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  1. Repack Rider

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    I stayed in this town in Wales. The word translates as "home." It's not pronounced the way it's spelled, the "B" is silent.
  2. Repack Rider

    the random thought thread

    I would rather be right than bereft.
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    Sculls on Corte Madera Creek.
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    What are you listening to!?!

    The Collins kids, 13 y.o. Larry and 16 y.o. Lorrie. First punk recording, 1955, "Whistle Bait."
  5. Repack Rider

    the random thought thread

    "Mr. President, who are all those Irish people milling around on the White House lawn? There must be a thousand of them." "Those are my Mulligans."
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    Millionaire broadcaster working for enormous corporation gratuitously insults a teenager. Armed with nothing more than a cellphone, kid composes two tweets, fewer than a hundred words, and costs the huge corporation millions. Kid's name is even DAVID. This is a metaphor.
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    I sent five dollars to a website for information on how to make easy money on the Internet. I got a postcard. It read, "Fleece the rubes."
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    Trump was quoted as saying, "I come in peace." That was a typo. He said "Pence." The editors regret the error.
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    I guess he can read English.
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    @@@Slacker Thursdump@@@

    Got an email this morning telling me that Peter Sagan was in town, had visited the Marin Museum of Bicycling, where he took a brief ride on my bike, "Breezer #2," which is on display there. After that he hit the Tamarancho trails with Otis Guy. Yeah, pix or it didn't happen. Expecting them...
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    I get this out about this time each year. Whenever anyone disputes my politics, I whip this out, which says I earned the right to my views.
  12. Repack Rider

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    When the eclipse takes place as predicted, conservatives will say it's fake news. Everyone who voted for Orange Blossom Special knows that science is a buncha hooey.
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    I had a piano moving business. I made several observations. There are two kinds of piano customers. The kind that can't watch and the kind that has to. The customer is lying. All the time. About everything.
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    The last person to post a picture from their last bike ride wins access to the white courtesy phone.

    Went to England with my friend Joe Breeze. We took several rides, but this one was in freaking SHERWOOD FOREST. We didn't see Kevin Costner, but several hundred miles away we visited the tree on Hadrian's Wall where he shot a big scene for his film, "What if Robin Hood had been born in New...
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    Saw this in a little English town during my recent visit there. Their slogan is, "Everybody Hung Wang tonight!"
  16. Repack Rider

    ...it's a YouTube extravaganza!

    Eighth grade superstar owns a stage like Tina Turner. Bruce Springsteen wants stage presence lessons from her.
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    ...it's a YouTube extravaganza!

    A year after the audition above, Grace VanderWaal is performing in stadiums at the age of 13.
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    What are you listening to!?!

    Grace VanderWaal won America's Got Talent at the age of 12, singing her original songs accompanied by her ukulele. This is a studio version of her song, "Light the Sky," which was her semi-final performance. She was 12 when she recorded this, she is already a world-class performer and...
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    ...it's a YouTube extravaganza!

    I was at the Fillmore West in 1970 on audition night when the bands played for free to see if they could get noticed. An unknown band called the Santana Blues Band took the stage, blew the roof off the place, and within a month were one of the most popular bands in the Bay Area. Thanks to...