bjay said:"flyingdutch" wrote
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'The Puncture Fairy'
http://home.iprimus.com.au/adenhollander/pf_1.gif
I love it. I would call it the Puncture Demon though. Sort of conjures up
a more evil picture in peoples minds, and we all know that punctures are
evil!
Bjay
Hey! I put a copyright on "The Puncture Fairy" years ago! It's expired now, so feel free, help yourself. I don't have the sort of smutty mind which links 'penetration', euphemisms for 'homosexual' and whatever . . . else . . . oh, forget it. No, really.
I seem to remember Richard Bach (when I used to read his pre-hippy-dippy astral travel ramblings {apols. to relevant nickname holders 😉} ) coined the phrase "swim/walk/shower fairy" (NOT going there, back to those seedy boarding school memories . . . ) to account for where he got his ideas for writing from. I thought it appropriate to apply it to the especially illogical occurence of the rhyme and reason of having your rapid forward progress arrested by sharp objects letting all the air out of your tyres. They seem to come in threes, like wishes, in this case, bad ones.
It's good shorthand for explaining why a new tyre, correctly inflated, with a good tube and sound rim and rimtape just runs over a piece of glass and goes flat. Why THEN? and why right THERE? Although I reckon most Vredestien tyres are better at placating said fairy - maybe they perform a ceremony over each batch of tyres as they are on the loading dock or something - sprinkle them ritually with talcum powder, maybe?
M"velofolklorologist"H
