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DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 5:01 pm

This is great.

Video from : vimeo.com

Edit: Great story from the Oregonian

Litlebritdifrnt2 · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 9:29 pm

Foggy wrote:

He did a great job with that ...

Ladies and Gennulmen, the Official Fogbow New Orleans May 2012 Meetup has officially begun.

Officially, that is.

Wave to the nice people!

I fought we wus going to Myrtle Beach? What happened to that one? :((

BTW I found an old photo of me out in the field with my helicopter squadron. I thought the ashtray full of ciggy butts and the beer can on the typewriter was a nice touch.

listeme · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 9:35 pm

Well, I'm certainly going to Myrtle Beach.

Litlebritdifrnt2 · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 9:59 pm

There was a Tudors marathon on today on BBCAmerica, well wouldn't you know it, that was precisely the time that I thought the living room needed a thorough cleaning. I have to say that it is an OUTSTANDING series. You should all check it out.

Maru · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 10:42 pm

Litlebritdifrnt2 wrote:

There was a Tudors marathon on today on BBCAmerica, well wouldn't you know it, that was precisely the time that I thought the living room needed a thorough cleaning. I have to say that it is an OUTSTANDING series. You should all check it out.

I've been watching. Some of the inaccuracies drive me up the wall but it is good, steamy fun with great costumes.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 11:15 pm

New York Daily News May 25, 2012 "Mt. Everest climber skips summit to rescue fellow hiker: Nadav Ben-Yehuda, who was climbing with a Sherpa guide, came across Aydin Irmak near the summit last weekend"

Quote:

An Israeli who rescued a distressed climber on Mount Everest instead of pushing onward to the summit said Friday that the man he helped, an American of Turkish origin, is like a brother to him.

Nadav Ben-Yehuda, who was climbing with a Sherpa guide, came across Aydin Irmak near the summit last weekend. In that chaotic period, four climbers died on their way down from the summit amid a traffic jam of more than 200 people who were rushing to reach the world's highest peak as the weather deteriorated.

In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Ben-Yehuda, 24, appeared proud that Irmak, 46, had made it to the summit, noting that he is one of a small number of "Turkish" climbers to reach the top. Irmak left Turkey for New York more than two decades ago, but remains proud of his Turkish heritage. The friendship stands in contrast to the political tension between Turkey and Israel, which were once firm allies.

"Aydin, wake up! Wake up!" Ben-Yehuda recalled saying when he found his friend in the darkness. The American, he said, had been returning from the summit but collapsed in the extreme conditions, without an oxygen supply, a flashlight and a rucksack. Ben-Yehuda, who developed a friendship with Irmak before the climb, had delayed his own ascent by a day in hopes of avoiding the bottleneck of climbers heading for the top.

Nadav Ben-Yehuda carried Aydin Irmak for hours until they reached a camp at a lower elevation. Ben-Yehuda lost 44 pounds on the mountain; Irmak lost 26. Both suffered frostbite. Ben-Yahuda had served in the IDF and heeded a lesson learned there: "never leave a friend in the field."

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 11:18 pm

Ben-Yahuda? Son of gawd? :shock:

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 12:55 am

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

Ben-Yahuda? Son of gawd? :shock:

That would explain a lot.

However, could he be descended from the family whose name is embedded in Jerusalem: Ben Yehuda Street, named for the founder of modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda?

borealis · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 1:33 am

Maru wrote:

Litlebritdifrnt2 wrote:

There was a Tudors marathon on today on BBCAmerica, well wouldn't you know it, that was precisely the time that I thought the living room needed a thorough cleaning. I have to say that it is an OUTSTANDING series. You should all check it out.

I've been watching. Some of the inaccuracies drive me up the wall but it is good, steamy fun with great costumes.

I agree. The inaccuracies on their new production, The Borgias, are positively horrid. Splendid attention to historical detail, sets, costumes, hair, but the runaway plots are ridiculous. Such attention to the general minutiae, but the writers ignore historical facts about 50% of the time.

Plutodog · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 3:46 am

Okay, which story would you like to click on, maybe check out the photo illustrations of?

Quote:

'Mermaids: The Body Found' On Animal Planet Argues Mythical Sea Creatures Are Aquatic Apes

or...

Quote:

Chef Serves Up Own Genitals At Banquet (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

You can make that decision at The Huffpo.

I gotta find somewhere else to hang out at.

:-?

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 4:08 am

Hee Hee..

This weeks installment of hate mail at Daily Kos is a keeper, the part where Markos gets into it with George Rockwell. A legal mind like a Birfer.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/2 ... howAll=yes

Foggy · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 8:29 am

Quote:

... four climbers died on their way down from the summit amid a traffic jam of more than 200 people who were rushing to reach the world's highest peak as the weather deteriorated.

Piffle · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 8:34 am

GreatGrey wrote:

Hee Hee..

This weeks installment of hate mail at Daily Kos is a keeper, the part where Markos gets into it with George Rockwell. A legal mind like a Birfer.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/2 ... howAll=yes

Yup, George Rockwell has a brilliant legal mind. I don't think even Orly has threatened anyone with a Supreme Court bench trial, has she? :-$

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Estiveo · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 11:17 pm

Are we done talking about eyes yet? I ask only because this is a phobia of mine...anything actually touching an eye, even discussing it, makes me uncomfortable. I have been known to faint (seriously) when surprised by footage of eye surgery on the evening news. On the rare occasion where I get an eyelash or something in my eye? Nobody better try to help me, ‘cuz I can barely hold it together long enough to take care of it myself...which I have learned to do. But I’ll shake for a good half hour or so after dealing with it. Guess what scene I absolutely cannot watch in A Clockwork Orange?

