psychic? synchronicity? coincidence?

"Kristofer Dale" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Ran across this bit, in a thread discussing riding without a helmet:

(quote)

From: Joel M. Eichen ([email hidden])
Subject: Re: Mercury filling restriction laws and repealing helmet
laws ~ a no brainer!
Newsgroups: sci.med.dentistry
Date: 2003-05-28 07:03:57 PST

Clever biking sig file:

********

(hope this works)

STOLEN from elsewhere!

**********************

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

(unquote)

Oddly enough, although I seriously doubt the "good doctor" knew this,
I don't wear a helmet when I bicycle. I beg to differ with him on the
origin of my tagline, it isn't stolen, but I did modify an existing
"ascii" graphic to suit my own taste. If that is stealing, then
perhaps we should return a good deal of English to its rightful
owners... ;^]

That's a bicycle?! I thought you were a paraplegic!

--Rich

Rich Shewmaker said:

That's a bicycle?! I thought you were a paraplegic!

Which, I might add, indicates your poor cognitive and associative
skills, and decided lack of imagination... ;^]

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

p.s. Learn and live, http://www.vitaletherapeutics.org

"Kristofer D. Dale" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Rich Shewmaker said:

That's a bicycle?! I thought you were a paraplegic!

Which, I might add, indicates your poor cognitive and associative
skills, and decided lack of imagination... ;^]

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

If you imagine it going this way --->, it is clearly a wheelchair.

;o) Rich

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"Kristofer D. Dale" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Rich Shewmaker said:

That's a bicycle?! I thought you were a paraplegic!

Which, I might add, indicates your poor cognitive and associative
skills, and decided lack of imagination... ;^]

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

Its funny, I always saw it as a wheelchair, too. About a week ago, I looked at
it going the other way ( <----- ) and realized that it was intended as a
bicycle. How one sees it might has something to do with whether a person is
left or right handed or left or right brained.

The "graphic" could actually pass for either.

(Ilsa9) said:

Quoted message said:

"Kristofer D. Dale" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Rich Shewmaker <[email hidden]> wrote:

> That's a bicycle?! I thought you were a paraplegic!

Which, I might add, indicates your poor cognitive and associative
skills, and decided lack of imagination... ;^]

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

Its funny, I always saw it as a wheelchair, too. About a week ago, I looked at
it going the other way ( <----- ) and realized that it was intended as a
bicycle. How one sees it might has something to do with whether a person is
left or right handed or left or right brained.

The "graphic" could actually pass for either.

Actually it is going to the right (----->😉
Copy and paste the ascii art into notepad.
For some reason on usenet it comes out spaced wrong.

Rich Shewmaker said:

If you imagine it going this way --->, it is clearly a wheelchair.

Okay, and if I imagine you "going both ways", it is clearly just another
subjective response to external stimulus... ;^]

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

p.s. Learn and live, http://www.vitaletherapeutics.org

Ilsa9 said:

The "graphic" could actually pass for either.

The graphic IS intended to orient toward the right --->

Unless wheelchairs are designed quite differently elsewhere, in the
U.S., they have a large set of wheels near the occupants center of
gravity, with small stabilizing wheels that swivel for manueverability.
How this shape translates into the ASCII cylist graphic I adopted from
elsewhere, after immediately recognizing it as same, is somewhat
mystifying, but there you have it... ;^]

--
head, shoulders -> _o Kristofer Dale,
torso, arms -> _ \<,_ ragged individualist,
wheels, legs -> _____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...
(on road bed)

p.s. Learn and live, http://www.vitaletherapeutics.org

WB said:

Actually it is going to the right (----->😉
Copy and paste the ascii art into notepad.
For some reason on usenet it comes out spaced wrong.

Or, you could set your display to a "monospaced" font such as Courier.
Usenet has no control over the default settings of your interface...

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

p.s. Learn and live, http://www.vitaletherapeutics.org

Quoted message said:

Rich Shewmaker said:

If you imagine it going this way --->, it is clearly a wheelchair.

Okay, and if I imagine you "going both ways", it is clearly just another
subjective response to external stimulus... ;^]

--
_o Kristofer Dale,

No, Kris, its just means you need to get a hold of yourself about a half hour
prior to reading MHA. We didn't need this particular insight into your sexual
musings.

Ilsa9 (Importunate Libertine said:

No, Kris, its just means you need to get a hold of yourself about a half hour
prior to reading MHA. We didn't need this particular insight into your sexual
musings.

I made no mention of sexuality in my post, ILSA. I find it rather "rich"
that you rise to the occasion. Got something you need to talk about?

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

p.s. Learn and live, http://www.vitaletherapeutics.org

Quoted message said:

Ilsa9 (Importunate Libertine said:

No, Kris, its just means you need to get a hold of yourself about a half

hour

Quoted message said:

prior to reading MHA. We didn't need this particular insight into your

sexual

Quoted message said:

musings.

I made no mention of sexuality in my post, ILSA. I find it rather "rich"
that you rise to the occasion. Got something you need to talk about?

Yes, you did. You made a childish, yet telling, comment about Rich "going both
ways" and I made a scathing comment in response.

Quoted message said:

--
_o Kristofer Dale,

Don't let your Freudian slip get caught in the spokes of your wheelchair, uh,
bicycle.

Ilsa9 (Importunate Libertine said:

Yes, you did. You made a childish, yet telling, comment about Rich "going both
ways" and I made a scathing comment in response.

I see. So, when did these labile associations first creep into your
daily discourse? I find it rather interesting, if not amusing, that a
comment I made about "reading" my sig from right to left, as well as
left to right, immediately spawned such a fecund response from your
fertile imagination!

Quoted message said:

Don't let your Freudian slip get caught in the spokes of your wheelchair, uh,
bicycle.

Methinks thou protest too much. Perhaps a mechanically oscillating
prosthetic digit of sufficient length and girth as to sufficiently
fulfill your aching needs might be of some assistance. But, don't take
my word for it, I'm not a doctor... ;^]

--
_o Kristofer Dale,
_ \<,_ ragged individualist,
_____( )/ ( )_____ statistic at large...

p.s. Learn and live, http://www.vitaletherapeutics.org