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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
I recall last year seeing a big troupe of one-wheelers in the parade. Any chance of that this year? -- dudewithasock 'My Unicycling Journal' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44950) officially ended. spazdude222 wrote: Doing good doesn't make you good any more than doing a girl makes you a girl. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dudewithasock's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10900 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
dudewithasock;1139178 wrote: I recall last year seeing a big troupe of one-wheelers in the parade. Any chance of that this year? I guess not. But with the upcoming helium shortage, maybe we'll e seeing more unis and fewer balloons! harper;1139237 wrote: When I run short on helium-3 or helium-4 I just make a batch with the left over deuterium we have laying around. I can make about 10,000 atoms per second. It takes 6 trillion years to make a gram but I've got nothing but time. We had a grad student about ten years ago that I found in the shower washing an unrestrained A size gas cylinder. Those are the ones that are about shoulder high and would turn into a little rocket if they fell over and broke their valve off. They would easily zip through the cinder block walls of the bathroom. This made me a little nervous. I asked him what the hell he was doing that for. He said that his adviser had told him to wash all of the tritium off the surface. This made me a little more nervous. I asked him what made him think that tritium was on the surface of the bottle. He said it was a cylinder of helium-3 from a bomb lab at Los Alamos. Oh, I thought, that's OK then. I told him he was probably holding a million dollars worth of helium-3 and he seemed startled. Later, when I spoke (harshly) with his adviser about the incident, I found out that it was only half a million dollars worth of helium-3 so there was nothing to worry about. It has probably appreciated substantially by now. -- BillyTheMountain All the lower animals are Atheist, which proves reason actually has nothing to do with Atheism.-Raphael Rocks are atheists, air is an atheist.-DisgruntledDave "you had no faith to lose to begin with" Bob Dylan sang these words to my dog ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BillyTheMountain's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5357 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
I'm assuming you mean the Macy's parade in New York. Too bad 'cause Panther Pride was in the Macy's parade in Seattle! -- blueharmony _________ - Kenny -unicycle for yourself- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blueharmony's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16696 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
I was in the Macy's parade... In Seattle! -- peleschramm http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=peleproductions unicycle for atheism and Spencer. www.bedfordunicycles.ca Inventor of the Slapflip. BillyTheMountain for President 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peleschramm's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14077 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
RTUC got a huge amount of news coverage from America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit. 'Channel 4 video, RTUC is featured in part 2 at about 13 minutes ' (http://www.clickondetroit.com/statio...42/detail.html) 'Thankful for parade traditions - Detroit News, November 28, 2008' (http://tinyurl.com/5aheru) 'Thanksgiving parade offers a fun distraction - Detroit Free Press, November 28, 2008 ' (http://www.freep.com/article/20081128/NEWS05/811280358) We also made it into 8 of the 62 photos in the 'Detroit Free Press Parade Photo Gallery' (http://tinyurl.com/6jwx2c) Anybody see us on TV? Anybody else parade on Thanksgiving? -- KathySusanka The rabbit died! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KathySusanka's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4309 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
Wow, great coverage for RTUC! I was amazed that *all* the Free Press pictures containing the unicyclists were better than the single one on the Detroit News site. Some were really, really nice ones. The riding looks like it hasn't change in the 25 Thanksgivings since I've moved away though. Don't you guys wave, or entertain the crowd much? It's cool to see all those balloons in the Detroit parade. I always thought they didn't work in most parades due to overhead wires. I wonder if some wires have been move underground or other changes to infrastructure had to happen before the balloons could go down Woodward Ave. Then, in one of the Freep pictures it shows the Elmo balloon approaching an overpass. What happens there? Maybe that was the end of the parade? I'll always kick myself for not making more of an effort to get into the Macy's Parade when I lived in the NY area. We would have had to make a video of our group doing a different parade, which was difficult due to the very few parades we actually got a group together to ride in. Hey Pele, do the folks in Seattle also call it the "Macy's Day Parade?" That's a common name people use (though not Macy's) in NY... -- johnfoss John Foss Email: "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" -- www.unicycling.com ----------------------------------------------- "False facts are frequently formed from figures fabricated from fear fired fiction." -- Harper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johnfoss's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/832 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
There are no wires along the parade route. They must have moved them at some time. The huge balloons are pulled down toward the ground by their handlers to go under the People Mover. It looks like it's not going to work but it does. The Parade Committee initially wanted us to audition or send a tape but we just invited them to come to another parade. Poof - we were invited to "accept the privilege" after being excluded for 7 or 8 years. The weather was beautiful and the parade was long. -- KathySusanka The rabbit died! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KathySusanka's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4309 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
KathySusanka;1142598 wrote: The weather was beautiful and the parade was long. It also looked rather slow, did the pace make it tougher for the giraffe riders to stay in the saddle? -- idiorythmic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ idiorythmic's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12653 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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idiorythmic;1142622 wrote: It also looked rather slow, did the pace make it tougher for the giraffe riders to stay in the saddle? Not to answer for Kathy, but parades are always slow. The intended pace is walking speed, because there are lots of walkers/marchers in any parade. But in reality there are stops and starts, and if you aren't careful you'll find a big gap in front of your group. At least that's what happens with unicyclists, as we often turn around and ride the opposite way, or go in circles within our space to keep rolling. Some parades may have, for various reasons, long stops. During those times is when you find out if your group is really entertaining or not, as you're in front of the same people for a while... -- johnfoss John Foss Email: "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" -- www.unicycling.com ----------------------------------------------- "False facts are frequently formed from figures fabricated from fear fired fiction." -- Harper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johnfoss's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/832 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Any unicyclists in the Macy's parade this year?
How do you mount you giraffes if you fall during a parade? I was on a 5-footer in Seattle and had to climb a "No Parking" sign to get back on after hitting a grate. I can't imagine doing that on the higher ones! -- blueharmony _________ - Kenny -unicycle for yourself- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blueharmony's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16696 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74518 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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