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Dulltown, UK: Today's silly sounding word is, omelette.
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Some advice about climbing Mount Everest.
'So, what is, your advice'?
'Well, look, the first thing, is to find the people...'
'The people?... The other climbers, you mean'?
'No, no, not them. You see, it is all about finding a good number of people who you, later, can tell, of the danger and hardship you endured, when you get back.'
'No, no, what would telling people matter'?
'Matter? Well, that's the main purpose of doing such a thing... Isn't it'?
'Well... I...'
'Well, what? Why would you bother going up it anyway'?
'There are lots of... reasons...'
'Such as'?
'Well, it is the highest...'
'Ha!...'
'What do you mean by "Ha!..."'
'Would you get a T-shirt printed, to wear, just to show people that you'd done it'?
'I might...'
'Or, phone up your local; newspaper to tell them that...'
'Oh, that's a good idea'!
'No, it isn't'!
'But it is the highest, in the world...'
'Well, I suppose it is. As no one had done it before, the first people to go up, might have a look what the top is like - you know, just to see it - if Aliens, or God himself, had left an important vital message there, for the first humans to finally nip on up, to read.'
'Do you think so'?
'No... You see, there was nothing much there.'
'Except the view, of course... You don't sound very enthusiastic, about my project.'
'I'm not... Have you ever heard of "anvil mountaineering"?'
'Anvil mountaineering'?
'Yes, it has been developed by climbers, ones who have climbed all the great peaks of the world - when they found that they needed new goals, to struggle, sweat, and conquer...'
'Really?... Goodness me! What does it involve'?
'Do you know any blacksmiths'?
'No... I don't think so.'
'Pity...they could lend you one.'
'Look I...'
'You see, they go up all the great peaks of the world again, but this time carrying a heavy object...'
'An anvil'?
'Yes; but in a heavy, specially designed backpack. To take a 68 kg one.'
'68 Kg?... I see...'
'Do you'?
'Hang on! Are you making all this up'?
'Of course...'
'Why'?
'To point out that Anvil Mountaineering is really no dafter than ordinary mountaineering'!
'You are not too keen on it, then'?
'No...'
'What about walking up, gently sloping hills, with a nice pub on the top...'
'That sounds alright to me, but you can't brag about it much, later on, though...'
'That's true... Hardly worth getting t-shirts printed...'
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