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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 09-10-14, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by RPK79
Have you considered a trampoline or above ground swimming pool?
It's at the church, where a tree was removed, so no.
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Originally Posted by RUOkie
some people should not be allowed on the internet.

A patient started arguing with me just now, sure that his "Telomeres" were damaged, and wanted to know if I was checking them. Since "the Telomere is the lifeline of the nerve and the axons and telomeres both could cause this"
My last appt was a Bichon Frise with seizures. The owner brought in a video of the dog having a generalized tonic-clinic seizure. But she googled it and decided it wasn't seizures, it was tremors. Then she further googled and decided the dog had Little White Shaker syndrome which is an immune-mediated encephalitis of the cerebellum. So she convinced her vet to stop the anticonvulsant and put the dog on pred. Lo and behold, the dog then had two seizures.

So in my appointment, I'm calling the seizures seizures and she's correcting me to call them tremors. Which they're not. Ironically the dog is an encephalitis suspect, just a different disease than this Shaker Syndrome. Google is such a time wasted for me.

At least the lady is listening to me though & doing all the right tests, this form of encephalitis can be fatal in dogs.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
It's at the church, where a tree was removed, so no.
...if it was a big tree, there's gonna be some future subsidence in the area as the roots you could not get with the stump grinder decay.
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Where's that?
Colorado. That's why @LAJ is terrified.
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Fifty miles.

BTW, which is better:

a. Fifty miles.
b. 50 Miles.
c. 50 miles.

my answer: all are awesome, but none look quite right. Maybe it's the period?
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Originally Posted by datlas
Fifty miles.

BTW, which is better:

a. Fifty miles.
b. 50 Miles.
c. 50 miles.

my answer: all are awesome, but none look quite right. Maybe it's the period?
Why put a period at the end of an incomplete sentence?
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....hot
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Originally Posted by datlas
Fifty miles.

BTW, which is better:

a. Fifty miles.
b. 50 Miles.
c. 50 miles.

my answer: all are awesome, but none look quite right. Maybe it's the period?
two score and ten miles.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Fifty miles.

BTW, which is better:

a. Fifty miles.
b. 50 Miles.
c. 50 miles.

my answer: all are awesome, but none look quite right. Maybe it's the period?
Originally Posted by RPK79
Why put a period at the end of an incomplete sentence?
...you can use elipses, as in "...50 miles", but you have to credit me. If you do it often, we'll need to work out a compensation package.
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Or four dozen and a deuce. I can say deuce, right?
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Originally Posted by 3alarmer
...you can use elipses, as in "...50 miles", but you have to credit me. If you do it often, we'll need to work out a compensation package.
I'm a longstanding ellipses abuser... so sue me.
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Best water spigot evar

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Originally Posted by RPK79
Why put a period at the end of an incomplete sentence?
It's a statement. I still think it may deserve a period. Maybe not an Oxford period, but a dot nonetheless.
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Best water spigot evar

Nice Garrison's Cyclery water bottle.
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Originally Posted by datlas
It's a statement. I still think it may deserve a period. Maybe not an Oxford period, but a dot nonetheless.
...poor Strunk & White
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Originally Posted by datlas
It's a statement. I still think it may deserve a period. Maybe not an Oxford period, but a dot nonetheless.
What you did there.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Fifty miles.

BTW, which is better:

a. Fifty miles.
b. 50 Miles.
c. 50 miles.

my answer: all are awesome, but none look quite right. Maybe it's the period?
Bullet points are better:
  • Fifty miles
  • 50 Miles
  • 50 miles
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Originally Posted by RPK79
Nice Garrison's Cyclery water bottle.
Wait. How do YOU know about Garrison's?? You are not from around here. Or are you?
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80 Kilometers
264,000 feet
3.168e+6 Inches
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Originally Posted by datlas
Wait. How do YOU know about Garrison's?? You are not from around here. Or are you?
Everyone knows about Garrison's.
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Originally Posted by RPK79
Everyone knows about Garrison's.
...but, honestly I was just curious as to the name of the LBS so I used my Google-Fu and the partial information on the bottle to find out.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
@Ramona_W, are you and LOP handled on the pepper front?
Ramona's dying for some peppers. Who's got 'em? You or Ru-Ru?
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I have a water bottle from my home town's LBS that closed down a year ago this month. It's one of those fancy eco-friendly biodegradable bottles. All the printing on it has disappeared (I'm assuming it biodegraded). Kind of makes me sad.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Fifty miles.

BTW, which is better:

a. Fifty miles.
b. 50 Miles.
c. 50 miles.

my answer: all are awesome, but none look quite right. Maybe it's the period?
Half Century.
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