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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 10, 2012 - 11:52pm PT
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The previous footage is a clear rip-off of Disney's seminal work, "Cascade Willie." Its intent is simply to amuse by lampooning gay marriage but this has clearly turned it into poonography. I frankly can't tell poon from lam in this simulacrum. The original CW is far superior.
All the best and thanks for the outrage, TGT!
MFM
Aha!
I knew it was a fool's troll--
that whatchamahoosit is the seldom-seen Jinxus atlanticus!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 12, 2012 - 06:09am PT
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Dead you know? Yosemite is Deadly!
Warning: the following content may lead to dis-content.--Chuck Yolunj
In the entire decade of the 1950s only one (1) person died climbing, and some other guy suffered fatal hypothermia.
In the 1960s, ten (10) died.
The seventies saw twenty-nine dead (29), three of these in the time it takes to complete a long climb--June 16-18, 1975: one death on each day.
The eighties: Twenty-six goners (26).
The nineties: "Only" the lonely seventeen (17).
From 2000 to 2006: Fourteen (14).
1 + 10 + 29 + 26 + 17 + 14 = 97.
Think about the pro?
No.
Just be aware.
In the dark. In the light.
aaaaaaaaaand on rappel.
Please. Don't become a number.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Outrageous, but it isn't trivial.
Twenty-five percent of prison inmates in the world are locked up in the US.
China is the 87th in the world in the proportion of its people who are imprisoned. China is a billion people bigger than the United States--more than four times the population--yet US prisons house in excess of 600,000 more people than China does.
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Outrageous Fact: ALL CLIMBERS SMOKE WEED.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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China s less shy about using capital punishment.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Facts about the British empire
"The Decline and Fall of the British Empire presents a glittering panoply of decadence, folly, farce and devastation. Brendon's characters alone could fill a pantomime stage many times over. The empire seemed to abound in British oddballs, from the notorious Richard Burton, who "liked to boast that he had indulged in every vice and indulged in every crime", to the maverick General Orde Wingate, who "would ... hold interviews while lying naked on a bed and combing his body hair with a toothbrush". Postcolonial heroes fare little better. Jomo Kenyatta "sported plus-fours, drank literally inflammatory Nubian gin and so indulged his sexual appetites that he was suspended from church membership", while Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia was "notorious for dancing, horse-racing, driving fast cars and getting into tight corners with loose women". Kwame Nkrumah "studied the occult, consulted oracles" and "compared himself to Christ"."
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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More facts about the British empire. This time - Churchill as oddball.
"In the nineteen-twenties and thirties, Churchill had been loudest among the reactionaries who were determined not to lose India, “the jewel in the crown,” and, as Prime Minister during the Second World War, he tried every tactic to thwart Indian independence. “I hate Indians,” he declared. “They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” He had a special animus for Gandhi, describing him as a “rascal” and a “half-naked” “fakir.” (In a letter to Churchill, Gandhi took the latter as a compliment, claiming that he was striving for even greater renunciation.) According to his own Secretary of State for India, Leopold Amery, Churchill knew “as much of the Indian problem as George III did of the American colonies.”
In 1942, as the Japanese Army advanced on India, the Congress Party was willing to offer war support in return for immediate self-government. But Churchill was in no mood to negotiate. Frustrated by his stonewalling tactics, the Congress Party launched a vigorous “Quit India” campaign in August of 1942. The British suppressed it ruthlessly, imprisoning tens of thousands, including Gandhi and Nehru. Meanwhile, Churchill’s indispensable quartermaster Franklin D. Roosevelt was aware of the contradiction in claiming to fight for freedom and democracy while keeping India under foreign occupation. In letters and telegrams, he continually urged Churchill to move India toward self-government, only to receive replies that waffled and prevaricated. Muslims, Churchill once claimed, made up seventy-five per cent of the Indian Army (the actual figure was close to thirty-five), and none of them wanted to be ruled by the “Hindu priesthood.”
