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Article #3229Re: Bikes (was Re: GUN CONTROL)
From: Joel Irby
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 18:00
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 18:00
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In article Mwn@metronet.com, tharding@metronet.com (Ted Harding) writes:
| Blah, Blah, Blah, Yak, Yak, Yak. You bicycle guys are so funny.
.. but not nearly as funny as you rednecks up in Dallas ;-)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(that's a joke, for the humor-impaired)
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| You think that everyone is going to be standing up for you here on the
| internet after you get creamed by a Mack truck. Do ya think they'll be
| talking about poor old "Bob" and how some driver just wasn't patient
| enough with him on his bike. "Heck fire" no. You'll just be dead. The
| only one that will really remember you is that guy who is helping your widow
| spend that insurance money down in Florida while he is cha-cha with her
| all night long. But don't worry, there is solitude in the fact that you
^^^^^^^^
Uh, you mean... "solace"? Now that I think about it, there's solitude
there, too.
| died or got injured for the principal of it all. Maybe they'll bury you
^^^^^^^^^
Uh, you mean... "principle"? Oh, yeah, you probably meant the
principal on the loan for my (hypothetical) widow's new condo down
in Florida.
| in that spandex suit, the one with the tire tread up the back of it.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's what's really bugging all you anti-cyclists, isn't it? We look
good in lycra/spandex, and you don't (Bwahahahahahaaaa...!)
| That way you can depart this world making a statement. I am sure that
| will slow all of the automobile traffic down for you guys.
|
| TH......
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_ Joel Irby irby@akeem.sps.mot.com
_| ~-. Austin, TX 16-Bit Product Engineering, Motorola-SPS
\, *_} 512-891-8884 "Hey, at least I'm not a 2-bit engineer..."
\( Speaking only for myself, and NOT Motorola or its customers.
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