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British Man Braves Icy Waters to Become First to Swim Under Mt. Everest
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/23/british-man-braves-icy-waters-swim-mt-everest/?test=latestnews ^
Posted on 05/23/2010 4:01:47 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
Big deal. I’ve been swimming below Mt. Everest since I was 2.
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posted on
05/23/2010 5:18:13 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(Obama hawking Special K-- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rDJdHQspuI)
To: JRios1968
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posted on
05/23/2010 6:21:57 PM PDT
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ko_kyi
To: nomorelurker
How about the 13 year old who just climbed Mt Everest.
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posted on
05/23/2010 6:26:32 PM PDT
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valkyry1
To: Red in Blue PA
I fell in the SF Bay once in March without a lifevest on and I was out there for 7 minutes before I got back in the boat. That was plenty enough for me thank you.
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posted on
05/23/2010 6:30:26 PM PDT
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valkyry1
To: Fiji Hill
In the words of British mountaineer George Mallory as to why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest--"because it's there." "Because it's there" is Mallory's single best-known utterance -- ironically, since it was a reporter's one-liner that Mallory himself almost certainly never said...
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posted on
05/23/2010 6:36:04 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
To: Defiant
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posted on
05/23/2010 6:47:00 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Thinking of using 911 for protection? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
To: Fiji Hill
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posted on
05/23/2010 8:14:38 PM PDT
by
namvolunteer
(Color doesn't matter, character does)
To: nomorelurker
To steal a line, “I don’t care where you’re from, that’s funny, right there.”
And on point. I used to look forward to it as a kid for pictures of bare-breasted brown ladies in Africa with neck rings and plates in their lips.
In recent years, it’s been more about skinny Asian boys climbing vines.
I miss those girls but I bet they had trouble pronouncing “P” and “S.” Not a disqualifier, though.
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05/23/2010 8:18:35 PM PDT
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namvolunteer
(Color doesn't matter, character does)
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