Re: It's official - we're all bad belayers

In article <85ll0cd6ho.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> But alas, I
> am talking to Americans here.

Wazzup David? Someone cut you some slack a while back on your english
and you claimed you were from California. Born there, I believe.

http://tinyurl.com/86o74

Just wondering.
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