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Beast With Two Backs

richb

12-Jun-2007
4:17:57 PM

Does anyone know if Nick Sutter's problem 'The Beast With Two Backs' is V10 with a sit down start, or just a stand up??

Cheers!

Richb

mousey

12-Jun-2007
6:47:45 PM

its an upside down toehook start for the grade, sit start goes @ V3+

PreferKnitting

12-Jun-2007
10:56:50 PM

On 12/06/2007 richb wrote:
>Nick Sutter's problem 'The Beast With Two Backs'

On a side note...

Shakespeare used it in Othello, 1604:

Iago:
"I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two
backs."

hihi... nice reference. Subtle. But I can see that you have one thing in mind Mr Nic Sutter.

dalai

Online Now
13-Jun-2007
8:50:47 AM

On 12/06/2007 richb wrote:
>Does anyone know if Nick Sutter's problem 'The Beast With Two Backs' is
>V10 with a sit down start, or just a stand up??
>
>Cheers!
>
>Richb
>
No sure Richb. But jgoding and kp share a house with Nic so I'll try and get an answer through them. Very impressive subtle arete up a big boulder that line...

Still been getting out a bit?

Cheers Dalai

BigMike

13-Jun-2007
10:55:27 AM

On 12/06/2007 PreferKnitting wrote:
>On 12/06/2007 richb wrote:
>>Nick Sutter's problem 'The Beast With Two Backs'
>
>On a side note...
>
> Shakespeare used it in Othello, 1604:
>

"Used" it?

So Shakespeare pinched it off Nick Sutter?

tnd

13-Jun-2007
11:07:40 AM

Shakespeare? What's he done on grit?

PreferKnitting

13-Jun-2007
11:31:18 AM

On 13/06/2007 BigMike wrote:

>"Used" it?
>
>So Shakespeare pinched it off Nick Sutter?
>

Just me, knitpicking again..

Unless Nick Sutter is way old and born before 1604 then I think not.

I hear he's a spring chicken so he can't be that old!

BigMike

13-Jun-2007
12:00:11 PM

On 13/06/2007 tnd wrote:
>Shakespeare? What's he done on grit?

Not a lot, he was always an alpinist first and foremost:

Well could I curse away a winter's night,
Though standing naked on a mountain top,
Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
And think it but a minute spent in sport.
King Henry VI, Act III, Scene II

skip-skip

13-Jun-2007
12:31:55 PM

On 12/06/2007 PreferKnitting wrote:
>On 12/06/2007 richb wrote:
>>Nick Sutter's problem 'The Beast With Two Backs'
>
>On a side note...
>
> Shakespeare used it in Othello, 1604:
>
>Iago:
>"I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are
>now making the beast with two
>backs."
>
>hihi... nice reference. Subtle. But I can see that you have one thing
>in mind Mr Nic Sutter.

Ah yes, what's in a name....
I was wondering how many people would get that reference, very astute there P.K. So, tell me about you.....!!!

Just to straighten out the facts, Shakespeare did not take it from me. In fact the current theory is that Shakespeare didn't write any of his plays but some other noblemen of his time did, can't remember his name though. Anyway, he did'nt take it off me either!

I think there was a climbing related question way back... 'The Beast With Two Backs' is a stand start , richb, but there was a depart assis in the works that would make it a bit harder. Great problem, one of my best, if I do say so myself! Still unrepeated I believe....many are called, few are chosen..!

Bob Saki

13-Jun-2007
12:34:58 PM

the name you are probably looking in tems of writing Shakespeares works is Christopher Marlowe.

BigMike

13-Jun-2007
12:38:04 PM

On 13/06/2007 skip-skip wrote:

> In fact the current theory is that Shakespeare didn't write any of his
>plays but some other noblemen of his time did, can't remember his name
>though. Anyway, he did'nt take it off me either!
>

Have a read of this and I feel you'll change your mind:

http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Biography-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385511396

Duncan

13-Jun-2007
2:16:44 PM

I think there's a climb at Cosmic County called The Green Eyed Monster. THATS FROM SHAKSPEARE TOO!!!!!!!!111111 Look at me! I'm learned!

BigMike

13-Jun-2007
3:13:12 PM

And from Othello too.

Wow...

richb

13-Jun-2007
4:54:50 PM

Well, I never. Who would have thought one little question about a 'depart assis' would create such a stir. I've boned up on my Shakespeare, indulged in a little conspiracy theory, learnt some french AND got some beta. Phew.

Thanks all.

simey

13-Jun-2007
6:47:35 PM

Gee, I always thought 'The Beast With Two Backs' was a reference to Nic himself, if this shot is anything to go by...

So there you go PK. If your hot date doesn't work out (that must be pretty soon?) and with Nic flirting with you online... how could you resist a body like that?

PreferKnitting

14-Jun-2007
9:05:37 AM

Simey, if this is Mr Sutter, then I can see how you might have been mistaken. Maybe he was looking
in the mirror whilst flexing his muscles!! And hence the inspiration for the name.

>So there you go PK. If your hot date doesn't work out (that must be pretty soon?) and with Nic flirting
>with you online... how could you resist a body like that?

As for my 'hot date' well that's another story to be told on another thread for another time!!

>Nick Sutter wrote:
>So, tell me about you.....!!!

Well, I really don't like Shakespeare that much ... Give me a man who reads Bertrand Russell
; ) now there was a thinker!

I am but a climbing pleb... how 'bout one of these fine hardcore lasses??

Dom

14-Jun-2007
9:23:05 AM

He's a máquina

I'm pretty sure he needs to be added to this list:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=real_men

surfinclimb

14-Jun-2007
9:51:20 AM

I dont know what a maquina is but I do know that nick could do with eating ocassionaly.
He makes a jockey look fat!
While im at it he looks like he trains waaaay too much to be a real climber.; )

PreferKnitting

14-Jun-2007
10:17:30 AM

On 14/06/2007 Dom wrote:
>He's a máquina

¡Sí, el es una máquina!

¡También, el es más guapo!

hihi ; )

Though, flexing your muscles will only attract guys not girls.

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