What is going on with this jersey?
02-22-05 | 10:11 PM
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Snakebite
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What is going on with this jersey?
Just got my Spring Performance Bike catalog, and I saw this new PI jersey. Immediately busted out laughing...
https://www.performancebike.com/produ...00/10_5228.jpg
https://www.performancebike.com/produ...00/10_5228.jpg
02-22-05 | 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by gritface
Just got my Spring Performance Bike catalog, and I saw this new PI jersey. Immediately busted out laughing...
https://www.performancebike.com/produ...00/10_5228.jpg
https://www.performancebike.com/produ...00/10_5228.jpg
02-22-05 | 10:57 PM
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From: 20,000 leagues under the sea
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Ernie: "Bert, Bert, i wish you wouldn't drink so much."
Bert: "And i wish YOU WOULDN'T EAT COOKIES IN THE ******** BED!"
i cannot wait for the family guy to start airing new episodes...
Bert: "And i wish YOU WOULDN'T EAT COOKIES IN THE ******** BED!"
i cannot wait for the family guy to start airing new episodes...
02-23-05 | 06:01 AM
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i'd wear it. bert and ernie rock!
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02-23-05 | 01:02 PM
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Don't you know?
That's Ernie and Burt. They're characters on a PBS children's program that begain in the early 1970s. Ernie is, obviously, a metaphor for the devil, and Burt is symbolic of The Man keeping the working class held down.
Censors were quick to pick up on their sexual ambiguity and racial dischord: Burt is yellow/ Ernie is orange (actually "Saffron"). That's why they changed the design of their shirts.
There message has shifted over the years from one of "numbers/counting" to the "letters/alphabet".
The banana is from episode #437, but that's another story altogether.
That's Ernie and Burt. They're characters on a PBS children's program that begain in the early 1970s. Ernie is, obviously, a metaphor for the devil, and Burt is symbolic of The Man keeping the working class held down.
Censors were quick to pick up on their sexual ambiguity and racial dischord: Burt is yellow/ Ernie is orange (actually "Saffron"). That's why they changed the design of their shirts.
There message has shifted over the years from one of "numbers/counting" to the "letters/alphabet".
The banana is from episode #437, but that's another story altogether.
02-23-05 | 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Bluechip
Yah, well, I guess anything would be better than the ISU jersey. Even the old Bike Forums jersey! 
How much does the Bert & Ernie cost, anyway? It's cool and all, but probably not as cool as the price tag.
02-23-05 | 09:29 PM
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BERT: Ernie is that a bannana in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
But come on guys, the friggin dark side of the moon and wisho you were here jersey right next to it!
But come on guys, the friggin dark side of the moon and wisho you were here jersey right next to it!
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02-23-05 | 09:49 PM
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Of all the fruits they could have chosen, they picked a banana? "Dr. Freud, your 3:30 appointment is here..."
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02-24-05 | 07:53 PM
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That is an awesome jersey! I don't know if I'd wear it, but I don't really wear jerseys.
03-09-05 | 12:26 PM
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I love it! Also if you go to Pearl Izumes site and look through the men's jersey there is an "Oscar the Grouch"! I already sport the PI Cookie Monster jersey out on the trails and not one other mountain biker has challenged my masculinity! If I had the cash I would for sure sport the other two....
There is pick from the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo with Cookie Monster and me but it is copyrighted so you will have to take my word that is very cool!
There is pick from the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo with Cookie Monster and me but it is copyrighted so you will have to take my word that is very cool!
