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30 Days of Photos - #11 - Wheels

Hey it's Wednesday and time for Pause Ponder and Pun. You can find our latest pictorial punfest over at dufus daze today while we continue here with 30 Days of Pain Photos.

So, welcome once more to 30 Days of Photos, where 18 self-flagelists bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 17 you can visit after you've been here:

Ziva, Mike, Nicky & Mike, Mo, Meleah, Bryan, Mariann, Malissa, Nora, Laughing Mom, Tanya, Elizabeth, 00dozo, Cheryl, Kristen and Katherine


I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
(John Lennon)

I gave this bike to my wife for her 50th birthday not too long ago. 

It's one of those retro bicycles made by Electra. Kinda cool. 

Oops, I just realized that now you have some idea of her age, eh? 

Sorry I mis-spoke honey.
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Cadeaux said…
Well, tell her to get her butt in gear and take it around the block...it's not going to do much good sitting there like that. Does she like it?
11 April 2012 at 08:11
nonamedufus said…
She loves it! A lot, wheely.
11 April 2012 at 08:23
Nicky said…
I have a retro bike too. Well, not so much retro as just really old. I love the angle of this picture, Dufus.
11 April 2012 at 08:56
laughing mom said…
Cool photo - I like the tread up in the corner! Mrs. Dufus is a lucky lady.
11 April 2012 at 09:37
Nora Blithe said…
You should fix that typo about your wife's age. We know you meant 20 and it's nice that you would give her a bike for her birthday. Brian once gave me a bike for mine and I love it!
11 April 2012 at 09:45
Cheryl P. said…
I love those retro bikes. My bike has 18 gears and I know how to use 1.

I think 50 and the numbers very near it sound good. It is the numbers that are nearing 60 that freak me out.
11 April 2012 at 10:01
Ziva said…
Ohh, I love bikes! You don't suppose I can borrow it? Mine isn't feeling very well...
11 April 2012 at 10:17
nonamedufus said…
Yeah, wheely. I wouldn't give you the gears, Nora.
11 April 2012 at 10:21
nonamedufus said…
Can you ride that old bike with those heels of yours?
11 April 2012 at 10:21
nonamedufus said…
I'm gonna print this comment out and give it to her. That's what I keep telling her, too.
11 April 2012 at 10:22
nonamedufus said…
Oh, believe me, if you saw her you'd think she was in her twenties. (How was that, hon?)
11 April 2012 at 10:23
nonamedufus said…
Considering my 60th is fast approaching, I couldn't agree with you more.
11 April 2012 at 10:23
nonamedufus said…
Why, is your bike tire-d? Feeling a little flat, maybe?
11 April 2012 at 10:25
Quirky Loon said…
Mis-SPOKE? It took two readings to get it.

I think I need another DDP!

heh heh
11 April 2012 at 11:11
nonamedufus said…
Two readings to get it? You're slipping Quirks. Get a grip. (Bicycle grip...get it?)
11 April 2012 at 11:45
Linda Medrano said…
Sweet! And a nice photo too!
11 April 2012 at 12:29
Mike said…
I got a thing for bikes. Your photo *spoke* to me.
11 April 2012 at 13:09
Unfinished Person said…
You're not going to be a wheel someday. You already are. :)
11 April 2012 at 13:39
Mikewj said…
Revealed your wife's age, huh? Well, I guess you'll be spending some time on the wheel today. Maybe the rack, too.
11 April 2012 at 13:42
Nora Blithe said…
Not as good as your last one.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

-----Original message-----
11 April 2012 at 14:24
meleahrebeccah said…
Love that photo AND that John Lennon song!
11 April 2012 at 15:11
00dozo said…
Dang! I knew I should've gone with the lyrics for, "They're Coming To Take Me Away" in my post for today, but to be technical, "they" haven't reached - yet. I'm desperately trying to remember that Lennon song but Malisa's, "The wheels on the bus ..." has earwormed something awful. And don't you dare! Don't even think about it.

Love the angle of this shot, and the photo itself.

"Happy (Belated) Birthday, Mrs. D!"

