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5-Jun-2008 5:25:28 PM
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"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Franklin
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5-Jun-2008 6:34:11 PM
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I'm unsure of the author or the climb he was talking about quite disdainfully, I overheard it late one evening in the Nati Pub in the early eighties.
"Two moves to utter MANK!"
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5-Jun-2008 10:49:31 PM
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On 5/06/2008 superbumbly wrote:
>I'm unsure of the author or the climb he was talking about quite disdainfully,
>I overheard it late one evening in the Nati Pub in the early eighties.
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>"Two moves to utter MANK!"
sounds like 80% of arapiles climbs....but those two moves are pretty world class!
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14-Jul-2008 2:35:00 PM
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On 5/06/2008 stugang wrote:
>On 5/06/2008 superbumbly wrote:
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>>"Two moves to utter MANK!"
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>sounds like 80% of arapiles climbs....but those two moves are pretty world
>class!
"It's not what you look like when you're doin what you're doin, it's what you're doin when you're doin what you look like you're doin." ????
Bootsy Collins
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14-Jul-2008 2:43:03 PM
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On 14/07/2008 superbumbly wrote:
What's an Umbly? And how can one possibly be superb?
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14-Jul-2008 3:20:51 PM
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Only a bad mountaineer takes the tourist route...
- George Leigh-Mallory, before his unsuccessful establishment of a very successful tourist route
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15-Jul-2008 11:16:58 AM
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On 14/07/2008 evanbb wrote:
>On 14/07/2008 superbumbly wrote:
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>What's an Umbly? And how can one possibly be superb?
"superb umbly" genus; gymasium wankersaurus. Mythical creature now found in abundance due to the creation of artificial environs in the CBD, Nunawading & Altona. Often in the company of it's progeny, it is relegated to the task of belay bitch for extended periods of time. Recognisable features include pattern baldness and thickening waistline. Yearns to visit the crag environment more often in order to return to its natural state of "umbly", but can't because it's wife/boss/mortgage/responsibilities won't let him.
"Umbly" : genus; dinosaur traditionalus, a shy and retiring creature, with little or no desire to climb anything harder than a grade 19. Spent most of the eighties and early nineties staring in awe at feats of strength and endurance of the New Wave. Can be recognised by its oversized rack and the sound of its Bumbly Bells.
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15-Jul-2008 12:36:17 PM
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"you must kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight"
Todd Skinner
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15-Jul-2008 3:55:51 PM
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When at Araps walking past squeeze boulder in the late evening, over heard the following...
' NNNK Sh*t! Dude um.... its like birth all overagain... Darkness.... Tight sapce... A strange light blinding me...... and..... I'm um... stuck.... Do me a favour..... Grab the forceps, a leg and start pulling.....'
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16-Jul-2008 4:58:09 AM
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These are my principles...if you don't like them I have others.
Joe Simpson (who attributed it to Groucho Marx but I couldn't verify).
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25-Aug-2008 2:16:06 PM
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From "Overheard" by Oslo Davis in The Age Newspaper on Sunday:
"Stop thinking of those foot-hold things as poos."
There was an accompanying cartoon as well, but since I don't have the copyright I haven't reproduced it here.
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26-Aug-2008 9:35:18 AM
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BA wrote regarding a reference to an old guidebook anomaly, on 08/01/2006;
>Just as climbing doesn't have to be safe, it doesn't have to make sense.
Classic !
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26-Aug-2008 7:24:31 PM
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Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.
--George W. Bush
09/24/2001
in a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
I know it's not about climbing but it's funny.
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26-Aug-2008 8:51:17 PM
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IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote
>What's the link if any?
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26-Aug-2008 10:44:39 PM
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov
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27-Aug-2008 8:02:46 AM
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Touché bp!
(laughing out loud).
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8-Nov-2008 11:19:00 AM
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(regarding climbing shoes)
Comfort is always more fun than pain, unless you've been to that little club downtown where . . . but that's another story.
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8-Nov-2008 11:37:34 AM
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"I don't need a tent, I've got a pussy".
- Bluey's climber discussing camping equipment for a trip to Arapiles.
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8-Nov-2008 12:58:08 PM
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On 8/11/2008 simey wrote:
>"I don't need a tent, I've got a pussy".
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>- Bluey's climber discussing camping equipment for a trip to Arapiles.
Is said climber a male or female ????
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8-Nov-2008 2:13:55 PM
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On 8/11/2008 pedro22 wrote:
>Is said climber a male or female ????
C'mon it doesn't really matter - that's half the beauty of it . . .
Like Homer said 'It works on so many levels' . . .
D'Oh and 'It's so funny 'cos it's true' . . .
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