Re: [Texascavers] Whoops, one more on the surface, too

2010-02-02 Thread germanyj
That makes a total of 4 Greater Houston Grotto members who participated. Outstanding! julia GHG member -Original Message- From: speleoste...@tx.rr.com To: Texascavers@texascavers.com; speleoste...@tx.rr.com Sent: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 10:03 pm Subject: [Texascavers] Whoops, one

Re: [Texascavers] Whoops, one more on the surface, too

2010-02-02 Thread speleosteele
Actually, six. I mistakenly said Mallory Mayeux is with the UTG. Roger Moore was kind enough to inform me of my error. The GHG has played a major part in the continuing exploration of Texas' longest cave. These members were with us last weekend: Chris Butschek GHG Puppy Lewis GHG Caleb

texascavers Digest 2 Feb 2010 17:25:28 -0000 Issue 961

2010-02-02 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 2 Feb 2010 17:25:28 - Issue 961 Topics (messages 13504 through 13521): Honey Creek gear 13504 by: Mixon Bill 13505 by: Fofo refrigerator magnets - cave related 13506 by: David Re: Epic Honey Creek Cave trips rescheduled 13507 by: ellie :)

RE: [Texascavers] Vermont NSS Convention info

2010-02-02 Thread Geary Schindel
Gill, Remember, to teach a dog anything, you have to be smarter than the dog. Not everyone is. Geary From: bgillegi...@gmail.com [mailto:bgillegi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Gill Edigar Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 6:47 PM To: htjo...@juno.com; texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re:

Re: [Texascavers] Vermont NSS Convention info

2010-02-02 Thread Brian Riordan
That's right Geary. And therefore to learn anything from your dog it has to be smarter than you are. Or smarter than you *were*, if you happen to be at the critical threshold of surpassing its intelligence. But once you passed it intellectually, only then can it learn from you, or you teach it-

Re: [Texascavers] Vermont NSS Convention info

2010-02-02 Thread Diana Tomchick
Not true--my parents always told me that you can learn something from anyone, even the stupidest public school teacher you're likely to have. Lord knows our school district had a lot of them, and though it was hard to admit it when I was a smart-alecky teenager, they were right. It takes

[PBSS] Amazing Maze pics

2010-02-02 Thread J. LaRue Thomas
go to: http://www.caver.net/jtpics/ The list is numbered, then alphabetical. Go to Amazing Maze. It's a folder with our pics from last Saturday. Jacqui ___ PBSS mailing list p...@caver.net http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/pbss_caver.net

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[Texascavers] Bat - Car incident

2010-02-02 Thread Geary Schindel
I have it on good authority that an Aggie Speleological Society member, who will remain nameless, happened to hit a bat with their car on a recent cave trip. It got stuck under the windshield wiper and was killed. They stopped the car, got the bat off the windshield, and placed it on the

RE: [Texascavers] Bat - Car incident

2010-02-02 Thread wesley s
Aggie Joke Off!!! Wes~ From: gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org To: Texascavers@texascavers.com List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:25:43 -0600 Subject: [Texascavers] Bat - Car incident I have it on good authority that an Aggie Speleological Society

[Texascavers] For those of you still thinking about caving with carbide...

2010-02-02 Thread Louise Power
Carbide Shooting 2010 Darwin Award Nominee Confirmed True by Darwin (1 January 2010, Netherlands) Every now and then a completely new window into the world opens before our eyes. Here we have rural Dutch families enjoying their traditional winter sport, carbidschieten, or Carbide

[Texascavers] Re: For those of you still thinking about caving with carbide...

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Minton
Louise Power submitted Carbide Shooting 2010 Darwin Award Nominee Confirmed True by Darwin This may be true, but there are so many errors in the synopsis that I have my doubts. Calcium carbide is CaC2, not CaCb, and the gas it forms is acetylene, not ethylene. And where did

Re: [Texascavers] Re: For those of you still thinking about caving with carbide...

2010-02-02 Thread Don Cooper
Yeah - I forgot to pick up liquid oxygen when I went down to HEB! Thanks for the reminder! -WaV On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net wrote: Louise Power submitted Carbide Shooting 2010 Darwin Award Nominee Confirmed True by Darwin This may be true,