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On 10 Jun 2004 14:37:43 -0700, [email protected] (blah) mumbled
incoherently:
>[email protected] (**** Durbin) wrote in message
>news:<[email protected]>...
>Now, I don't know how much protection the helmet provided
>> or if my injury would have been worse without the helmet,
>> but I am glad I had it on.
>>
>> **** Durbin Tallahassee
>
>Over here in Australia it's illegal not to wear
>helmets. Civil liberty issues aside, I've never really
>understood why you wouldn't. I've devised a test for
>seeing if they work:
>
>Have a friend (or enemy, it doesn't matter) hit you, with a
>bat, on the head with moderate to hard force. Try it twice;
>once with the helmet then once without. It's important not
>to do it in reverse order. When you wake after the second
>hit, you can compare the relative value of wearing the
>helmet as opposed to not.
>
>Cheers
>
>PS. I'm aware that a cycling accident is a lot more
> complicated than this, but I'd rather hit the road (pun
> not intended) with it on. Oh yeah, feel free to use
> this test to demonstrate to the next pickup driving
> nutbags you see...
Uh oh. My helmet-thread alarm needle just went off
the paper. <Ducking>
Ken (NY) Chairman, Department Of Redundancy Department®
___________________________________
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"It should be the policy of the United States to support ef-
forts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from
power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic
government to replace that regime,"
-- 1998 Iraq Liberation Act (Public Law 105-338)
signed by Bill Clinton
When ye encounter the infidels, strike off their heads till
ye have made a great slaughter among them, and of the rest,
make fast the fetters.
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Q: What the hardest thing about rollerblading?
R: Telling your parents you’re gay.
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incoherently:
>[email protected] (**** Durbin) wrote in message
>news:<[email protected]>...
>Now, I don't know how much protection the helmet provided
>> or if my injury would have been worse without the helmet,
>> but I am glad I had it on.
>>
>> **** Durbin Tallahassee
>
>Over here in Australia it's illegal not to wear
>helmets. Civil liberty issues aside, I've never really
>understood why you wouldn't. I've devised a test for
>seeing if they work:
>
>Have a friend (or enemy, it doesn't matter) hit you, with a
>bat, on the head with moderate to hard force. Try it twice;
>once with the helmet then once without. It's important not
>to do it in reverse order. When you wake after the second
>hit, you can compare the relative value of wearing the
>helmet as opposed to not.
>
>Cheers
>
>PS. I'm aware that a cycling accident is a lot more
> complicated than this, but I'd rather hit the road (pun
> not intended) with it on. Oh yeah, feel free to use
> this test to demonstrate to the next pickup driving
> nutbags you see...
Uh oh. My helmet-thread alarm needle just went off
the paper. <Ducking>
Ken (NY) Chairman, Department Of Redundancy Department®
___________________________________
email: http://www.geocities.com/bluesguy68/email.htm
"It should be the policy of the United States to support ef-
forts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from
power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic
government to replace that regime,"
-- 1998 Iraq Liberation Act (Public Law 105-338)
signed by Bill Clinton
When ye encounter the infidels, strike off their heads till
ye have made a great slaughter among them, and of the rest,
make fast the fetters.
http://www.truthnet.org/islam/Quran/Rodwell/47/
Q: What the hardest thing about rollerblading?
R: Telling your parents you’re gay.
spammers can send mail to [email protected]