[Tfug] Thank goodness for Bill Gates! (was: Bicycle/Car Accidents)

[Josh Miller]

OK -

without cars we wouldn't have that terrific interstate highway system to 
ride our bikes on.

oh, wait...

Chris Niswander wrote:
>> Charles R. Kiss wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, if it weren't for cars there wouldn't be roads to ride on.
> 
> "Thank goodness for Bill Gates, without him there wouldn't be an Internet!"
> :-)
> 
> Now the next time someone says that about the Internet, 
> maybe we will better understand how people can say stuff like that. :-)
> 
> CHRIS NISWANDER'S CONVENIENT DIGEST OF HISTORY:
> 
> Amazingly, roads were widely used even before bicycles were invented.
> Bicycles were invented before automobiles, and bicycles were widely used
> before automobiles.
> 
> So don't be fooled by popular dramatizations that show people hopping
> their horses, wagons, and bicycles from rooftop to rooftop before roads
> were invented.  They are not true! :-)
> 
> Chris Niswander
> 
> 
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