Scootering
I know… Spill’s artwork didn’t get on the scooter.
This is my reaction to the stupid gas prices. I love my Brompton bicycle!
I know… Spill’s artwork didn’t get on the scooter.
This is my reaction to the stupid gas prices. I love my Brompton bicycle!
Brig,
When I was out there early in March, gas was just under $4.00 a gal.
It was $3.49 here in Minnesota when I got back. It recently hit $3.79.
My little Miatta gets 32.5 mpg, but it takes premium at $0.20 more.
Remember the T.B. and S.B. I posted for Halloween? Here we go again.
Party of the 2nd part.
The Return of T.B. and S.B.
T.B.: That’s right folks. We’re back! Not because you demanded it, but because we demanded it.
S.B.: What were our demands again?
T.B.: Shorter arms and longer sleeves. Are you chewing gum?
S.B.: No. I’m having a toffee break.
T.B.: Sorry folks. Normally, I don’t mind him, but someone has to.
S.B.: Hey! I have a mind like a steel trap.
T.B.: Yeah, and it’s rusted shut. What’s on today’s agenda?
S.B.: I don’t know about yours, but mines got a roof rack.
T.B.: What’s got a roof rack?
S.B.: My Agenda. It’s got a CD player too.
T.B.: How’s the mileage on it?
S.B.: The salesman said I can get up to 30,000 miles on a single set of tires.
T.B.: If you had a brain, I’d smack you with it.
S.B.: That’s what you said the last time.
T.B.: And I’m still looking for it. We have to go folks.
S.B.: What does this button d…
Joe… Who are T.B. and S.B., the initials have got to stand for something, they usually do*. Those guys sound much like the Car Guys on NPR who also do up weekly columns as Click and Clack in newspaper automotive sections. Very funny.
brig… Some of those more affordable scooters I linked to yesterday for Pasha, namely Yamahas and Hondas, get up to 100 mpg. With that kind of miserly use of go-juice, Randie’s 3 gallons can take her 300 miles, albeit slowly with cars passing her at every occasion they can get. She’ll be off that bike soon enough. Also, you may not have seen a link I found about a Vespa Club out your way and sent later in the day, but they must be fans of your Vespid devotional strip, i.e. Squid Row. I’m sure they’ll let you take one of their scoots out for a spin; just don’t be like that woman-of-heft from that “What the Sell?” show that crashes the scoot.
* My long-ago favorite think tank (they wouldn’t hire me and then first changed-out and later abandoned their terrific, industry standard, psychographic-profiling “typology” named VALS) has initials that do not stand for anything. Originally called Stanford Research Institute, the place(s) (Palo Alto & Princeton) were widely known as SRI. So, when the University cut ties to them due to their military (ahem, “defense”) work, they kept their famous initials but dropped the meaning.
http://www.sri.com/
Quote of the day: If you had a brain, I’d smack you with it.
If twelve bucks is hard to come by… FREE is still better. Don’t get Randie wrong… she’s still gonna take that Vespid out… but just when she can afford the gas. I did fudge a bit on what a Vespa gas tank can hold…. 2.3 is what the new ones will hold. How many miles per gallon you get depends on the model. Randie’s (Em’s) will get about 75…. the math works out to 172-ish.
Stick, they are Top Banana and Second Banana.
Brig, I get the feeling Randie’s dream of owning a Vespid just died a little. Sigh.
brig… nice math. Yah, I know Randie will be biking and hoofing it much, but that fill up she just did will save her 172 miles worth of leg excercise, and likely a pair of shoes. OK, my turn, 2.3 at $4 a gallon makes that fill up $9.20 exclusive of any wayward burritos, snack cakes, corndogs, chips or sodas, oh my.
And, from yesterday…local, to you, folks that must adore your Vespid devotion…which may well be able to springboard you into some complementary scootering…
http://born2scoot.org/
Astra… Yah, good thing she already has a helmet. Hopefully her new pink pearl won’t ever need new tires, or oil, or batteries, or tune-ups, or license registration, or parking permits. I’m also not sure how’s she’s gonna swing past insurance mandates. Oh wait, I have it, a sideline business; Randie’s Pink Taxi. Oops. Business licensing, special drivers licensing, more gas, more insurance, more maintenance, bookkeeping, taxes, long hours, no sleep.
Astragali is right! I wrote a bunch of T.B. and S.B. dialogue when I was commenting on the Pibgorn site. The bits are based on the old comedy teams like Abbot and Costello. Since the truth is out, I have one more for you:
T.B. and S.B. sally forth!
T.B.: Have you got your script?
S.B.: Yeah. What page are we on?
T.B.: Page 9. We better get started. Hiya Folks!
S.B.: Are your parents here?
T.B.: No. I’m talking to the audience. AKA, The Fourth Wall.
S.B.: I don’t see ’em. Where are they?
T.B.: Joe hasn’t posted us yet. Whoa! Here we go.
S.B.: Oh, there they are! Hi everyone!
T.B.: S.B., did you know that our secret is out?
S.B.: Not the one about the llama is it?
T.B.: I hope not. No. That our initials stand for Top Banana and…
S.B.: Oh, um, Second Banana. Why are you the Top Banana?
T.B.: We flipped a coin remember? If it came up heads, I won.
S.B.: I remember. It came up tails, I lost. Hey waitaminute!
T.B.: Sorry Folks! We gotta go before we reach page 10.
thanks, joe
And don’t forget, Brig… although Em is certainly thoughtful enough to do it, she was so busy (and excited!) getting ready to move to London, she may have forgotten to fill the gas tank all the way.
RavenCon was good to Squid Row Comics. We sold a half-dozen buttons (“Drink Coffee, Make Art” & “Holy Mother of Peanut Butter”), both the “Holy Mother of Peanut Butter, I’m Out Of Coffee!” books, a print of “Randie Dreams of Paris”, gave out a dozen business cards, and passed out “FUH!” stickers to the cute kids who stopped by the table. We also had a number of people comment on Brig’s art style – all positive – and had one guy gush over it.
So if any of you who stopped by the table read this, welcome to Squid Row Comics and be sure to say, “Hi!”
Pete… you’re a great ambassador for Squid… I am so pleased with the outcome of your weekend!
And, YES… Welcome New Squiddies! Enjoy the squid! (jus’ so ya know… it’s a bit squishy.)