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No Longer Everest-Westerners Urged to Recognize Original Name of World's Highest Peak
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Posted on 11/19/2002 11:52:23 AM PST by ewing
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To: abner
Sounds terrifying!You know... it really was.
I was driving my girlfriend across the country in her car and we just decided to go up on a whim.
I forgot to mention that there was also no power brakes with the engine stopped, so I had to stand up and really stomp on the brakes just to s-l-o-w-l-y get it to stop.
And this with me turned around in my seat hoping another car was not coming up the two lane road and with shear drops without guard rails.
Chivalrous guy that I am, I made my girlfriend get out of the car and walk beside until we got low enough to get the engine to fire again.
Whoa!....were my nerves ever SHOT!
To: eddie willers
And this with me turned around in my seat hoping another car was not coming up the two lane road and with shear drops without guard rails.I'm guessing you had her walking on the side farthest from the sheer drop. LOL!
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posted on
11/19/2002 8:00:33 PM PST
by
abner
To: eddie willers
I tried to drive up Pike's Peak without changing the carburetor setting I once rode my dirt bike up a fourteener in the Mosquito Range. It was a 550, 4 stroke and it just barely had the power to make it to the top. The air is rare up there.
To: ewing
THE MOUNTAIN FORMERLY KNOWN AS EVEREST...![](http://prod.bsis.bellsouth.net/coDataImages/p/Groups/26/26091/folders/11507/105083Northface2.jpg)
Will heretofore be represented by the following symbol....
^^^
That is all.
O2
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posted on
11/19/2002 8:23:45 PM PST
by
omegatoo
To: abner
I'm guessing you had her walking on the side farthest from the sheer drop. LOL! Oh yes....
I figured smashing her between the car and the rock face was more humane that knocking her off the side of the mountain.
To: Colorado Doug
I once rode my dirt bike up a fourteener in the Mosquito RangeAnd just think...it's another 3000 ft. just to get to the base of Everest.
Just how did they get that Toyota to run that high up?
(specially designed diesel or something?)
To: omegatoo
Good one!
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posted on
11/19/2002 8:45:35 PM PST
by
abner
To: eddie willers
Well, you could have strapped her to the roof of the car. Maybe that is a bad idea too. Falling rock danger.
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posted on
11/19/2002 8:46:46 PM PST
by
abner
To: eddie willers
Just how did they get that Toyota to run that high up? (specially designed diesel or something?) Or a specially designed computer program.
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posted on
11/19/2002 8:47:35 PM PST
by
abner
To: abner
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posted on
11/19/2002 8:56:01 PM PST
by
omegatoo
To: omegatoo
I really like the smirkicon.
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posted on
11/19/2002 8:57:32 PM PST
by
abner
To: abner
Well, you could have strapped her to the roof of the car. What....and hurt the luggage?!
To: eddie willers
Sorry. What was I thinking?
Smacking head with hand.. .
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posted on
11/19/2002 9:01:44 PM PST
by
abner
To: Landru
...Hillary Rodham "Qomolangma" Clinton.It is a little known fact that "Qomolangma" is the Chinese word for "Old Crusty."
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posted on
11/19/2002 9:06:28 PM PST
by
catpuppy
To: Colorado Doug
The air is rare up there. In college I dated a girl from La Paz, Bolivia. The city is at an altitude of 13,000 feet. She said that the air was so thin there that you could hold the tip of a lit cigarette against your finger for several seconds and not burn yourself.
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posted on
11/19/2002 9:11:36 PM PST
by
Dan Day
To: eddie willers
Just how did they get that Toyota to run that high up?Wish I could have seen the pictures of the Toyota. I have seen some pretty amazing things done with winches. Maybe that's how they did it.
To: catpuppy; sultan88; BraveMan
"
'It is a little known fact that 'Qomolangma' is the Chinese word for 'Old Crusty.'"
HA!!
An ancient Chinese dialect, huh?
That right?
Well FYI catpuppy, individual Chinese words are often complete sentences, y'know?
Somewhere in that [word] has just got to be a couple more words for it to be grammatically correct.
For that reason I'm compelled to believe, "black pantsuit" is in there, too.
...don'tcha think? {g}
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posted on
11/20/2002 6:19:58 AM PST
by
Landru
To: Landru
I humbly defer to your knowledge of Chinese grammar and black pantsuits. In any future Democratic Administration there may be opportunities for you in our nuclear weapons programs.
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posted on
11/20/2002 9:06:06 AM PST
by
catpuppy
To: stands2reason
No, I'm with ya....keep it simple, that's what I say.
To: catpuppy
"In any future Democratic Administration there may be opportunities for you in our nuclear weapons programs."Wow; sounds great.
Ahhhh just one question, though.
Given it's a future 'Rat administration this career opporunity's to take place??
...on whose side would I be?
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posted on
11/20/2002 10:54:24 AM PST
by
Landru
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