An eyeball being touched freaks me out, Okay? Also Ferris wheels, but since I will never, ever, ever ride one again...no need to go there.

I am glad for those of you who can has needed eye surgeries, though. I could never do that. I'll just keep wearing glasses. Or an eye patch. Or a Labrador.

Bonus points to those who can guess how hard it was for me to even write this post.

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9332

Estiveo wrote:

Guess what scene I absolutely cannot watch in A Clockwork Orange?

I'd guess you wouldn't care terribly for Un Chien Andalou either.

I too react terribly to anything in my eye and could never wear contact lenses. The mere thought of them does not bother me, though.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 11:42 pm

For me it's working on teeth. :shock:

So thinking about how Orly Taitz craptices my profession and also plays the Steve Martin role in Little Shop of Horrors is sometimes too much for me.

Estiveo · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 11:46 pm

A Legal Lohengrin wrote:

Estiveo wrote:

Guess what scene I absolutely cannot watch in A Clockwork Orange?

I'd guess you wouldn't care terribly for Un Chien Andalou either.

I too react terribly to anything in my eye and could never wear contact lenses. The mere thought of them does not bother me, though.

I don't LIKE the thought of them, but it's no problem unless I actually SEE one being inserted or removed, or if some idiot tries to explain, in graphic detail, why I'm being a baby. (baby is not the word usually employed at this juncture, I was just trying to keep the conversation PG.)

Highlands · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 11:46 pm

You know what creeps me out? People breathing on me, like inside my personal space. Even my husband.

And I work in surgical services and have observed a few autopsies, so I've pretty much seen it all; including scleral buckle procedures.

Blood, urine, pus, phlegm; nothing is as horrible as the thought of other people breathing their cooties on me. Blech!

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 11:48 pm

I feel for you, High. When I go to the dentist :yikes:

I not only insist that the dentist wear a mask. I WEAR ONE, TOO!

Suranis · **Joined:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:04 am **Posts:** 5244

Foggy wrote:

Quote:

... four climbers died on their way down from the summit amid a traffic jam of more than 200 people who were rushing to reach the world's highest peak as the weather deteriorated.

It happens pretty often these day. There's only so many days in the year that you can get ontop of Everest (basicoly when there is a high pressure center over it, and there are companies offering tours to get to the top. They reason is that if it wasn't for its sheer height, Everest would be a rellitivly easy mountain to climb. Its the sheer exhaustion of being in the death zone that makes it a killer.

A traffic jam in this case is 200 people using the same rope in both directions, one after the other. 200 people on the mountain at once is sheer madness.

Edit: And I got my blood sugar monitor on friday. Seeing my blood sugar do somersaults is pretty damn depressing.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 12:01 am

Suranis wrote:

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A traffic jam in this case is 200 people using the same rope in both directions, one after the other. 200 people on the mountain at once is sheer madness.

Nadav Ben-Yehuda said that he passed a couple of corpses while climbing. They might have been from the previous weekend's deaths, or they might have been there for years.

I use the example of the Mt. Everest Zone of Death to emphasize to students how thin the troposphere is, and then tell that that jet planes fly a mile or more higher. They seem to have thought that the troposphere extends out somewhere near the orbit of the moon, and we can dump staff into it with abandon because it is so thick (just as we can dump stuff into the oceans with abandon -- not).

Estiveo · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 12:18 am

Highlands wrote:

You know what creeps me out? People breathing on me, like inside my personal space. Even my husband.

And I work in surgical services and have observed a few autopsies, so I've pretty much seen it all; including scleral buckle procedures.

Blood, urine, pus, phlegm; nothing is as horrible as the thought of other people breathing their cooties on me. Blech!

My mom was the O.R. director for a major hospital in the Greater Bay Area Metropplex and she got me a summer grunt job at her Hospital when I'd just turned 18. First time I'd ever seen, and helped move, a dead body. He was still so warm. And cleaning up the "Special Process Room" was often daunting. (this was the room just off of the ER where they'd try and stabilize/prep traumatic injury victims while an OR was being made ready. I cleaned that up, after. There was usually a lot of blood and other stuff. I cleaned that up and sterilized the room again. And I always held my breath until I got the double mask on me with the little dab of Mentholatum. I hate the smell of blood, but I'm not afraid of it, and the others, urine, pus, phlegm, that High mentioned? They also hold no sway over me.

But give me something with the word "scleral" in it? I'd a been in the parking lot, in the fetal position, rocking and crying except for one thing. Stay tuned. I have to do this so I dont' freak out or throw up. Maybe later tonight, maybe tomorrow, I'll work it out.

Somerset · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 1:46 am

Estiveo wrote:

Highlands wrote:

You know what creeps me out? People breathing on me, like inside my personal space. Even my husband.

And I work in surgical services and have observed a few autopsies, so I've pretty much seen it all; including scleral buckle procedures.

Blood, urine, pus, phlegm; nothing is as horrible as the thought of other people breathing their cooties on me. Blech!

But give me something with the word "scleral" in it? I'd a been in the parking lot, in the fetal position, rocking and crying except for one thing. Stay tuned. I have to do this so I dont' freak out or throw up. Maybe later tonight, maybe tomorrow, I'll work it out.

Kittehs, Estiveo. Think of kittehs. Purring kittehs. Happy kittehs.

And now risotto.

Better?

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 1:50 am

Somerset wrote:

Kittehs, Estiveo. Think of kittehs. Purring kittehs. Happy kittehs.

And now risotto.

Better?

Or imagine ftirring fmelly favory fauces with a fpoon!

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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