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IIRC it was the theory of instead of hitting them hard with a sledge hammer, brush them 200 times with a feather. It seemed erotic then, and still does.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 01:45 PM) I cannot see how doing Hood's hardest ascent in winter, without overnight winter camping gear and some emergency food and equipment at the least, does not fall under the stupid decision category. I didn't read where they didn't have overnight gear, just that they didn't have "survival gear" which could mean a 15 pound First Aid kit, flashlights, and a portable radio. If they don't have sleeping bags, a stove, etc. then they did make a mistake that will likely cost them their lives. Light and fast usually means they didn't bring the North Face VE-25, giant propane stoves, satellite phones, MP3 players, and three Sherpas. Packs with some down mumy bags and a stove would be huge help right now. I won't bust you on them needing food. They can go weeks without food. But not having someway to heat up snow so they have water to drink will mess them up.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 01:23 PM) These guys are in trouble because of a series of poor decisions. They decided to do Hood, which is a very difficult climb, chose the hardest possible route, did it in winter well off-season, and didn't carry survival gear. That is what doomed them - not the performance of the gear they brought. This is true, in my experience as well. It depends on what people are calling survival gear. Remember that term is often misused. From what I've read, winter climbs on Hood are not uncommon but definitely for the serious climbers only. I haven't read anything about these guys and their experience. I can't believe some novices attempted this, if that is the case, then it was a disaster waiting to happen.

YASNY, Reading between the lines, I agree that as a nation we would be better off if religious attendance was a part of every life. We'll disagree when I say I respect that it can be the God of their choice. In the days after 9/11 Americans turned to Churches in huge numbers. I don't believe things are as bleak as you portray and I certainly don't doubt the resolve of the American people in the face of terrorists and evil.

