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  1. Steven Bornfeld said:
    Tom Kunich said:

    Is that a "twins" joke?

    I think I'm pretty smart too. I haven't broken my leg, but I have
    fractured my mandible and a vertebra.
    Maybe I'm not so smart...

    Steve

    Quoted message said:

    That would depend on how you broke them.

    a. Not smart: Made bet while drunk that you could jump from 3rd story
    window and hang onto tree branch with teeth. Jumped from window, branch
    hit you in the face, breaking mandible, broke vertebra hitting second
    branch on way down.

    b. Smart: Were caught in head-hold trap by psychotic hunter, broke own
    mandible to free head and self from trap. Vertebra fractured while
    fighting in epic death struggle with psychotic hunter for Bowie knife.
    Fight ended when you were able to build primitive cannon out of coal, large
    diamonds, saltpeter, flint, vines, and a piece of bamboo-like plant.
    However, you spare the psychotic hunter's life and earn the respect of the
    Metrons, thereby saving your ship and crew.

    Hope this helps.

    --
    Bill Asher

  2. William Asher said:
    Quoted message said:

    That would depend on how you broke them.

    a. Not smart: Made bet while drunk that you could jump from 3rd story
    window and hang onto tree branch with teeth. Jumped from window, branch
    hit you in the face, breaking mandible, broke vertebra hitting second
    branch on way down.

    b. Smart: Were caught in head-hold trap by psychotic hunter, broke own
    mandible to free head and self from trap. Vertebra fractured while
    fighting in epic death struggle with psychotic hunter for Bowie knife.
    Fight ended when you were able to build primitive cannon out of coal, large
    diamonds, saltpeter, flint, vines, and a piece of bamboo-like plant.
    However, you spare the psychotic hunter's life and earn the respect of the
    Metrons, thereby saving your ship and crew.

    Hope this helps.

    It does. And Metron women are hot!!

    Steve

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  3. Jenko said:


    Are you a newbie? Of course he knows.
    http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/f961cb72a75c8e6a

    i'm the perpetual newbie. thanks for the link. i do try to read all of
    benjo's posts, but i can't promise to remember, sorry. i have problems
    remembering who was 2nd or 3rd in the tour de france, even for the years
    i watched it on t.v. from start to finish (i'm pretty sure the only
    reason i can remember who won is because it's always been lance). if you
    want to scare your children to keep them from sniffing solvents and
    glue, you're free to use me and my terrible memory as an example.

    heather

  4. Robert Chung said:

    Could've been worse. It could've been your mom you buried in the backyard.

    lol, i hope my mom never reads rbr!

    Quoted message said:

    Apropos nothing, Harriet Miers has a B.S. in math.

    what kind of school offers a b.s. in math?? ;-)

    hh

  5. In article <[email hidden]>, "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:
    B. Lafferty said:

    "Howard Kveck" <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:


    She must have a PhD in ass-kissing, simce she's on record as saying
    GWB is the most brilliant man she's ever known. Look where it got


    her...

    Quoted message said:


    But that could be a true statement. Perhaps she doesn't get out much.

    http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/archive/ls_topten_archive2005/ls
    _topten_archive_20051003.shtml

    http://mywebpages.comcast.net/duncanblack/crony.jpg

    --
    tanx,
    Howard

    Butter is love.

    remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

  6. "Tom Kunich" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    "benjo maso" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    In the Tour of 1957 Nicolas Barone rode five stages in a row without
    sitting on his saddle. Not for charity, but because he suffered from
    two boils. It's true that he ended five times last, so it's probably
    not the best way to break a hour record.

    I'm actually AMAZED that he could do 43 kilometers in an hour without
    sitting. It just doesn't make sense. I wonder if that was a 10 or 15
    minute run and was his average speed.


    Tom, he's using a 68x11 gear with 205mm cranks.
    With 700c wheels at 45khp, this comes out to a cadence of 58 rpm. Peak
    pedal force is approx 55 lb.

    Phil H

  7. Jay S. Hill said:
    h squared said:

    my mother told me
    that the first time she spanked me with a kitchen spoon when i was 2 or
    3, instead of deciding to be "good", i came back and took the spoon and
    buried it in the back yard.


    I think you're presidential material.


    This'll be other places soon, but I refuse to give the site that has
    it now the hits so here it is, as is. (whackjob right site)
    Here's some more of what it takes:

    "FBI FREEH UNLOADS ON CLINTON: 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'"

    Thu Oct 06 2005

    "Louis Freeh Speaks for the First Time About his Terrible Relationship
    with the President"

    "Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says publicly for the first time that
    his relationship with President Bill Clinton - the man who appointed
    him - was a terrible one because Clinton's scandals made him a
    constant
    target of FBI investigations.

