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  3. 3.

    Louise

    I actually thought he had died thirty years ago.

    This proves you didn’t watch your LOTR DVD extras. He visited the set.

  4. 4.

    Bruce Moomaw

    We musn’t forget the first Rocky and Bullwinkle adventure, during which Boris Badenov masqueraded as a mountain climber named Sir Hillary Pushemoff. (That was when they met the Abominominable Snowman.)

  6. 6.

    UnkyT

    Louise Says:

    I actually thought he had died thirty years ago.

    This proves you didn’t watch your LOTR DVD extras. He visited the set.

    This proves you uber dork.

  7. 7.

    Ted

    Pass it on!: Hillary Clinton claims she was named after him, but he didn’t summit Everest and become famous until three years after that shrew devil was “born”!! Edwards got a fancy haircut!!! And Obama’s middle name is Hussein!!!!11!

    [/Rush]

  9. 9.

    Tom Levenson

    Not to mention his association with the essential, wonderful, Kendal Mint Cake — the best snack imaginable on a hike, all sugar and drano-your-sinuses mint in a dense bar, with a wrapper that loudly, joyfully proclaimed that Hilary and Tensing ate Kendal Mint Cake on Everest.

    A great man indeed — with years of devotion to Nepal and the Sherpas who made his (and virtually every other)Everest ascent possible. see http://www.thesiredmundhillaryfoundation.ca/index.htm for details there.

  10. 10.

    myiq2xu

    When Sir Edmund reached the top of Mount Everest (with Tenzing Norgay) it wasn’t a cool summer adventure for thrill seekers. He wasn’t just a glory hound, he has been an advocate for the people of Nepal.

    From Wiki:

    He devoted all of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan trust, which he founded and to which he had given much of his time and energy. Through his efforts he had succeeded in building many schools and hospitals in this remote region of the Himalayas. He was the Honorary President of the American Himalayan Foundation, a United States non-profit body that helps improve the ecology and living conditions in the Himalayas.

    Rest in Peace, Sir Edmund

  12. 12.

    Mike

    We musn’t forget the first Rocky and Bullwinkle adventure, during which Boris Badenov masqueraded as a mountain climber named Sir Hillary Pushemoff. (That was when they met the Abominominable Snowman.)

    Was that the one where Mr. Peabody adopted Sherpa?

  13. 13.

    Tax Analyst

    I actually thought he had died thirty years ago.

    That’s weird, because that’s about what I thought, too. I have no clue where I came up with that idea.

  14. 14.

    UnkyT

    Tax Analyst Says:

    I actually thought he had died thirty years ago.

    That’s weird, because that’s about what I thought, too. I have no clue where I came up with that idea.

    Maybe thinking of his accompanying Sherpa Tenzing Norgayn that died about 20 years ago?

  16. 16.

    myiq2xu

    Hillary died? This has got to shake up the Democrat party’s race.

    I think this helps Rudy more than anyone else. it shows we need his leadership in these dangerous times.

    Noun, verb, 9-11

    /end snark

  17. 17.

    Wombat

    Bit of respect please. I have met the man: a nicer, more accomplished and humble hero you could not find. He died at 88, having broken his leg in Nepal in April. He is one of the few people who was regarded as enlightened (in the Buddhist sense) by several independent cultures. We will not see his like again.

  18. 18.

    LiberalTarian

    hm. Maybe it is actually time for 50 associated sovereign states??? Gah. That would make President Schwarzenegger. I dunno if I can stand that. Arggggg.

  20. 20.

    DVDA

    Barack Obama is The Truth!

    John Cole will just have to be wrong about him like he was wrong about George W. Bush.

    He came around about the obvious suckitude of Bush, so I’m sure he’ll come around to the undeniable awesomeness of Barack Hussein Obama.

    And yeah, I said his middle name. What of it?

    OBAMAMANIA, BITCHES!

  21. 21.

    bernarda

    Climbing a zeus-forsaken mountain which means nothing in the real world is the sign of what? Megalomaniac clown?

    What a waste of time.

  23. 23.

    Fe E

    bernarda Says:

    Climbing a zeus-forsaken mountain which means nothing in the real world is the sign of what? Megalomaniac clown?

    Nice troll attempt.

    What a waste of time.

    Back atcha.

  24. 24.

    Billy K

    And yeah, I said his middle name. What of it?

    I think, as progressives, it’s time for us to take back the good name of Hussein. I see an ad with a succession of tight headshots of a variety of people proclaiming,

    “I am Hussein.”
    (fade to next shot)

    “I am Hussein.”
    (fade to next shot)

    “I am Hussein.”
    face to Obama,

    “I am Barack Hussein Obama, and I approve of this message.”

  27. 27.

    bernarda

    Fe E, now there is a real troll calling others names.

    Just how is climbing a bunch of rocks, ice, and snow serving any purpose? Nowadays, the Himalayas are a dump because of all the clowns wanting to follow Hillary leave their garbage behind.

  28. 28.

    Dan S.

    Edward Gorey – he’s another fellow whose obit prompted lots of “wait, I thought he died decades ago!” comments.

    I wonder if in this case it’s due to association with genuinely long-dead polar explorers? Or that we’re for some reason mentally placing the ‘conquest’ of Everest rather earlier, with the implicit assumption that he simply must have died some time back? – Or just not being in the news?

    Anyway, I say the world needs more “unassuming beekeepers”.

    “Hillary died? This has got to shake up the Democrat [sic] party’s race

    I expect there’s some number of headline browsers who actually think that.

  29. 29.

    Peter Johnson

    I always thought it was interesting that he beat that Nepalese guy to the top. So much for the supposed superiority of native peoples in their native habitats and all that.

  30. 30.

    Zuzu

    Well PJ, by his own account he “beat that Nepalese guy to the top” by about two steps. Because the “Nepalese guy” was holding the slack in the rope.

    NYT

    So much for your supposed reading and reasoning skills.

  31. 31.

    Wombat

    Do any of you self-obsessed Septic (rhyming slang – the full term used by us from down under is Septic Tanks…work it out) Trolls realise that what Ed Hillary was truly great for was for what he achieved after he climbed Everest: he went and built schools and hospitals in the Solo Khumbu, literally with his own hands. I’m not sure that some of you inhabit the same planet as those of us outside the US do.

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