{"id":5127,"date":"2012-07-08T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:21:24","slug":"dry-bones-cable-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5127","title":{"rendered":"Dry Bones Cable II"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was taking the video for the previous post, I was hoping that each sail would be opened, one at a time so that there would be this magnificence tall ship, under full sail, cruising off into the sunset, the way it happens in the movies.<\/p>\n

Well do movies imitate life?  Or do we expect life to imitate movies.  This is a chicken and egg question. I guess in this case, I was hoping that life would imitate the movies.  Actually, the boat waits until it has cleared a small channel between the mainland and the island airport before it unfurls all its sails. So that would be..townhouses – in the foreground – Pirate ship in the middle and busy island airport behind…alternative film festival maybe.<\/p>\n

The phrase “dry bones” had me at first thinking of skeletons and, hence the pirate ship. But then I started thinking of bone rattling experiences. I had nearly dispensed with this idea when I came across a  small bicycle display at The Brickworks.<\/p>\n

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Or maybe it was a display of small bicycles \ud83d\ude42 Anyway, part of the display included a somewhat new Penny Farthing.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat has this to do with bones? Well it’s all in a name, because these curious beasts were also called “bone crushers” in the US – apparently they were so difficult to ride that they literally crushed your bones. Hmmm it doesn’t really resemble the stitch, but it is a vehicle.<\/p>\n

Actually a quick look up on Google has a video of a bike called a “bone crusher” but it is really a modified Penny Farthing. Here is an interesting video of them.<\/p>\n

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You decide – pirate ships or bicycles…..I am leaning toward pirate ships – movies have made them romantic – though in real life we know they aren’t!!<\/p>\n

Have a Block Buster of a day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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