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keinangst
Aug 19, 2003, 3:17 PM
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(all true)
You try to tell family members what you want for Xmas from gearexpress.com--confused, they just send you a check and tell you to order it yourself.
You post-crag trip to a restaurant or shopping mall results in odd stares and questions about your chalk and tape-encrusted hands.
"Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills" permanently sits on your toilet tank to ensure regular reading.
You have ever "rescued" a vacuum cleaner or toolbox from certain doom by escaping the belay and "going for help" :wink:
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unabonger
Aug 19, 2003, 9:56 PM
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...You steal other guys girlfriends because they give better belays than your own.
...You like the way chalk dust makes your hair have more body
...You don't think "immigrant of hispanic heritage" when someone uses the term "beaner"
...You can't afford a truck inspection sticker but you have 6 state park season pass stickers
...sticky rubber doesn't refer to a used jimmy hat
The disgusting, statue violating, rascist, vain, adulterous UnaBonger
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bertman
Aug 20, 2003, 3:21 AM
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When your copy of Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills has been no farther than 1 mile from you at all times
When your copy of Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills has been to every place you have been since you bought it
When your copy of Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills has been professionally re-binded 3 times after falling completely apart each time, and it needs to be fixed again
When you can recite entire sections of Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills
When every tree in your yard has been ascended, named, and rated
When you owe $800 for last hockey season's ice time fees, yet when you earn money you spend it on the climbing wall in your backyard
When you free-climb some recently discovered cliffs in a local park because climbing is not allowed (its easier to escape when you dont have ropes, etc)
When your mom begins to wonder why her house's white walls have become increasingly more polka-dotted with black marks
When everyone at the local hardware/REI/sandblasting place knows you by name due to your frequency of visits for climbing wall supplies, or, in Newman Outfitter's case, to pretend to by testing harnesses so you can climb their indoor wall.
When the last time you asked a girl on a date, you asked her to the local climbing gym.
When any song you listen to, be it rock/rap/country/classical suddenly begins to remind you of mountains
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canadian_usc
Aug 20, 2003, 7:23 AM
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........when someone talks about rapping you don't think of a genre of music.
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turockgirl
Aug 20, 2003, 2:24 PM
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You have friends...and lots of them...and they aren't necessarily people.
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cyclops
Aug 21, 2003, 6:25 PM
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you and your fiancee have plans to get married on july 22 and climb El Cap on aug 13 and when people ask you when the big day is you both respond aug 13.
you dream about climbing and wake with chalk on your hands.
you carry micro nuts in your pocket to practice placing them everywhere.
you ever been fired from a job for buildering your office walls.
you lose friends because of your friends (works both ways)
you have pictures of climbing gear on your wall instead of women.
you carry climbing pictures in your wallet.
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desertclimber
Aug 27, 2003, 6:40 AM
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...guys are shopping for nail polish to mark gear... (Hey, don't laugh, I use "Jazzy Pink" and "Midnight Blue" Chelly brand, no #72 and #56!!!)
...gals are unusually interested in hardware...
...your kitchen cabinets have climbing holds for knobs!
:)
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cliffmonkey2003
Sep 3, 2003, 9:40 PM
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Your choice of campus depended on whether or not the buildings had fieldstone. (And they do 8)
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griffix
Dec 1, 2003, 4:49 AM
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You log on to climbing sites instead of doing your homework.
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dabhaid
Dec 1, 2003, 10:58 PM
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...you've traversed every room in your house using just the skirting-board and windowsills...
...the word anchor conjures up neither an image of a ship, nor sailors' tattoo
...catch yourself checking your belt twice, just to be sure
...climb stairs at least two at a time, and on your toes
...have a favourite t-shirt that reads "I busted a nut in my girlfriends rack!"
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sekcot
Dec 1, 2003, 11:11 PM
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you can't see your floor because your clothes from your closet (new climbing room) are now there
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climb_plastic
Dec 1, 2003, 11:22 PM
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You have shoe and chalk marks on your walls.
