Why Isn't Anyone Talking About The Jewish Factor?
Claire Petersky
Does your Bianchi worship at the shrine of the Madonna di Ghisallo?
Is your Chinese-made bike a Taoist, a Confucianist, a Buddhist, or in that
traditional Chinese syncretic way, a combination of the three (with a little
Maoist thrown in?)
Are your wheels prayer wheels, continually radiating out the Om Mani Padme
Hum in all directions?
My bike might be a Quaker -- silent, practical, honest, idealistic.
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Claire Petersky wrote:
> If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
> My bike might be a Quaker -- silent, practical, honest, idealistic.
My bike has mixed feelings about most religions and really just wants to
party.
Dave
Zippy the Pinhead
>
> My bike might be a Quaker
Mine too, but only on fast descents.
JimLane
Wiccan.
jim
Ilambert
weird(or gay or commys-take your pick).Steve
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Rick Onanian
<cpet...@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
My MTB worships to the god named "Oh shit, here comes another tree".
My road bike worships to the god named "Bonk".
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Rick Onanian
JimLane
> By all mean,let's foster stereotypes of all sorts! Like,aren't all cyclists
> weird(or gay or commys-take your pick).Steve
> "JimLane" <ensen...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
>>Claire Petersky wrote:
>>
>>>If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
snip
>>
>>Wiccan.
Run out of salt?
jim
Andy M-S
with a "Shhhhhhhhh" sound. But I know about me...I'm a Polycyclist.
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"Andy M-S" <marchan...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dunno about my bikes, though sometimes they kneel to worship, complete
> with a "Shhhhhhhhh" sound. But I know about me...I'm a Polycyclist.
I'm a lapsed unicyclist.
Thats a bit like being a lapsed anglican though, nothing like as cranky as
lapsed catholics etc.
Andrew Price
> "Claire Petersky" <cpet...@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
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> > If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
> >
be included, the reply being optional.
Just why Our Government needed to know where all the Zoroastrians and
Unreconstructed Polygamists were hanging out escapes me but it caused a bit
of a furore when a whole bunch of kids of my daughters age wanted to
describe themselves as Jedi Knights. The Government Statistician said that
weren't a Proper Religion (what is?) and they might well be sent to bed
without supper if they persisted. I think the spoilsport has not yet shared
with us how many Jedi's we have here and proportionately how we rate
internationally.
Personally I think Jedi would be a fine religion - my inability to get my
brakes absolutely spot on has nothing to do with my mechanical ineptitude
and everything to do with said brakes being controlled by the dark side of
the Force.
I was a tad annoyed at them asking how many cars were attributable to the
household - and not asking the same question about bikes in the household -
for which I would have needed to attach several supplementary schedules and
spoken fondly and at length of the track bike which is conceived but not yet
born. I would have even volunteered the religion of each, allowing of course
for the trackie not being baptised yet.
And if they had asked did I intend to ride a bike in the next 12 months and
what did I think about the current suitability of the roads for riding I
really might have got interested in the whole thing!
best, Andrew
Rick Onanian
<arat...@bigpond.net.au.x1> wrote:
>In the census form last time they asked for the religion of the household to
>be included, the reply being optional.
>
>Just why Our Government needed to know where all the Zoroastrians and
They don't "need to know" most of what's on the census form; and
they even say that they don't "need" to know religion, by making the
reply optional.
You should have insisted that your Jedi children be counted. With
freedom of religion, well, we should be able to choose _any_
religion, should we not?
--
Rick Onanian
Matt O'Toole
>> "Claire Petersky" <cpet...@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
> news:<URlMb.28619$I06.192483@attbi_s01>...
>>> If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
> In the census form last time they asked for the religion of the
> household to be included, the reply being optional.
> Just why Our Government needed to know where all the Zoroastrians and
> Unreconstructed Polygamists were hanging out escapes me but it caused
> a bit of a furore when a whole bunch of kids of my daughters age
> wanted to describe themselves as Jedi Knights. The Government
> Statistician said that weren't a Proper Religion (what is?) and they
> might well be sent to bed without supper if they persisted. I think
> the spoilsport has not yet shared with us how many Jedi's we have
> here and proportionately how we rate internationally.
>
> Personally I think Jedi would be a fine religion - my inability to
> get my brakes absolutely spot on has nothing to do with my mechanical
> ineptitude and everything to do with said brakes being controlled by
> the dark side of the Force.
Recently some country -- Australia I think -- had a significant percentage of
the population list their religion as Jedi on a government poll. Things sure
have changed. When I lived there 20-some years ago, it was Confucionist, in
homage to the great David Carradine. It's weird that it took so long for Jedi
to catch on, having been around since 1976.
