Funny comment

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I was performing at an alternative transport festival on the weekend. I was alternating between riding a 20" uni and my penny farthing.

When I was riding the penny farthing a small child shouted to her mum “Wow, look at that!”

to which the mother replied in knowing tones “That’s a funny bike, isn’t it? It’s called a unicycle.”

It made me laugh - I didn’t feel like correcting her so I kept on pedalling.

Wayne van Wijk

p.s. on the down side, I let someone ride the penny farthing after the gig and he did the wrong thing and broke the wheel. OUCH!

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I’ve had my uni’s be called bikes many times, but I’ve never heard someone call a bike a unicycle. Congradulations.

Daniel

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Happens all the time on eBay. Do a search for “unicycl*” and you’ll usually get at least one item where the seller is describing a penny farthing (usually in a trinket, not the real thing), which clearly has two wheels, as a unicycle. Duh.

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“australia” <australia.t3mn7@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
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> When I was riding the penny farthing a small child shouted to her mum
> “Wow, look at that!”
>
> to which the mother replied in knowing tones “That’s a funny bike, isn’t
> it? It’s called a unicycle.”

Just this last weekend an over ambitious and mathematically challenged
teenager [Aren’t they all? :wink: ] pointed at the 5 foot giraffe and
asked
“Can I have a go on your tricycle?”

Naomi

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Re: Re: Funny comment

seems like the comment of the season