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Riding because you shot off your mouth...
At work on Wednesday the veterans' listserv popped a message about how we should put those little yellow ribbon magnets on our cars "to show we care". I opined that instead of slapping a chinese-made magnet on a Monster Truck (ok, i don't have a monster truck, but...) i would rather show my support by pedalling my bike to work, as i have 24/7/365 since 9-11, rain shine or snow... You'da thought i had tried to banish them to ... someplace w/o NASCAR from the wailing. It's possible that my referrence to commuting in from Hooterville was misunderstood... Of course, today it rained... and i absolutely felt compelled to put my ripply little butt where my mouth ... er, had um...... been talking. about. It was a fine ride, all the better to make a point of it. One guy was mad that i rode in -- cost him $5. What a dope! Neener at them all. ..max (i followed with a statistical breakdown -- about 15 or so barrels saved, ~350 gallons not used). The estimate is systematically low by about 25% to 40%, based on side trips never taken in the car, but those are harder to quantify, so i left them out. -- the part of was played by maxwell monningh 8-p |
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Max wrote:
At work on Wednesday the veterans' listserv popped a message about how we should put those little yellow ribbon magnets on our cars "to show we care". SNIP -- the part of was played by maxwell monningh 8-p Yeah. What's up with putting one of those silly things on the shiny new family bus (or anything, for that matter)? I asked a Marine who had been in Eye-Rack if he and his buds got a rush from the yellow loops people were sticking on their gas burners. He laughed. |
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Max wrote in message ...
At work on Wednesday the veterans' listserv popped a message about how we should put those little yellow ribbon magnets on our cars "to show we care". I opined that instead of slapping a chinese-made magnet on a Monster Truck (ok, i don't have a monster truck, but...) i would rather show my support by pedalling my bike to work, as i have 24/7/365 since 9-11, rain shine or snow... Not that it matters, but all the yellow magnets I have seen in stores were made in the USA. (Yeah, I checked because I thought of the irony too) Maybe a bike flag that read "I'm not using terrorist oil" would sell? |
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