For the safety of others, please keep off the highways

[C.K. Dexter Hav]

[email protected] (Paul Hamilton) wrote in message
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> >Could it be this activity is purposely being placed into an elitist status with no restrictions
> >and licensing in an effort to lure people into this mental mode?
>
> I am utterly fascinated by the idea of an activity with an "elitist status" that, nevertheless,
> has no restrictions or licencing. Being lured into a "mental mode" sounds amusing and harmless,
> although the writer seems to have entirely too much experience with unusual "mental modes."
>
> Paul

Average road bike: $500 Average SUV: $25,000

Wonder how her definition of "elite" goes?

 

[Pat]

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>
> > I have to tell you that the use of the word "hobo" seems to be confined to the elderly in Texas.
>
> You should work in a soup kitchen or men's shelter sometime. Most
homeless
> are not hobos but I've run across a few. Increased security at rail yards because of the recent
> interest in terrorism has made life for hobos increasingly difficult.
>
> RFM

I'm not saying that "hobos" don't exist, but it seems to me that younger people call them "homeless"
men instead of using the word "hobo." Wasn't "hobo" a word for a rootless man who would work off and
on while traveling around by rail? Other words I hear the elderly use are "doper" for somebody
smoking marijuana, or "druggie" for someone using illegal drugs. My M-I-L won't take any strong pain
killers for her degenerative disc disease because she "doesn't want my friends to know I'm a
druggie!" So, she suffers in pain instead.

Pat in TX

 

[Threeleggeddog]

Has anyone responded to this article in the same publication?

 

[Sorni]

"ThreeLeggedDog" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone responded to this article in the same publication?

What article? What publication?!?

Fan of Attribution Bill

 

[James Hodson]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:02:26 -0500, "Pat" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm not saying that "hobos" don't exist, but it seems to me that younger people call them
>"homeless" men instead of using the word "hobo." Wasn't "hobo" a word for a rootless man who would
>work off and on while traveling around by rail? Other words I hear the elderly use are "doper" for
>somebody smoking marijuana, or "druggie" for someone using illegal drugs. My M-I-L won't take any
>strong pain killers for her degenerative disc disease because she "doesn't want my friends to know
>I'm a druggie!" So, she suffers in pain instead.
>

I feel sorry for your M-I-L, Pat. Having said that, I tend to avoid pain killers but for a different
reason. I'd probably end up taking them for the rest of my life if I started now.

Quite a few years ago, in my nice, quiet and reasonably genteel town, without thinking I asked a
middle aged lady where I could buy some drugs. Needless to say, she was a little shocked. I actually
meant to ask her where was the nearest pharmacy as I needed to get my latest dose of anti-convulsant
medication. My doctor had just given me a prescription.

Note to self: "Engage brain before opening mouth." I've been telling myself that for years

From this side of the pond I'd always thought of a hobo as a homeless, free-spitited person who
travels around in boxcars.

James

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[Brent Hugh]

[email protected] (Brent Hugh) wrote in message
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> Some poor motorist who had to wait 5 seconds has posted her anti-bike diatribe for your amusement.
>
> Here is the link to the full article; below that is an excerpt:
>
> http://illinoisleader.com/columnists/columnistsview.asp?c=6972

Apparently replies to the original article have been pouring in from all over the world. They have
published a selection of them at

http://www.illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=7123
http://illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=7141

Quite amusing reading . . .

--Brent bhugh [at] mwsc.edu

 

[Tom Keats]

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Brent Hugh) writes:
> [email protected] (Brent Hugh) wrote in message
> news:<[email protected]>...
>> Some poor motorist who had to wait 5 seconds has posted her anti-bike diatribe for your
>> amusement.
>>
>> Here is the link to the full article; below that is an excerpt:
>>
>> http://illinoisleader.com/columnists/columnistsview.asp?c=6972
>
> Apparently replies to the original article have been pouring in from all over the world. They have
> published a selection of them at
>
>
> http://www.illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=7123
> http://illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=7141
>
> Quite amusing reading . . .

It is, at that.

I especially liked the Jim Deere/Pana one. I think Guy Chapman (Hi, Guy!) would get a kick out of
it, too. "Beware of Positive Journalism." Heh!

cheers, Tom

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