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19248. arkymalarky - 4/27/2006 3:50:20 AM For an extra $1.99 a month I'm getting a web accelerator. I'm looking forward to seeing if it works. 19249. webfeet - 4/27/2006 5:19:41 AM I just had an idle thought: don't logos on t-shirts have to make sense? That the places on the t-shirt have to exist or at least have to be places you've actually visited?
Take 'Eagle Ridge Rowing' if that was printed on your six-year old boy's t-shirt, wouldn't it be strange if someone, say a neighbor at a barbecue asked your child, "What's Eagle Ridge? Is that someplace your family visited on vacation?" And your child does not just have any connection to it, but wouldn't even know what that person was talking about. They would draw a blank. Shouldn't a t-shirt at least have a context, a meaning? Something personal attached to it?
Take the L.L. Bean catalog--there are so many t-shirts for boys with made-up places written on them that all sound like facsimiles of real, cool vacation spots which *do*not*really*exist*. I'd love to buy some for my son because they all seem to fit in this kind of glorification of summer in Americana--fishing, lakes,, bears. But the problem is none of the places are real and I feel deeply uncomfortable about buying him a t-shirt which has something written on it that people, in other words, read when they look at him, that has no meaning to him whatsoever. That has no meaning in general.
19250. alistairConnor - 4/27/2006 6:53:43 AM If my children have to wear meaningless slogans, I prefer that they be in Chinese or Thai script, this avoids pain and suffering on my part at least.
My personal favourite, quite common around here, I suppose it's a brand name : "Coven Garden" (sic), with a .... kangaroo logo. 19251. alistairConnor - 4/27/2006 6:55:07 AM "Eagle Ridge Rowing" is pretty good, I suspect they are computer-generated, euphony, strength and vigour.
But you can't actually row on a ridge. 19252. uzmakk - 4/27/2006 12:16:11 PM "Our politics" is a very large part of what I want to talk about. I shall be in touch. 19253. uzmakk - 4/27/2006 12:16:48 PM The above is to ARKYMALARKY. 19254. webfeet - 4/27/2006 3:25:32 PM I was thinking, alistair, that the french didn't really do that as much, creating these fictional places that sound like real places where you, your grandfather and seven uncles all went river rafting or fly fishing for generations.
It's like trying to buy some authenticity or class with a t-shirt. Give your child an identity that has nothing to do with any of you.
19255. Adam Selene - 4/27/2006 4:05:59 PM re: Message # 19233. I also considered the Groundhugger XR2 - it is sooo rad! But then I realized that no one actually has a fully-functioning one in daily use...
What got me interested in recumbents in the first place was the movie Brainstorm when Christopher Walken rode his long-wheel-base, under-seat-steering Avatar home from work. You can see it in action here: Brainstorm video. 19256. webfeet - 4/27/2006 5:55:34 PM alistair--I forgot to mention to you that my sister was actually in New Zealand on a scholarship at the University of Victoria, in Wellington, where she taught fiction for 3 months.
She confessed she had a hard time figuring out what people were saying until she had sex with a New Zealander; after that, like some creature out of myth, she could hear everyone perfectly.
She loved it there, in every sense. And she brought us back elderflower cordial, a strangely delightful elixir that we mix with sparkling water. Or champagne if you can spring for it.
19257. alistairconnor - 4/27/2006 5:59:09 PM ... and then she recoiled in horror from her lover?
Must tell my ex that one, she'll love it. 19258. PelleNilsson - 4/27/2006 6:27:36 PM "University of Victoria, in Wellington, where she taught fiction for 3 months."
Very funny. 19259. iiibbb - 4/27/2006 6:51:48 PM Message # 19255
My frontrunner is the Lightning Phantom that's coming out this year. ~$1500 but certainly less than a P-38.
A lot of hills around here. I need something that can climb. 19260. Jenerator - 4/27/2006 9:40:10 PM I think companies try to sell experiences now.
If I buy the Hemingway chaise lounge at Ethan Allen, it's as though I have been to Sumatra with him while he wrote The Green Hills of Africa. At least, that's what Ethan Allen is hoping I'll believe.
19261. Jenerator - 4/27/2006 9:41:41 PM Starbucks cashes in on the "experience" of reward and perceived intellectualism its coffee serves.
I bet LL.Bean is selling an experience that is associated to a logo. 19262. iiibbb - 4/28/2006 12:03:25 AM If I were to go with a long wheelbase I'd probably spring for an easy-racer.
After riding a number of below-seat steering bikes, I think I prefer over-seat. I tend to like direct steering connections to my front wheel too. 19263. Dubai Vol - 4/28/2006 12:16:56 AM Wow. Just wow. "I buy my kids' t-shirts from LL Bean but lately they are too pretentious even for me...."
No offense intended, but, um, er.... 19264. judithathome - 4/28/2006 1:10:59 AM Jesus, the things you learn at the Mote! First I find out there are "professional smokers" and now I learn there are rules about wearing t-shirts!!
don't logos on t-shirts have to make sense? That the places on the t-shirt have to exist or at least have to be places you've actually visited?
I never gave this a second thought but now that I have the answer is "Huh? Who wrote THIS rule and why??" Wear whatever you want! Just don't wear one to the Opera or a funeral.
19265. Jenerator - 4/28/2006 1:22:38 AM I think you have to have a young child (right now) to understand, Judith. 19266. Jenerator - 4/28/2006 1:26:05 AM 
19267. Jenerator - 4/28/2006 1:27:05 AM No such hiking company exists.
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