"I put a curse on your bicycle seat. Just wait until your next long ride.
""If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.""
--Krock, the Scientist
Your Pal,
Etaoin"
Metro North Train Pass
Wed, 10/19/2005 - 1:17pm
#51
What, YOU again?
Wed, 10/19/2005 - 6:05pm
#52
The Curse
"Thanks Disgusted, I used the most excellent search engine and dug up the ""Curse"" thread from a few years back. It's funny as all hell!
Et puts out this huge steaming pile out in the open and this guy steps in it cleat and all up to the ankle. And then people actually argue about the power of the curse and if it was for real. Ha Ha reading for a rainy/ or sunny day.
ChrisO would certainly get a kick out of this one."
Wed, 10/19/2005 - 1:45pm
#53
Still enjoying it
"It is funny how the nanny telling us to behave goes ballistic with the name-calling when someone tells him ""No."" I did not see much name-calling until you came along, just bickering and parsing.
I don't enjoy death or serious injury occuring to others. But I will admit that I got a huge laugh out of the video posted here of the cyclist crashing as he raised his arms to prematurely celebrate his victory. That was hilarious. I still can't figure out how he managed to go down.
"
Wed, 10/19/2005 - 2:03pm
#54
huge laugh
"as in this one? ...
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2672391
...or this one? ...
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2670973
Do you think the conductor will let him on the train with - out a bike pass?"
Thu, 10/20/2005 - 6:07pm
#55
Scared Me!
I thought for a second that thing at GTC the morning of the Hunter ride got filmed...
Wed, 10/19/2005 - 4:50pm
#56
Awesome.
"Hats off to Etaoin!
Chris, let me clue you in on the joke: You posted that you enjoy a good fight, so Etoain gave you one. Hence the suggestion that you ""be careful what you ask for.""
"
Thu, 10/20/2005 - 6:38am
#57
My sensibilities vs. yours
"Thanks - an idiot like me needs help in understanding Etoain's posting, which had all the subtlety of a train wreck.
Now let me clue you in on something: I enjoy a GOOD verbal joust such as the back and forth that is seen in some of the posts above. But I decry the name-calling and gratuitous insults such at that posted by the otherwise articulate Etoain. To you, apparently, that is a ""good fight"" and ""awesome."" To me, he could have done much better.
Moreover, I told you I was still enjoying it so what do I have to be careful about?
"
Thu, 10/20/2005 - 1:59pm
#58
You get what you pay for
"The guy asks for an insult, and then complains that he didn't understand it because it wasn't subtle enough. Maybe he wants the insults aimed at him to have greater elegance.
Hey, Chris dude, it was a *free* insult. What makes you think your intellect is worth more than that?
""Go clean the dirt out of your chain or something.""
--Raisehellfrida the Mud Maiden, to a would-be amorous suitor on a club ride. He must have had a stuffed nose.
"
Thu, 10/20/2005 - 6:11pm
#59
Order?
Is there a way to make this thread flow a bit better?
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 5:59am
#60
Signing Off
I have not looked at the board for some time and then to see 60 posts regarding this subject was a bit surprising.
On NYCC website you have a listing of rides. Some of these rides state that a `bike pass' is required for bringing your bike onto the train. Also on this website under `RESOURCES' heading is a heading on how to get one of these passes. Go there now and click on it and it will say `passes? we don't need no stinkin passes'.
It was Friday and I had planned on going on a ride on Saturday that required one of these passes. Instead of searching the internet at work I thought that some kind individual from NYCC could give me a quick answer on how to get a pass. Which happened and I thankful for the assistance.
I have ridden with Dave before and if we were face to face and I asked him how to get a bike pass he would probably ride to GCT with me and walk me to the correct window. Thats the kind of guy he is.
My personal annoynce, pet peeve, whatever you want to call it is when people say things through a computer that they would never say to someone in person. Much like this thread has gone. Rude response after rude response.
I was a new member as of July because I wanted to learn how to ride better and to meet some new people. Which I have done and I am thankful for. However after this thread I would be to embarrassed to show myself at any NYCC function and therefore have decided just to let my membership run out and move on.
Safe ridding.
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 6:23am
#61
"Don't do that.
We ALL speak differently when the person is not face to face with us. Besides, now you realize how many people
read the board. I am not sure but it may be a record thread count.
Get over it and enjoy what the club is really about. I hate the attitude I can get at the DMV and that is in person, but I still drive my car. I have even gotten a few of the dumb/attitude replys to my posts, but the truth is I get tons of accurate helpful and sincere answers.
As I tell my wife ""If I wanted attitude I would go back to the office"" or is that what she tells me?
In any case. The Message board is here as a sounding board of information. If you quit everyone will think
I am ""YOU"". If just for that, don' do it.
Signed
Robert ""Not THAT Robert"" Marcus"
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 7:30am
#62
don't recognize a joke?
"The heading you mention is obviously a joke (it's marked ""no pass"" not ""how to get a pass"" and you didn't have to ""click"" on anything; right up front appears the joke--surely you know ""Treasure of the Sierra Madre""?).
You should have looked under ""transit"" on the left (or at Metro North or LIRR web sites, or searched the message board or Google). C'mon, it's not that hard.
And what set this thread off was your response to Dave's slightly flip, but accurate info., calling it ""stupid"" (for which you have never apologized or even acknowledged); i.e., you could have ended this a long time ago (and anyway, it has nothing to do with riding or the NYCC in general)."
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 1:53pm
#63
A lesson in interpretation
"[and what set this....calling it ""stupid""...never apologized...)
1) To be fair (), and I really do not expect you to agree but it would be nice if you could, the apologies should flow in the opposite direction first. If Robert chose to be magnanimous, I fear the gesture would actually be lost a number of contributors. Hence I suppose the back and forth. Maybe Etoain should have the last word and leave it at that.
2), April raised an interesting point about her reasons for not renewing her membership...the one about the tonality on the message board being the tip of the iceberg. This is not the first time I have heard this point [tonality] being made. By tonality I am politely referring to the sometimes insulting sometimes agressive responses occasionally posted. I have friends and met people on the road who have voiced the same. They have also elected not to renew their memberships for this reason. I wonder if we have or should poll non-renewing members to ask their reasons. It is an open question, honestly asked, which probably should be a separate thread."
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 2:29pm
#64
Hey glass-half-full-guy, public boards attract lots of malcontents, too. It's nothing unique to this board or even to the internet - check out editorials and letters-to-the-editors, for instance. Look around and see for yourself.
There's plenty of people who benefit from the message board. Some are vocal about it and many are not.
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 10:16am
#65
A final thought on the subject
"""No, you may not have a cigarette. Nor a blindfold....Because nobody likes a sorehead, that's why.""
--Prokash the Firing Squad Commandant
Your Pal,
Etoain Shrdlu"
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 12:30pm
#66
Can't let EToain Shrdlu have the final word... (nm)
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 12:54pm
#67
Chesteria says
"As my Albanian great-grandmother Chesteria used to say, ""Anyone who thinks he can have the last word with my husband is asking for the high heavens to hurl havoc upon his house."""
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 2:30pm
#68
that's funny
thanks for the laugh
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 2:33pm
#69
I love a smooth paceline... (nm)
