Air Brakes
Posted at 4:34 AM on March 19, 2009
by Dale Connelly
(46 Comments)
Yesterday's birds-on-jungle gym and goats-in-tree photos sold many listeners on the merits of looking up to see what might be overhead.
It's always a good policy.
The first year Eric Ringham hid on the grounds of the Minnesota State Fair for the "Where's Eric" game, he put himself on the roof of a building.
The second year, he was in a tree. The search team walked right under him.
Near the end of the string of comments on the "Bird Feeder Report" entry was this one from Gus, who listens in Northfield:
Earlier this week, I saw a bicycle-bird in a tree here on campus.
How it got there, I have no idea.
Posted by Gus | March 18, 2009 1:49 PM
A bicycle-bird? Yes indeed. Here's the picture.
And no, it's not Gus's bike, but this image does beg for an explanation.
I've never been very good with caption contests. After four or five words, discipline breaks down and I fall into an endless, pitiful cycle of word substitution and re-arranging.
So let's try a limited version - two words. That's all you get.
One word is OK if you can do it.
It's more of a title than a caption - the end-of-shift police report version of events. Readers can use their imaginations to fill in the blanks, given descriptions like:
- Angry Girlfriend.
- Evel Knievel.
- Off Road.
- High Gear.
You get the idea. Or you could write a short story, if you prefer.
Comments (46)
Never park your bike and then leave it in January in Minnsota!
Maple Surplus.
Squirrelly Whirlies.
Santa Missed.
Rock-a-bye Bikey
Limb Trapped
Oles Gone Wild
Branched Out
Lance's Arm's-strong.
I am thinking about the Wizard of Oz...can't think of a caption, though...
Enjoying every minute of Radio Heartland and the Trial Balloon Blog!
Trek Tree
Cynthia -- EXCELLENT!
Sky Cycle
Look Mom-No Hands
ET Take 2
Biking and Texting
College Kids!
Sky Cycle
If we’re voting,
So far Gail has my 2 favorites…..
Santa Missed & Lance’s Arm-Strong
Although it could be an advertisement for the new “Trek Eagle”
3 more:
March April-Fool
PeeWee's Misadventure
BUBBY?!?!?
Good Morning!
I hate it when that happens...
No Brakes!
Oops
Bad Valet
Tornado Tires
Mountain Laurel Biking
The creativity of folks on this list is fantastic starting with Dale.
Velocipede velocity
(Dude...I was hitting a good stride and rockin' the tunes on my iPod and dude, man...shouldn't have been reviewing physics at the same time dude...)
PeeWee's Misadventure - my favorite :-]
Weak attempts:
Bridge Out
No Exit
Bikeracks Needed
Wheels in the sky don't keep turnin'
Look it
Bike High
Peddle harder
GOIN NOWHERE
Maybe all our sentences should be only two words. Perhaps we would choose them more carefully
Dale, Isn't Bill Staines one who plays a right hand guitar left handed? Just came to mind as you and Billy are talking.
Right you are, Joe.
It's easy for Bill Staines, as a left hander, to play any right hander's guitar. He just flips it over.
If I'd thought of it, I would have asked Billy why he didn't do the same thing, since he was re-learning the instrument anyway.
Billy - thanks for playing in Albert Lea recently - hope you'll be back again soon.
Wheelin’ Blue
Squirrel Frat pranks
Bird alert: I just saw a male Northern Harrier aka Marsh Hawk fly across my meadow...whence came the name of my farm: Marsh Hawk Meadow.
Now I KNOW it's spring.
Time-delayed from six months ago:
"Watch this!"
What bird?!
Some wheelie!
Wright Brothers?
Hearing Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy" reminded me of one of my favorite poems:
"Motto"
by Langston Hughes
I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.
And Dale and Mike, thanks for "Waters of March", another of my favorite poems!!
Revenge
winter storage
Happenstance
Kittywampus
Harry Potter
Incredible Hulk
Weight Lifting
Cargo Hold's
Open Door
Cyclone's Debris
Perfectly Placed
Bird's Respite
Squirrel's Tandem
Fledgling's Dream
Debrouillard's Challenge
God Laughing
Bicycle Barbells
Steroid's Lift
Perfect Fit
Leprechaun Humor
Simply... Serendipity.
Superman's Cycle
"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman's Cycle!"
Tree Food.
Think Charley Brown & his kite vs the tree
The tree ate it!
Acer bicyclenus
The Bird Man Garage
ET Phone...
Aww Dale...I am just listening to the rebroadcast, and I have to say thanks for "On the Amazon!" I had that album when I was in Jr. High and I memorized and laughed at the lyrics so many years ago. I will tell you that those hungry menopause jaws are frightening me much more now than they did then!
Okay, since I was compelled to post, here is a tree bike haiku:
Wheelie on treetop
Branches in blue wilderness
Springing mystery
Tree Art
I think that perhaps my previous entries were a bit too poetic.
If we are filling out the end-of-shift police report, we need to consider:
Unrequited Love
Second Chances
Unicyler's Revenge
Former Spouses
Parking Protests
College Pranks
Sorority Initiations
Road Rage
Charioteer's Reincarnations
and
Sherpa's Dreams.
Well- perhaps I'm being a bit too silly now.
But sometimes-
silly works.
Thanks for the great photo Gus!
I think that perhaps my previous entries were a bit too poetic.
If we are filling out the end-of-shift police report, we need to consider:
Unrequited Love
Second Chances
Unicyler's Revenge
Former Spouses
Parking Protests
College Pranks
Sorority Initiations
Road Rage
Charioteer's Reincarnations
and
Sherpa's Dreams.
Well- perhaps I'm being a bit too silly now.
But sometimes-
silly works.
Thanks for the great photo Gus!
Iowa Rider
-this one's for my brother who does RAGBRAI every year.
BIG Speedbump!
Birdie Perch
Tagging off of Beth-Ann:
Look Ma, No Ground!
Revisions of 6:30 AM captions:
Limb Trapped - change to Limb Locked.
Oles Gone Wild - " Oles Unleashed.
Rock-a-bye Bikey - leave as is; 1st graders would like it.
Man, I eat this stuff up!
Damn, I forgot about the two word limitation.
Okay, then High Velocity.
Or Tour d'Bois (cheating with the apostrophe, I know).
Breaking Away (tribute to the best cycling movie ever).
Olaf Aloft
Tree In love
"Failed Attempt"
I thought "Bikeracks Needed" was good, too. :)
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