Stillstand endurance record - photo

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BOW DOWN to the LIBRARIAN!

OMG!!!
any day now john edwards is going to do a reading on a norwegian woman whose spanish great-great-grandfather (the one who married the Balkan Gypsey whose father was there when they killed the tsar by rolling him down the grassy knoll) used to chase her great-grandmother around the house with one of those branding irons and to this day, thru the generations, this woman has a morbid fear of the circus and extreme sportsmen and after the reading she’ll be cured and will finally be able to go on Jerry Springer and tell what happened the day she wanted to make out with the clown
and the gypsy

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They stopped branding cattle around 1760, or they stopped having cattle at the missions? Unicycles started around 1870.

The real question is, which mission had the symbol of the unicycle? Woudn’t it be cool if it was the one at Santa Cruz? For those who don’t follow such things, Santa Cruz is the home of Wilder Ranch, where the Wilder product line gets its name. Also it was the location for the 1999 and 2002 MUni Weekends.

Thanks Raphael for researching this out! I’m amazed how easy that seemed to be!

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“JJuggle” <JJuggle.upz0z@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
news:JJuggle.upz0z@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
> The symbol above and to the left of 1769 on the Spanish-Mexican Seal
> depicts
> a Mission Branding Symbol. These Branding Symbols represent the
>

Wow JJuggle that was quick research. When I saw the email/picture yesterday
a cattle brand was one of my first thoughts and even did a couple web
searches to see if there was a registry of brands. Ran across one but not
for this part of the country. My other thoughts were an artist mark of some
kind or some other iconography.

By the way, it’s the Santa Barbara Mission brand.
http://orangecounty.about.com/bl_mis_sb_hist.htm

-Cubby

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Wow!

So why a unicycle? I wonder how they ended up with such a design? The one on the link above looks less like a unicycle, but still resembles one…

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You’re quite welcome, John. Fact is I just got the right person. But much of life is simply in the asking.

Very cool, Cubby. Thanks for adding this detail.

I’m guessing that actually finding out about the design would involve looking through books.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

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Santa Barbara Unicycle Event

I think we need a T-shirt here, at least, or maybe someone could organize a Santa Barbara Unicycle Event to commemorate the Santa Barbara Mission Brand. The Annual Santa Barbara Mission Brand Unicycle Event or The Annual Santa Barbara Mission Unicycle Brand Event :sunglasses: , Giraffes optional (isn’t it neet how I talk in capitals?:wink: ). With a parade and everthing - clowns not permited. Do we know anybody that lives in Santa Barbara?

Actually, I’m going to make a T-shirt with my handy ink jet iron on transfers, bye for now.

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Re: Santa Barbara Unicycle Event

Good idea! How about no people from Connecticut either. I’ve always been freaked out by them. :wink:

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

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You should be! They’re weirdo people.

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More Uni’s in Art

On the Burke Gilman Trail (about 2 blocks below the Fremont Troll, made famous by Universe) is a cycling mural done by 5th graders.

There is a flamingo on a giraffe, a norwhale on a uni, and a turtle on what looks like the front wheel & fork from a bicycle, complete with fender.

Higher rez pics at http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/UniArt .

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