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Edward Dolan
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
"Jon" <jonmein@none.non> wrote in message
news:484fbe4c$0$5886$88260bb3@news.teranews.com...
> "Wilson" <ww@dixiedancekings.com> wrote
>>
>> "Jon" <jonmein@none.non> wrote
>>>
>>> [Burt Reynolds]
>>
>> [...] Burt has only disdain for safety issues.
>> Burt Reynolds lives on the edge
>
> Be careful invoking a BR character, then.

We invoke whom we invoke and let the chips fall where they may. If they fall
on your dumb head, so much the better.

>> I'd venture a guess that cycling has less risk of fatality per hour of
>> exposure than minor firey crashes.
>
> Sorry, not according to the cited study. Nor residence fires.
> Nor hunting. ... But please, if you have access to studies
> that support or contradict the assertion that cycling is not
> particularly dangerous, please post references.

The main study is the one that resides in my head. Your studies are all
fatally flawed because you do not have the brains to know what to make of
them. It is best if you just listen to One so Great as Myself. That way you
will not fall into grievous error and give out bum advice on Usenet which
will lead to ignorant cyclists getting themselves killed. You are little
better than a murderer! You should be horsewhipped and then hanged by the
neck until dead.

>>> Cycling is not particularly dangerous.
>>
>> Right. Cycling has less risk of fatality per hour of exposure
>> than just about anything other than sleeping.
>
> Your assertion is not supported by any studies cited so far.
> Logically, the fallacy of reductio adsurdum is transparent.
> Rhetorically, it's not terribly effective, either.

I have already told you about the study that exists in my head. That should
suffice for a dummy like you. I urge you not to pursue any other studies -
ever! They are all clearly beyond your meager abilities of comprehension.
Nay, what I tell you is more than good enough as I will not burden your poor
little brain with any statistics. I keep things simple for the
simple-minded.

Cycling is extremely dangerous if you do it on the road with motor vehicles,
most especially if you take the lane in the mistaken belief that you have a
legal right to do so. That is the kind of thinking that will get you killed
because it pisses motorists off.

I charge Jon Meinecke with being little better than a murderer. Now let me
contemplate how he should be executed for his crimes? I think hanging might
be too good for him. Yea, he should be drawn and quartered.

Thus spake Zarathustra.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota