tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post4447918737125755888..comments2024-02-26T08:01:22.408+02:00Comments on Ziva's Inferno: The Tale of the Pink BikeZivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174558111427961797noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-81502231286421474772010-05-03T21:45:54.800+03:002010-05-03T21:45:54.800+03:00Leslie - That pink bike has definitely given me so...Leslie - That pink bike has definitely given me something to laugh about later, even though I struggled to see the funny in it back then. I'm lucky, though, because at least I've never wrecked a bike.Zivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18174558111427961797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-64058378806152233432010-05-03T06:52:41.039+03:002010-05-03T06:52:41.039+03:00I know it wasn't funny then but it is funny no...I know it wasn't funny then but it is funny now. Poor bike - it served you well.<br />I've been thru quite a few bikes but never dealt with stolen bikes. Mine looked like yours cuz I wrecked them<br /><br />gosh you have pink story for this next TT<br /><br />mine TT is http://wp.me/pDORj-zpmoondustwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09848554806751678968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-36251790339657935462010-05-01T22:24:23.538+03:002010-05-01T22:24:23.538+03:00Linda - Finns have a particular hatred for everyth...Linda - Finns have a particular hatred for everything that isn't alcohol. Sadly, our deep adherence to human rights has eliminated the capital punishment, but I'm pretty sure there's a special place in hell reserved for people who violate pink bikes.<br /><br /><br />Lauren - Finland - providing pink bike vandals with job opportunities since 2004.Zivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18174558111427961797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-34099921460180789292010-05-01T20:15:30.917+03:002010-05-01T20:15:30.917+03:00Finland -- bad for pink bikes. Good for pink bike ...Finland -- bad for pink bikes. Good for pink bike vandals. Great story and visuals!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01403714167201265834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-81376671848571690442010-05-01T19:24:19.802+03:002010-05-01T19:24:19.802+03:00Ziva, you managed to make tears fall in my coffee ...Ziva, you managed to make tears fall in my coffee this morning. Such a sad tale of bliss, love, good, evil, pathos, depravity, and loss of trust. I truly felt tears rolling down my face when I looked at the battered little pink bike. Do the Fins have a particular hatred for pink? Is it like serial killers always choosing skinny brunets? Who is the miscreant who would savage that poor little pink bike in such a foul way? Do you have capital punishment in Finland? I'm just sayin...Linda Medranohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440058568073764902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-3902300181609228712010-05-01T19:03:02.387+03:002010-05-01T19:03:02.387+03:00Nicky - I'm glad you asked, because we have a ...Nicky - I'm glad you asked, because we have a bunch of strange letters in our language, and we're very proud of them all. Å is a vowel, often used next to a consonant, but sometimes next to a vowel, and sometimes even next to a vowel on one side and a consonant on the other. It's a very versatile letter. Å is also a word in itself, meaning a smallish river, with or without a bridge over it, and sometimes with boats in it. Ä is another good letter. Ö is yet another, meaning island.<br /><br />*, however, is not a letter. In this case I used it as substitue for real letters in M's name. He's real big in the computer world and doesn't want his name associated with a silly blog like mine. But S*****ö would be a terrific name, don't you think? And I'm pretty sure the pronounciation would be something akin to Sgjorkaydseö.<br /><br />Mike - You're a nut. You can't ride a bike without brakes. You need to take off the handlebars as well, otherwise there's no challenge.Zivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18174558111427961797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-88427044729765067342010-05-01T05:38:41.765+03:002010-05-01T05:38:41.765+03:00Holy crap! Nicky, I forgot about that one. That wa...Holy crap! Nicky, I forgot about that one. That was the same bike that i broke in half when I plowed into that station wagon. I was such an idiot to ride that thing without brakes.mikehttp://www.weworkforcheese.