Looking For Nuggets . . .

[guest]

NUGGET, adj., nug-git, a phrase pertaining to BASE jumping that's obvious and also illuminating.

I'm looking for "Nuggets" to sprinkle around the BASE book I'm writing. If used your nugget will be printed along with your name.

For instance;

"The Ground's the Limit!"
-Carl Boenish

or

"We're just Sportsman, and this is our Sport."
-Mark Hewitt

You get the idea. Many times a nugget will be heard at the launch point, it's the thing someone says that makes everyone on the load giggle and maybe shiver at the same time.

So, if you heard any good pithy one liners, that pertain to BASE jumping, please put them here or E-mail me.

Thanks and,

"Don't BASE jump at the Drop Zone!"

Hey, that's a Nugget!

Nick
BR
:-)

[guest]

"this has got good idea written all over it"

[554]

"Never go to jail with a packed rig"

[Mike]

"three....two.........one and a half..........oh sh*t, wait a second..."

[460]

"a false sense of security is better than no security at all" -- John Owens

"that antenna looks like a death sandwich without the bread" -- Steve Morrell

"seven days without a base jump makes one weak" --author unknown

"gravity has no holidays" -- Mark Hewitt

"drugs and gravity don't mix too well" -- Chris Stokely

"while the average man sleeps, the BASE man leaps" --Amy Bailey

"go that way really fast and if anything get's in your way, turn!" --Chris Stokely quoting from the film "Better Off Dead"

[guest]

Don’t try this at home kids

[guest]

BASE is like life, at 100 times normal speed.

[space]

Hi Nick,
Here´s a few from me,

BASE is all psychological, if you think about it.

NRGB, Not Really Gonna Bounce.

One has nothing to fear but nothing itself.

One man´s edge is another man´s horizon.

and my favorite; "NO, WAIT!!!!!!!! (But ya gotta wait until they are past the pt of no return!)
cya
space

[guest]

When asked:
"Why am I doing this?"
I answer:
"'Cause I'm not sitting at home,
watching it on TV!"
:-)

[bps]

One of my personal favorites:

"BASE Jumping. It doesn't shorten life expectancy, rather it lengthens it by turning ordinary seconds into precious eternities."

-- Wayne Crill

Keep healing Wayne and I hope to C-ya at the exit point soon!

Bryan

[bps]

I was driving home after a sunrise load when my jumping mate said:

"So many people spend their entire lives asleep while only a select few know what it is like to be truly awake."

-- Jack Cravatt

[guest]

Should we run?!?!

[guest]

"My motto is 'Don't push it when doing it at all is pushing it.'" -- Robin Heid

[guest]

"There's no such thing as being paranoid when the're out to get you."

Earl Redfern on the BASE Board, January 6, 2000

[guest]

"as an optimist, I'd say that parachute is at least half open" - JB

"rationalize, jump, then justify" - JB

"3, 2, 1...cya!" (NOT my quote, but I do own the domain...heh...heh...)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once!" -Shakespeare

jason
base428
[http://www.321cya.com]