To: NicknamedBob
Interestingly enough, or maybe not.. you decide, L. Neil Smith had snakes on bicycles in his novel The Forge of the Elders. Ok, so they weren't snakes, they were semi-sentient tentacles from a larger creature, and they weren't bicycles but rather unicycles...
Er...
Where was I going again???
1,027 posted on
08/07/2006 7:24:51 PM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.- Aeschylus)
To: Dead Corpse
I know that I'm missing a lot by not reading him, but I prefer to forge my own way through the Galaxy.
Likely, I'll be accused of cribbing somebody's notes anyway.
Uncle Highpockets thought that the major challenge was in teaching the ostriches to ride the bicycles. He failed to consider the fact that the major challenge in any economic enterprise is making sure you get paid.
Of course, that is what led to his next adventure, but that's another story.
1,029 posted on
08/07/2006 7:33:35 PM PDT by
NicknamedBob
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