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  1. For no apparent reason other than I don't have to go to work tomorrow,
    so my mind is free to wander 🙂

    Guy, do you and Mr Ed have a history over on arbr. I mean apart from
    your apparent openmindedness (<dangerous assumption> if some one
    provided sensible evidence[1] that helmets work, you would be accept it
    wouldn't you?) with a leaning ot live and let live and his accertations
    that you are wrong becuase he is right (and RIGHT!), you both agree that
    recumbents are 'better' then those uprong things, so it seems a shame
    that he is so vitriolic

    Dave, [legs, etc] why do you still have a link in your sig to your
    currently pensioned off web site? Why won't you let it out to play
    again? it was a major insperation when I was thinking of going over to
    the darkside, it seems a shame to let it languish.

    Oh, and did I mention, a helmet saved my life the other day. Well it
    might have saved it, possibly. Maybe. You see I wasn#t wearing it, and
    as I approached the bend in the road. The down hill, advers camber bend
    in the road. That was the scene of my helmet testing previoulsy. And it
    was a mizzelly evening, not unlike the last time. I consiously thought,
    'I'm going a bit fast here, I shopuld slow down, I am riding my bike ba
    t'at and I don't want a metting of the road and my head. So I slowed
    down, and proceeded with caution. So you see, my helmet saved my life by
    not being on my head. QED.
    --
    ..paul

    If at first you don't succeed...
    Skydiving is probably not the sport for you.

  2. On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:51:04 +0000 (UTC), paul
    <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    <[email hidden]>:

    Quoted message said:

    Guy, do you and Mr Ed have a history over on arbr.

    Only in as much as it was me who coined the name Mr. Ed :-)

    Quoted message said:

    I mean apart from
    your apparent openmindedness (<dangerous assumption> if some one
    provided sensible evidence[1] that helmets work, you would be accept it
    wouldn't you?)

    Yes. I started as being strongly pro helmet, and was persuaded
    otherwise by the evidence, so it is equally possible that I could be
    persuaded the other way if the evidence indicated it.

    Quoted message said:

    with a leaning ot live and let live and his accertations
    that you are wrong becuase he is right (and RIGHT!), you both agree that
    recumbents are 'better' then those uprong things, so it seems a shame
    that he is so vitriolic

    Ah, well, Mr. Ed is inclined to turn every thread to politics; his
    response to evidence he doesn't like is, as you say, to say he is
    "right" and the evidence wrong.

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

  3. paul said:

    Dave, [legs, etc] why do you still have a link in your sig to your
    currently pensioned off web site? Why won't you let it out to play
    again? it was a major insperation when I was thinking of going over to
    the darkside, it seems a shame to let it languish.

    Because I am a bone-idle layabout and have not, for a variety reasons, been
    able to dredge up the enthusiasm to update it in agesandagesandages, and I'm
    too idle to change my .sig as well.

    Or something.

    --

    Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
    ===========================================================
    Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter
    http://www.bhpc.org.uk/
    ===========================================================

  4. In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:
    paul said:

    Dave, [legs, etc] why do you still have a link in your sig to your
    currently pensioned off web site? Why won't you let it out to play
    again? it was a major insperation when I was thinking of going over to
    the darkside, it seems a shame to let it languish.

    Because I am a bone-idle layabout and have not, for a variety reasons, been
    able to dredge up the enthusiasm to update it in agesandagesandages, and I'm
    too idle to change my .sig as well.

    Or something.


    Ah, a man after my own heart. I have a stack of bit's and pieces in my
    garage that belong to various 'job's in progress'
    --
    ..paul

    If at first you don't succeed...
    Skydiving is probably not the sport for you.

  5. paul said:

    In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:
    paul said:

    Dave, [legs, etc] why do you still have a link in your sig to your
    currently pensioned off web site? Why won't you let it out to play
    again? it was a major insperation when I was thinking of going over to
    the darkside, it seems a shame to let it languish.

    Because I am a bone-idle layabout and have not, for a variety reasons, been
    able to dredge up the enthusiasm to update it in agesandagesandages, and I'm
    too idle to change my .sig as well.

    Or something.