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-91946218978079196122010-05-01T03:20:10.526+03:002010-05-01T03:20:10.526+03:00Wow, M's last name is S*****ö? In the english ...Wow, M's last name is S*****ö? In the english language a * represents a star, or the multiplication sign. We also use it to let people know that there is some really teeny tiny condition we don't really want them to know about at the bottom of the contract we've conned them into signing. What other strange letters do you have in your alphabet? How do you pronounce *? And is it normal to have so many of them in a row?<br /><br />Mike is lying about not having a great bike story. When you guys meet in Sweden (BTW, I'm so jealous!)get him to tell you the story of how he kept leaving his bike out in the street but it was so evil thieves kept returning it to him.Nickyhttp://www.weworkforcheese.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-57456397607639417252010-05-01T00:27:20.337+03:002010-05-01T00:27:20.337+03:00Brian - Yeah, those chainsaw wielding strangers ar...Brian - Yeah, those chainsaw wielding strangers are really a piece of work. Watch out for them. Happy theme thursday.<br /><br /><br />VE - It's very easy to forget how vulnerable we are and how fast everything can go wrong. At least I didn't have the whole going too fast problem with my pink bike. It was more of a question of whether it would roll at all, or just stand still.<br /><br /><br />Jo - It seems the people on my blog are really loving your last name (I assume it is your last name.) If I were you, I be careful, they'll be stealing your identity in no time. Happy TT, I'm glad you enjoyed my story of woe. :)<br /><br /><br />ReformingGeek - All Hail the Pink Bike! I'm going to make that my new slogan.<br /><br /><br />MikeWJ - In all fairness, Lance's hard-luck bike story only beat mine on acount of I don't have testicles that can fall off. So yeah, he's not so great after all. And my bike wasn't Barbie pink. It was hot pink, bordering on purple. And in my defence, I was 12 when I got it. I wasn't as dark then as I am now. Something clearly went wrong between then and now.<br /><br /><br />Mike - When we meet in Sweden, with lots of wine, I shall tell you all about the clown.<br /><br /><br />Mikes - Your fascination with Järnebrand is fascinating. And you will be even more amazed when I tell you that Järnebrand is Swedish for Iron fire. AND, M has one of those dot thingies you call umlauts, but aren't really umlauts in Swedish, because they're actual letters, in his last name. S*****ö. There you have it.Zivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18174558111427961797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-83473276165501496072010-05-01T00:21:18.233+03:002010-05-01T00:21:18.233+03:00I love it. Then we can have artistic shots of dise...I love it. Then we can have artistic shots of disembodied umlauts riding bikes, sipping cappuccino, and raving it up on the dance floor. It's brilliant actually.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-1733597105224948932010-04-30T19:09:14.367+03:002010-04-30T19:09:14.367+03:00Those two little dots will push containers of merc...Those two little dots will push containers of merchandise through retail outlets all around the world. Maybe even pink bikes. Here's my first draft of the television ad: <br /><br />A man is riding a bike down a wet street. The pink frame stands out in sharp contrast to the black asphalt. As he pulls near the camera, he stops, removes his tam and says, "Hi, I'm Järnebrand, and this is the Järnebrand Pinkster, a bicycle that revolutionizes the way we pedal and lock up our bikes. What makes the bike different? It starts with the umlaut."MikeWJ at Too Many Morningshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05357719098554598893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-2360067623025829552010-04-30T18:29:29.625+03:002010-04-30T18:29:29.625+03:00@MikeWJ - You need to copyright Järnebrand. Right ...@MikeWJ - You need to copyright Järnebrand. Right now. I don't know what Järnebrand would sell, but the hipsters would buy it whatever it was. It's all about the umlaut.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-45678963789399259392010-04-30T18:25:33.194+03:002010-04-30T18:25:33.194+03:00That was a great bike story. No. Saga. It was epic...That was a great bike story. No. Saga. It was epic. <br /><br />I have a bunch of bike adventures to tell, but none of them evoke the same emotion as this one. The tears, the anger, and the clown. I'm really curious about the clown part.