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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 07:08am PT
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It's been over 49 years since you first heard this.
Release date was June 1, 1967.
I have a 50th coming up with the Class of '66 next year in August. I can't believe the years have gone by so fast.
I've gotten by with a little help from friends and for that I am grateful.
Are things getting better?
The rocking horse people have gone on to Klondike Bars.
The newspaper taxis are now under the thumb of one man, Boss Taxi.
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes has gone totally silver.
We will all live forever in excellent style and walk in the light of campfires fed by mellow young men who are from the grip crew.
So "better" is relative.
[Click to View YouTube Video]John Wayne Lennon's finest hour in the finest anti-war movie ever made on the Bar None Movie Ranch near Chula Vista.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 28, 2015 - 07:47am PT
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Apparently these walls are a big phenomenon. First I heard (saw) of it.
Remember that brokedown disc? Still working on it. Hope I don't die before I get old.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jul 28, 2015 - 07:52am PT
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Wow, Mouse, thank you for all the Curtis photography.
I will enjoy reviewing it again when I have some leisure.
Thank you,
ff
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 08:10am PT
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Before I die, I want to make a bucket list.
I want to see my mother's cousin and talk with her about Mom.
Her brother, Jimmy Coonrod, as a young blade. He drove a hot new LeMans ragtop.
Jimmy was a pace-car driver at one time.
Before I die, I'd like to go 200 mph in one of these, if possible. If it blows the engine trying, so be it. At least I will have tried.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 28, 2015 - 07:17pm PT
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Did you mean 200 miles in that car? Even with a Star Trek transporter under the hood, that PONTIAC couldn't come close to 200 mph. If you see her hitching go ahead, bring her along for the ride.
This isn't Michele
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 07:20pm PT
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Re the LeMans ragtop: If my wish were fulfilled, good buddy, to go 200 mph in that old sled, then I'd surely die from shock.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 28, 2015 - 07:54pm PT
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Well before ... I'd like The Lord to buy me a Mercedes-Benz
Spotlight on James Brown now.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jul 28, 2015 - 09:05pm PT
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What a super idea!
I know Gnome will like it. Faces. Words.
zB, I was intrigued enough to hunt this out and if I am breaking protocol, someone yell at me, but here:
https://shar.es/1sUeff
Crowds continue to form around the Alibi's "Before I Die" installation. San Diego Uptown News explains what it's all about.
This message was sent using ShareThis (http://www.sharethis.com);
Thank you for this. What a super way to get humans to check in with themselves! :) DeLightful. :)
ff
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 11:08pm PT
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ff, I managed to track the other place down with Google Images Image Finder. zBrown's shot is of a place in New Orleans.
Because I have no wheels, I wish before I die to go cruise in the foothills a few more times, just me & my camera.
I picked this hitchhiker up when he and his enormous haul bags were sitting by the intersection at 49 & 140.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2015 - 04:57am PT
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The air temp is gonna be 100+ today, again.
I'm psyching myself up for it.
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It looks like I shot a 90, less my handicap, of course. Aggregate score is 72.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 29, 2015 - 05:48am PT
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The taco stand is in a form that I find unhealthy in this heat.
I lean more toward fresh lettuce sandwiches .
I take the more mild sandwich peppers and escarole lettuce,
if I have black olives, and a bit of onion, some times a mushroom no salt,
a sprinkle of pepper,
then I slice that all together,
on a well used cutting board that
now in its age has a well
or slight depression just off the center,
this holds the moist 'slaw'
while I toast a scrap or a heel if i can ,
that just to warm and I push that all into my pie hole, a light meal in the heat.he is on the top of the pics of the day,
this a thing and a one that we are fond of,
if in your travels around the internet,
anyone sees daddy-o in a picture,
you bet they pull it to see if it can make stiff sore ole' leatherback smile.
zB that is so the middle of my list!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 29, 2015 - 06:18am PT
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I was so glad to be able to pull hard! I mean as hard as I could with out tearing anything.
I so overdid it! damn I'm sore. the thing is that as the spinning of this saga or the if i don't like what some one says i take it as my right to extort performance by threat of economically damaging threats mailed to advertisers has the stink, of B.S
.)self full filling need for attention?(
some bright guy mentioned a storm in a teapot
that about sums it up,
A bitter tea, not worth sweetening up.
Then in a thread by a Climber/photographer from Vermont-, the thread tag is - Rules are stupid or some junk like. . .
i was going to comment that in the course of 40 years of climbing by a set of simple rules the main one being
Rule #1 !
rule number one do not mess the place up. make everything better or keep your hands off, leave it alone , Do Not Touch, seeing things as the best is how i have found it i try to leave it that , natural state, way. the drift on the thread and the posters as well not being copacetic, I whimped out . and posted here instead.
now what else was on the desk top ? that is full value, and this as a way to introduce the fact the dog Dina , watches TV and gets right into an errant golf shot. This would be an endering quality, if the wife had not started the On the Bed thing
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2015 - 06:59am PT
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Is this how you understand your dog's vision?
In black and white?
It ain't necessarily so.
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fifty...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2015 - 07:07am PT
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forty-nine...
fifty!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2015 - 07:45am PT
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There was no good reason to fear
What happened back in that year
I was too smart to raise a family
I didn't think about what would be
Feeling guilty about my progeny
She's an unknown quantity
I have named her Little Janey and if she's anywhere she is forty-eight.
The biggest single mistake of my life
Was not taking that girl for my wife
Every thing else that has happened to me
Is a spin-off of delinquency
You've got your regrets
I've got mine
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Fortune or fate,
She's still forty-eight
And I've never met her.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 29, 2015 - 08:39am PT
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woof woof
-Ruby
ff:
We don't have no stinkin' protocol here :)
Glad you liked it. I had the gnome's name but I misplaced it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2015 - 08:48am PT
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The idea here is to play the song while looking at the glf and toking your sweet soul spleef.[Click to View YouTube Video]An amusing line from Shibumi by Trevanian:
"Perhaps I can protect you and get you back to the bourgeois comfort of your home, where you can express your social passions by campaigning agains litter in national parks."
Two months to go to Facelift.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 29, 2015 - 10:43am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2015 - 12:36pm PT
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I got the rockin' pneumonia
And the boogie-woogie flu.
Fever! in the morning,
Fever all through the night.
When I die, bury me in straight laced shoes,
A box backed suit and a Stetson hat,
Put a 20 dollar gold piece on my watch chain;
So the boys'll know I died standin' pat.
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