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- From: osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Leg Protection for cold weather?
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 12:12:49 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Message-ID: <1elu71INNhck@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>
- References: <1992Nov20.162634.7524@vpbuild.vp.com> <skais7k@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <skais7k@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- >For warmth during cool weather (since nothing we've had so far
- >in northern Cal could be actually called "cold"), I've been
- >wearing spandex athletic shorts under my jeans. Well, they're
- >not really "shorts", since the ones I've been using are
- >ankle-length.
-
- )smirk( Not to pick on you or anything, but this looks like
- a prime example of danskinaphobia - the masculine fear of
- wearing tights. Or, in some cases, (see above) of rationalizing
- "Well, yes I'm wearing a skin-tight hip-to-ankle garment, but
- they're shorts, or running pants, not tights." I think we can blame
- over-coffee'ed insecure phys-ed coaches for this one. :)
-
- ObMoto: I've been told that bicycling shorts are great for easing
- butt-burn. Comments?
-
-
- --
- -
- -John H. Osborn - Boycott Colorado
- -osborn@cs.utexas.edu - Enforced discrimination MUST NOT STAND
- -DOD# 2001 '92 BMW Paris-Dakar - Queer, Proud, and Angry
-