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Friday Funnies 4-Mar-2008 At 3:49:13 PM MrsM10iswhereitsat.

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On 4/03/2008 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>I have always thought that the Poms had it right in the first place, but
>they dropped the ball when they got
>to “Extreme”, when instead of going E1, E2, E3 Etc….they should have picked
>up the thesaurus and had
>a bit more of a think about it.
>
>Stay with Extreme, but instead of E2 have “Really Extreme” (RE), then
>“Heinously Extreme” (HE), “Really
>Heinously Extreme” (RHE), “Outrageously Extreme” (OE), “Really Outrageously
>Extreme” (ROE),
>“Balltearing” (B), “Outrageously Balltearing” (OB), “Noumenally Outrageously
>Balltearing” (NOB).

Hello Mr Eduardo Slabofvic, (and what a wonderful user name you have)!
You are probably right, especially if one likes word play or does not have sufficient digits to count very high. Who knows, maybe British climbing shops will sell thesaurus’s to supplement their climbing guides in the future?
Derek my M10 love says that it is all easy till you fall, but what would he know, as he has been unable to keep his act together long enough to maintain an IP address to this lovely forum! Tsk tsk, those who fall by the wayside are condemned like boulderers in Yosemite Valley to look on as ants from a distance!
Anyway, I could easily be wrong, but I suppose you are suggesting that one arrives at the “Balltearing” grades after
>they dropped the ball
Perhaps this, when things became too “Extreme”? It certainly seems that way given the climb names Mr JimboV10 and Mr hero are suggesting.
Perhaps they need more bolts like this

to prevent themselves getting injuries?
Still, I do admire the way the British enjoy their climbing, especially when it is often wet and cold where their unusual gritstone is to be found. I wonder if those shortish cliffs seem rather grand when they finally get outside after months training to be heinously strong in their cellars, during their long winters?
Lovely to chat deary but I must go as the kettle is boiling. Keep working on that TV script thread Mr Eduardo. It really is very good.
Kered
(MrsM10).