Motorcycle Chariots
An evening pause: A free people might do grand things, but they will also do silly things as well. This falls into the latter category.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
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Hah! before Wayne!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frE9rXnaHpE
Chris-
Har, excellent scene!
I was sorta thinking more towards this….
(so to speak)
Easy Rider (1969)
“It’s alright, Ma” ending scene
https://youtu.be/hjYAEtO-Ohk
5:23
“A question in your nerves is lit,
Yet you know there is no answer fit.
To satisfy, ensure you not to quit,
To keep it in your mind and not forget,
That it is not he, or she, or them, or it,
That you belong to….”
I’ve often thought that while necessity is the mother of invention, a couple of guys shooting the breeze and one of them saying, “Hey, what if…” is the father of invention. (Occasionally, of course, adult beverages might be involved.)
Cool!
Andrew R
One thing that sparks my creativity is when things are totally going to crap on a job. I do concrete and it is amazing how straining muscles and sweat in a time limited activity can bring out the AHA moments. If there was a bulldozer that moved concrete…….