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Article in Bike mag
I was in Barnes and Noble last night and happened across a well written
letter to the editor that I had to post about. I found it to be entertaining and well written. Basically the guy was off to the side of a trail politely waiting while some horseback riders came through. He had just avoided a steaming pile of dung on the trail. One commented that "people like you are the ones that ruin these trails" and he shot back with "I can't remember the last time I took a dump in the middle of the trail and left it for someone else to find" Kind of a random post, but thought I would share. |
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arlo wrote: I was in Barnes and Noble last night and happened across a well written letter to the editor that I had to post about. I found it to be entertaining and well written. Basically the guy was off to the side of a trail politely waiting while some horseback riders came through. He had just avoided a steaming pile of dung on the trail. One commented that "people like you are the ones that ruin these trails" and he shot back with "I can't remember the last time I took a dump in the middle of the trail and left it for someone else to find" Kind of a random post, but thought I would share. Round here (Calgary) the cause of trail ruination is frequently cows. A lot more of them than horses with riders - which means a lot more of the problem above, compounded by literally thousands of hoofprints in the mud, squishy when wet, slow to ride over when dried hard. Ian M |
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"Ian M" wrote in message ... arlo wrote: I was in Barnes and Noble last night and happened across a well written letter to the editor that I had to post about. I found it to be entertaining and well written. Basically the guy was off to the side of a trail politely waiting while some horseback riders came through. He had just avoided a steaming pile of dung on the trail. One commented that "people like you are the ones that ruin these trails" and he shot back with "I can't remember the last time I took a dump in the middle of the trail and left it for someone else to find" Kind of a random post, but thought I would share. Round here (Calgary) the cause of trail ruination is frequently cows. Don't you mean "trail rumination"? |
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I think the spelling you were looking for would be rumentation LOL
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Ian M wrote:
I think the spelling you were looking for would be rumentation LOL Dude. One sentence, featuring one word, and you screw it up?!? Bill "kids today" S. |
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Bill, Dude, at 40 I haven't been accused of being a kid since ... never
mind! yup, I screwed it up! the word I intended was rumenation ... I meant to spell it wrong to highlight the joke, just not THAT wrong. glad to see somebody is paying attention, obviously not me. Ian M |
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Ian M wrote:
Bill, Dude, at 40 I haven't been accused of being a kid since ... never mind! yup, I screwed it up! the word I intended was rumenation ... I meant to spell it wrong to highlight the joke, just not THAT wrong. glad to see somebody is paying attention, obviously not me. Ian M It would be "rumination" "i" not "e". ;-) |
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Do a google search on "rumenation", you'll find they are mostly vet
science pages on digestion in cows and other such beasties. As I noted above, the joke was about animals with rumens ruining the trails, hence the deliberately unconventional spelling. It might have been vaguely amusing if I had got it right the first time .... |
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Ian M wrote:
Do a google search on "rumenation", you'll find they are mostly vet science pages on digestion in cows and other such beasties. As I noted above, the joke was about animals with rumens ruining the trails, hence the deliberately unconventional spelling. It might have been vaguely amusing if I had got it right the first time ... yes, in US English the catergory of beast is "ruminants" with an "i" "The first division of the stomach of a ruminant animal, in which most food collects immediately after being swallowed and from which it is later returned to the mouth as cud for thorough chewing. Also called paunch." And I though paunch was another name for beer guy. anyway, I'm sure we both have better uses of our time than this... like, for example, I need to figure out how to pull a casette off of crappy-flat spot rear wheel A and put in on hand built new rear wheel B that I was just gifted with, without a chain whip. Any ideas? ;-) Penny |
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pas wrote:
I need to figure out how to pull a casette off of crappy-flat spot rear wheel A and put in on hand built new rear wheel B that I was just gifted with, without a chain whip. Any ideas? Buy a chainwhip! (Or have Mr. Adventure make you one?) Bill "it's a spot rear wheel? (please ignore ) " S. |
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