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Date: 03 May 2007 14:41:26
From: Claire
Subject: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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http://crosscut.com/transportation/2636/
(If you look at the commentary, well, again I quote Bill S: "whoosh")
-Claire
no time for a .sig right now
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Date: 03 May 2007 14:48:35
From: Dane Buson
Subject: Re: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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Claire <cpetersky@yahoo.com > wrote:
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> http://crosscut.com/transportation/2636/
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> (If you look at the commentary, well, again I quote Bill S: "whoosh")
My comment is in there at about noon today:
Bemoaning the sad quality of trolling these days
Posted by: VelocipedeCowboy
--
Dane Buson - sigdane@unixbigots.org
kernel, n.:
A part of an operating system that preserves the medieval
traditions of sorcery and black art.
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Date: 03 May 2007 18:49:32
From: Roger Zoul
Subject: Re: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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Dane Buson wrote:
:: Claire <cpetersky@yahoo.com > wrote:
:::
::: http://crosscut.com/transportation/2636/
:::
::: (If you look at the commentary, well, again I quote Bill S:
::: "whoosh")
::
:: My comment is in there at about noon today:
::
:: Bemoaning the sad quality of trolling these days
:: Posted by: VelocipedeCowboy
Is that a joke or he is trying to declare open season on y'all?
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Date: 03 May 2007 16:23:10
From: Dane Buson
Subject: Re: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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Roger Zoul <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Dane Buson wrote:
> :: Claire <cpetersky@yahoo.com> wrote:
> :::
> ::: http://crosscut.com/transportation/2636/
> :::
> ::: (If you look at the commentary, well, again I quote Bill S:
> ::: "whoosh")
> ::
> :: My comment is in there at about noon today:
> ::
> :: Bemoaning the sad quality of trolling these days
> :: Posted by: VelocipedeCowboy
>
> Is that a joke or he is trying to declare open season on y'all?
I took it as a really poor attempt at satire. To do a good Swiftian
satire you need to be *much* more outrageous. As it is, it ends up
looking like a carbon copy of the Standard Anti-cyclist screed #8.
--
Dane Buson - sigdane@unixbigots.org
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
-- Nero Wolfe, "The League of Frightened Men"
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Date: 04 May 2007 09:02:43
From: dgk
Subject: Re: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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On Thu, 3 May 2007 16:23:10 -0700, Dane Buson <dane@unseen.edu > wrote:
>Roger Zoul <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Dane Buson wrote:
>> :: Claire <cpetersky@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> :::
>> ::: http://crosscut.com/transportation/2636/
>> :::
>> ::: (If you look at the commentary, well, again I quote Bill S:
>> ::: "whoosh")
>> ::
>> :: My comment is in there at about noon today:
>> ::
>> :: Bemoaning the sad quality of trolling these days
>> :: Posted by: VelocipedeCowboy
>>
>> Is that a joke or he is trying to declare open season on y'all?
>
>I took it as a really poor attempt at satire. To do a good Swiftian
>satire you need to be *much* more outrageous. As it is, it ends up
>looking like a carbon copy of the Standard Anti-cyclist screed #8.
True, but I'm thinking about getting some pink streamers. Hmm, no
streamers available at Nashbar or Performance. What are these people
thinking!
I'll check the bike section at Target, I'm almost sure that they'll
have some.
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Date: 04 May 2007 07:05:32
From: Dane Buson
Subject: Re: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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dgk <dgk@somewhere.com > wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2007 16:23:10 -0700, Dane Buson <dane@unseen.edu> wrote:
>>
>>I took it as a really poor attempt at satire. To do a good Swiftian
>>satire you need to be *much* more outrageous. As it is, it ends up
>>looking like a carbon copy of the Standard Anti-cyclist screed #8.
>
> True, but I'm thinking about getting some pink streamers. Hmm, no
> streamers available at Nashbar or Performance. What are these people
> thinking!
>
> I'll check the bike section at Target, I'm almost sure that they'll
> have some.
http://www.amazon.com/Dora-Bike-Horn-Streamer-Combo/dp/B000JKN9JK
My daughter has the streamers on her little purple bike. ;-)
--
Dane Buson - sigdane@unixbigots.org
"The gene pool could use a little chlorine."
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Date: 04 May 2007 14:46:49
From: dgk
Subject: Re: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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On Fri, 4 May 2007 07:05:32 -0700, Dane Buson <dane@unseen.edu > wrote:
>dgk <dgk@somewhere.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 May 2007 16:23:10 -0700, Dane Buson <dane@unseen.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>I took it as a really poor attempt at satire. To do a good Swiftian
>>>satire you need to be *much* more outrageous. As it is, it ends up
>>>looking like a carbon copy of the Standard Anti-cyclist screed #8.
>>
>> True, but I'm thinking about getting some pink streamers. Hmm, no
>> streamers available at Nashbar or Performance. What are these people
>> thinking!
>>
>> I'll check the bike section at Target, I'm almost sure that they'll
>> have some.
>
>http://www.amazon.com/Dora-Bike-Horn-Streamer-Combo/dp/B000JKN9JK
>
>My daughter has the streamers on her little purple bike. ;-)
I'm not sure that those say ME. OH LooK:
http://www.bikestreamers.com/
And they're made in the good old USA. Well, California anyway. And
only $16 but you get a pair!
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Date: 04 May 2007 09:32:38
From: Zoot Katz
Subject: Re: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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On Fri, 4 May 2007 07:05:32 -0700, Dane Buson <dane@unseen.edu >
wrote:
>dgk <dgk@somewhere.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 May 2007 16:23:10 -0700, Dane Buson <dane@unseen.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>I took it as a really poor attempt at satire. To do a good Swiftian
>>>satire you need to be *much* more outrageous. As it is, it ends up
>>>looking like a carbon copy of the Standard Anti-cyclist screed #8.
>>
>> True, but I'm thinking about getting some pink streamers. Hmm, no
>> streamers available at Nashbar or Performance. What are these people
>> thinking!
>>
>> I'll check the bike section at Target, I'm almost sure that they'll
>> have some.
>
>http://www.amazon.com/Dora-Bike-Horn-Streamer-Combo/dp/B000JKN9JK
>
>My daughter has the streamers on her little purple bike. ;-)
My friend Pol has streamers that look just like those. He thinks
they're a theft deterrence device.
He had just brought home a fairly nice junker that was the same type
of bike as his regular commuter.
The bike wasn't tuned and was kind of ratty looking. He washed the
bike and decided to was his other bike at the same time.
When he'd finished, he went into the house for a few minutes and when
he came out discovered someone had stolen the new junker sitting
right next to the better bike. Neither bike was locked.
He figures they stole that one because the better bike had streamers.
--
zk
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Date: 04 May 2007 09:17:16
From: Roger Zoul
Subject: Re: Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle
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dgk wrote:
:: True, but I'm thinking about getting some pink streamers. Hmm, no
:: streamers available at Nashbar or Performance. What are these people
:: thinking!
::
:: I'll check the bike section at Target, I'm almost sure that they'll
:: have some.
I saw a lady riding with them last week. Cool, I thought. Certainly makes
one easy to standout.
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