The Ultimate Unicyclist Quote?

Off-topic
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
– Jane Austen, Emma

maybe it’s just me but i think that will rock on a T-shirt
with some woman in ‘period’ dress draped accross a trials uni a’la the T-shirt that caused all that ruckus a while ago

thoughts?

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Re: The Ultimate Unicyclist Quote?

I’d buy and wear one.

Although I do have a bone to pick with Jane Austen. Our daughter, Emma, was conceived and named about 2 years before the American Jane Austen renaissance of the mid-nineties. Austen, as well as Goldman, Lazarus, Bovary, Thompson, and Peel provided inspiration for our choice of name for our daughter. But once the mania hit, (P&P and S&S came out in 1995 and Emma in 1996) dozens of little Emmas started springing up all over the northeast. Hmm, but noting all that would be threadjacking, wouldn’t it?

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

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I agree, that’s a really good quotation. My parents don’t like it when I do something out of the ordinary, like wear shoes without socks, or eat my peas with a spoon. But I’m sensible, and those actions really do make sense!

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I like it.

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I would print on mine “don’t bother asking where my other wheel is you are neither funny or original”

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Does anyone else frequent Everything2? This won’t mean anything if not…

Your radical ideas about missing wheels have already occurred to others
Many, many others…

Phil

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“One giant leap for man, one small step for Dan Heaton.”
—g3orge

g3orge told me this at Gasworks park on sunday.

-Sabin

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I would be proud to wear something like that while riding, or when riding with a friend, “My other wheel is comming”

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Re: The Ultimate Unicyclist Quote?

Is it said about people riding unicycles or just silly things in general?

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Re: Re: The Ultimate Unicyclist Quote?

silly things in general i suspect
not sure if uni’s were around when she wrote her stuff?
i just couldn’t help but think it would be a brilliant retort to some muscle-bound moron deciding to point out to a uni-rider that unicycling was really silly
the T-shirt idea came after that