QUOTE(ChiSox9 @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 12:29 PM) Either way Boras is a jagoff! From what I have been reading he is the reason there is stalling in the BoSox contract talks. He is looking to assist Matsuzaka in buying out his option with the Japan leauge and bring him to free agency (which the league has now shot down). If you want to point fingers on the rising price of FAs and players in general... he would be a good start! They play a game many of us played when we were younger, god how much i would love to have the talent they do to play a game for 162 games a year! The Amazing Boras. Anyone that looks into his eyes immediatly loses all control and starts throwing money around. All Boras has to do is ask for $100,000,000 and teams will rush to see who can pay it. Too bad we can't send him around the world to solve all the worlds problems. Boras attracts the best talent and the best talent signs the biggest contracts. Anyone here who thinks they would sign for less and turn down more money is lying. QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 01:08 PM) To add on to that, no one forces the PLAYERS to sign on with Boras. The players are just as money hungry. You don't chose Scott Boras as your agent to stay with your "home team" When a player picks Boras to represent them, they pretty much have 1 thing in mind. $$$. Players are competitive. Would you take your job for less than the guy in the next cubicle, especially if you are better at it? Every player I've ever known, knew where he ranked in salaries. It's as much a competition as on the field.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 12:46 PM) Fun Facts from a Feature I just Figured Out... (oooh consenance!) Who posted in: Catch-All Anything Thread Poster Posts Texsox 646 -Our Catch-All King Soxy 422 FlaSoxxJim 326 DBAH0 266 Rex Kickass 231 SnB 231 southsider2k5 222 Queen Prawn 219 Steff 206 Heads22 205 LosMediasBlancas 175 Kalapse 121 Kid Gleason 116 Gene Honda Civic 114 Rowand44 112 whitesoxin' 93 greasywheels121 91 The Critic 78 kapkomet 77 sox4lifeinPA 75 SoxFan1 74 WHarris1 69 Brian 68 Balta1701 62 SleepyWhiteSox 55 qwerty 52 YASNY 52 Tony82087 51 Mercy! 51 Chisoxfn 45 AddisonStSox 39 IlliniKrush 38 Mplssoxfan 32 Flash Tizzle 30 witesoxfan 23 Goldmember 22 3E8 21 BigSqwert 18 KipWellsFan 15 kyyle23 14 Middle Buffalo 14 Yoda 13 Chisoxmatt 13 DePloderer 11 ScottPodRulez22 11 santo=dorf 11 Czarina 10 AssHatSoxFan 10 BDavisFutureHOF 9 Gregory Pratt 9 DonkeyKongerko 8 Mr. Showtime 8 knightni 7 Murph 7 EvilMonkey 6 SoxAce 6 GASHWOUND 6 southsideirish71 5 Balance 5 the southside tiger 5 Tmar28 5 Chisoxrd5 5 dasox24 4 HighHeat45 4 SSH2005 4 CWSGuy406 4 RockRaines 4 3 BeWareTheNewSox 5 4 redandwhite 4 maggliopipe 4 Jake 3 Buehrle>Wood 3 mr_genius 3 Steve Bartman's my idol 3 LowerCaseRepublican 3 RibbieRubarb 3 rangercal 3 mreye 3 Leonard Zelig 3 NUKE_CLEVELAND 2 max power 2 Divorceki 2 Ishmookie 2 da_bears86 2 Random 2 Capn12 2 whitesox247 2 Rex Hudler 2 tonyho7476 1 TheBlackSox8 1 beautox 1 ChWRoCk2 1 WilliamTell 1 Dick Allen 1 SouthsideNorthsideFan 1 farmteam 1 hammerhead johnson 1 whitesoxfan101 1 BobDylan 1 PoohIss 1 sti3 1 MurcieOne 1 chimpy2121 1 sayitaintso 1 smalls2598 1 Dan 1 iWiN4PreP 1 Spiff 1 Wong & Owens 1 Felix 1 OilCan 1 The Ginger Kid 1 rventura23 1 maggsmaggs 1 Crullrl 1 robinventura23 1 I look at the bottom and think how could Hammerhead and BobDylan, both SL&M regulars have only 1 post each? Even Nuke stays out of here. BERLIN, Dec 12 (Reuters Life!) - German shoppers sprang to the help of a shoplifter who was being detained after trying to steal clothes at a department store, wrongly assuming she was being attacked by strangers, police said on Tuesday. Two store detectives caught a woman in her mid-30s stealing garments in the city of Mainz near Frankfurt and attempted to detain her for questioning, police said. But the woman tried to free herself, and bit, kicked and hit the detectives who wrestled her down in a skirmish, prompting passers-by worried about her safety to help her. "They hauled the detectives away from her ... The woman managed to run away," Mainz police said in a statement.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 12:45 PM) Why didn't faith keep us from the Civil War? Or the poverty in 1930s? Or the introduction of Birth Control (well before the 1960s)? And I can assure you abortions have been happening long before Roe vs Wade. Where was our faith when we were interring the Japanese in the Second world war? Or during all the lynchings during the reconstruction? Where was faith during the Jim Crow laws? Or when child labor was allowed? Or in the rampant discrimination of immigrants in the 19th and early 20th century? Where were our values when we exterminated the Indians? We're just more aware of all the crap stuff that happens now because that is what sells papers. well said.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 12:42 PM) it better not be just ANY sandwhich.... there can only be ONE: THE GRILLED CHEESE Of course with a couple chips and a pickle. I skipped the glass of milk.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 12:36 PM) It's happening right before your eyes and you can't see it. A cleaner environment, better access to schools, equality for all races and creeds, safer workplaces, better public health, universal immunizations (for example), better living for the aged, it isn't all bleak YAS.

Just to relive some childhood memories, I cranked the a/c down to 60, stood in a bucket of ice water for fifteen minutes, then made some nice hot tomato soup and a sandwich.

