Bikes
Christi Alice Scarborough
In article <slrn6bnea...@pointer.teuto.de>,
Lars Marowsky-Bree <l...@pointer.teuto.de> wrote:
>> be able to cope with cycling around Cambridge. At the moment, the bike
>> I'm looking at buying is a Raleigh hybrid with 12 gears at 170 pounds.
>> Does anyone know any good reasons why I shouldn't get this one?
>Yeah, for a bike, it is way too cheap to be a real geek toy.
I think geek toys are a male geek thing. I've yet to meet a lusty wench
with a geek toy who didn't either need it or have it forced upon her by
the Pointy Headed Ones.
Am I right about this? Certainly geek toys hold little fascination for
me.
Christi
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Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 13 Jan 1998 20:39:49 GMT, Christi Alice Scarborough <ca...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I think geek toys are a male geek thing. I've yet to meet a lusty wench
> with a geek toy who didn't either need it or have it forced upon her by
> the Pointy Headed Ones.
Well. I know a lot of women (men too I admit) who can't get enough of geek
toys.
Someone them even appreciate them being forced upon them. Not by the Pointy
Headed Ones I admit.
And there are a lot of geek toys out there. (back to topic) Latex ones, some
made of leather, rubber, solid steel, silicone and endless variations
thereof.
I have yet to find someone who wasn't fascinated by them. (Or repelled at
least, depending on their impurity level)
/me wanders off, whistling innocently
(No I am not the guy who is hosting two german BDSM mailinglists. Of course
not. *smile*)
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Mary J. Alderdice
> Lars Marowsky-Bree <l...@pointer.teuto.de> wrote:
> >> be able to cope with cycling around Cambridge. At the moment, the bike
> >> I'm looking at buying is a Raleigh hybrid with 12 gears at 170 pounds.
> >> Does anyone know any good reasons why I shouldn't get this one?
> >Yeah, for a bike, it is way too cheap to be a real geek toy.
> with a geek toy who didn't either need it or have it forced upon her by
> the Pointy Headed Ones.
Errr. Unless I somehow missed out on qualifying as a lusty wench, or
I've been completely confused as to gender I am, then I'm afraid I have
to disprove your theory.
Geek toys are great. This is, of course, my humble opinion. I could be
the only female on the planet to hold this opinion. Wouldn't be the
first time. :)
-meri
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SHELLEY MERLE UPTON
In article <69gjel$fuo$1...@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Christi Alice Scarborough <ca...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>I think geek toys are a male geek thing. I've yet to meet a lusty wench
>with a geek toy who didn't either need it or have it forced upon her by
>the Pointy Headed Ones.
>
>me.
This difference is that we call them tools :)
smu
Melanie Dymond Harper
In article <69gjel$fuo$1...@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Christi Alice Scarborough <ca...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>I think geek toys are a male geek thing. I've yet to meet a lusty wench
>with a geek toy who didn't either need it or have it forced upon her by
>the Pointy Headed Ones.
>
>Am I right about this? Certainly geek toys hold little fascination for
>me.
Sorry, Christi. The highlight of my Christmas was the all-singing, all-dancing
Leatherman that my hubby bought me :)
Mel
Christer Boräng
In <69gjel$fuo$1...@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> ca...@cam.ac.uk (Christi Alice Scarborough) writes:
>I think geek toys are a male geek thing. I've yet to meet a lusty wench
>with a geek toy who didn't either need it or have it forced upon her by
>the Pointy Headed Ones.
If a BuckTool (a Leatherman, only better (IMO)) counts as a geek toy,
it's not entirely a male geek thing at least. My fiancé got a BuckTool
as a christmas present a few weeks ago, and she loves it. She carries
it around whenever possible...
>Am I right about this? Certainly geek toys hold little fascination for
>me.
Well, Sara seems to like some geek toys at least...she thinks that a
friends Palm Pilot is cool...YMMV.
//Christer
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Christi Alice Scarborough
In article <69iivg$p...@bonkers.taronga.com>,
Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote:
>In article <69ihmp$fsp$1...@osfa.aber.ac.uk>, A R BREEN <a...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>>I parsed that as "Vole". I definitely need some sleep.
>Did someone say sheep?
And you don't even live within 6000 miles of Wales. Shame on you, Peter.
Torsten Jerzembeck
In bofh.lusty-wenches Christi Alice Scarborough wrote:
>[2] Elmyra is my PC. It got more memory and a new hard disk for Yule,
>but I had been neglecting it recently and it was starting to complain
>at me.
Thanks, Christi. On reading this, nightingale¹ and kingfisher² were
reminded that I had promised them more diskspace and/or more RAM quite
some time before. Now I have two PCs nagging me constantly... :-(
Greetings,
=ToJe=
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¹ nightingale.ms.sub.org alias nightingale.mayn.de alias
nightingale.uucp, an 486DX2/66. Running Linux.
² kingfisher.ms.sub.org alias kingfisher.uucp, an IBM PS/2-80. Connected
to nightingale via PLIP. Not yet decided which OS to use. Anyone here
with a spare copy of AIX 1.X not needed anymore?
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Christi Alice Scarborough
In article <YR5T...@nightingale.ms.sub.org>,
Torsten Jerzembeck <to...@nightingale.ms.sub.org> wrote:
>² kingfisher.ms.sub.org alias kingfisher.uucp, an IBM PS/2-80. Connected
> to nightingale via PLIP. Not yet decided which OS to use. Anyone here
> with a spare copy of AIX 1.X not needed anymore?
For what it's worth, someone did write ESDI support for Linux, so you
should be able to install that on it. It came as a Debian distribution
but I can't tell you more as my 55sx hard drive died before I had a
chance to play with it.
Nick Cuccia
In article <69mgqr$p02$1...@nightstalker.rand.org>,
Lee Ann Goldstein <lee...@nightstalker.rand.org> wrote:
>Ok, hands please- who else here is fond of folk dancing? I do English
>Country dance myself, both Elizabethan (more or less) and Regency period.
I think I've already answered this. ;^) I've done some English folk dancing
in the past, mainly at smaller period dances and at weekend camps. The local
country dance society, for example, alternates between American set dancing
(contras and squares) and English folk dancing (from Elizabethan to Regency
to modern Ceilidh (not to be confused with Irish Ceili[1])) during the evening
social dances at its retreat weekends. Big Fun.
>Nick, do you ever dance at the Renaissance Faire?
I'm probably the only Anglo-related folk dancer that I know who *doesn't* do
RenFaire. Maybe that will change this year. I do participate in some of the
smaller historical recreation events up here (Gaskell Balls and PEERS events
(http://www.peers.org/ for details)) on occasion, though.
Damn those elementary school teachers in Madison, WI who had us do the
Virginia Reel and took us to Israeli dance events when I was a youngun. It's
all their fault...
--Nick, flying to Japan in <5 hours, and upset that he can't find any
contra or non-Western square dance in Tokyo...
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