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Apparently I'm one of those damned lefties. Economic Left/Right: -0.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79 Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I completely agree, again! I guess it ISN'T PC to have definitions of what a woman is and a what a man is Next thing you know we'll have male cheerleaders! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Socks only have that new sock feel for one or two wearings, but it makes my day better when I wear them. I've been thinking about just buying socks frequently enough that I never have to wash them or wear them a second time. They're cheap, so I still might. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Good god. Next thing you know, girls will think they have a chance at winning a game of "king of the mountain"! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The funny thing is it's their homecoming, and they picked their homecoming king. Who the hell are we to say who they can and can't vote for in their own school activities? If you don't like it, don't vote for a lesbian in *your* homecoming court elections. I think the guys were just pissed that they got beat by a girl. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

It still doesn't look like a personal attack to me, even moreso given what people are getting away with recently. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't know if it's my *favorite* song, as I'd be hard pressed to pick just one. But it's definitely top 5... and now stuck in my head. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Yep. Copenhagen worked better for me than gum too. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Sauna suits, running up and down the aisles of the bus on the way to the meet, chewing gum and spitting, not eating for 3-4 days before weigh in, then pigging out on 2 footlong subway sandwiches...... nope, never been there. 189 in high school wrestled at 168-171 currently 215-220 No, that shit ain't healthy. I had friends stealing their grandma's diuretic pills....all kinds of shit. Oh well. It sure as hell was fun! Yeah, my non-wrestling weight was 155ish, but my normal weight class was 141. We were only allowed to wrestle up one class, so one time I had to get above 148 to wrestle in 168, and next tourney wrestled in 135. That sucked! I did everything you mentioned somewhat regularly (except diuretics), plus ate ex-lax a couple times for any last bits of lettuce that might be in my gut. Funny story - We had one guy go the ex-lax route once a little too close to match time. He developed a major problem right in the middle of his match. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I started wrestling in 4th grade, with boy's club, and then also with my school teams from 9th thru 12th. I had one girl friend who wrestled one year on her high school's team (boys), she did ok. Do a google search for Whitney Conder. She wrestled with the boys at Puyallup (a school I attended that takes wrestling serious), and placed in the top 8 in the state for her weight class last year and this year. There were two girls in the 4A championship tournament this year. Washington also now has a sanctioned girls wrestling league and championship tournament that shares venue with the boys tournament (Mat Classic). Here's a brief article. One thing though, if she does follow through and take a serious interest. Keep close tabs on her weight management. As an adult looking back, the pressure in wrestling to make weight is a bit extreme and not very healthy. Combined with societal pressures on girls, girl's natural tendency to carry a bit more body fat, and, umm, feminine issues, I can see where it'd be even more troubling to me as a parent of a daughter. For perspective, I usually ran around 4% body fat during wrestling season (65 pounds less than my current weight), and I once had to drop almost 10% of my body weight (from 148.5 to 135) in like 4 days to fill an open weight class at a tournament. Granted a bunch of the weight was "filler" I was carrying to enable to me wrestle three classes above my norm in our previous tournament, but still, that kind of weight loss just ain't healthy. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Nope, but I know a certain dz.commer who's milked an ox! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

So you want to get lunch with me? Why didn't you just say that?! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

He does not yet comprehend the power of Jack Bauer. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Yeah, them 4-jump students need to watch out for us S&TA types with all the I ratings. We're freakin' dangerous! I cause death & destruction to everybody I jump with, just ask anyone! It was an interesting topic though, and I did get feedback from some *qualified* folks (both on and offline) that convinced me to remove one thing from my bag of tricks. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Year : 1986-87 1. Who was your best friend? Jamie, Kim, Tracy, John, Aaron 2. What sports did you play? Wrestling 3. What kind of car did you drive? 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo SS 4. It's Friday night, where were you? All ages dance club, or drinking at my apartment 5. Were you a party animal? Yup 6. Were you in the "In Crowd"? Nope 7. Ever skip school? Constantly, in part because I lived on my own (with a roommate). Missed about 6 weeks straight at one point. Ended up dropping out & getting a GED. 8. Ever smoke? Yup 9. Were you a nerd? Not really, but sort of. Skate punk with funny hair & an attitiude 10. Did you get suspended/expelled? Yes 11. Can you sing the Alma Mater? school song? Nope 12. Who was your favorite teacher? Mrs. Lewis, my French teacher. 13. Favorite class? N/A 14. What was your schools full name? Thomas Jefferson High School 15. School mascot? A "Raider" 16. Did you go to Prom? Yup, went stag and stole someone else's date. 17. If you could go back and do it over, would you? Maybe, if I didn't have anything better to do. 18. What do you remember most about graduation? Getting my GED in the Navy a couple years later. Did end up going to college though, and graduating twice! 19. Favorite memories of your Senior Year? Her name was Rebecca. 20. Were you ever posted up on the senior wall? What's a senior wall? 21. Did you have a job your senior year? Yup, Pizza Hut delivery 22. Who did you date? Don't remember. Didn't have a set girlfriend. 23. Where did you go most often for lunch? Can't remember the name of it. Little mom & pop's burger joint. 24. Have you gained weight since then? I mostly wrestled in the 141 weight class. Today I weigh 205. 25. What did you do after graduation? Partied I guess. Didn't attend graduation, but imagine I probably partied that night. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Is our training here deficient? I never got told to make a list like that! (In fact my student logbook had that page printed over already, with currency requirements. ) Is it supposed to be part of the training: "start making a list of people you don't want to jump with" (based on their posts on DZ.com??) How many other people out there have these lists? LOL - That was me he was referring to. I don't know what the last page of my logbook says, but it's probably whatever some tandem student wrote in my logbook. One of my previous logbooks had a couple lists at the end of the places I'd jumped up till then, including a list of DZs, a list of demo sites, and a list of other LZs. Seemed like too much trouble to maintain though, so it wasn't carried over to subsequent logbooks. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The theme for this year is starting to look like "kill the characters with tenure and start over". So far we've lost Palmer, Michelle, and Edgar. Jack, Tony, Aaron, Mike, Kim (sort of), and Chloe better watch their backs! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

So tonight you sliced your finger on the *bottom* of a diet coke can? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

We had a group watching tonight and the room was speechless after that last image. Finally, the doodoo has really hit the fan. Tonight it was mini-crescendo after crescendo, then cutting to MORE shit, one fucked up crisis after another. 24 is back, better than ever. One thing that wasn't clear (though might be predictable). Was Tony in the same room as Henderson at the end? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Hey, you were the one who took it all back! Still, happy to be of service. oral sex Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Wouldn't I have to put a decent avatar up before I could keep a decent avatar up? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I have not seen your ex-roommate/current domestic partner posting in this or any other thread today. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I think you should run the prospects by me first. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Where will their second Hall of Fame be housed? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)