Von Tunzelmann judges that Churchill, hoping to forestall independence by opportunistically supporting Muslim separatism, instead became “instrumental in creating the world’s first modern Islamic state.” This is a bit unfair—not to Churchill but to Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Though always keen to incite Muslim disaffection in his last years, the Anglicized, whiskey-drinking Jinnah was far from being an Islamic theocrat; he wanted a secular Pakistan, in which Muslims, Hindus, and Christians were equal before the law. (In fact, political Islam found only intermittent support within Pakistan until the nineteen-eighties, when the country’s military dictator, working with the Saudis and the C.I.A., turned the North-West Frontier province into the base of a global jihad against the Soviet occupation of neighboring Afghanistan.)
What Leopold Amery denounced as Churchill’s “Hitler-like attitude” to India manifested itself most starkly during a famine, caused by a combination of war and mismanagement, that claimed between one and two million lives in Bengal in 1943. Urgently beseeched by Amery and the Indian viceroy to release food stocks for India, Churchill responded with a telegram asking why Gandhi hadn’t died yet."
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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One of John Bachar's hero's was Fred Zeil.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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The "What the hell is that?" SNL sketch is probably my all time favorite. Saw it live back in the day (how else would one have seen it then????).
The Alou brother's post made my day.
Speaking of the eponymous plant of the world's poison oak capital: Poison Oak is not a poison, but an allergen. And humans appear to be the only creature allergic to it. It's deer food!
Trivia comes from the Latin for "three roads" or "paths." Probably where three roads meet. AKA a street corner. And street corners are where the vulgar masses hang out discussing fun, interesting, but often useless information. If you dig deep and trace the etymology, you'll learn that trivia = SuperTopo Forums. Really. You can look it up.
Way, way back in the day, when you had guests, you'd flip your dining table top over to show the nice, finished side. The other side was the rough everyday side on which your kids would carve with their pen knives, dad would pound his fists, and grandma would sling cast iron frying pans. However..... if your guests stayed for days on end, turning into weeks, thereby violating the basic laws of a good guest, the hosts would "turn the table" to let them know that their welcome was wearing out.
Now your know......... the REST of the story!
I have somewhat of a reputation for being a master of arcane knowledge. Most of it is on the backside of the ferris wheel in my mind. Will have to wait for it to make its way to the front. All in time.
Someone once told me I have a degree in MSU. Making Sh#t Up. I wish I were so talented, but unfortunately, I just seem to recall a lot of odd things.
Eric
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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How else, indeed, Watson.
But WAY backin the day we'd just flup the lid on the eighty-eight and let the guests orate.
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Top that,Kerouac.
Or the Cat in the Street, man.
If you think you can.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Marlow, are you sure you got your facts straight, because I heard the Empire didn't fall, so much as it was tripped.
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Squamish
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This one's fairly high on the scale of uselessness:
Dog boners have actual bones in them.
In the immortal words of Dave Barry, I swear I'm not making this up.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mouse
I'm quite sure you're right. Official history writing is not to be trusted. The British umpire fell because of tripping and inbreeding of the upper classes. Monthy Python is to be trusted...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Marlow,
Have you read "My Mind: Synch or Swhim" by Unsartren?
Because in it he describes having thought of the Fall of the fall of the British Empire>Monty Python's Flying Circus>>>>>>>>[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mouse
No, I haven't. My ignorance is quite impressive. If there were such a book, I would have read it. Lol...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Here what I think. Life's short. Art's shorter because it is is.
Life has four letters, valued thus, L=11, I=8, F=6, E=5, a total letter value of 30.
Art, three letters, valued thus, A=1, R=18, t=20, a total letter value of 39.
Do the math, draw your conclusions, get back to me.
You're a RT/38, pretty good for the first two initials!
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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How many 3 Stooges were there?
[ I had to look so i'm disqualified. ]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Larry Moe Curly
Larry Moe Shemp
Larry Moe Curly Joe
this is on this thread already, you stooge.
Howard, Fine, howard, Howard, Besser, and DeRita.
Who was the famous fourth stooge from Fresnon?
You can call me Al.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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this is on this thread already, you stooge.
You gotta be kidding....
And I suppose no need to mention where mole hair really comes from?
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