sobo

"We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint." From Admiral Scott's diary, found after his entire team froze to death near the South Pole

I read both books (Into Thin Air, The Climb), which I'm sure many people have done, just to get opposing views. While I found Anatoly Boukriev's (sp?) book to be a fine work of mountaineering literature and an good biography of a hardy climber , Krakaurer's was merely an entertaining read of sensationalist quasi-fiction and self-aggrandizement.

good catch, iain. we were too easy on you, letting that blooper get by.

Krakauer did not single handedly rescue Elizabeth Smart, but was in fact cowering in his tent... I so remember the passage from the book to which this remark refers. Krakauer needs a new brainstem.

I think the datestamp sez it all, Laundry Boy. Time wounds all heels (or something like that...)

hung-over slackers! I gave ya a half hour to claim it.

Interesting change in the law in MN, carolyn, given the current times we live in. I posed the original question (to Greg) because of an experience I had in a bar in Houston many years ago. Back then (~early 80s) it was legal to carry, unconcealed, knives and guns into bars. Hell, you could even drive down the road with an open container, as long as you weren't drunk if the DPS pulled you over.

Dog, I would love to be 31 again! My hardest climbing ever was done back in those days, oh so long ago.

bouldering

Had an unplanned bivy with a buddie several years ago. All day we had been blessed with sunshine, then the afternoon thunderboomer arrived, a lightning strike on the adjacent peak, then a hailstorm as we summitted, then snow began to fall as we descended. Got lost on the descent, night fell, and we got headwalled in the dark. We set up our bivy on a ledge at the top of a ~150-foot headwall with about as much butt room as your average couch. Sometime during the shivering night, as we fought over the space blanket, I mused poetic while watching the clouds obscure the moon through a scraggly larch. sobo: "Ya know Phil, if it rains again we're dead men." Phil: "Thanks for the fucking weather report!" Ahhh, that was a fun night...

While we Americans might recognize and appreciate your public apology on the teens' behalf, there is still is no excuse for what happened. Maybe I'm wrong here, but you seem to be offering drunkeness as an excuse for their behavior, for which there is none!

A quick search of the archives reveals the following URL for our special friend... Alpine Kitty Sadly tho, the link is no longer functional. Interesting side note: PTV is at ~10% without Richard Simmons supplementation.

Uhhh, read his poem again and get back to us. Duhhh... too much beer at work today. I award myself 0 points for reading comprehension. Thanks for playing our game, we have some lovely parting gifts for you backstage.

thank you, kind sir. So, is it "plab" as in "slab"? Or "plab" as in rhymes with "babe"? We beseetch thee, pray tell us and let us be delivered from the wilderness lest we perish.

At last, we have been visited by the Mighty gapertimmy. Salvation is at hand! *current PTV is above 19%. thanks, richard!*

Muffy the slayer. She

whirrr buzz buzzz crunch crunch = 32! how can you be depressed??? Its fricken summer out there! well umm if I had a 29th b-day when I turned 29, one when I turned 30, and now I am having one... that makes me 31 ahh but you are female --> you reduce your announced age somewhat --> so i gave you credit for a year! Poor cover, RuMR. She got you on the math. Remedial classes are available in your area.

Also known as a "submarine". See RuMR's def ^^

Everwet PC

sweet! is that because the Zlib compression was unavailable?

Plabascious gapertimmy, where art thou?

Observational

Consult The Book of Armaments, err I mean timmmy... but they did foreshorten the word by removing the "y"...

I would guess plab, as in rhymes with slab, no? But I could be wrong.