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  1. #151
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    I'm totally in for bordellos, but stayed the hell away from this skirmish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by garyfromterrace View Post
    Both guys were extreme hard asses who most of us couldn't carry their jocks. Tilden I know a bit about. Not only was he among the best mountaineers in the world in his time, he was also one of the best sailors.
    The only Bill Tilden I know about is the tennis player. Methinks the mountaineer is Bill Tilman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster Highmen View Post
    See attachment.
    I would like to donate the prize I can't win to abandon wallabies in the Shames Mountain Bordello.
    weird... the version I saw had page 98 on it... anyway um, abandon wallabies?? Shames Mountain Bordello??? How about I donate a 50 spot to the local Women In Need Society (WINS) under the nom de plume Buster Highmen? (true story, I will do this).
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    Quote Originally Posted by The AD View Post
    The only Bill Tilden I know about is the tennis player.
    God I'm an Idiot!!! Yes, it's Tilman. Bill Fucking Tilman.

    It's the booze. And drugs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by garyfromterrace View Post
    weird... the version I saw had page 98 on it...
    Your device must have page size envy!
    anyway um, abandon wallabies?? Shames Mountain Bordello??? How about I donate a 50 spot to the local Women In Need Society (WINS) under the nom de plume Buster Highmen? (true story, I will do this).
    I meant 'abandoned', but yeah, sure, only you don't have to make it for that much...

    Quote Originally Posted by flowing alpy View Post
    You're not an idiot but Buster IS crazy smart.
    No, I'm just persistent with a modicum of creativity. I suck at being manipulative. If I were smart, I wouldn't be on the edge of losing my job and all stressed out as the single income earner.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster Highmen View Post
    Ah HA!
    Sir John Tyndall (to whom I'm distantly related) for whom the Tyndall Couloir on the Monte Rosa is named:
    p. 88 "The Glaciers of the Alps, & Mountaineering in 1861".

    See https://books.google.com/books?id=oZ...20deep&f=false

    I'm not smart, just stubborn about certain things.
    Wow, good find. Buster, clearly ftw!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoldMember View Post
    Wow, good find. Buster, clearly ftw!
    Yours was better (ballpark).
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    My penance has been paid. And a small price indeed to know the origins of "steep and deep". Thank you Buster, and the WIN Society also thanks you.
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    Haha, no way! What a fuckin hilarious twist to this thread.

    GfT with the entertainment quotient.

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