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 12:05 PM) Fine, thanks. Been on here all the time, just not posting much. I've been doing a bunch of work that requires internet research and being on the computer so I have a chance to post a little. Is it getting cold up your way?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 12:06 PM) O.K., are we getting all technical here...or are you actually Indian? I've been told that "Indians" actually prefer being called "Indian" and actually are more offended by "Native American". I was told this by Owl Goingback, who is a great author. He's Russian. LOL, I was getting technical. I was born in Chicago of German ancestory. But I believe that makes me a native American.

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) Made sense to me. Yet another chick singer in that same English folk/rock vein that nobody knows about but should was Polly Bolton with Dando Shaft. I like to kid Jim, at his age I think he just starts making up names and stuff. Now we know we have two people with the same dillusions How have you been Ed?

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 11:53 AM) Loved her in the theme song to Polyester. Now that's someone making sense. Talking about a singer in a band that someone outside of their immediate family has heard of. BTW, Joan Hammel should be on the list as well. Give it to me Straight would be a nice selection.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 11:44 AM) Yes, Sandy was awesome. Died way too young. Amd actually, just like a lot of Richard Thompson's best stuff is post-Fairport, I think I like the Fotheringray and non-Fairport Denny stuff better than the Fairport stuff. I'm biased, though, because I jumped into Fairport midstream and after Richard had moved on, mostly to see what Dave Pegg was doing when he wasn't playing bass for Tull. And speaking of Tull/Fairport/Steeleye Span and such, Maddy Prior is another of the amazing famale folk-rock vocalists nobody knows about but should. ^^^^ what the hell did he just say? Does this make sense to anyone?? I kid because I care™

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 11:24 AM) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness Most issues dealing with political correctness come from liberal movements. Ah yes, the days when you could call someone a n****r. We certainly have taken a big step backwards. We didn't have to hire someone if we didn't like their religion, color. We could keep our neighborhoods from changing. Damn liberals ruining America for the white folks.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 11:00 AM) Most people do see it that way. Whatever, the point was made. Not certain of the point. 50s - Donna Reed, "decent" music, etc. 60s - Rebellion, "pussy" etc.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 10:58 AM) You were a Native American in another life, weren't you? I am a native American now.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...;intsrc=hm_list December 11, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Longtime Windows development chief James Allchin wrote in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder Bill Gates that the software vendor had "lost sight" of customers' needs and said he would buy a Mac if he wasn't working for Microsoft. Posted just for FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 09:52 AM) For the record, I respect most of the liberal-leaning folks around here. They are intelligent and insightful. They also seem to be unique in that regard. As for the 1950's - early 60's references you made, I believe that period in time in America is commonly refered to as "Camelot". I always thought of Camelot as after Kennedy took office, not in the 50's. Even I am not that old.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 10:06 AM) But who is to say what is "living" to each individual? For me, living is seeing the movies I want to see, hearing the music I want to hear, playing as many guitars as I can, and the obvious ones of seeing my children grow old, meeting their children, and spending a lifetime with my wife. Living to me is not falling out of an airplane and/or climbing big things. But this the path these guys chose, hopefully they are O.K. Each person chooses their own path, some by not choosing. I am not questioning them attempting the trip they are on, nor would I question yours.

How ironic it's pussy liberals that fight to make certain the conservatives could use the word pussy. I know you non pussy conservatives yearn for the cold war days with Leave it to Beaver, no abortions, Christian prayer in schools, no interracial dating, wholesome entertainment on the radio. But those damn pussy liberals stopped all that.

Part of my job is doing those United Way presentations, usually at schools. Lots of fun.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 12, 2006 -> 09:06 AM) Was what too subtle? Boy Scouts of America are iin your community Boy Scouts of America are in your community Boy Scouts of America are in your community nothing

Carrying too heavy of a pack is also dangerous. While there needs to be more data, travelling light and quick and getting up and off in less time, has shown to be in some cases safer. It really depends on what was left behind and if the people have the skills to cope. Knowledge almost always trumps equipment.