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zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Nov 10, 2014 - 09:19am PT
I made it through Halloween without being turned into a hipopótamo.

So now, you guessed it. A big black hypnotized one.

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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 10, 2014 - 09:23am PT
MooMooMooshi.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 10, 2014 - 09:36am PT

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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 10, 2014 - 07:50pm PT
Hard come by, easy DOH![Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Nov 10, 2014 - 08:04pm PT
This all takes me back to the days when folks didn't wreck their cars and Jimi fiddled, while the Flames burned (brightly?).

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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 11, 2014 - 08:30am PT
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Where Flames?There Flames!

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HENDRIX' MUSIC STANDS
Plymouth Rock, Boston

zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Nov 11, 2014 - 08:56am PT
This, I would say, is classical and worthy of an encore.


Encore, encore


Say what?



EDIT:

OK - Jimi served.

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 11, 2014 - 08:57am PT
Happy Veterans' Day.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Lifting a bottle, eight to the bar!
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Nov 11, 2014 - 09:14am PT
Roof Roof


When not busy trying to hit on Michele, Wilt roofed a couple hisownself

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 11, 2014 - 09:16am PT
Nice slam, Brujito!
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Nov 11, 2014 - 11:57am PT
Bought that water bottle from Mathis' freelance climbing supply in 1972 or thereabouts. If it works, don't replace it, right? It's been on some real adventures that's for sure.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 11, 2014 - 01:26pm PT
see 'em pristine is to drool hotwheels





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Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 11, 2014 - 04:41pm PT
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 11, 2014 - 05:41pm PT
John and Ruth Decker were wed on the day he graduated from flight school. That was Dec. 12, 1942, five days after Pearl Harbor.

Her dad brought her down for the ceremony. They had been engaged for some time. He left her there and they were married later that day. I think that's how it went down.

He was sent to Jolly Old. He was told off to go with the Brits on the first attack against occupied Europe as his squadron had not received their B-17s as yet. They didn't have to go, he said. His plane showed up the day before (July 3, 1942) and other crews were assigned to the task. Two of the craft failed to return, one of which he had been scheduled to fly.

He retired from Castle AFB. He is 94 and Ruth is 92. Their son, John Decker, veteran of Badger Pass's ski lift operations and LRRPs operations in Nam, is my neighbor on the fifth floor here in ME.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 11, 2014 - 05:53pm PT

And the stars blew through the sky.

they were never told 'A reason why'.

just ...do and do and do

And if you die we will

remember that it was not fair

So many, all heros, had to die

so that we can have

someone's name to

Put on walls and

Honor in the parades

to sell...IT... war

To the Next ones

to do and do and

die

Peace and condolences to all

Who have served and given

And for the loss of so much
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Nov 11, 2014 - 06:03pm PT
hey there say, mouse... once again, a very excellent merced ' on the street' reporting... :)
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 11, 2014 - 06:10pm PT
I strongly disagree that all heroes have to die. What about our valued "climbing heroes" about whom we have recently posted? Many of them are still living, having performed heroically and stoically for the sake of others.

Hero loops are more my type, see. Half-inch tubular nylon, about eighteen inches tied with a ring bend. Surplus nylon from an Army/Navy Store like Crescent Supply in Modesto, which no longer has it, of course.

The old school Greatest Generation is a myth of such large proportions now that we can only go along with the current trend of drum-beating politicians who wish only to see their buddies' stock portfolios gain...let's NOT go all politard and just honor the old duffers and gammers and gaffers and great-grandmas.

It doesn't hurt, now, does it? They were honest in their intentions. When they return, ALL vets deserve recognition, barring a very miniscule number of them. What they do after they get home is another matter entirely. I thought we learned that back in the seventies, but some may have simply forgotten or were not present then.

It's why we have this Veterans' celebration every year...lest we forget. DUH!

Make peace, not war, for peacemakers will be called the children of God, as Jesus has it.

Off my high horse. Andale, muchachos!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 11, 2014 - 06:45pm PT
poems in the memory of those who have passed are meant as a tribute to those most pure, and
Hart felt yearnings for the seemingly impossible goal of earth peace,
Peace on earth
not as old a hippie as
I wish I were
tonight
lets





not

locker down and























fight
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 11, 2014 - 07:03pm PT
zBrown seems to be performing heroically up on the roof. I bet he's got some tunes up there with him.
[Click to View YouTube Video]"Stay the course," old boy.

"No new taxes."

"Mission accomplished" soon, I hope.

Help re-elect the Bushes before the old man kicks the bucket of sh#t he called a son.

These two are the fastest two Presidential golfers. Did you know? If you've been reading The Flames, you probably do. You don't find this beta looking at political threads.

My favorite veteran of all time is Major John Wesley Powell, second head of the USGS and first tripod descender of the Colorado R.
The gent on the right was born in POLAND! He came to the US and enlisted. He made several intelligent suggestions to manufacturers of warplanes. He was a ball turret gunner.

His best suggestion was to make a ball turret that was retractable on landing.

The man sitting next to him flew about 250 missions in a B-52 from GUAM, taking off over a 500-foot cliff.

"Tower, get that drone out of the air, 7&5=*/69#!!!! This ain't no picnic and flying ants are not called for!"

Lots more from where these came.

Planes, old cars, more horsies and more bands.

I need to kick my feet up and nap first.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 11, 2014 - 07:53pm PT
A parents hopes and dreams
The Service Star
One of Ours is in service
God grant you full cover
Jean' Claude Suhl
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