And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I had forgotten about those things. What's funny about is that some Japanese cars now have speakers that create exhaust sounds. You could put some version of that in your Tesla!
Clothespins and cards stuck in the spokes was (is?) a time honored solution to that.
ReplyDeleteI remember doing that. Massed bikes, careening around the switchbacks scared the crows out of their roosts.
DeleteWe used a balloon. Sounded like a harley coming down the road.
DeleteWe used to do the balloons. Very nice sound! Also occasionally used playing cards. I would never use baseball cards...
DeleteUnfortunately, I used up all my early 50s baseball cards that way. Don't want to think about it.
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I had forgotten about those things. What's funny about is that some Japanese cars now have speakers that create exhaust sounds. You could put some version of that in your Tesla!
ReplyDeleteHarley was considering that for electric bikes until they got shamed.
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