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Does your bike need blessing?
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No
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...and i thought services for animals were bad!
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My bike's an atheist.
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"...and i thought services for animals were bad!"
Don't bikes have souls...
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Nothing wrong in giving thanks for your bike, ability to use it, the exercise and freedom we gain, of course (to whichever deity or none of your choice).
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I occaisionally pat it and say "well done"
Is that good/mental enough?Posted 14 years ago # -
Jesus was into motorbikes anyway! It certainly talks about his Triumph in the bible..........
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"Jesus Christ, Superstar, rode through town on a Yamaha
Did a skid, killed a kid", etc...Anyone else remember singing that in the plyaground?
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My Kids still sing it.......
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my son does not sing it, instead he sings this:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Back+and+Forth/1Zns64
which has an amusing video to go with it
it really kicked off when he was going "back and forth" on the swings...Posted 14 years ago # -
All of my bikes have been Touched by His Noodly Appendage.
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If on a long road trip I often pray to the local saints. Thus in Northumbria I incant to St Aidan for it to stay dry and St Cuthbert for there to be be no hills. I am an atheist but doesn't seem to do any harm.
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Pascal's wager in sort of a way but his bet only worked if there was no cost involved.
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our version of the superstar song was "wears frilly knickers and a wonderbra". Warm me up a seat in hell please. :)
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my bike's agnostic, but my shoes definitely have soles.
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@wee folding bike - I was a pastafarian but now I prefer rice...
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Gembo: a libation to the ancestors (local spirits) never goes astray either!
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"and St Cuthbert for there to be be no hills"
Does it work?
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Elwood: "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now."
AmenPosted 14 years ago # -
I think I displeased the weather gnomes at some point because I had a head wind today from St Leonards to Gorgie and then from Gorgie to Craigmillar. On the other hand, it wasn't raining.
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My bike was blessed by the p*** fairy today. Still was only the first time this year. The traffic light god(s) were also against me.
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Lest we forget Saint Denise, patron saint of protection against bicycle accidents, and whose remains rest in the Abbey of Flône in Belgium.
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What'd she die off? :)
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Beheaded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter,_Andrew,_Paul,_and_Denise
Perhaps Isadora Duncan would be a more fun choice
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Ah yes Isadora duncan killed by her scarf getting wrapped around the wheel of the open top car she was in..........did something like that not happen with the pedicabs a few years ago?
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Yes,
In 2001, shortly after the vehicles first appeared as a new mode of transport in the city, a 22-year-old student was left with a crushed windpipe, a broken neck bone and severe bruising in a freak accident.
The woman, who was from Ireland, was travelling in Edinburgh with two friends when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and she was choked as she was pulled from the contraption. She was treated in hospital in Scotland for several months.
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