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It's 29 degrees outside and the wind is howling. Business isn't what it should be this close to Christmas. And I've only ridden twice since the time change.  Is it time for a vacation? 
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It's not only time for a vacation it's time for a ride!!! It's in the single digits here and in the negative with the wind we had last weekend. Just went out to the garage to show a friend my new bike and it looks so lonely!!!!!
I've got more business than I need, haven't even decorated for Christmas or sent out my cards. God Bless you and yours. Merry Christmas.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
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Ah, come on Eddie, cheer up dude! I think all you might need right now is some LAUGHTER in your life. YEAH, THAT'S IT!!! And lucky YOU, this website HERE just happens to have a thread runnin' RIGHT NOW titled "Some Global Warming 'Humor'" that should brighten your dreary little day RIGHT UP!!! Uh huh, and if readin' THAT doesn't cheer your azz up, then sorry dude, there's no hope for ya AT ALL!!! (though BTW, I gotta warn ya.."somehow" that thread has seemed to have morphed into a few treatises and suppositions about some kind'a conspiracy about that topic courtesy of the "Usual Suspects", BUT just ignore them, 'cuz remember, you ONLY need the JOKES in that thread to cheer your depressed butt up here, ol' buddy!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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OMFSM, I WISH it was 29 degrees. Mother nature is threatening to raise the temperature up to single digits below zero for the first time in several days.
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AH, but it's a beautiful BIG SKY cold! We are due to get a cold front, dropping the temps into the 70s....Brrrrrr. Had to put on long sleeve shirt to ride today. The electric bill will finally drop to about $100.  later, Tom. OMFSM? Oh My Frozen Speed Master? 
But, what do I know?
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Yeah, I hear ya Tom! Looks like it might "only" reach about 60 today here in La La Land!!!
In FACT it's makin' me think I might take, say, "only" a half an hour ride or so today to Hermosa Beach and sit outside at my usual table at the Starbucks there. That, of course, is IF I can stand this "bitter cold" for even THAT long!!!
(BTW TOM...I don't think you or I should ever work for any of those mental health help lines out there...there could be a spike in the suicide rates up north if we ever did, ya see!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Yeah, I hear ya Tom! Looks like it might "only" reach about 60 today here in La La Land!!!
In FACT it's makin' me think I might take, say, "only" a half an hour ride or so today to Hermosa Beach and sit outside at my usual table at the Starbucks there. That, of course, is IF I can stand this "bitter cold" for even THAT long!!!
(BTW TOM...I don't think you or I should ever work for any of those mental health help lines out there...there could be a spike in the suicide rates up north if we ever did, ya see!!!)
Poo on you and Tom Dwight!! 
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It's 29 degrees outside and the wind is howling. Business isn't what it should be this close to Christmas. And I've only ridden twice since the time change. Is it time for a vacation?
saw a guy on the freeway this morning...about 6am, dark and 13 degrees of nut shrinking cold.
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It was -15 this morning and if there had not been ice on the roads, I was considering a ride. I havent ridden in two weeks due to weather and I think I am in withdrawls.
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Thanks guys and gal. All I need is a nice day to go riding and a few more customers and life will be good again.
Didn't buy into the hype, you can keep the change.
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saw a guy on the freeway this morning...about 6am, dark and 13 degrees of nut shrinking cold.
I'm not even sure how that's humanly possible!? 
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AH, but it's a beautiful BIG SKY cold! We are due to get a cold front, dropping the temps into the 70s....Brrrrrr. Had to put on long sleeve shirt to ride today. The electric bill will finally drop to about $100.
later, Tom.
OMFSM? Oh My Frozen Speed Master?
70's!? 
I ain't rid'in in that crap!  Guess I'll have to wait for winter to end. 
And you may see me tonight
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saw a guy on the freeway this morning...about 6am, dark and 13 degrees of nut shrinking cold.
I'm not even sure how that's humanly possible!?
Yeah...I thought the same thing. I had to double take then when I looked at my temp gauge and saw 15 I think I felt my balls retract so fast I think they bounced off my lungs. I may have even shivered.
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saw a guy on the freeway this morning...about 6am, dark and 13 degrees of nut shrinking cold.
I'm not even sure how that's humanly possible!?
Yeah...I thought the same thing. I had to double take then when I looked at my temp gauge and saw 15 I think I felt my balls retract so fast I think they bounced off my lungs. I may have even shivered.
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Okay folks, I've just returned from my ride to Hermosa Beach. And while I was there sippin' my Starbuck's coffee I got to thinkin' how WRONG it was of me to say those earlier remarks about all that "60 degree" stuff and about how I might have to cut my ride a little short today out here 'cuz of maybe "gettin' a little chilled"! Yep, I have to admit I was wrong! 'Cuz ya see, once I sat out there with my coffee and started admiring that new bobbed rear fender on my BA that was parked about 10 feet away while soakin' up some of those rays comin' from that bright ol' sun situated in that clear blue and windless sky above me, well...it ACTUALLY felt a little more like it was in the low 70s!!! And so once again, I apologize for bein' soooooo wrong, and I HOPE you folks REALLY freezin' your azzes off out there today will forgive me! (ain't I a stinker???!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I'm trying to figure out how to sue Dwight for mental anguish . . . 
I would be unstoppable if not for law enforcement and physics.
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I'm trying to figure out how to sue Dwight for mental anguish . . .
Eeh!!! You can just forget about THAT right now, Cyndy!!!
Ya see, the wife contacted a lawyer about that YEARS AGO, and he told her THEN that that unless she could get it all on video and PROVE all this heartache was REALLY comin' from me, she wouldn't have a case!!!
