how long will this fly live in this cup?
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RobW
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See an eye Dr. Dr Rosenblatt in raritan is good- and he's a TT cyclist
rick81721
Lothar
I know this work monitor is crap but seriously, where is it? Note a fly does not have an "f" on it.
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
The fly will at first struggle to escape, but eventually it will accept its fate, and then it will learn to fear everything beyond its confines. And eventually it will feel as though it needs those walls to feel safe. And when that happens, you will offer it freedom and it will only reluctantly take it, get a minimum wage job bagging groceries where it regularly and unnecessarily asks its boss for permission to urinate, before ultimately despairing of its fears and hanging itself in the low rent donut box it was living in on the bad side of town.
RobW
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Ha! To the right of the straw and left of computer monitor
RobW
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Almost all of your posts scare me
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
In that case, I'm glad I didn't go another way and suggest that Pearl lower a small bottle of skin lotion into the cup each morning with a warning about what happens if "it" doesn't put that lotion on its skin ...
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
Ya know. You were a lot more cheerful on Saturday.🙂 Must have been the traffic on the "Southern State" going home that did you in. 😉
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
Oh my god, not to derail the focus from the much more important fate of the fly ... but the traffic just getting off Long Island on Saturday night was the stuff of a Shakespearean tragedy. I left CP before the awards because I was starving for food (by the time I finished staring vapidly into space for twenty minutes at my car and finally got cleaned up, there was no chili left) but I told myself "stop for food once you get over the Verrazano" ... three hours later, and I was looking at my hands thinking, "ten fingers is probably more than I need." I finally got some food around 7:30 - three hours after I left the park.
Pearl
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
one of the many reasons i have not signed up, everything sounds A+++++ but nothing they can do about the traffic, unless I fly in
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
If I weren't a complete moron who never learns from my own mistakes, I'd say there is a simple solution to that problem: just stay over Saturday night after the race and leave in the morning. The traffic in the a.m. is never too bad (I mean, you'll always hit some kind of traffic going around Brooklyn, but it's not too bad in the morning.) But even with that horror, CP is worth doing. It's like a ten mile pump track.
Mountain Bike Mike
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Why? Can't you see the comparison to today's culture? He just explained how most of us live 🙂
Not to continue to derail this thread, but that's totally what I'm doing next year. It was just after 4pm by the time I was done, and the chili was gone by the time I put my bike in the car and made my way over. I ate about fifteen of those little corn muffin things and hung out for a bit, and then realized I should have brought pants and warmer clothes so I bailed before the awards. I stopped at a gas station for beef jerky, peanut m&m's, and gatorade and then drove home. There was an accident on the LIE and CBE, but I got home in about 2.5 hours (1 hour 40 if there was no traffic), so not too bad. It was $30 in tolls though. I stuffed my face with chinese food shortly after getting home. Still totally worth it.
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
I was actually explaining Brooks' plot in Shawshank Redemption, but I suppose existential fear in a post-modern society is as legitimate a parallel to draw from a fly in QuikChek cup as anything else. Well put.
Mountain Bike Mike
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Two Shawshank references within 7 actual days = Winning.. The other reference was a fun conversation at work...
I got it!
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