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-41143719753494947902010-04-30T06:09:16.367+03:002010-04-30T06:09:16.367+03:00One more thing: You know this commentor named Jär...One more thing: You know this commentor named Järnebrand? Great name! It's like a brand name and a name name all rolled into one name. What could be better than that? Järnebrand should start a company and sell a really cool product called Järnebrand. Just sayin'.MikeWJ at Too Many Morningshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05357719098554598893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-41298867350446974622010-04-30T06:07:09.554+03:002010-04-30T06:07:09.554+03:00That is the hardest hard-luck bike story I've ...That is the hardest hard-luck bike story I've ever heard, although not as bad as Lance Armstrong's story about losing his right and left nuts--of the testicular variety--to cancer. That's a REALLY hard-luck biking story, even though it ends pretty well, what with him winning the Tour de France seven times and getting to shack up for a little while with Cheryl Crow, who can sing me to sleep at night any day of the week. Any day of the week assuming my beautiful wife, Kerry, is dead, of course, otherwise I'll also lose my nuts, except not to cancer like Lance but as a result of a swift, angry kick to my groin. Not that my wife is an angry person, mind you, it's just that she doesn't take to the idea of me cheating on her anymore than the next woman does, especially if the next woman is Cheryl Crow, Charlize Theron or has breasts and a functional woo-woo. Or even if she doesn't have a functional woo-woo. It's the "she" part that matters. I know of a parapalegic who doesn't have a functional woo-woo, but she and her husband are remarkably frisky, although how I can only imagine how. Not that I do imagine, becauuse that would be wrong, right? Not really, really wrong, like lying or cheating on a test or stealing, and especially not as wrong as trying to steal somebody's pink bicycle. That's really wrong. What if the victims of your crime have groceries to carry home, like you did, only they couldn't because your bike was the most abused bike in the whole world and just sort of quit working or couldn't work because it was bent out of shape? It's enough to make you cry and cry hard, although not as hard as seeing a grown woman on a pink bike can make you cry. Pink? Really? It's so girly girl. Bikes shouldn't be girly girly. They should be black, or dark red, or Bianchi green, or cobalt blue or even white, although white shows dirt and grease something fierce. Anyway, it's hard to picture your cute little pink bike, especially what it looked like new because of the way you described it getting all roughed up by gangs of very bad theives in the big city. I have something in mind, though. Is this it?<br /><br />http://www.morgancycle.com/bikes/images/pink-bike-k.jpgMikeWJ at Too Many Morningshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05357719098554598893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-559195370586752602010-04-30T03:52:13.774+03:002010-04-30T03:52:13.774+03:00All Hail the Pink Bike!
RIP.
I enjoyed your stor...All Hail the Pink Bike!<br /><br />RIP.<br /><br />I enjoyed your story.ReformingGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17990465686765948682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-824966551395714102010-04-29T23:08:53.719+03:002010-04-29T23:08:53.719+03:00I am so sorry to hear about your bike... :(
But I ...I am so sorry to hear about your bike... :(<br />But I am glad I found your blog! :)<br />Loved your post. Happy TT! Hugs/ Jo.<br /><br />Ja, verkligen roligt att hitta en "likasinnad" här i blogosfären...! :) Kram!järnebrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00412536729431881944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-78182550234562255992010-04-29T18:33:36.644+03:002010-04-29T18:33:36.644+03:00You have good bike stories. I too have been lucky...You have good bike stories. I too have been lucky to have not died on the bike. And I speak from experience for twenty years ago I was driving with a friend up out of a campground and four mountain bike racers were flying down the gravel road as we came around a corner. One of them rode head on into us. I'll never forget that. He died almost instantly. It still haunts me...Ed & Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730956006290504616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253452556872551898.post-10751232998146090742010-04-29T13:52:16.820+03:002010-04-29T13:52:16.820+03:00aw...poor bike...chainsaw wielding strangers...yea...aw...poor bike...chainsaw wielding strangers...yeah...oh my...happy theme thursday!Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.com