Witty one liners?

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>Do anybody have any witty replies to comments like; ‘Lost ye’ other
>wheel mate?’

    For the last few years I've focused on the economy:

“It’s the economy; can’t afford the other wheel.”

“This is the recession model.”

“I’m on a time payment plan.”

“It’s this downsizing thing.”

                                    Craig Milo Rogers
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Re: Witty one liners?

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> Do anybody have any witty replies to comments like;
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> ‘Lost ye’ other wheel mate?’

My favourite from rec.juggling remains “Where’s your other wheel?” “It’ll be
along in a minute.”

My problem with these wise-cracks is that they never seem to be set up right. I
will be riding along, trying to cross a driveway, looking both ways for cars
simultaneously whilst paying attention to the sudden slope in the footpath
(sidewalk), and the crack in bitumen, and the access-hole cover and all I hear
is some voice from somewhere (I don’t have time to look behind me to see who it
is) saying “Ostuvveellmt?”, more in the direction of their friends than towards
me. By the time I parse the sentence, and work out what was said, I am 20
metres down the road, and missed my chance.

Whenever I approach a set of stairs, just as I dismount, I often get the comment
“Let’s see you go down the stairs.” In this situation I have more time to get a
response in. What do you recommend? (Suggestions that I learn to go down stairs
will be ignored for a while yet.)

How about “Naah. I lost the other wheel that way”? I will have to give that
one a try.

On a related tangent, I was riding the other day with the seat clamp too loose,
and I found myself slowly sinking. I got to thinking, perhaps you could modify a
unicycle so the seat shaft was attached to an internal spring; the seat bounces
up and down (not left to right!) as you ride. I figured only unicyclists would
be impressed though.

Regards

Julian

– Julian Orbach (julian@cs.uq.oz.au) – University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia

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>Do anybody have any witty replies to comments like; ‘Lost ye’ other
>wheel mate?’

How about, “When the rapture hit, the good wheel went to heaven, and I’m stuck
here with this wheel for telling bad jokes…”