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[William Lodico]

Hey Anna,

No, you don't have to have your post-graduate degrees from an Ivy  
League school to ride with this club.  Mine (not a PhD) is from OSU  
(Buckeyes) and I was sporting a University of Georgia kit Sunday (go  
Dawgs!).  In fact you don't need a degree at all, except maybe from  
the school of hard knocks, or, as Mark Rishniw suggests, the school  
of strong legs.

Even among the erudite, feet of clay abound:  Our raconteur, John  
Dennis, you might want to know, is a specialist in water, the humble  
solvent of life, and spent a critical five minutes Sunday  
professionally inspecting something so down to earth (and clayish) as  
drainage tile on Sunday's ride.  Nor was he afraid to soil his hands  
in making ad-hoc repairs to his drive train in the shadow of the  
prison walls at Willard.  Our professor of urban history, Cliff Hood,  
has a book out about the New York subway:  down and dirty, not just  
in terms of the digging in the ground, but the politics of getting  
the digging done, as well.

When it comes to your hailing from the midwest, relax.  I spent most  
of my growing up in Cincinnati --  the Queen City of the Midwest, it  
calls itself. The flcc's "eminence grise", Ernie Bayles, is from  
nearby Bloomington, and can name names, if you need to know, of the  
Italian team in Breaking Away.  Misty McPhee, from whom John, I'm  
guessing,  learned about the post-coital elective options of female  
guinea pigs, was sporting a "Big F Club" jersey (for Fun, we're told)  
from Missouri, which was labeled with a warning about frequent pub  
stops.  (A fair number of riders made one on Sunday.  Some made two.)

Is there anyone out there taking themselves too seriously?  I can't  
think of anyone.  It's certainly not me.  (Note the correct  
midwestern use of the objective personal pronoun).

We're all about Big F(un).  No F(eck).  Join us.

Bill Lodico



On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Anna Van Deusen wrote:

Hi there,

I am new to the area but must admit to already feeling a bit  
intimidated by the email string most recently posted on this listserve.

Does one need a PhD from an Ivy League institution to ride with this  
group?

words like:

reconteur

cyanobacteria

fecklessly

hypoteneuse

hmm.... Most of my cycling friends in the midwest are completely  
literate and choose not to use words that make folks need to google  
"dictionary"

don't take yourselves so seriously!

Anna V