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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I wonder if they set off a few test blasts in Idaho, say in the vicinity of Boise? That would explain a lot of things. Imaginary giant ferocious mutated bloodthirsty Canadian wolves, for example.
Edit: Isn't Boise downwind of the Sierra?
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Donini, hmmm....
Funny, all the epidemiology points to effects that are downwind -- e.g. east -- of the Atomic Test Site.
Aren't you from Colorado?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Ahh! Now I know my deficiencies aren't genetic. Too bad my parents aren't around to get the good news.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2009 - 01:43pm PT
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There's a way out Jim, look:
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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The sneaky devil, classic Robinson, he probabally planted the evidence on rappel.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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We donini stinking coffee cups!
I know ITAL design when I see it and that ain't it.
Might go for a 'Tomic Broom version in wedgewood, or what's that folk gnome type stuff.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2009 - 03:00pm PT
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Tarb, I will get right on that Wedgewood pattern, back soon!! (((thanks tons all ©©© to Tarby)))
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Like the design Peter, makes me feel warm, err radioactive, all over.
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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What??
This post is so Dump ! I had to respond, F*#k you Peter!! and all of you that buy in to this pile of bullsh#t. Why? Do you want to shame a good man so bad? Doe’s this go back to the old day’s?
F. Bruce Diffenbaugh
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2009 - 07:08pm PT
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Dogtown,
you have misunderstood. Doug Robinson and I are very very good friends, and have been friends for 40 years! He loves this, in fact has printed out the image and has it above his computer right now. As you will see in the link in the original post it's about Doug's article about the Atomic Broom that was published last year or this Spring. Relax, we all love Doug here.
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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Well, Good Peter! I have known Robinson for forty years too, So your point is Sh#t, Doug Doesn’t make thing’s up? He is just in thought and theory, Have you read his writing? I’m sure you have, Sorry, Maybe it’s just me! but this forum has been less then kind to me or my fiends in the past. I have read his writings for years. He would do nothing too seed this theory. EVER!
Dogtown, FB Diffenbaugh.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Yes, really and truly Bruce,
It's like a roast and we really are just foolin' around.
The notion that DR would plant evidence to support his, um, theory, is all in the over-the-top imagery of folly and as such a jocular, jovial even, appreciation of our buddy.
Shredding on our friends in a creative way.
It's like being 14 again but with better tools.
Yours,
Turdbuster
(I so can't believe nobody ever pulled that one out; you people are slow)
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Boise....It's like Mars with air
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Idaho is NOT downwind from Nevada.
We're due north. We ARE downwind fron Hanford, home of the radioactive tumbleweeds.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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When asked in a recent Senate Hearing, whether he planted false evidence or not, the only reply from the Checkered Demon was, "NICE".
I rest my case!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Rokjox has a good point. Even allowing for the usual Idahoan paranoia and conspiracy theories, there's no doubt that the US government, at least somewhat knowingly, used citizens living downrange from its nuclear test sites as guinea pigs in the 1950s.
Edit: And the nuclear industry generally - southeast Washington, Nevada, New Mexico...
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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You're sure none of that Hanford waste didn't drift north?
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Far be it from me to be the first one here to break character and trample the mood and all and say something flatfooted and straight-up, but...
Bruce, it's cool. Really. We're just needling each other a bit here, and we wouldn't dare do it if we weren't 40-year good friends underneath it all. Like being a good climbing partner, once you've held each other's lives in your hands enough on the end of the rope, a certain amount of good-natured ribbing tends to break out. That's all this is, among friends.
I hear you about the meaner, slandering sort of stuff that can happen here too. Sorry you've been stung by it. I have too. Like over Growing Up, remember? And thanks again, BTW, for having my back there. Much appreciated. Peter and Tarbuster were with me too.
One of the big difficulties of a words-only communication like our exchanges online here, is that in a normal face-to-face conversation something like 80% of the actual communicating happens through facial expressions, body language etc. That makes it super easy to mistake, misread, or just plain miss the attitude that goes with the words -- which would have been easily picked up in person.
Anyway, sorry it got to seeming out of hand...
Oh yeah, "Nice..."
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Enough thread drift, now back to radiation drift.
Apparently the acid rain researchers working lakes in the Wind Rivers had evidence linking the acid rain there to sulfur coming from the Four Corners power plant down in Navajo land. That's blowing a lot more north than east...
So cancer up in Idaho would be the same cloud-drift direction from the Nuclear Test Site. Not so far fetched.
(An interesting expression here, actually, since "fetch" can also refer to the direction wind comes from.)
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