tramping around much more environmentally sensitive areas above the treeline. It concentrates whatever impact does occur tiny areas that are, by definition, mostly made of rock, and that are heavily managed anyway. So I call bullshit on your oft spouted theory, Doctor. Sport climbing has been good for vast majority of the wilderness environment.

That artifact embodies more facets of American culture than any I've ever seen. It should be on our flag.

We all just want to be listened to.

Eight year old logic, please. Don't contradict The One.

Mistakes were made. Not by me, of course.

DO YOU HAVE TO GET A HINGE INSTALLED ON YOUR BACK TO DO THAT? I'm not sure if it's presta or shrader, though.

I did learn that you can inflate your scrotum with saline solution to punctuate your political activism, however.

Perfecting fantasy insults we'll never be able to use in real life. That sort of thing.

Nothin. Just the usual love notes between posers, some whore talk, and a couple of Fuck Bush threads. Same ole shit, different day.

Nah. I'm just having fun, as always. I never take this seriously, just as I don't take you seriously. After all, you're just another conceited shitbag self-inflating his scrotum on an internet forum.

Keep working that man-boob joke. We know you'll come up with a novel incarnation, something that will really make us once again shake our heads and whisper "How DOES he do it?"

Only KKK is more clever, but then, there's only one KKK.

And your wordplay. So fresh. So...'quirky'. We live for it.

No seriously, we're all really very impressed down here.