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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 09:31am PT
We had a beautiful rescue setter, Rusty, and I thank you on his behalf, bushman.

That was cool and I hope yore girl friend likes it, too. (Nanner-nanner!)

I Left No Tears On Rusty Mountain

Down the River of Mint to the Land of Goshen
I was journeying there based on an odd notion
Twenty-six leagues from the Aboriginal Ocean
(Which writhes with storms and is ever in motion)
After an eleven-day walk covered in insect lotion

I had come here seeking to solve the great riddle
Of how to climb this soggy peak up the middle
Of the couloir called the Collector of Piddle
I was ready to go and felt fit as a fiddle
I wanted to go but began to dither and diddle

It's raining up there on the heights way above me
Yet I can't say how hard, it's the clouds--I can't see
I think there's a monster, he's flown into that tree
Hey! There's another, and another, thus making three
Is that their real total--are they waiting for me?

A pal who had climbed here was afraid to come back
He'd suffered while climbing from a ptero attack
He said to include a gun on my rack
And there'd be no need for any water to pack
The running streams seem to take up the slack

Tim had assaulted the face while I went up the gutter
Through murmuring riffles which continued to mutter
While I slogged my way up like some cranky-loon nutter
With baked beans for lunch and a head filled with butter
A crazy old man whose heart was all a-flutter

It was not easy going and I wished I were dry
Soon the slope steepened eclipsing the sky
It was darkening quickly I thought with a sigh
I got out my headlamp with its cells (they were dry)
This gave me wings and away up the the chute I did fly

It was a nasty cold shower that awaited up there
I swam more than climbed in spots I do swear
And I lost my umbrella in the fight--it's somewhere
I was in a cagoule with a hood for my hair
It was red white and blue and I kept me a spare

When I reached the top I was surprised as hell
Three gargoyles perched in a row looking fell
The rain had stopped and the sun shone as well
One ptero said he's come out looking well
I'll fly him back so his story he can tell


"Why can't you hear a pterodactyl taking a whizz?"
No snails were harmed in the making of this post, at least not with intent. A few crunched shells, nothing flattened.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 09:38am PT

Not for sale, mind you.


mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 09:47am PT
Bushman

climber
The state of quantum flux
Jul 23, 2016 - 06:15pm PT

Intermission

Plagiarizing myself
I just copied what I wrote,
With blisters on my butt
I'm up a creek without a boat

Don't patronize me now
For what I haven't wrote
I'll provide that in the future
So let me make a note

With the stroke of a pen
Albeit with a sloppy hand
It's illegible what I've written
And I know it isn't grand

So I'll see you in the future
If I haven't in the past
And goodbye for the present
It's something guaranteed to last

Pbushman
07/23/2016

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 06:25pm PT
I saw a Whig Feather just now, I thought.

But it was just a Wing Feather, reminding me
that I need new lenses in these glasses
and I need to dust this place...manana.

I know we profess not to practice politicking here. The link I am presenting is a brief article on why we should not pay attention to the findings of polling taken in the Presidential Election Cycle during the weeks following a convention.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/upshot/were-about-to-enter-a-period-of-polling-volatility.html?_r=0

The article is a blend of a quirk in the statistics that occurs at this time with an assessment of how it might affect the vote and how it has in the past.

I understood and enjoyed it because it shows how statistics actually do lie at times, though it's not anyone's doing.

It has come down to the Nitty Gritty, though, in this race, because there is no way I see that the third candidate can gain any points in the polls, and he needs three more points to take part in the Presidential Debate Club.

This may be a close election. It may not. It will be interesting to watch from the sidelines.

The only election prediction I am bothering to make is that Trump will manage to outspend Clinton and spew more lies than she, as well.

"They always glance to the left when they lie."

Love yer parrots, it's not a sin.

Yer sicko, Cosmici.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 09:24pm PT
OK

But what about the H?

Try

becoz

And report back in the mourning

zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 10:14pm PT
Could be coz

Could be le Z

Could be mooselimbs

(Silent b)

P is not silent in German

Psychologie
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 11:30pm PT
Ban commas period.



mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 11:38pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 11:47pm PT

Reminds me of...Jack in the Box.

A prominence is a large, bright, gaseous feature extending outward from the Sun's surface, often in a loop shape. Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun's corona.

They are shaped the way they are because of magnetic fields emanating from the sun's interior. Don't tell me you haven't seen Avatar.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 06:17am PT
The Night Owl/Free Parking Downtown tonight only.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 06:22am PT
And the crowds flocked into the place.
The parrots were noticeable by their absence.

But they were still involved in a high-stakes poker game across town with an Irish Setter and a Great Dane.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 06:30am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 06:35am PT

zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 24, 2016 - 06:37am PT
What did LaPierre see when he looked in the toilet?

Le Turd de France

addendum (or as we say in French, ps):

[Click to View YouTube Video]


How do you say in French

"What did the three owls say to the rooster?" (late at night).

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 07:54am PT
"Who ever heard of a clock that stays up all night?"
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 24, 2016 - 11:42am PT
Preparatory to maybe doing some real estate transactions I was looking through the old storage locker (not that one) and lo behold, up pops abuela Chele:



Could not find the Black Mamba photo, but there is some Great White Paper.

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 12:12pm PT
How much for that standing lamp?
You got any old LPs?
I'm also looking for old motorcycle parts, old climbing pitons and nuts, and genuine artifacts sold by Native Americans to tourists.
Any old postcards or National Geographics earlier than 1931 or photos from the same period or earlier?
How much is that Yorkie in the window?
[Click to View YouTube Video]Check the first frame and :27.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 12:41pm PT
Our predecessors of half a century ago [make that "over a century ago" to catch up] posed with axe and rope before the photographers of Chamonix and Interlaken, and, because there is a touch of Tartarin* in us, we can regret the lost beards, the large-checked Norfolk suits, the deer-stalker caps, and the property rocks on which the right foot was placed in attitude of conquest. Did the unknown dangers of pioneering above treeline produce those expressions of daring and dedication, or were they perhaps suggested by perusal of the latest Alpine thriller, bought at the Kiosk of Victoria Station for 2/6? Here again, we suspect, life took its cue from art.

http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12194244400/Stranger-Than-Fact-The-Climber-in-Fiction

*
Le Turd de France?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 12:47pm PT
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