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Apparently Mike and Erik haven't had a kind word for each other since the Devil's Club incident on Mox. It's a lot like Joe and Simon on Siula Grande. Maybe a movie will make it all better...

Oh, James... :sigh:

Jiminy! What's the bill like for a night out? Or the movies? Crikey, what about Christmas?!

Pax said after his name... you know, like a Moderator...? You need a break from the HPLC, minx...

Oh, Rob... you slay me!

You proceed from a false assumption, Brian. Ramadan is of the Muslim/Islamist faith. There are other things at work there. Although I'd agree; survival first, observance... somewhere down the line.

I must be one of the "oldest skewl" people on this board, and I still climb WI-4 ice with straight shaft tools. I learned with them 20 years ago, and have used straight shaft tools ever since. I have no problems that hinder my climbing (other than I'm fatter now and this forces me to climb less hard lines). Once I bashed my knuckles a few times, I learned how not to bash them (much) anymore. It's all a matter of good technique and what you learned with. I don't think, if I ran right out and bought a pair of swanky curved shaft tools, that I would climb any better than I do with my BDs right now. Of course, YMMV.

Yeah, what JayB said.

Wowsers! That's quite a bold statement! I must be off the Bell curve in my profession...

That's phuk'n hilarious! She was just perfect thru the whole thing!

They shoulda just taken him out back and shot him.

It was my understanding that SR-18 and US-12 were the "Blood Alleys" in Washington State, until the recently completed work on SR-18 between I-90 and Enumclaw. That stretch of road is now dropping on the "murder" scale. By contrast, US-12 from Wallula Junction to Walla Walla remains one of the state's biggest killers. WSDOT has finally obligated funds to improve that stretch, and work is wrapping up on Phase I from Burbank (Snake River Bridge) to the McNary Habitat Management Unit near the Boise Cascade plant. It will be years before the work is complete all the way to Walla Walla.

Wrecks! Howzit going, Buddy? Looks like the cast got shortened up a little since RopeUp. Hope you're healing up quickly, Buster! And take a bite outta that squabbler next time you see him!

TREETOAD has finally turned in his stock avatar pic. Now he's groping for Olga's navel... fuck, i crack myself up.

I thought that Seattle was the Emerald City?

yup

mmmmmmm, Olga... may I pour you another glass of Fume'? what a nice tummy...

How did I manage NOT to get in that picure???

ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh, that is only the beginning... there is no end to The Nodder...

I don't know very much French at all, but I do seem to recall that you have to be very careful with the word "cat" in French. Say it with the wrong inflection/slur, and it suddenly becomes "whore", "prostitute", or something close to that... Is that what you are on about, skykilo?

Fuuuu... I forgot all about that. Wonder how messed up that kid is these days. Is that that Elian Gonzales kid? Whatever happened to him? IIRC, he ended up being shipped back to Cuba to be with his dad, right? WTF was up with all the guns, fer chrissakes...?

ya know, if we were real men, we'd go over there and get them grooves back... but that would require effort. Fetch me another beer while you're up, wouldja?

Extremely swanky looking, rather svelte, well traveled, moderately cultured, drinks all day, fucks all night, climbs like a mountain goat, and ain't afraid o' nothing. Ya seen it?

Did Ulee teach the old man that one? I must get back to work now. We'll see how you did later this evening...

I can see that you're still in denial... Anger is next, followed by bargaining, then depression, and at last acceptance. Soon you will know peace.