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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Aug 29, 2015 - 09:37pm PT
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From On the Ridge Between Life and Death by David Roberts:
Some of the worst moments in my life have taken place in the mountains.
Not only the days alone in the tent on Huntington after Ed vanished--quieter moments as well, embedded in uneventful expeditions. Trying to sleep the last few hours before a pre-dawn start on a big climb, my mind stiff with dread, as I hugged my all-too-obvious fragile self with my own arms -- until the scared kid inside of my sleeping bag began to pray for bad weather and another day's reprieve.
But nowhere else on earth, not even in the harbors of reciprocal love, have I felt pure happiness to take hold of me and shake me like a puppy, compelling me, and the conspirators I had arrived there with, to stand on some perch of rock or snow, the uncertain struggle below us, and bawl our pagan vaunts to the very sky.
It was worth it then.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Aug 29, 2015 - 09:43pm PT
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I've always like this one, since my Dad told it to me when I was 4 or 5.
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam
It is Latin for "I shall either find a way or make one." A nice motto for FAs. I have none to my credit. Yet.
:)
feralfae
o-man, I like the Eighth Tao as well. Thank you.
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Aug 29, 2015 - 10:34pm PT
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"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. "
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room"
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General "Buck" Turgidson: General Ripper called Strategic Air Command headquarters shortly after he issued the go code. I have a portion of the transcript of that conversation if you'd like me to to read it.
President Merkin Muffley: Read it!
General "Buck" Turgidson: Ahem... The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he *had* issued the go code, and he said, uh, "Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. Uh, my boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now, uhuh. Uh, so let's get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all" and he hung up.
[beat]
General "Buck" Turgidson: Uh, we're, still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir.
President Merkin Muffley: There's nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.
General "Buck" Turgidson: We-he-ell, uh, I'd like to hold off judgement on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in.
President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you *assured* me there was *no* possibility of such a thing *ever* occurring!
General "Buck" Turgidson: Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 30, 2015 - 04:41pm PT
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
Satchell Paige
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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First Place...
"Dude why anyone would consider your opinion regarding any book while you continue to provide evidence that your comprehension is more than lacking :("
ST's very own BLUBLOCR
Second Place...
"No more stupid than the THEORY of evolution."
ST's very own Cosmiccragsman
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Sep 18, 2015 - 12:14am PT
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"the edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." Hunter S Thompson.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Sep 18, 2015 - 11:52am PT
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"If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running” – Jimi Hendrix
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Sep 18, 2015 - 12:12pm PT
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
John Coltrane
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docsavage
Trad climber
Albuquerque, NM
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The trees are burning in your promised land ...
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Now I face the dull thuds of the football season -- until that blessed day when pitchers and catchers report. Gregory Crouch..
Yup...(-;
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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“Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up, as did men of another age, to the challenges of nature. Modern man lives in a highly synthetic kind of existence. He specializes in this and that. Rarely does he test all his powers or find himself whole. But in the hills and on the water the character of a man comes out.”- Abram T. Collier.
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perswig
climber
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Dec 26, 2015 - 04:10am PT
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
HWL
Dale
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 26, 2015 - 10:29am PT
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"the best i could do without trying" -hooblie, highly applicable.
in fact, ^^^ that's it right there! the best i could do without trying
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overwatch
climber
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Dec 26, 2015 - 10:33am PT
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"Hoka Hey!"
Crazy Horse
it has probably already been posted but I have always been fond of the famous one by Edmund Burke
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Dec 26, 2015 - 11:39am PT
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An extremely versatile quote to deal with that favorite indoor sport of counterfactual speculation; I use it often:
"If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle."
A drawing room versions of same:
"If my aunt (or grandma) had wheels, she'd be a streetcar (or a trolley)."
Other versions:
If pigs had wings they would fly.
If wishes were horses beggars would ride.
If we had ham we could make a ham and cheese sandwich if we had cheese.
If my uncle had tits, he'd be my aunt.
If the queen had balls she'd be the king.
Versions from other languages, translated to English:
"If grandma had a moustache, she'd be grandpa." (from Polish).
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Dec 28, 2015 - 08:13am PT
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"My mind is going. I can feel it." -- HAL 9000
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