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Article #106: The Back Passage!

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Following is an excerpt from The Trivial new continence continents, and ended up
Times . It is set in a newspaper/browser in Venezuela or something. Feeling
setting. It is a column by an "expert" in peckish (understandable after an eight
historical matter, hence the title. Some hour cycle against the wind ), he went
consideration must be made for the many into a burger joint. He often remarked
memory inconsistencies of Mick Savage. He "Burgers in Venezuela invariably have
does his best! more grissle (cartilage, in English )
Mick here. than venison in Boston (American, in
It was a long, long time ago. Sweden, America )".
North Europe, Scotland, Ireland, North I'll never forget his adventurous
America and Canada were part of the same accounts of punctured rubber, mutilated
mainland. This mainland existed before beef, and Brazilian bicycle clips!
the crustal plates separated, and before How would such an adventurer find time
the Atlantic came into being. To give you for my great grandmother to be, you might
a reference point in history, my great well ask? Well, she had a few bucks
grandfather was just a young man. behind her, and some clever measures were
I remember with joy, the historical needed to guarantee possession (old word
accounts he impressed on us, as we ate for love ). Wait until you see the genius
around a primitive butane barbeque. To of this globetrotter/globepeddler,
clarify that, we sat around it eating, depending on air pressure status within
rather than eating the grass and sundry the inner-tube.
bushes around it. In a bid to "mask" the stench of sweat
Well, he told us with crystal clarity how (essential for long distance ), he used a
he used to cycle from Canada to Sweden in "primitive talc" powder, or "de-odorant
five hours, with no more than one dust". By inverting his bicycle and hand
puncture repair kit, and a bicycle, peddaling it, he was able to make dust
presumably. He didn't have to tell us out of any material by pressing it
every single detail! against the high-speed spokes. The
The roads at the time, weren't much like material he chose was similar to what we
the motorways/highways of today. Instead know as conventional coal/graphite
of the quartz and limestone impregnated carbon.
asphalt of today, they had a simple Hence, the term "CARBON DATING" was
sandstone. Incidentally, this was readily coined.
available from Japan which was only a few While a little messy, he invented a
hundred yards away, at the time. perfect product to "soak" the "SOUP of
Punctures were common place and both ADVENTURE".
courtship and commerce were reliant on a As with any back passage, more material
high performance repair kits. will be forthcoming. Thanks for your
On one particular day, I recall him understanding of times past, however
saying, he went for a cycle to discover trivial, Mick Savage.






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