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    A ewe escaped the pasture through a hole in the fence. She was on the lam. "I'll weld that fence but good," declared Tom brazenly. Meanwhile, the mare was weaning her colt. She was exfoliating. One of the cows would only feed her offspring in the morning. She could only put out half-calf.
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    Bicyclist collides with a bear!

    We came across a boar once... In Hong Kong! https://alia.link/2019/03/05/a-pig-surprise/
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    Jeez, that is incredibly irritating.😵‍💫😖
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    I'll send him that link 😃
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    My cousin asks, "If I put an Om🕉️ symbol on my guitar, could I call it the Bhagavad Gitar?"
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    "In my family, we never say prayers before eating," Helen said gracelessly. "Better hope Sam & Ella aren't working in the cafe's kitchen today then," Tom snarked poisonously.
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    On the origins of bike policing

    Here's an article about how police on bikes started in Seattle. It has a link to the Crosscut podcast in it, if you like to listen to podcasts...
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    Bicyclist collides with a bear!

    And it was not a good thing. Happened in Canada, of course. Note that an ebike was instrumental in getting him to safety: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/21/canada-bear-cyclist-vancouver?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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    The online debate about inner tube vs tubeless became tiresome, while the Schrader vs Presta discussions were depressing. The arguing about whether hub drives or mid drives were better merely drove everyone around the bend. And of course, threads about the correct way to shift gears were...
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    That's the textbook my husband learned to cooked from. He once boiled eggs until they burned dry and exploded and hit the ceiling. He once burned the toast to flames 3 times in a row. When once again he brought home the wrong stuff from the grocery store, I asked, "What did your first wife do...
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    Punishing, even 😁🙃😜
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    While his treatise on handlebar adjustment was gripping, it was painfully obvious that the bike seat fitter didn't know his a$$ from his elbow. "Should we rent one of these crappy Lime ebikes to get up this hill?" asked Tom sourly as they toured San Francisco. "You can if you want. I'm just...
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    The trainer who taught the workshop on wheel rebuilding was indeed well-spoken.
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    Damned eBay! Now what?

    If you are disenchanted with eBay, there is another platform called Offerup, which is an app and everything is done within the app. Works well for local area and for things which app-savvy people want. Bike parts could work on it. I've both bought and sold on it. One time, I was selling stuff...
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    Funny! I never knew he had written a novel by that name! Learn something new every day! 😃
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    Why John Steinbeck? I am not surprised if a non-native English speaker misses some of this one. I should explain... "Now is the winter of our discontent" is from Shakespeare's Richard III, and Dick is a common nickname for Richard, and Dicks Sporting Goods is a national chain here in the US...
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    Dick's Sporting Goods has a new promotional slogan: "Now is the winter of our discount tents..."
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