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drc
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 28, 2009 - 04:10am PT
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My girlfriend thinks its totally goofy, but she's out of town for the weekend. And curtesy of netflix I am reconnecting with my childhood inspiration.
No guns,... just brains, duct tape, and a swiss army knife. (sorry right wing contingent)
No ambiguity. Bad guys look like bad guys and good guys look like good guys. (the right wing contingent should appreciate this;)
Doesn't drink (oh well, better man than me), but he was a bit of a climber.
V
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Pennsylenvy
Big Wall climber
Fry Canyon, UT
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Feb 28, 2009 - 05:10am PT
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Enjoy your solo time. We all need it. I love mine, and for better or worse have a lot more of it now.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 28, 2009 - 05:33am PT
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My only MacGyverism was I once fixed an MG's broken plastic distributor rotor base with the turnicate from a snake bite kit and sport tape - the couple driving it managed to make the hour drive back to town on it. And it could've just been wishful thinking, but I think both she and I thought it was a complete drag she was with him...
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Pennsylenvy
Big Wall climber
Fry Canyon, UT
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Feb 28, 2009 - 07:23am PT
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True Hollywood to boot Healje. Did she ask you to look under the bonnet?
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Feb 28, 2009 - 12:22pm PT
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Rad how MacGyver lives on as fodder for the sexual fantasies of Thelma and Selma on "The Simpsons". [gravelly voice]"...best MacGyver yet...he'll be in my dreams tonight..."
I work with a woman who was a producer on that show. I'll see if I can get any stories out of her.
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Euroford
Trad climber
chicago
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Feb 28, 2009 - 12:35pm PT
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when i was a youngin, i thought he was the sh#t. nice mullet too.
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ec
climber
ca
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Feb 28, 2009 - 02:52pm PT
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I recall seeing an interview with RDA (MacGyver). His 'favorite' MG episode was the one where he was escaping in a truck carrying eggs. When the radiator got shot-up, he cracked some eggs into the radiator, which sealed the leaks...
edit: when I used to mentor budding lead climbers I would always mention that at some point they may be required to be 'MacGyver-Like' and think outside the box to problem-solve enroute.
-ec
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tangen-foster
climber
Wisconsin
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Feb 28, 2009 - 04:48pm PT
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there's a MacGyver episode where they edit Mike Hoover's short film "Solo" so that all of the closeups with a face shot show MacGyver and the rest are the original shots of Hoover...
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Binks
Social climber
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Half the Macgyver episodes couldn't even happen anymore now that there's email. It's always about getting back the stolen microfilm.
Ax Minster anyone?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I used to know his double - friend of a friend. The guy who would stand in for him while they got the sets all ready. Nice fellow, apparently a near-ringer for the star. He was a bit mystified when I told him I didn't have TV and had never seen the show, or heard of it. But glad I didn't mistake him for the 'real' star - something of a public nuisance problem.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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You see I think Peter Berg got it right in The Rundown with Duane Johnson. Take a guy built like a samoan/black ubermench. Establish MacGuyveresque credentials (ie he doesn't "like" guns) then GIVE him guns and a reason to use them!
(didn't hurt having Christopher Walken either)
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Try as I might, I could never get an explosion based on what I found under the sink.
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wtfd
climber
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oh come on paul, I re-seated the bead on my dolly tire this morning with a match and some stainless steel cleaner...
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Wonder
climber
WA
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We need McGyver to take care of that asteroid on the other thread!!!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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How do you know he didn't?
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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I have my gum wrapper, duct tape and swiss army knife ready. I had a crush on him when I was eleven.
AF
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