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deuce4
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 16, 2008 - 12:33pm PT
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Came across this mysterious old "topo" in one of my old Yosemite guidebooks:
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 12:42pm PT
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Great stuff!
Penned by the artist formerly (and currently) known as um, ...well by the Animal Knickname.
I may have to give the Gargoyle a call and give him the heads up.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 16, 2008 - 05:27pm PT
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I've got no clue what this is about. The writing style vaguely reminds me of a manuscript I saw once,
Dhaulagirideon, by the (then) young Michael Tobias.
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 06:04pm PT
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Well, it is about a few things Chiloe.
Not so dis-similar from the Figures/Yabo/Cox FA deal.
To begin with,
There's a saying about the Devil making use of idle time.
Then, there's this thing about self-reliance and being easily amused.
Throw in a dash of love for words.
Add a heap of male adolescent style grab asss.
(At the time of authoring, we were in our mid twenties, but that's beside the point)...
Identify a target: in this case the actor Harry Guardino's son, a climber, aka The Gargoyle.
Add some homo erotic goofiness and you have the Gargoyle Luncheon Meat.
All we had to do, when in ear shot of the 'Goyle, was croon "Lunch-eeeoooun" and spontaneous laughter was had by all.
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 06:10pm PT
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Hey Deucey, what else ya got in the grab bag?
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Mimi
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Feb 16, 2008 - 06:14pm PT
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So that's the full story. Don't recall witnessing the live Luncheon lowdown but it compares to many similar interactions. Learning the truths behind these antics/stories/vocab always cracks me up. Even +20 years later. Thanks for the laughs Roy.
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 06:15pm PT
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'Very important you keep this on the QT Mimi.
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Mimi
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Feb 16, 2008 - 06:17pm PT
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The secret is safe with me. ;]
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Feb 16, 2008 - 06:19pm PT
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Vintage! Makes me wanna reel out some of the achival stuff...
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2008 - 07:10pm PT
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Tar-
I got a stack of old "topos", 'cept most would probably put me in the slammer if I posted them. Just got thorugh scanning a bunch of stuff. I'll have to sort though it when I have some time. A lot of cool real climbing topos too (some just posted on the bigwalls.net forum at http://www.bigwalls.net/forum2/ , including Bob the Aid Man's Time Machine).
p.s. nice "deconstruction" of the psyche of the Camp 4 dirtbag...
Chiloe-
Michael Tobias--if it's the same person, I attended some of his classes when he taught at Dartmouth. He was all the rage. A fine climber of sorts, too, if I recall correctly. Personally, I thought his stuff was a bit esoteric and contrived, but I'm a coarse bohemian, I suppose.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Feb 16, 2008 - 07:29pm PT
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I say edit out the "jailtime" segments and post up
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 16, 2008 - 07:53pm PT
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Deuce, that's the same Tobias I'm sure. The Dhaulagirideon I saw was an as-yet-unpublished
manuscript, I believe. I've never seen any writing like that, before or since. Pat Ament might be
able to add more to this story.
When that manuscript was published it became the subject of a book review in Mountain, which
was almost as singular as Dhaulagirideon itself. Now there would be something for somebody
to unearth and scan.
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Mimi
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Feb 16, 2008 - 07:58pm PT
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Yeah post up, Mike. And where the fuk is BVB?! He's got a million of 'em.
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:15pm PT
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There is a route, maybe at Taquitz, called "Toe Bias".
I'm half certain it is a Tobias route.
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:22pm PT
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Oh, and Deuce-
Deconstruction?
You flatter me sir.
I think it was once, still is, known as sh#t talkin'...
heh, heh.
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:24pm PT
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Hey Mike Paul!
You got anything handy?
I gotta say, you put out some good stuff BITD.
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Mimi
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:27pm PT
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But it was such fine sh#t talkin'!
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deuce4
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Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2008 - 08:34pm PT
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ok,here ya go...
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deuce4
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Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2008 - 08:45pm PT
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I got some scans from the "Big Wall Tech Manual--SHOP COPY" (annotations from Lechlinski, Russell, and others), but those really would cross the line, methinks...
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:53pm PT
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I knew it was Walt!
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Mimi
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:55pm PT
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Vintage wild man.
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Mimi
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Feb 16, 2008 - 09:16pm PT
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I bet assorted photos do exist of those tables. I picture the random tourons viewing them now. LOL!
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 09:38pm PT
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Don't say that stuff Wally.
It is way too much fun.
And you could get in...twubble.
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2008 - 09:42pm PT
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I know nuth-think!!!
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Feb 16, 2008 - 09:51pm PT
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I was picking up trash at the summit of El Cap, a few years back, and came across a baggie full of "Guargoyle Luncheon Meat".
And about two years ago, again picking up trash but this time in the talus below Zodiac, I picked up a couple of paper bags filled with Guargoyle Luncheon Meat.
The modern practice is to package the Guargoyle Luncheon Meat in a PVC pipe you sling below the haul bag.
The salient clue to the recipe comes from the mouth of the dog in the original post above. The muscle boy's comment offers conclusive proof.
EDIT: I just now saw the copyright claim at the bottom of the original post above. Not Walt. The other Wild Man.
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lowlander
Social climber
Iowa City
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Feb 29, 2008 - 02:06pm PT
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Speaking of unearthing: There is now a very rare copy of D'haulagirideon for sale (expensive) on Amazon by Michael Tobias
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scuffy b
climber
Bad Brothers' Bait and Switch Shop
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poetry, fine art, biology lessons...
what could be better??
Main Dude Fires Midnight Lightning, that's what!!!!!11666
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 21, 2016 - 05:12pm PT
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Resurrection time.
Cannot say that I'm hungry myself, but I know sh#t-talk when I hear it.
"Glad I didn't step in it."
Pics will not enlarge...as readable as things get.
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Tarbuster
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Apr 21, 2016 - 09:28pm PT
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And Mouse gets the KICKASSS™™™ bump of the month award!
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thebravecowboy
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The Good Places
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Apr 21, 2016 - 11:54pm PT
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As a purveyor of fine lunchmeat, I commend this emission:
and lest thee forget the flaming letters "f*#kyou" in Arabic
Rendered on 60 denier Basmati rice paper using. a double-aniline pigment fashioned from the shells of the Coeleopteron Tsutsugamushi febrilifactorii. In 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts Chelsea Hotel headquarters sustained minor damages in an extremely small fire-bombing attempt by a weaselly pencil-dick from Baluchistan, after the NEA cited TFLFY as a "must see" when in North America.
Our Baluchi malefactor, responsible in an unrelated case in which he killed 39 West Virginia coal miners, had served two hours in a federal prison, while his brother, a Negro, was sentenced to 50-life for shoplifting a hundred dollar pair of sneakers.
The JUdge shrugged at the sight of the sobbing Negro, and opined "life just isn't fair".
Anyway, enjoy.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"A pair of guar-chossed lovers" comes to mind.
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