The Day the Fixie Died
06-27-07 | 07:08 PM
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The Day the Fixie Died
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
06-27-07 | 07:54 PM
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That's a girl. Flashing her underwear. Not a guy. Flipping the bird.
06-27-07 | 08:11 PM
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The faded white borders on those pictures are so artistic.
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Reason is a scoundrel, stupidity is direct and honest. –Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. –Oliver Wendell Holmes
06-27-07 | 08:23 PM
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Seriously. All FGG postings should require at least one interpretive element. Love it.
When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
06-28-07 | 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by the pope
Seriously. All FGG postings should require at least one interpretive element. Love it.
When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
06-28-07 | 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by the pope
Seriously. All FGG postings should require at least one interpretive element. Love it.
When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
When I post my new conversion, I'm going to shop in a ghost of abraham lincoln in his stove pipe hat riding my bike into heaven and looking down wistfully at ford's theater. june cleaver will be on his handlebars with a fresh pie in her hands.
06-28-07 | 12:34 PM
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From: ~Serenading with sensous soliloquies whilst singing supple sentences that are simultaneously suppling my sonnets with serenity serendipitously.~ -Serendipper
Bikes: Guerciotti Pista-Giant Carbon-Bridgestone300- Batavus Type Champion Road Bike, Specialized Hardrock Commuter, On-One The Gimp (SS Rigid MTB/hit by a truck)- Raleigh Sports 3-speed,Gatsby Scorcher, comming soon...The Penny Farthing Highwheel!
Originally Posted by Burrito Eater
June Cleaver should be on a pennyfarthing going the other way about to throw a pie at Lincoln. Bonus points for John Wilkes Booth laughing manically on the back.
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06-28-07 | 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by lyledriver
I'm posting up my new bike with Jesus AND Tupac airbrushed around it.
Take that Megatron!
Take that Megatron!
heh, I am trying to get a buddy to do a painting of Tupac and Biggie holding hands doing doubles jumprope.
but this made me think that them riding a tandem together would be even funnier.
06-28-07 | 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by ianjk
heh, I am trying to get a buddy to do a painting of Tupac and Biggie holding hands doing doubles jumprope.
but this made me think that them riding a tandem together would be even funnier.
but this made me think that them riding a tandem together would be even funnier.
06-28-07 | 04:50 PM
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That frame is entirely too small for her.
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06-28-07 | 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by operator
yeah i got something she can ride