;-)
11 April 2012 at 15:19
nonamedufus said…
They say the best way to get rid of an earworm is to replace it with a John Sousa march, oh, like The Liberty Bell (theme from Monty Python). I don't know what to do to get rid of the John Sousa march.

http://youtu.be/49c-_YOkmMU

(You're a couple of years late with the belated b'day wishes.)
11 April 2012 at 15:25
nonamedufus said…
Yeah, I guess it's too late to back-pedal now.
11 April 2012 at 15:34
nonamedufus said…
I like that song a lot too. Mostly because Yoko isn't singing in it. I'm glad you like the pic.
11 April 2012 at 15:35
nonamedufus said…
You love bikes, then? There's no way I could derail you?
11 April 2012 at 15:42
nonamedufus said…
Thanks , Linda. My wife really loves that thing. Kinda nice retro is in these days. I'm talking about the bike.
11 April 2012 at 15:43
nonamedufus said…
If I were to videotape my wife riding the bike I could put it on You "Tube".
11 April 2012 at 15:45
Mike said…
Derail? Oh gimme a brake.
11 April 2012 at 17:06
nonamedufus said…
Don't tread on me, man.
11 April 2012 at 17:16
Mo "Mad Dog" Stoneskin said…
It's a gorgeous photo, probably my favourite so far of the Wheels theme although as you are clearly in trouble for revealing (vaguely and approximately) you're wife's age I'm going to stop flattering you and instead send you a bottle of fine wine which you can smash over a boat in a furious maiden voyage launch. That should make you feel much better.
11 April 2012 at 17:32
Quirky Loon said…
Ay, yi, yi!

*smile*
11 April 2012 at 17:36
nonamedufus said…
Don't send the wine. If my wife got hold of it and decided against drinking it (unlikely) she'd probably smash it over my head.
11 April 2012 at 17:37
Cheryl said…
A friend gave me the perfect solution to earworm: sing the Happy Birthday song a couple of times and poof! Problem solved.
11 April 2012 at 19:49
Cheryl said…
I'm going to let this go since it is punfest over on dufusdaze. Just don't do it again.
11 April 2012 at 19:50
Cheryl said…
Just slammed into 55 last month. I may never recover.
11 April 2012 at 19:51
Cheryl said…
This is an amazing shot & I love those lyrics. Once you hit a certain age, the phrase "not too long ago" is fairly meaningless. I wish I had the energy to play the punny game y'all got going on but damn I'm tire-d.
11 April 2012 at 19:55
nonamedufus said…
Thanks, Cheryl. The puns, by the way, aren't actually of the highest calliper.
11 April 2012 at 20:38
nonamedufus said…
I'll have to try that.
11 April 2012 at 20:39
00dozo said…
Oh, I love the Monty Python Theme (it's way better than what I thought you might go with). Yeah, I can handle that - it's only a couple of bars, really, and it makes me giggle at the end.

(And, "Ooops" on my overly belated b'day wishes. Sorry.)

;-)
11 April 2012 at 20:50
00dozo said…
Hmmm ... I'll have to try that sometime. Thanks for the tip, Cheryl!

;-)
11 April 2012 at 20:50
Maryse Pesant said…
why would I waste a good bottle of wine on your head ?? Plus, I would have to pick up the mess
11 April 2012 at 21:09
nonamedufus said…
Just as I thought, dear.
11 April 2012 at 21:13
Kristen said…
Hahaha. I love coming over here. Seriously. This is the best thing I've done on my blog so far - joining you misfits.
11 April 2012 at 23:40
nonamedufus said…
Who you calling a misfit? By the way some people have been re-cycling some of these puns.
12 April 2012 at 07:30
nonamedufus said…
So you'll let it coast, then, Cheryl?
12 April 2012 at 07:31
nonamedufus said…
It's all downhill from there.
12 April 2012 at 07:32
Cheryl said…
Coasting my way into my twilight years.
12 April 2012 at 09:23
Cheryl said…
I guess the yolks on you then, isn't it?
12 April 2012 at 09:24
nonamedufus said…
Stop egging me on.
12 April 2012 at 14:17
nonamedufus said…
Lady? (gah gah?)
12 April 2012 at 14:18
nonamedufus said…
That's a heavy cross(bar) to bear.
12 April 2012 at 14:20
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