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- From: pky@fmg.bt.co.uk (Pete Young)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: 2 wheels good, 2 rails bad (Was: Re: Monty Bleedin' Python)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.165121.3037@fmg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 16:51:21 GMT
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- Rick Jansen (SSCPRICK@HASARA11.BITNET) wrote:
-
- : Luxury!
-
- Yeah, very funny.
-
- For an encore, how about telling us what `SSC' stands for?
-
- Peeve: If the aforementioned `mealy mouthed twerp Palin' had really
- wanted to experience hardship on his travels, he could have done a
- lot worse than to start by travelling from Ipswich to London on a
- train. I've just done the journey twice. Both times the train arrived
- late, causing severe embarrassment as I rolled up late. On Monday, it was
- 90 minutes late, on a 62 minute journey! Total travelling time, 4 hours.
-
- Peeve: That no-one ever says things like:
-
- "This is the senior guard speaking. We regret that the train has been
- delayed due to the miserable failure of successive generations of
- incompetant governments in monumentally cocking up the railways by
- not giving a monkeys toss about anything except sucking the metaphorical
- dicks of the road transport lobby. And besides which we couldn't really
- give a toss about all you turnip-heads, if you want to live in the
- back of beyond that's your problem."
-
- !Peeve: On Wednesday , after 2 days of this, I got fed up and took my trusty
- motorcycle instead. Journey time: 2 hours. Who needs railways? Come to that,
- who needs roads? (it's an off-road bike).
-
- Peeve: Spending 2 hours on the minimalist padding of a trail bike, droning
- along at 75 mph and being shaken to bits by the incessant hammering of
- knobbly tyre on cracked concrete. No wonder Lester Piggott talks funny and
- squints.
-
- !Peeve: Following a despatch rider through central London. Or is this a
- Peeve? Dunno. It's always nice to know that there's someone crazier
- than you.
-
- Peeve: Some smug bastard in a BMW trying his best to run me into a
- traffic island.
-
- !Peeve: Getting away from him by riding across said traffic island.
-
- Fantasy: Popping a huge wheelie and riding across his car, like they
- used to do on Kick Start. Put THAT in your trip computer, Pal!
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