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Well, the peace and quiet is over and so is the stitching time
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Well, the peace and quiet is over and so is the stitching time
Jangchub wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:11:34 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney)" wrote: Lucille wrote: "Cheryl Isaak" wrote I started wondering about the "lure of the open road" when I pulled up next to a Harley with drink holders, a GPS and bluetooth headsets... That's why the Pediatric ICU nurses I knew called them "Donorcycles." Foolish people who treat their bike as their living room and don't wear helmets. Safety helmets have been compulsory for motorcyclists (except for Sikhs) in the UK for several years. And most cyclists seem to wear a helmet of some sort. Two or three years ago, Texas lifted the helmet law and now we have bikers everywhere with no helmets on. However, you are required to wear a helmet under 17 on a bicycle. Does this make any sense? Isn't a motorbike more dangerous? Perhaps there was a shortage of organ donors in Texas? -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney http://tinyurl.com/3b54af (Remove dentures to reply) |
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lucretia borgia wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:11:32 -0500, Jangchub opined: Well, I am beginning to wonder what it would be like to live off the grid in a yurt because I am rapidly growing disgusted with "community" life. Really, just buy five hundred acres somewhere, put some goats, sheep and cattle on it, let them graze, make my own cheese and spin my own wool, have some alpaca's and sell the wool, live off the land, never eat a hunk of meat (which I don't eat now anyway) and check out. Geeze, what side of the bed did I get up on this morning LOL! OH, the 'Strawberry Candy' are blooming. The buds are not open yet, but I haven't gone out there into the oven yet. v Too simplistic. What do you do when the goats drop dead of disease, the steers/cows get foot and mouth or mad cow and the alpacas get really dirty with you when you try to sheer them ? I have this really hilarious picture in my mind right now ! A vet once said to me, only half-jokingly, "Sheep suffer from many diseases. The first symptom of most of them is death" -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney http://tinyurl.com/3b54af (Remove dentures to reply) |
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"Karen C in California" wrote in message ... My granny drilled it into me, too, and when I started moving in better circles, it definitely helped me fit in. And, although we never had lobster at home, I am acquainted with the notion of a lobster fork. Mom bought one for the simple reason that the fork end was good for spearing pickles in the jar and the scoop end was good for adding mayo to the same bowl of tuna salad, thus only one utensil to wash instead of two. I also know there's a difference between teacups and coffee cups ... an older relative was visiting from The Old Country and chided Mom for using the wrong shape (which was the only shape cup she had in her china pattern). A few weeks later, having educated us which is which, the old girl sent Mom half a dozen of the other shape, so that she could be proper. I don't know whether Mom was more amazed that the woman sprang for 6 cups or that her china pattern was still being made! -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Care to enlighten me about which shape is for which beverage? -- Carey in MA(showing her ignorance....) |
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On 8/6/08 10:11 AM, "Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney)"
wrote: Lucille wrote: "Cheryl Isaak" wrote I started wondering about the "lure of the open road" when I pulled up next to a Harley with drink holders, a GPS and bluetooth headsets... That's why the Pediatric ICU nurses I knew called them "Donorcycles." Foolish people who treat their bike as their living room and don't wear helmets. Safety helmets have been compulsory for motorcyclists (except for Sikhs) in the UK for several years. And most cyclists seem to wear a helmet of some sort. Here it's a state's rights issue - so varies across the country. I personally, am not particularly fond of scraping up the non-helmet wearer parts - or having them mess up our nice clean ambulance. Truly, truly, truly hate the stupidity of those who don't wear one - I think as part of the motorcycle education class, they should be shown some film of what happens without proper clothing - even at low speed - and what your head looks like after meeting the ground without a helmet - not to mention your face - which is less important. But the brain scramble - it's not pretty. Ellice |
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On 8/6/08 10:25 AM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote:
On 8/6/08 8:50 AM, in article , "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: "Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message ... On 8/4/08 8:37 PM, in article , "Jangchub" wrote: On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:27:01 -0400, Cheryl Isaak wrote: On 8/4/08 6:27 PM, in article , "Jangchub" wrote: On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:55:03 -0400, Cheryl Isaak wrote: I have stitching in the truck, but you can't stitch and drive... C You can't? Try harder! Hell, I saw something today that blew my mind - a passenger on a motorcycle reading a book..... C Oy! I've seen motorcycles with DVD screens in them. Austin is the city friendly to bicycles and motocycles. Ya, I have nothing else to worry about then some cyclist reading or watching a porn movie while driving. The goes back to my comment on how there is absolutely no down time any more. v I started wondering about the "lure of the open road" when I pulled up next to a Harley with drink holders, a GPS and bluetooth headsets... C That's why the Pediatric ICU nurses I knew called them "Donorcycles." Foolish people who treat their bike as their living room and don't wear helmets. Lucille Oh - they had helmets and leathers. The helmets just had little aerials. Nothing said unsafe to me; just the idea of a Harley as a distance cruiser made me laugh. Where have you been? The MSIL and her very nice husband do long trips. He's a Honda guy, with a Goldwing (similar big bike) and they go on long cruising adventures. Donorcycles would be the idiots on crotch rockets with no helmet, tank top, cutoffs and flipflops. Cheryl Exactly. And with the traffic around here, I love to see them swinging in and out at 90 mph on the Dulles toll road, which runs about 65-70, with a speed limit of 55. Worse on the extension, which has a speed limit of 65 so runs more like 75 and the idiots are all over the place at well over 90. Ellice |
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