Matt O.
Marlene Blanshay
<ma...@deltanet.com> wrote:
> Andrew Price wrote:
>
> >> "Claire Petersky" <cpet...@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
> > news:<URlMb.28619$I06.192483@attbi_s01>...
>
> >
> > Personally I think Jedi would be a fine religion - my inability to
> > get my brakes absolutely spot on has nothing to do with my mechanical
> > ineptitude and everything to do with said brakes being controlled by
> > the dark side of the Force.
>
> Recently some country -- Australia I think -- had a significant percentage of
> the population list their religion as Jedi on a government poll. Things sure
> have changed. When I lived there 20-some years ago, it was Confucionist, in
> homage to the great David Carradine. It's weird that it took so long for Jedi
> to catch on, having been around since 1976.
>
> Matt O.
OMG... talk about the Goobification of society.
I see these guys battling each other with foam swords in the woods where
we go mountain biking. The contrast is interesting. Fit, healthy hikers,
bikers, etc, and pasty, flabby, black clad guys with foam swords. Well, at
least they get out of the basement for a few hours!
Just zis Guy, you know?
<cpet...@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
Jedi. More specifically, Sith.
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-Steve
Don't worry I did not vote for Nixon. Too young, heheehe
"Claire Petersky" <cpet...@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message news:<URlMb.28619$I06.192483@attbi_s01>...
> If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
>
>
David L. Johnson
> If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
> My bike might be a Quaker -- silent, practical, honest, idealistic.
Hmm. I don't know about my bike, but it's rider is.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of
_`\(,_ | enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them
(_)/ (_) | would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The
internet has proven this not to be the case.
David L. Johnson
> Yea, but Richard M. Nixon was a Quaker by religion. Remember him ?
Quakers have not been well-represented in US politics. Nixon was raised a
Friend, but was never an active member. His mother was. AFAIK the only
other Quaker president was Herbert Hoover. Not a great record, as I said.
The perennial candidate Lyndon LaRouche is also a Quaker. Sigh.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure
_`\(,_ | you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein
(_)/ (_) |
H. M. Leary
"David L. Johnson" <david....@lehigh.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:27:32 +0000, Claire Petersky wrote:
>
> > If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
>
> > My bike might be a Quaker -- silent, practical, honest, idealistic.
>
> Hmm. I don't know about my bike, but it's rider is.
Rider is what?
A member of The Society of Friends
or silent????
My favorite Quaker saying:
ł When thee gets home tonight, I hope thy mother barks before she bites thee.˛
......:)
--
łFreedom Is a Light for Which Many Have Died in Darknessł
- Tomb of the unknown - American Revolution
Weed Harper
> On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:37:33 -0800, Steven Gee wrote:
>
> > Yea, but Richard M. Nixon was a Quaker by religion. Remember him ?
>
> Quakers have not been well-represented in US politics. Nixon was raised a
> Friend, but was never an active member. His mother was. AFAIK the only
> other Quaker president was Herbert Hoover. Not a great record, as I said.
> The perennial candidate Lyndon LaRouche is also a Quaker. Sigh.
Was a Quaker. LaRouche broke with the Friends in order to serve in WWII.
David L. Johnson
Lots of Friends actually served in WWII. By then, no one would have to
leave a Meeting to do that. Besides, that would make LaRouch, what, 80 at
least?
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David L. Johnson
__o | And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
_`\(,_ | mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
(_)/ (_) | that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]
Mike Schwab
"David L. Johnson" wrote:
<snip>
Just zis Guy, you know?
<david....@lehigh.edu> wrote in message
<pan.2004.02.08....@lehigh.edu>:
>Lots of Friends actually served in WWII.
Many in the Friends' Ambulance Service. British singer. musician and
lingust Donald Swann (he of the comic duo Flanders and Swann) served
with them, although he only became a Quaker later in life.
Kevin
> In article <pan.2004.02.07...@lehigh.edu>,
> "David L. Johnson" <david....@lehigh.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:27:32 +0000, Claire Petersky wrote:
> >
> > > If you bike had a religion, what would it be?
>
> > > My bike might be a Quaker -- silent, practical, honest, idealistic.
> >
> > Hmm. I don't know about my bike, but it's rider is.
>
> Rider is what?
>
> A member of The Society of Friends
>
> or silent????
>
> My favorite Quaker saying:
>
> ......:)
My bike is a Frisbeeterian. It believes that when it dies, it's soul
goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.