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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 05:50pm PT
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Me: "Didn't you get that climb clean?"
Skip: "No, I hung like a wet rag!"
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:06pm PT
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Your not LOST if you don’t care where you are.
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Lee Bow
Trad climber
wet island
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:22pm PT
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The point to climbing is to gain the reputation of being a hardman, and then to do the minimum amount of climbing to maintain that reputation.
Tom Patey?
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:23pm PT
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my favorite at the moment:
"To Believe is to be Strong. Doubt Cramps Energy. Belief is Power" a quote from F.D.R during a conversation with Winston Churchill 1942
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 23, 2009 - 09:14pm PT
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McClinksi, aka Russ McLean, in one of his more lucid moments:
"If you really want to make a name for yourself in this crazy game, find the routes Bonatti backed down from and climb them."
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 10:20pm PT
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A favorite of mine as it seems to fits many parts of life: including many of the posts on ST
"WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE"
Doug
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Oct 24, 2009 - 02:01am PT
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"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 24, 2009 - 02:35am PT
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I used to think I was indecisive...now
I am not so sure.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
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BurnRockBurn
climber
South of Black Rock City (CC,NV)
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:35am PT
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Beauty is just a light switch away!!!!
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:33am PT
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"Climbing may be hard, buts it easier than growing up"
Ed Sklar
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:36am PT
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"The more you practice, the luckier you get."
Jim Bridwell
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:56am PT
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There's a sign on interstate 5, just north of Sacramento, which says "Sheriff Detention Facility". They probably thought the sign means "county jail" or "state prison" or something like that, of course dressed up in the unnecessarily fancy language that bureaucrats and the legal system like. Except what the sign actually means is "jail for sheriffs". Perhaps it was designed and made in a prison, by a witty and educated inmate supervised by slow-wits.
This may please those here who are less than enthusiastic about the law, and who wish that sheriffs were kept in jails. I suppose it's possible that there has been some outbreak of lawlessness amongst sheriffs in California, causing there to be a need for a prison just for them, but it seems unlikely.
I keep meaning to take a picture of the thing, it's so funny.
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 11:47am PT
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"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
Heinrich Heine
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:05pm PT
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A sign in at a nuclear reactor research facility back in late sixties -
"Nothing is fool proof...fools are ingenious."
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:07pm PT
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"My name is Hans, I am here to conquer your five-sixes."
"There is no German word for 'take'"
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perswig
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:40pm PT
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"My name is Hans, I am here to conquer your five-sixes."
Now there's a man after my own heart.
On the back of an adaptive ski-rig on a W. Miller trailer:
"Die living."
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roadman
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:53pm PT
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"in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king".
I heard it off a tom waits CD but I'm sure he stole it. He's got some good ones.
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:43pm PT
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He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:51pm PT
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Ben Franklin's favorite saying was "You can't bolt your door with a stewed carrot."
But he was struck by lightning so what did he know.
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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Eric Beck was always good for a few:
"At each end of the social spectrum, lies the leisure class."
(This is sometimes attributed to Thorsten Veblen, but I've looked and I believe it truly is Beck's original.)
"That's like practicing bivouacking." (in response to something he thought was a really stupid idea)
"The secret to face climbing is weight transfer."
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