[Falling Down]

....it's bog standard E4....

I'll remember to remind myself in the middle of the desperate looking sequence that you describe ;-)

[JR]

it aint the first time that a particular (potential) member of this team has needed aid techniques or rescue from a classic curbar struggle many grades below celebrated lead numbers....  

Bloody bouldering bred headpointing girly puffs (potter excluded)  :roll: :wink:

[moose]

right, if E9 is but a footnote to their CV, that means, using my grading comparison-ometer they must have either done:
- trad E10
- sport 9a ish
- bouldered V14+
- shagged Angelina Jolie

using the science, that means the mystery men must be from amongst Malc Smith, Neil Bentley, John Dunne, Steve Mclure and Billy Bob Thornton...

[james]

Sounds like a good day, unfortunatly some of us have to work.  I bet the climbing monkeys from hampi would struggle with right eliminate too...
We all have our off days.

[cowboyhat]

Moose; think bigger. Maybe even outside the box...

[moose]

right... think bigger: one of them's shagged Princess Di;  and outside the box: who's got the ultimate CV, one that would render E9 almost insiginificant?

got it...the mystery men were James Hewitt and Flava Flav, I rest my case (and my big mutha'fuk'in clock too).

[dave]

one of em must be someone like kevin thaw who's done loads of hard alpine shiz.

[a dense loner]

We all have our off days

i don't think i've ever climbed badly :shock:

[cofe]

la la la. i know who they are. i know who they are. la la la.

[David S]

Go on then!  Let's see if you're right
(I bet you phoned around and bribed someone to tell you - All it takes is the promise of beer with some people :roll: )

[tommytwotone]

gresh?

[Johnny Brown]

Dave got one ages ago but no one told him -  the 'bonkers grit primate' himself. Just two left...

[David S]

He did indeed

[dave]

birkett? cubbitt? edwards? leo? mccleod? weeks? emmett?

[Johnny Brown]

That's two to Dave - none other than 'the world's best trad climber TM' as voted by an american mag, falling off a 6a move. More than once.

[cofe]

to confirm; of the remaining 3 we already have leroy holdminger and the avant garde rock poet mr dawes.

the remaining one...? never eat shredded wheat?

[andy_e]

he only fell off a 6a move twice? fantastic! better than me at least...
so do we got:
sam whittaker? (dunno if he has a trendy nickname)
Moffatt machine?

[dave]

i've already said westie early on in the thread so can't be him. though if simmonizzle was there you've got to wonder. :wink:

[cowboyhat]

Ok. and the photographers?

I realise one of these is tenuous but there has to be a reason why one of them didn't put on his harness on saturday. Is it because he saw what was happening and opted for the ego friendly challenge of my focal length is bigger than yours or because he is carrying the bouldering only torch forward in a lineage that inlcudes quentin fisher and jason myers...?

[David S]

You certainly did Dave and you can have an house point!

Now who was the one rescued?

[David S]

Injury and the fact that burning them off may have damaged their egos further

Plus one of the elite crew had borrowed my harness. Oh yeh and the bouldering bit.....

[dave]

what, so you're telling me i got one of em right in me first post and no-one noticed? jesus guys :roll:

[cowboyhat]

a list of everyone you can think of doesn't prove anything. wheres the intuition, the science?

[cofe]

wheres the ....science?

in a little jar on my desk marked 'framboise'.

[cowboyhat]

certainly not in your hair products