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-You ramble on about climbing ratings in Math Class so much that you find yourself in the "Geious" program
-You slide the inner circles of CDs and DVDs over your fingers at night to get used to crack climbing.
-teachers lock the fourth floor windows when you arrive in class (even on the hottest days) after your...incident... :roll:
-You have tested the wires on your computer for use as super-thin dynamic rope (This explains why you dont respond to my posts and for the padded white "wallpaper" in your room)
-your steam radiator no longer works after being used as an anchor for "that repel" :roll:
-you have actually replied to my post YOUTH JOBS & ROCK BARNS
-There is a man out there waiting to ask you about the death of Billy, "Last reported on your property in a harness sliding down a rope in
your tree!" :twisted:
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mrme
Dec 1, 2003, 11:53 PM
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friend "hey what did you do this weekend"
respond "oh i did ecstasy"
friend "did you have fun"
respond "a blast it was a buetifull day i tell you"
friend "yea i hope it is that buetifull out next weekend because i am doing ecstasy then"
third party overhering finally ask"you mean the drug?"
respond while laughing "no a climb"
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iltripp
Dec 2, 2003, 1:09 AM
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When you get a cut on your hand, and you're first thought is to grab some chalk to stop the bleeding... Or, if you have ever used chalk to stop bleeding.
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fireyxplosion
Dec 2, 2003, 1:27 AM
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hhahahah
u guys pretty much covered all the climber jokes i know.
i jut knew i was climber when i started payin my daily gym fee with a 5, six 1 s, three quarters, two dimes and a nickle.
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fireyxplosion
Dec 2, 2003, 1:39 AM
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hhahahah
u guys pretty much covered all the climber jokes i know.
i jut knew i was climber when i started payin my daily gym fee with a 5, six 1 s, three quarters, two dimes and a nickle.
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oklimber
Dec 2, 2003, 2:20 AM
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you don't eat lunch at school because you want to save the money to go climb at the gym
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mattdog
Dec 2, 2003, 4:23 AM
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You know your girlfriend/wife is a climber if:
Police give you long stares due to all the bruises she accumulated on your last trip to the crags. (Actually happened!)
You start an argument with her and leave her hanging on top-rope until the argument finishes because you don't want her less than 50 feet from you in her current state.
You've been giving permission to purchase a new rope so long as it matches her new climbing tops.
You post pics of your significant other to smooth over searching through RC.com's pictures of female climbers for "inspiration." 8)
Your favorite sexual positions are the ones with her back to you so that you can check out her slammin back muscles! :twisted:
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calamity_chk
Dec 2, 2003, 5:06 AM
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yay, my favorite thread.
- you want gear and climbing trips instead of make-up sex.
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swollenmember
Dec 2, 2003, 5:20 AM
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You read this post till 11 pm on a monday when you should be writing your term paper due at 7am on tuesday.
You feel safe when you hear the term bomber
You dont know why people talk about cars and dyno in the same conversation
A jug-fest has nothing to do with a Hugh hefner party
You doodle pics of quickdraws
You can think of this crap. :wink:
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thebluemongoose
Dec 2, 2003, 6:27 PM
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You lie in bed going over boulder problems instead of sleeping.
You yell "TAKE!!" when your arms get tired from typing.
You are thrown going away parties every friday at work from your boss, for fear of you may not return from the weekends climb.
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taualum23
Dec 2, 2003, 6:40 PM
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I moved a co-workers desk the other day, but before I did, I looked at my belt. Realized how silly this was, then found myself reaching around for my chalbag. Must have looked odd in suit. So be it.
Great thread!
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capn_morgan
Dec 2, 2003, 7:32 PM
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...if you know that money can buy friends.
...if when someone mentions "aliens" you dont think of space ships or the movies.
...if you bought an alarm clock to keep in your glove box so you dont oversleep on the weekends.
...if noone is surprised that you went climbing over thanksgiving instead of spending it with your family...who were 300 miles closer.
...if you average 2000 miles a month on your car....and you have a 10 mile commute.
...if you think nothing of driveing 400 miles each way on the off chance there will be enough ice to climb...think 2 day weekend.
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