No one knows better than me that you have better things to do while reading comic strips than to vote for this or that, or tweet, or facebook or all that tiresome junk. (I have something like 40 comics bookmarked for looking at every day. How about you? A bunch?)
That being said, how about you Hubris a little? Click on TWC vote, over there on the right, and twitter and facebook aaaaaaaall your friends about Hubris. One day, when all people of the earth are Hubris fans, there will be no war. Then the kayakers will get all uppity and the mountain bikers and the skaters will have an alliance to limit the kayakers… that’ll bring the canoe faction in. The crossover with off-road unicyclers and those guys is almost nil, so you can see where that schism will start. Then the Surfing coalitions will mobilize. The final world war will end with the in-line skaters ruling everyone. It’ll be a peaceful world, but at what cost? What Cost?
Eh. It’s worth a shot. Vote and Tweet Hubris.
Full head of steam, and pulled over for speeding uphill on a unicycle, I hope he doesn’t wind up blowing a gasket. Or having that stroke everyone expects Lowell to have.
I was 17; I used to have a digital speedometer/odometer on my bike.
My highschool was built on 2 hills. The side road was a 30 degree angle, the main road, 15-20 degrees. I came down the side road, as the main road light turned red. So I saw no other vehicles, took a nice, wide, right hand turn at speed, and kept building speed. I lift my feet from the peddles (I couldn’t peddle any faster!) and next thing I hear is a siren. I check the side mirror (yes, I had mirrors, and electronic turn signals! I was an uber geek idiot! *L*) and see a cop waving me to the side. I stop and check my last speed. 72km/h (45mph) in a 50km/h (30mph) zone. Yeah, I got a ticket.
The Judge who I had to speak to about the ticket, laughed his head off (as did the rest of the court…) and he dismissed the ticket. The Cop, when asked why he did it replied, “I had to. No one would have believed me otherwise, and they still don’t.” Said cop took me out for a doughnut after the ticket was dismissed.
Awesome. Breaking a speed limit on one wheel would be really hard even with a schlumpf hub… on a bike though 😀
Schlumpf hubs were big talk when I was doing my best trail riding (and spending more time on the chat forums). I recall hearing about some poor soul who cranked up to a speed much faster than he could run out, and then, of course, had a UPD and went base over apex for some bad injuries.
I will go vote. But really I mostly on vote for comics that bribe me… By which I mean I really liked how Today Nothing Happened’s vote incentive was rapidly sketched more comic. I couldn’t not vote. I’d miss something.
Ah! I think Bear Nuts does something similar. I’ll try to figure out how that’s done and add that to the repertoire.