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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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After the week I've had at work, the humor is just what I needed.
Climbing just wasn't the same w/o Tammi's toons, they still crack me up 20 years later.
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MZiebell
Social climber
Prescott, AZ
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Pre-written posts for Supertaco...? Anyone??
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Shivasana
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Sep 26, 2009 - 02:39am PT
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Bump for the awesome Tami. AND she can teach you a thing or two about Scotch!
Eric
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 26, 2009 - 02:44am PT
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I bet.....Double bump.
Tani rules.......(haha)
Hey, I dunno, some Shmutzvik said it.
BOING!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 26, 2009 - 03:23am PT
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Tami... an honorary true Amellican. Very few on this forum come close to her perceptive wit.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Sep 27, 2009 - 01:19am PT
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did you just cut a fart?
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Sep 27, 2009 - 11:32am PT
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or everybody knows! I'm rude, sorry!
Tami Rocks!!!
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Keeper of Australia Mt
Trad climber
Whitehorse, Yukon , Canada
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Sep 28, 2009 - 04:38am PT
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I think I picked up my dog-eared, mouldy and encrusted copy of Vol. 2 of the history of Coast Range climbin in a equally, mouldy, encrusted second hand book store in the Rockies refuge for Aussie/Kiwi climbers looking for pinnacles above 300 ft ASL.
The bookstore owner was happy to move the merchandise and he claimed no knowledge of the origins of the various bodily secretions which had annointed this legendary offering. He suggested that it had been most likely salvaged from a bivie crack high up on Mt Robson concident with a downturn in the resident sheep population or that a longely ACMG -aspirant had
a life changing vision and peddled it in a bout of confessional
exorcism.
But how can we of the older and wisened generation rest well at Knight when we know that all of the newbies are hitting the crags
without having absorbed the salient beta contained between the covers of Vol. 1. Hey, the frikin Beatles just released a bunch of albums and the record companies have a Brinks traffic jam outside their buildings. A huge new release of the collected works of TK, stints on Littermun. the dude who just bonked his head, listed on Oprahs book list - the uptake would be endless and the dough would be rolling in - movie rites even - a feature on the scandolous early Squeamish days - rabid avalanche poodles -- the east coast Trailer Park Boys
would wilt with the competition. Syndication, cable TV - TK would go intergalactic. Forget the T-shirts - we are talking
major retro Squamsish stylin in New Yuk, Gayest Paree, - this could be really big. Jeans, down jackets, toques, (okay we'll label them beanies for the language challenged lads down under), ear muffs, seal-skin apres wear, felt insoles, gum boots, - a entire fall, winter, spring and summer line-up.
Or at least Alpinist could get creative and do a special "insert" retro pub to boost subscriptions. Their people need to talk with her people (Mighty Hiker) and work out the deal - otherwise I will have to plan another foray into sin city of the Rockies and try and ferret out where the Kiwis
dumped Vol. 1 - and that is serious stuff - last time I went lookin for a little Rockies guidebook I had lent one of the deep under bros - I stumbled into a whole freaking mob(Kiwis) of them in an very seedy Canmore condo - they were piled in the place worse than El Kidahs in an Afghani cave. There was probably meat for three vols of cartoons in that insurgent calamity. It was dark, it was odourious, their was tuffs of wool everywhere and
a couple of mangled ice picks. I beat a hasty retreat and never did get my guidebook back - maybe just as well - no tellin what it could have passed on - maybe worse than H1N1C1 (the Maple Leaf Virus).
Anyways, time to launch the movement for a Banff Mountain Festival Special Literary Award to recognize the special route TK has carved out in the climbin world. Or we rename the Sea to Sky Highway as the Tami Knight Squamish Parkyway. Hrrkky Hrkk ,Hrkk !
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scuffy b
climber
Sinatra to Singapore
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Sep 28, 2009 - 12:56pm PT
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I just (a while ago) received an order of whatever Tami has
available.
Best belly laughs I've had in a long long time.
One of the chapters from Everest: the Ultimate Hump
(the Website chapter or whatever it is) almost had me puking,
I was laughing so hard.
Just get everything. You'll be glad.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Jun 13, 2010 - 01:51am PT
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Bumping for Tami Appreciation. Later, when I'm not so full of pie, I'll go dig up my old mags and scan sum or sumthin.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 13, 2010 - 02:53am PT
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Yeah, but when are we gunna get her south of the stoopid border for some kinda fest or lift or shindig or whatever? I know I am not alone on this one. Come on Tami...
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Jun 13, 2010 - 12:59pm PT
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I recently purchased a bunch of Tami's books from her directly and they are brilliant. Maybe she'll post here the current availability, so others can order. The spoof of Everest climbing is timeless and funnier now than ever, in light of recent events.
The poodle as a object of loathing for climbers is a common theme. For example, there is the "Poodle Smasher" area in Joshua tree, along with dozens of derogatory poodle route names in Randy's JT guide. Some think it is too hard on the breed: consider the JT route, "Poodles are People, Too." The phenomenon is international in scope and probably deserves a scholarly article.
Rick
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 13, 2010 - 05:42pm PT
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Poodles Are People Too was named after Charles Cole's beloved family ambassador, Gus, not the FZ versions of the inhabitants of the Planet Poodle...
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Chief
climber
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Jun 13, 2010 - 05:59pm PT
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Bump for Tami,
Always loved the "Joys of Spring Skiing" rat.
I recall one she had one of me explaining to another rat how I just "reached" for a hold that wasn't there when Peter got there. Classic.
xoxoxo to Tami
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Jun 13, 2010 - 08:57pm PT
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Tami... an honorary true Amellican. Are you trying to insult poor Tami?
Maybe I did. On the internet nobody knows if you've farted. The Shadow Noze
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jun 13, 2010 - 09:13pm PT
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Kind mit Pudeln
Katharina Fritsch
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 13, 2010 - 11:03pm PT
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The ORIGINAL Avalanche poodle was a *all new* BEAR ATTRACTOR As Dick Culbert said, there's no better way to meet bears than to go hiking with an off-leash dog.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 14, 2010 - 02:36pm PT
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Insult? I'm not sure I could, even if I tried. Tami is the Shizzle, McDrizzle.
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