This is the Akimbo

oldoakman said:
Burrapeg, you are flirting dangerously close with the likes of Jeffgu. Be careful or you will slip over the edge.
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Jeffgu? Splendid fellow! I knew him well in the old days out East. How could I forget the memorable night we fled the Siege of Gwalior together by climbing down a sewer outfall dressed as Augustinian nuns? Elton John was just a small boy at the time and I felt rather badly that we could not take him with us. But I was gratified to learn much later that he too survived and went on to a successful career on the stage. A curious thing: hamsters were completely unknown in Gwalior despite outnumbering humans roughly three times over, everywhere else on Earth. Amazing creatures. There is a large one watching me at this very moment through my front window.
 
oldoakman said:
Burrapeg, you are flirting dangerously close...
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I'm going to take him out jackalope hunting in the Badlands with an old Martini-Henry breechloader, to remind him of his days in Nepal. Although, I imagine that trying to portage a submarine across the Himalaya mountains might not be the fondest of memories.

A nice Akimbo might come in handy for that, should he wish to try a similar feat in the Rockies. I think getting a submarine up the vertical parts might be a bit rough, with only a set of fiddle blocks and a gnarly, old Bristlecone Pine for an anchor.
 
JeffGu said:
I'm going to take him out jackalope hunting in the Badlands with an old Martini-Henry breechloader, to remind him of his days in Nepal. . .
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Capital idea, Old Lad! It has been far too long since I was afield. I bagged this beauty just North of Bangalore Cantonment one Spring morning in my youth, with my first shot of the day, and from the saddle at a full gallop. The round was a Snider .577 T-Rex. My shikari said he had never seen such a fine specimen and by way of thanks for the compliment I gave him the creature's entrails for his family's dinner.
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Fantastic! The Snider-Enfield round is a bit better on those beasts than the old .577/540 anyway... but still, you're brave to charge a jackalope on horseback. I've lost a few good horses, that way. I only hunt them from the back of a hippopotamus, these days.

New bottle of Trader Vic's sitting in the kitchen, calling my name.
 
JeffGu said:
. . . I imagine that trying to portage a submarine across the Himalaya mountains might not be the fondest of memories. . .
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Yes, it was a living hell. But thank God the Nepalese possess the largest prusik minding pulleys ever constructed and it was not a bad job to cobble together an early form of RADS which was equal to the task. Too bad about the four elephants which did not survive.
 
Burrapeg said:
Yes, it was a living hell. But thank God the Nepalese possess the largest prusik minding pulleys ever constructed and it was not a bad job to cobble together an early form of RADS which was equal to the task. Too bad about the four elephants which did not survive.
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Nice sitting in on an Explorers Club meeting with some gnarly codgers, cheers!
-AJ
 
oldoakman said:
Well, either you slipped and hit your head or that edge gave way completely.
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It is this special type of tobacco my neighbor raises under grow lamps in his attic. Wonderful stuff. One's memory is progressively less reliable, even frequently failing completely, with the inevitable encroachment of age, but if I smoke enough of it in my pipe, the events of my past come flooding back with perfect clarity.
 
moss said:
Nice sitting in on an Explorers Club meeting with some gnarly codgers, cheers!
-AJ
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Ah, AJ my dear chap! We have had no word of you since your nurse told us about the four foot Guinea worm they removed from your colon six months after our steamer sank mid-river and we all almost perished that fateful day in ’89. She said it took the doctor and both his assistants to wrestle it into the jar. I am green with envy; the longest I have ever had was barely 3-1/2 foot. But I was at least able afterwards to cover a walking stick with its hide. I don’t know about you but I am still haunted by the screams of the crew that day when they failed to reach the raft in time. Who would have imagined that there were piranha in such vast numbers that far down-river? And in Ontario!
 
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rico said:
Is it true that if I purchase one of these mythical Akimbo’s my unskilled hack ass will suddenly become a tree-climbing god like Mr. Beranek or Reg C?
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Australian climber early 1900’s showing that if you got what it takes all you need is a line.
 

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