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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jul 28, 2017 - 09:31am PT
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The little engine that philosophized: "I think I am. I think I am."
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 28, 2017 - 09:47am PT
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
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L
climber
Just Livin' the Dream...
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Jul 28, 2017 - 07:03pm PT
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Come in, she said, I'll give you...shelter from the storm.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Jul 28, 2017 - 07:07pm PT
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As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away!
When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door...
Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2017 - 07:10pm PT
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Thank y'all kindly. It's breathed new life into me and my crew.
Well sorta.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jul 28, 2017 - 08:43pm PT
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^^^ Now that was just wrong.
In a good way. :-)
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Jul 28, 2017 - 09:33pm PT
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Oh man, I remember those tragic days, going with my father to visit his middle-age friend, permanently encased in an iron lung. As a kid I could not imagine such an existence.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2017 - 08:19am PT
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Simple twists of fate alright. I only know two people who got attacked, despite being around at the time.
In 1951, Jonas Salk, MD, and his team developed a method to cultivate polio virus in monkey kidney tissue in order to be able to produce large amounts of the vaccine. On Apr. 12, 1955 the results of the Salk vaccine trials showed the vaccine was 80-90% effective and the US government licensed the IPV (inactivated polio vaccine) vaccine the same day. The vaccination program was suspended on May 8, 1955 to investigate paralysis resulting from the vaccine injection; changes to the production method were made and vaccination resumed on May 27, 1955.
http://vaccines.procon.org/files/1-vaccines-images/polio-cases-1937-2013b.PNG
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splitter
Trad climber
HighwayToHell
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Jul 29, 2017 - 10:44am PT
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Hi There! Back atcha!
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Jul 29, 2017 - 02:39pm PT
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I was gonna say, congratulations but then you thought and there you were.
This thinking stuff turns you to stone . . .
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 29, 2017 - 05:12pm PT
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Wait just a darned second, Sartre.
How is it that if one is not extant he is able to cogitate?
Point well taken, Mouse, if I do say so myself.
First there is no mountain;
Then there is no chicken and no eggs...
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Jul 29, 2017 - 05:37pm PT
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As to ceasing to exist, I've taken the path of just changing into someone else. I have a phone number for Safeway's 'loyalty' program sh#t that isn't real; whenever I have to shop in that awful place I enter the number but change the last digit or two. Most of the time I'm 'loyal' and that's where I've learned to grow.
Sometimes I become a woman, I was once Chinese; the other day I became Hispanic. It's always an amazing experience to have the cashier say something like 'thank you Mr. Chang' and realize you are no longer who you thought you were. I get to come home and tell my wife I've become someone she has never met. The sex can be quite interesting, as it's a new experience for her too; one day I came home and told her 'today I am a woman'. I strongly urge all of you to become someone else and expand your minds.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2017 - 05:42pm PT
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Good point WM. I think I'll just change into Popeye, won't even have to think, eh?
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Jul 29, 2017 - 06:06pm PT
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Hey, if anyone wants to know how it feels to become a winemaker, try 206-364-4106 (maybe).
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jul 29, 2017 - 06:46pm PT
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OSMANIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
CallNo. 1^. 3JL.3, Accession N
Author *?*"
Title
This book should be returned on or before the date last marked below.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 29, 2017 - 06:56pm PT
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Dood, you coulda just said you have a headache.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jul 30, 2017 - 12:24pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2017 - 05:18pm PT
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GOT IT!
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