I keep a couple of Wikipedia tabs open all the time, one for aimless Wikiwandering and one for dedicated looking-up of stuff. Let's start hitting the "Back" button on the second one and see where it's been!
- Louis XIV of France
- Pop Goes the World (song)
- Surfing
- BASE Jumping
- Free solo climbing
- WNBC
- NBC
- Mark Wohlers
- Talkeetna, Alaska
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Bobby Valentine
- Furry fandom
- Planck length
- Quo vadis?
- Quo Vadis (1951 film)
- Saturation (album)
I think that gets us back through the weekend...
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My sister won the Talkeetna Wilderness woman competition for 2012!
ReplyDeleteFurry Fandom? Do share the backstory to that one.
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ReplyDeleteI was about to make a Tweet and couldn't remember if it was spelled with an "-ie" like "hippie" or not.
Oh, the Pete Townshend excuse...
DeleteI was in Talkeetna a couple of years ago. My goal was a beer in every bar in town. I couldn't drink that much though. I remember that there were hippies there, though. There's always trustafarian hippies...
ReplyDeleteTalkeetna is a strange little town.
ReplyDeleteThe big industry there is dumping tourists on a glacier three quarters of the way up Mt. McKinley.
When I drove through during a particularly warm February, you needed to dodge small aircraft with skis that were slowly taxiing through the residential neighborhood near the airport.
It was cheaper to park in your own garage or front yard than to rent space in a hanger.
That's gotta put you on a DHS watch list somewhere. Obviously a racist and.... uh, racist clinger.
ReplyDeleteDo you follow Wohlers on Twitter, Tam? He's a gunny, even has "Molon Labe" as his Twitter profile pic. Posted a pic of a S&W586 the other day that he took shooting. Great guy on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteBase jumping and free solo climbing are in my wiki back list. Good old insanity in practice is fun to watch.
ReplyDeleteOh no! Our beloved Tam is a closet furry! What shall we do?
ReplyDeleteI know! Let sing "The Banana Splits" theme song!
One banana, two banana, three banana, four...
CIA hitman and drug smuggler Andrew C. Thorten III clamed to have invented BASE jumping in 1974. He claimed to have made the first jump in Ky. (He was killed by a 'Chute malfunction while trying a LL jump with 100lb of heroin and cocain straped to his leg)
ReplyDeleteNo no no, Oz, Tam isn't a furry. A wookie suit is totally different.
ReplyDeleteIf furries have yiffing, what do wookie suiters have?
ReplyDeleteGuns. And ammo. Lots and lots of ammo. And Goldfish crackers.
DeleteThat prompted me to look at the B.A.S.E. jumping entry. I had always heard that the E stood for Elevations rather than Earth. I few of my old skydiving buddies jumped El Capitan in Yosemite during the short period when it was legal. One of them probably has a fairly low BASE number as he was active in it during the late seventies and early eighties. The guy who jumped from the Eiffel Tower for a Bond film was B.J. Worth. He also did work on other Bond films and was president of the USPA for a while.
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