Comments on: CURIOUS INDEX, 1/11/08

By: Cameron Siggs

Cameron Siggs — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:42:28 +0000

we’re studying for the florida bar here, and as sad as it is to note the passing of a truly amazing man, it’s accomplishments like Sir Ed’s that make us realize that maybe tackling the bar exam isn’t the worst thing ever. may his spirit live on in all of us, and may his countenance reign the world over. god rest his soul.

By: Domer Guy

Domer Guy — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:06:47 +0000

Yaeger bends for dick. What a hack.

By: 2L over the line, sweet jesus

2L over the line, sweet jesus — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:28:11 +0000

Have you been to Nepal, Orson? Hung around Thamel?

By: Stephen Colboar

Stephen Colboar — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:32:26 +0000

Mallet will end up at Arkansas.

Book it.

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:13:03 +0000

“Geritol does not work at high altitudes.”

Neither does radial keratotomy-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Weathers

By: Harvey Wireman

Harvey Wireman — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:18:09 +0000

Those cotton-pickers that attempt to climb Everest know the unwritten rule: If you fall behind, get sick or whatever, you die. The basis of the rule is why put others at risk, knowing how dangerous the climb is to begin with. Is it fair? Of course not, but neither is life. would I climb it? Of course not, I am not stupid and Geritol does not work at high altitudes.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:07:56 +0000

What would make mountain climbing more fun, is if they were to put like prizes of cash, like 100,000 grand or something at various times of the year, randomly, so at least some people who lose their toes and fingers and noses to frostbite, still have some cash to show for it….seems to me most times its a bunch of rich people with too much time on their hands with cabin fever during the winter….should make climbing Everest the final test for some sort of Super Boy scout level or something..just watch out for the YETI…

By: kleph

kleph — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:45:15 +0000

when you describe mountain-climbing with contempt, please keep in mind there is a vast degree of difference between hillary's style of climbing and the "sport" it has become today. hillary, himself, was not a fan... from the bloomberg obit: In recent years, Hillary railed against the environmental damage to Everest caused by ever-increasing numbers of climbers. Mountaineering had also lost the camaraderie that characterized its early days, he said in 2006, when as many as 40 climbers left a British mountaineer on Everest rather than attempt a rescue. ``The whole attitude to Mount Everest has become rather horrifying,'' Hillary told New Zealand's Otago Daily Times newspaper. ``People just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.''

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:31:07 +0000

Also, I picture that “rowdy scene in a piano bar” with some hooker wearing a hoop dress singing while lying down on top of the piano, then a fight from the Cannonball Run breaking out, with DMAC playing the part of Sammy Davis Jr, a priest, just trying to stay out of trouble til someone comes into range to punch…

By: woo

woo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:28:28 +0000

i think that’s 0.28 dollars.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:27:36 +0000

Lets see, big white teeth, Nepal, an architect of sorts…..is there a “Something About Mary” joke in here? I guess his work coulda been summed up, when asked about working with mountain climbers and sherpa’s, he simply states “Me? I work with retards. Especially Mongo staying in his cage…”

By: jakldawg

jakldawg — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:24:17 +0000

13: McFadden requested some Stephen stinkin’ Foster instead of a nocturne.

By: robert

robert — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:15:52 +0000

I like it when I get some tarnished dome on a first date.

Also, people climb mountains for the most basic reasons–they (the mountains) are there.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:05:47 +0000

Orson, you omitted the school that Mallet is visiting this weekend.

By: blazin

blazin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:53:24 +0000

You call it tarnish and I call it patina.