    Freeh discloses this and many other details of his dealings with the
    Clinton White House in a new bombshell book: 'My FBI : Bringing Down
    the
    Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror' --
    set for release next week.

    Freeh has taped an interview with Mike Wallace and CBSNEWS '60 MINUTES'

    to be broadcast Sunday, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

    In the book, "My FBI," he writes, "The problem was with Bill
    Clinton -- the scandals and the rumored scandals, the incubating ones
    and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president
    was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets
    were
    full of skeletons just waiting to burst out."

    The director sought to distance himself from Clinton because of
    Whitewater, refusing a White House pass that would have enabled him to
    enter the building without signing in. ******

    This irked Clinton.

    "I wanted all my visits to be official," says Freeh. "When I sent
    the
    pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the
    president," he tells Wallace.

    Returning the pass was only the start of the rift.

    Later, relations got so bad that President Clinton reportedly began
    referring to Freeh as "that F...ing Freeh."

    Says Freeh, "I don't know how they referred to me and I really
    didn't
    care," he says. "My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal

    investigations. He, unfortunately for the country and unfortunately
    for
    him, happened to be the subject of that investigation," Freeh says.

    In another revelation, Freeh says the former president let down the
    American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror

    attack in Saudi Arabia.

    After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing
    that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to
    personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question

    bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody - the only way the bureau

    could secure the interviews, according to Freeh.

    Freeh writes in the book, "Bill Clinton raised the subject only to
    tell
    the crown prince that he understood the Saudis' reluctance to
    cooperate
    and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton
    Presidential Library." Says Freeh, "That's a fact that I am
    reporting." ******

    The most unsavory of those investigations was the one concerning
    Clinton
    and Lewinsky. The White House intern had kept a semen-stained dress as
    proof of her relationship and a Clinton blood sample was needed to
    match
    the DNA on the dress.

    "Well, it was like a bad movie and it was ridiculous that...Ken Starr

    and myself, the director of the FBI, find ourselves in that ridiculous
    position," he tells Wallace.

    "But we did it...very carefully, very confidentially," recalls
    Freeh.

    As he explains the plan in the book, Clinton was at a scheduled dinner
    and excused himself to go to the bathroom. Instead of the restroom, he
    entered another room where FBI medical technicians were waiting to take

    a blood sample.

    Freeh says he was determined to stay on as FBI director until President

    Clinton left office so that Clinton could not appoint his successor.

    "I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director
    because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director," he

    tells Wallace. "[So] I was going to stay there and make sure he
    couldn
    't replace me," Freeh tells Wallace."

    Bill C

  8. "h squared" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Jenko said:


    Are you a newbie? Of course he knows.
    http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/f961cb72a75c8e6a

    i'm the perpetual newbie. thanks for the link. i do try to read all of
    benjo's posts, but i can't promise to remember, sorry. i have problems
    remembering who was 2nd or 3rd in the tour de france, even for the years i
    watched it on t.v. from start to finish (i'm pretty sure the only reason i
    can remember who won is because it's always been lance). if you want to
    scare your children to keep them from sniffing solvents and glue, you're
    free to use me and my terrible memory as an example.

    There is no reason why you should remember such tiny footnotes in the
    history of bicycle racing and if Jenko would have given the link, of course
    I would have answered your question with pleasure.

    Benjo

  9. h squared said:


    what kind of school offers a b.s. in math?? ;-)

    Waterloo in canada offer a B.Math.

  10. Howard Kveck said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    > She must have a PhD in ass-kissing, simce she's on record as saying
    > GWB is the most brilliant man she's ever known. Look where it got


    her...

    Quoted message said:


    But that could be a true statement. Perhaps she doesn't get out much.


    http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/archive/ls_topten_archive2005/ls_topten_archive_20051003.shtml

    Quoted message said:


    http://mywebpages.comcast.net/duncanblack/crony.jpg

    http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20051017&s=hacks101705&c=1

  11. Ewoud Dronkert said:

    this event. Most importantly, Van Beek will not use a saddle! (or seat
    post, for that matter). That's right, he's planning on doing the whole

    He obviously knows the effect that a saddle can have on your love life...

  12. Robert Chung said:
    h squared said:

    my mother told me
    that the first time she spanked me with a kitchen spoon when i was 2 or
    3, instead of deciding to be "good", i came back and took the spoon and
    buried it in the back yard.

    Could've been worse. It could've been your mom you buried in the backyard.

    Apropos nothing, Harriet Miers has a B.S. in math.


