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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 09:18 AM Original message |
October 22, 1865, Ansonia, Connecticut: Pierre Lallement introduces the bicycle to America |
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Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. Then, there's us cyclists that refuse to wear the silly Lycra garb... |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 09:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. For God's sake, pull over |
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Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 11:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I usually try to, but soemtimes there's just nowhere to go.... |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. There's always somewhere to go |
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Saving Hawaii (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. You can always ride off the bridge and into the drink. |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Not if the bridge is over a gorge |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. It's a reaction to the hegemony over the 1% we who live in rural America |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 01:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Could you translate that please? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. It also helped liberate women. |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Couldn't there be a way to liberate women that didn't involve inconveniencing me? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Nope |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:38 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Damn |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Life is cruel. |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
10. Sheesh, Francis. There are no more bicycles in Connecticut, anymore. I lived there |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. A quick Google search found over 20 bicyle shops in Connecticut |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
13. There's no blaming the French for this. |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:30 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. DuPont? |
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