>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I love Black Adder. One of my all time favorites.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>KG enjoying oddball British humour (sic.) Wonders never cease. ;-)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Check out the episode where they're about to go over the top.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Three of my favorite series are Monty Python (of course), Black Adder, and Absolutely Fabulous.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Black Adder, the fourth season (set during WW I) is definitely the funniest. I've watched each of the Season 4 episodes at least a dozen times. The episode where they go over the top at the end of Season 4 was very powerful.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Honorable mention for Jeeves and Wooster - it's only mildly funny, but I'll watch just about anything with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>You might also like (as they say on Ebay) : http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-books.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Don't know if you can watch the channel there tho ?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Loved black books. When a man offers him a lower price for a book and he just tears it in half.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>I discovered all three series on Channel 4 on line and realized I'd only seen one of them so catching up slowly.....
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>I'm watching Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon driving through Italy at the moment. That program makes me so hungry.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>What's the program called ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I think its called The trip to italy. They did a previous one round North England. Watch the Italy one. If it doesn't make you want to head south nothing will !. Its a weird mix of comedy and travel.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I'll try and catch it - but not much of a watcher.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I'm off for the annual cycling trip in about a month. Probably France but Italy is a candidate if the weather in the N. is dodgy.
>>>>>>>>>Did Italy last year tho -Mt. Blanc to Budapest.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Enjoy and take care.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>My brother had an off road cycling accident in the Cotswolds which he can't remember at all. He's ended up with a broken collar bone and a ruptured collapsed lung.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>He's a bit puzzled as he was in no hurry (he was looking for something he thought he'd dropped the previous day).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>He came to standing by his bike . Some walkers came by and he just said hello because he thought nothing was wrong, luckily another party came by and one of them came back and said are you ok. They walked him up out of the woods and called an ambulance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Seems like, IIRC, your family are prone to bike accidents ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>LOL Maybe family accidents generally ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>One sister was knocked off her motorbike some years ago. Broken bones
>>>>>>
>>>>>>One sister lots of falling off her horse. Broken bones.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>One brother couple of car crashes. One bicycle accident (this one) and many years ago one skateboard accident (broken bones).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Me couple of motorcycle crashes. Once through a car windscreen. One bicycle accident.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Not so bad but I don't know what to compare it with
>>>>>
>>>>>Sounds definitely accident prone. I'd guess that statistically you'd probably need 6 brothers and 6 sisters to approach the average :-}
>>>>
>>>>Late news.
>>>>
>>>>Fell off on the way to work yesterday (minor abrasions dented helmet)
>>>>
>>>>Weird accident.
>>>>
>>>>The left handlebar grip suddenly just slid right off . Instant no warning fall off.
>>>
>>>Ooch. You have straight bars rather than drop ?
>>
>>Yes I never liked drop handlebars.
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>Sounds like you now have one good reason not to like straight either :-}

Maybe Nick should consider pedicabs? ;-)

(Actually the city of Chicago, in its sometimes mysterious ways, just changed the rules for pedicabs in a way that is making the operators scream bloody murder. Basically the city plans to treat them more like taxis. The pedi pushers say the increased costs to them would wipe out their slim margins).