The Bearings, Vol 5, No 11
Articles in this issue
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Joke about a woman lecturer whose subject is 'What Tires Us,' which must refer to repairing pneumatic tires.
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Pun in which the president of an Anti-Temperance Club saves a fare by riding his wheel and applies the saving to beer.
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A dying professional racer is told by a minister he has a bright future ahead, and gasps that the blazing prospect is exactly what worries him.
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One-liner observing that repairers would make excellent soldiers given their skill at making charges.
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Satirical note on a Swiss town called St. Gall, supposedly named for the patron saint of fraudulent professionals.
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Anecdote noting that a club member who never swore when he rode a solid tire has become alarmingly profane since switching to a pneumatic.
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Comic misidentification of a racing crack as an eye specialist because he talks so much about the 'I.'
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Speculates that Congressman Jerry Simpson rides a bicycle to demonstrate the power of the political machine.
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Riddle-like observation about the impossibility of riding either slow enough for a pretty girl to catch you or fast enough to catch her when she is ahead.