Re: Killer Squirrel attack

Me

Chalo wrote:
> Dan O wrote:
>>> Mike A Schwab wrote:
>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/dbiked/...key=iOs1rM3MJzo
>> Since, thankfully, "... he's now ok" I can say it: Steel is real.
>
> Let me add that high-spoke-count wheels are also real.
>
> Chalo

WORD!

Cal

Brian Huntley

On Jun 22, 12:44 am, Chalo <chalo.col...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian Huntley wrote:
>
> > Carl Sundquist wrote:
>
> > > That said, I was simply trying to ascertain if there would be any benefit to
> > > breakaway parts, somewhat akin to designed-in crumple zones on cars. Could
> > > injury generally be lessened if a breakaway part was engineered so that you
> > > could have more of a sliding impact rather than a direct impact?
>
> > Perhaps something made of sacrificial foam, wrapped around one's
> > head...
>
> That's just for shipping. You can keep it in case you need to send
> your head back to the manufacturer for service, but you should not use
> it when the head is in operation. It can cause overheating.

My mother probably wouldhave objected to that idea.

Tom Keats

In article <a43413e9-9573-4379-991f-d35dd021c8c1@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Brian Huntley <brian_huntley@hotmail.com> writes:
> On Jun 20, 8:32 pm, "Carl Sundquist" <carl...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> That said, I was simply trying to ascertain if there would be any benefit to
>> breakaway parts, somewhat akin to designed-in crumple zones on cars. Could
>> injury generally be lessened if a breakaway part was engineered so that you
>> could have more of a sliding impact rather than a direct impact?
>
> Perhaps something made of sacrificial foam, wrapped around one's
> head...

.... mmmm ... Guinness ... next best thing to Greene King Harvest
Brown Ale. Anaesthetic sacrificial (oblationary) foam.


http://montypyhttp://montypython.50...Series_3/48.htm


-- Surgeon: Ooh! We forgot the anesthetic!

-- Operating Gumbys: The anesthetic! The anesthetic!

(At that moment a Gumby anesthetist comes crashing through
the wall with two gas cylinders.)

-- Gumby Anesthetist: I've come to anesthetize you!!

(He raises a gas cylinder and strikes Gumby hard over
the head with it. Bong. Blackness.

Anyways, my heart goes out to Mrs Squirrel and all the li'l
squirrelets. Maybe Mark Knopfler and the Boomtown whatevers
could pitch a benefit concert for them.


cheers, & my brain hurts,
Tom

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