Long, long ago in an early Rivendell Reader Grant quipped about the difference between “your slender arms and your dolphin-like thighs” or something like that. I forget the article or issue.
Bill follows my writing much more closely than I do. On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 6:42 AM Doug H. <dhansford1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had to check Google for Dolphin Thighs and here is what I found... > > - In rare cases, dolphins have been found with extra fins near their > tails, which may be remnants of hind limbs. These fins are much smaller > than the dolphin's front fins and are about the size of human hands. A > mutation may have caused these fins to develop. > > [image: 🔥 Some Dolphins are born with legs, like how some people ...] > Dolphins evolved from small, four-legged animals with hooves that lived on > land about 50 million years ago. They likely transitioned to an aquatic > lifestyle and lost their hind limbs over tim > On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 8:39:17 AM UTC-5 Doug H. wrote: > >> It's all about the lungs at some point. Strong thighs help but you need >> to lung capacity to truly mash for long stretches of road. Dolphin thighs >> would be fun to see! Ha >> Doug >> >> On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 6:58:35 AM UTC-5 Ryan wrote: >> >>> and not to throw shade on Bill or Patrick...the reason I came up with >>> dolphin-like lungs was this: >>> >>> In one of the early Readers, I remember shortly after the Ramboullet was >>> introduced , someone (Henry Kingsman, I think his name was) used the Ram on >>> a multi-day hilly tour carrying ~20 lbs of gear, camping, I think and Grant >>> characterised him as having dolphin-like lungs. As I recall, Kingsman had >>> high praise for the bike >>> >>> >>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Dolphin_Anatomy.svg/600px-Dolphin_Anatomy.svg.png >>> >>> >>> Yup...large lungs >>> >>> On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 5:37:21 AM UTC-6 Ryan wrote: >>> >>>> I didn't know dolphins had thighs :) I thought it was "dolphin-like >>>> lungs" >>>> >>>> On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 9:11:21 PM UTC-6 Bill Lindsay wrote: >>>> >>>>> "I’d forgotten about that happy metaphor until Bill brought it up" >>>>> >>>>> Type "Dolphin" into the search bar for the web-page view of either >>>>> RBWGroup or I-Bob and you'll see the metaphor repeated ~10x by Patrick >>>>> Moore. I guess I pay too much attention to what I read... >>>>> >>>>> BL in EC >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsquQ4%2BE925dWDW7R00bkN4%3Df-8cMFndodjmKa2CMTv8Q%40mail.gmail.com.
