Re: Hemostat, was Slippery thimbles

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:40:51 +0000, Kate XXXXXX
<kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Joy Beeson wrote:

[snip]

Make sure your hair is pinned up firmly and can't get caught in the
brake bars.

Break bars? Never used one of those... Rope through a figure 8 thing
at best.

Brake bar -- as in "slam on the brakes". It was a bar across the
middle of a carabiner; probably the precursor of your figure 8 thing.
Does "at best" imply that you are familiar with "hot seat" abseiling?

Back in the sixties, the Indianapolis Star printed a dramatic picture
of an abseiler standing on the side of a building. The caption said
that he was climbing up by a process called "repelling" -- oh, man,
paging Dr. Cavor!

(The reporter had heard "rapelling", the American word for
"abseiling".)

Joy Beeson
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