> Oh, come now! My antennae quiver with delight when BSNYC (let us bow our > heads in wonderment and admiration .... pause ... OK, back to regular > garrulousness) pokes fun at something I like. He is just funny. GD vulgar, > too, but funny.
No so much the poking fun, but the comparison. Even an entry level understanding of cosmology is enough to show Star Trek is an absurd impossible fantasy (eg., Paul Davies,'The Eerie Silence') . On the other hand, a Rando style bike is arguably as good a way to credit card tour as any. If BSNYC wanted to compare Randos to nerds, he should have used nerds with nerding after something outside of the realm of fantasy, such as amateur astronomers or birders. Even trainspotters would have made more sense. On Jun 8, 4:10 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > > He says randonneuring is retro-grouchery in action, like nerds going > > > to a Star Trek convention! > > > It is statements like that from BSNYC that somewhat turn me off . > > Oh, come now! My antennae quiver with delight when BSNYC (let us bow our > heads in wonderment and admiration .... pause ... OK, back to regular > garrulousness) pokes fun at something I like. He is just funny. GD vulgar, > too, but funny. > > It's ok to poke fun cynically at things as long as you do it intelligently, > ie funnily. As with Evelyn Waugh and Paul Theroux, real, intelligent humor > and observation go a long way to make up for a nasty disposition. (How do I > know this? Never mind, just accept it as true.) > > > > > People have been flying to vacation destinations since the 1930s, and > > taking ships to vacations since before bikes were invented. Does that > > mean flying to your vacation or taking a cruise are retro-grouchy? > > Just pulled out Celia Fiennes; but her travel writing is just cataloguing, > tho' 17th century catalogues are somewhat interesting. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