    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001221205

  13. In article <[email hidden]>, "Robert Chung" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:
    Howard Kveck said:
    Quoted message said:

    >> She must have a PhD in ass-kissing, simce she's on record as saying
    >> GWB is the most brilliant man she's ever known. Look where it got
    her...
    >
    > But that could be a true statement. Perhaps she doesn't get out much.


    http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/archive/ls_topten_archive2005/ls
    _topten_archive_20051003.shtml

    Quoted message said:


    http://mywebpages.comcast.net/duncanblack/crony.jpg

    http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20051017&s=hacks101705&c=1

    The best Meirs comment I've seen comes via Tbogg:

    "her strong affinity for eyeliner which leads me to believe that I saw her at
    a Cure concert once..."

    --
    tanx,
    Howard

    Butter is love.

    remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

  14. h squared said:
    Jenko said:


    Are you a newbie? Of course he knows.
    http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/f961cb72a75c8e6a

    i'm the perpetual newbie. thanks for the link. i do try to read all of
    benjo's posts, but i can't promise to remember, sorry. i have problems
    remembering who was 2nd or 3rd in the tour de france, even for the years
    i watched it on t.v. from start to finish (i'm pretty sure the only
    reason i can remember who won is because it's always been lance). if you
    want to scare your children to keep them from sniffing solvents and
    glue, you're free to use me and my terrible memory as an example.

    You remembered about trackies and calf hutches. Your memory is
    pretty good sometimes.

    Bob Schwartz

  15. Quoted message said:

    Dutchman Maas van Beek (50) will try and better Coppi's old hour record of
    45.871 km this Saturday on the track of Alkmaar, Netherlands. [no saddle,
    68x11 gear, 205mm cranks]

    I just called for an update; the guy on the phone did not know the exact
    distance but apparently Van Beek achieved around 42100 m. I say it's a new
    world record without saddle! Or a new masters world record without saddle.
    Or at least a new master world record without saddle with 68x11 gear.

    --
    E. Dronkert

  16. "Ewoud Dronkert" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Dutchman Maas van Beek (50) will try and better Coppi's old hour record
    of
    45.871 km this Saturday on the track of Alkmaar, Netherlands. [no saddle,
    68x11 gear, 205mm cranks]

    I just called for an update; the guy on the phone did not know the exact
    distance but apparently Van Beek achieved around 42100 m. I say it's a new
    world record without saddle! Or a new masters world record without saddle.
    Or at least a new master world record without saddle with 68x11 gear.

    Well, not as good as Coppi in 1942, but better than Berthet in 1907. And I'm
    almost sure that the saddle was already invented at that time.

    Benjo

  17. benjo maso said:

    There is no reason why you should remember such tiny footnotes in the
    history of bicycle racing and if Jenko would have given the link, of course
    I would have answered your question with pleasure.

    Benjo

    this reply is so courteous and gracious, that viewed from the dirt of
    rbr it reminded me a little of the quote
    "so shines a good deed in a wicked world". thank you for your patience
    with repeating yourself 🙂

    h

  18. Bob Schwartz said:

    You remembered about trackies and calf hutches. Your memory is
    pretty good sometimes.

    i somehow developed a weird thing about trackies, (and even i don't know
    why).

    besides, your post was slightly shocking 😉 and that makes it stick in
    my head longer.

    h, relentless as a calf

  19. h squared says...

    Quoted message said:

    benjo maso wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    There is no reason why you should remember such tiny footnotes in the
    history of bicycle racing and if Jenko would have given the link, of course
    I would have answered your question with pleasure.

    Quoted message said:

    this reply is so courteous and gracious, that viewed from the dirt of
    rbr it reminded me a little of the quote
    "so shines a good deed in a wicked world". thank you for your patience
    with repeating yourself 🙂

    Well said - the contrast is easily sensed by those of us that spend too much
    time dragging dirt into the gutter.

  20. h squared said:
    Jenko said:


    Are you a newbie? Of course he knows.
    http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/f961cb72a75c8e6a

    i'm the perpetual newbie. thanks for the link. i do try to read all of
    benjo's posts, but i can't promise to remember, sorry. i have problems
    remembering who was 2nd or 3rd in the tour de france, even for the years
    i watched it on t.v. from start to finish (i'm pretty sure the only
    reason i can remember who won is because it's always been lance). if you
    want to scare your children to keep them from sniffing solvents and
    glue, you're free to use me and my terrible memory as an example.

    heather

    I blame mine on the mercury.

    Steve

    --
    Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
    http://www.dentaltwins.com
    Brooklyn, NY
    718-258-5001

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