(it's called "Reasonable Doubt" ya see...and WHO'S to say that what you're readin' here is REALLY comin' from the fingers of that person known as "Dwight" around here, HUH?!...people DO KNOW how to hack into other people's computers nowdays, ya know!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Hey, I could still sue you and you will have to locate and pursue charges against your alleged "hacker." I'll play the girl card and cry . . . I'll win this one!! 
I would be unstoppable if not for law enforcement and physics.
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HEY!! Now THAT'S no fair!!!
(dang it, I didn't THINK o' THAT!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I only wish that we had winters here in FLA that way I could do some work that I have been wanting to do to my bike but unfortunatly I can stay off of it long enough to get the work done . I guess im going to have to find me a place up north for the winter and get out of this warm sunshine , ok time to go on another ride to humm where to ?????
I cried because I could wheelie then I met someone without a motorcycle
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Thers nothing greater than a gator hater .I just might have to take you up on that .
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The weather is not important in this video but it should cure anyones funk. You have to watch thru to the end for the punchline
http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/2108614/1834896193/name/bestwifeever.wmv
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HEY!! Now THAT'S no fair!!!
(dang it, I didn't THINK o' THAT!)
Yep, I'll have to do it since I can't sue the weather for alienation of affection.
I would be unstoppable if not for law enforcement and physics.
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I'm actually a Seminole, which makes this winter BS worse!
Go Noles! I Hope Bobby Bowden enjoys his retirement, He was
the coach when I went to FSU.
Anyways, WINTER SUCKS! And it looks like we're in for a
good one.
Bring on the Spring, and "Climate Change"!
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HEY!! Now THAT'S no fair!!!
(dang it, I didn't THINK o' THAT!)
Yep, I'll have to do it since I can't sue the weather for alienation of affection.
Yep! I guess that's true alright!
(Yep, I think the N.W.S. once used the ol' 'Will Rogers-"Everybody Talks About The Weather But Nobody Does Anything About It" Defense' to successfully win their case against them, and it's been used as legal precedence in the courts ever since!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I do miss winters (Being from Ohio), Here it has been in the 80s . D A M N global warming wait thats right im in FL
I cried because I could wheelie then I met someone without a motorcycle
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(Yep, I think the N.W.S. once used the ol' 'Will Rogers-"Every Talks About The Weather But Nobody Does Anything About It" Defense' to successfully win their case against them, and it's been used as legal precedence in the courts ever since!!!)
I knew I never liked Will Rogers for a reason!
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Mother nature is threatening to raise the temperature up to single digits below zero for the first time in several days.
The woodstove has rediscovered it's healthy appetite for lodgepole pine. 
Eddie: are you referring to funk like Grand Funk, or P-Funk, or Funkadelic? I wonder if George Clinton is still at the party?? 
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Eddie: are you referring to funk like Grand Funk, or P-Funk, or Funkadelic? I wonder if George Clinton is still at the party??
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Nope! But I think I see BILL Clinton standin' over there by the punchbowl talkin' to this one fat chick in a blue dress!!!
(MAN what a great friggin' team we make here, John ol' boy...YOU set 'em up, I knock 'em down!!!)
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Oh, and BTW Eddie...THIS is the BEST it's gonna get here!!! If you're not outta that funky ol' mood of yours BY NOW, then I GIVE UP here, ol' buddy!!! (yep...believe it or NOT it's PROBABLY gonna just get EVEN WORSE than THAT old joke there...so ya BETTER start laughin' it up NOW, chum!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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chick in a blue dress!!!
"Devil in a Blue Dress" Mitch Ryder & the DeeTroit Wheels.
I'm still caught up in the EddieB's "funk" canundrum. Now I'm wondering if George & Bill Clinton are somehow strangely related. Maybe the answer lies in how you define "cousins", or "is" Maybe this hijacked thread has tossed the old boy into a Grand Funk
jh
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Thanks guys and gal. All I need is a nice day to go riding and a few more customers and life will be good again.
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...Maybe this hijacked thread has tossed the old boy into a Grand Funk
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Nah John, even thought Eddie here DID say that his business is a little down at the moment, I don't think we've derailed THIS railroad..err..I mean THREAD near enough to have caused Eddie to just give up and stop...ahem..."talkin' care of business, EVERYDAY!" 
(..but I'm SURE that'll all turn around for him REAL soon...well, I know I at least have my fingers crossed for him here, anyway!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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DOGGONE IT!!! I've just realized that is WASN'T Grand Funk Railroad who did that song...it was BTO!!!  Well...okay...BUT ya HAVE to admit that those two groups DID sound an awful lot alike!!! (BTW, stay tuned to this thread here folks because it's VERY possible that y-y-y-you ain't seen n-n-n-nothin' yet!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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29? You guys must be having a heatwave there! Here, it's seldom reached 20 for the last several days. The other day, I took the puppy out in the morning and it was nice and sunny, so I thought I would go out to the shop to get some tools to work around the house. I was getting out my block plane when it got dark and started sleeting so hard it sounded like a halestorm.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Actually, I felt like I was in a rut. Don't know why, but I get this way when the days are short and cold. I'm jonesing for a ride. On a good note, I went in for the annual doctors check up and I didn't hear the snap of the rubber glove. Also checked out the newly expanded Triumph shop in Little Rock yesterday. Two thumbs up.
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I only wish that we had winters here in FLA that way I could do some work that I have been wanting to do to my bike but unfortunatly I can stay off of it long enough to get the work done . I guess im going to have to find me a place up north for the winter and get out of this warm sunshine , ok time to go on another ride to humm where to ?????
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