    Ah, a man after my own heart. I have a stack of bit's and pieces in my
    garage that belong to various 'job's in progress'

    Sounds like you both need to get hold of a goodly amount of round tuits :-)

    --

    Velvet

  6. In article <[email hidden]>,
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    Ah, a man after my own heart. I have a stack of bit's and pieces in my
    garage that belong to various 'job's in progress'

    Sounds like you both need to get hold of a goodly amount of round tuits :-)


    I've a wife who provides pleny of those, just not for things like
    building the new shed/workshop, finshing the canoe trailer, fixing the
    V-brakes from the grasshopper to the cannondale. You know, the important
    little jobs. Mind you, I've resisted the tuits for fixing the new
    bathroom sink, or the new towel rail, though I can feel a head of steam
    building in that direction 🙁
    --
    ..paul

    If at first you don't succeed...
    Skydiving is probably not the sport for you.

  7. On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:12:51 GMT, Velvet <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    Sounds like you both need to get hold of a goodly amount of round tuits :-)

    <URL: http://www.passco.com/tuit.htm>

    James

  8. Velvet said:

    Sounds like you both need to get hold of a goodly amount of round
    tuits :-)

    I had loads of these, but threw 'em out when I did a major Shed clearout a
    couple of months ago. I /knew/ I'd find a use for them if I threw them
    out...

    Bah!

    --

    Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
    ===========================================================
    Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter
    http://www.bhpc.org.uk/
    ===========================================================

  9. Dave Larrington said:
    Quoted message said:

    Sounds like you both need to get hold of a goodly amount of round
    tuits :-)

    Quoted message said:

    I had loads of these, but threw 'em out when I did a major Shed
    clearout a couple of months ago. I /knew/ I'd find a use for them if
    I threw them out...

    Impostor! A _shed_ clearout, maybe, but a Shed clearout? I think not. No
    Sheddi would clear out the Shed!

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington
    University

  10. On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:44:09 +0100, "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    I had loads of these, but threw 'em out when I did a major Shed clearout a
    couple of months ago. I /knew/ I'd find a use for them if I threw them
    out...

    The first round tuit I saw was in my mother's VAT office's staff
    notice board. The year: 1974.

    James

  11. Dave Larrington said:


    I had loads of these, but threw 'em out when I did a major Shed clearout a
    couple of months ago. I /knew/ I'd find a use for them if I threw them
    out...

    Can't happen. As soon as you gather all your round tuits up and throw
    them out you've got a round tuit.

    Tony

  12. Tony Raven said:
    Dave Larrington said:

    I had loads of these, but threw 'em out when I did a major Shed
    clearout a
    couple of months ago. I /knew/ I'd find a use for them if I threw them
    out...


    Can't happen. As soon as you gather all your round tuits up and throw
    them out you've got a round tuit.

    I can't see how anyone could ever have a surplus, myself.

    Can you get them on ebay?

    A

  13. Ambrose Nankivell said:
    Tony Raven said:
    Dave Larrington said:

    I had loads of these, but threw 'em out when I did a major Shed
    clearout a
    couple of months ago. I /knew/ I'd find a use for them if I threw them
    out...


    Can't happen. As soon as you gather all your round tuits up and throw
    them out you've got a round tuit.

    I can't see how anyone could ever have a surplus, myself.

    Can you get them on ebay?

    Of course, they come in the category.

    Home > All Categories > Everything Else > Metaphysical

    Only cost £0.49 at the moment.

    A

  14. Ambrose Nankivell said:


    I can't see how anyone could ever have a surplus, myself.

    Can you get them on ebay?

    Very few people get a round tuit on ebay

    Tony

  15. Just zis Guy said:
    Dave Larrington said:
    Quoted message said:

    Sounds like you both need to get hold of a goodly amount of round
    tuits :-)

    Quoted message said:

    I had loads of these, but threw 'em out when I did a major Shed
    clearout a couple of months ago. I /knew/ I'd find a use for them if
    I threw them out...

    Impostor! A _shed_ clearout, maybe, but a Shed clearout? I think
    not. No Sheddi would clear out the Shed!

    Ah, but a Cyclist might, as with all the new books recently acquired, it was
    fast becoming infeasible to store both the books AND the Trice in the living
    room...

    --

    Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
    ===========================================================
    Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter
    http://www.bhpc.org.uk/
    ===========================================================

  16. On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:02:42 +0100, "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]>

    wrote in message : said:
    Quoted message said:

    Impostor! A _shed_ clearout, maybe, but a Shed clearout? I think
    not. No Sheddi would clear out the Shed!

    Quoted message said:

    Ah, but a Cyclist might, as with all the new books recently acquired, it was
    fast becoming infeasible to store both the books AND the Trice in the living
    room...

    Shame about the books, then.

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

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