Re: [CR]1964 De Rusta

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From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]1964 De Rusta
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:16:27 -0700
To: CR RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


On Jun 26, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Dan Kehew wrote:
>> ...and I am not even the most demanding guy like some on this list
>> who
>> are veritable princes and princesses who are kept awake by a little
>> pea.
>
> Now, before any of you out there start scratching your heads and
> wondering if this could possibly be a reference to YOU specifically,
> the answer is no.
>
> Garth is referring to ME. Just ME. I hate peas. Crazy metabolic thing
> happens to my digestion, acting like super-caffeine, only really
> unpleasant. Sleeping just becomes impossible after modest intake of
> pea-matter. And I have always suspected that I am royalty of some
> sort...people keep saying I'm a "Royal Payne" even though that's not
> my last name. So the prince thing kinda applies, too. How Garth ever
> found out, let alone how he ties this into bikes, I dunno.
>
> The rest of you, not so much. So don't worry about it.
>
> Dan (your highness) Kehew
> Davis (land of bicycle happy-ever-afters) California USA

Oh... I get it now!

Had me scratching my noggin... "princes and princesses who are kept awake by a little pea"... I thought Garth was referring to us old guys getting up in the middle of the night for a pee.

Silly me!

Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, CA USA