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   ReneTray said, 6 months ago

   It’s been done.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

   That’s how I run 6 times a week. I set the elliptical trainer up near a tv set hooked to a DVD/VHS player. I just watch something from the past while torturing myself.
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   Gator007 said, 6 months ago

   Good point.
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   dbig 1oohh said, 6 months ago

   He’ll use it to place his junk at(like I did for a while,till we put it in the storage shed).
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   lightenup said, 6 months ago

   Take away the sofa and put the exercycle in its place. LOL!
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   rmacprivate said, 6 months ago

   @Nabuquduriuzhur

   Seems like most programming is torture enough.
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   P Partridge said, 6 months ago

   …I would guess she means hook it up so that using the exercycle powers the TV…actually, not too hard to do if you have the engineering skills.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   Lynn’s Notes:
   I have always wondered why gymnasiums didn’t harness all the energy that is wasted by wheels on exercycles and the like as they spin all day long. With that in mind, I think hamster wheels could be installed in homes where kids tear around relentlessly. If this energy was being put to good use, such as running the vacuum, perhaps we wouldn’t resent the mess and the dust they create quite so much!
   -
   Reminds me of “Gilligan’s Island” where the Professor builds a bicycle generator to power the radio and several other devices.
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   oldman2013 said, 6 months ago

   he can use it for electricity the harder he pedals the better the picture
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    howtheduck said, 6 months ago

    Poor Rod Johnston. Yesterday Steve Nichols was used as an example of why Rod shouldn’t have bought a chainsaw. Now Steve Nichols is used to tell him that he does not get enough exercise and spends too much time sitting on the sofa in front of the TV. The amazing part is that when this comic strip was originally published in 1983, Rod was not yet an ex-husband.
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    Barry44 said, 6 months ago

    And yet, she wanted to buy him a chainsaw.
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    T.E. Lawrence said, 6 months ago

    When I was living in Japan, the exercycles there had video game monitors built into the handlebars!
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    JanCinLV said, 6 months ago

    @T.E. Lawrence

    Yes, and the ones in my local gym have a TV built in.
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    hippogriff said, 6 months ago

    Pedal power can handle a black & white, but one person can’t power a color set that way.
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    mabrndt said, 6 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    Re Lynn’s Notes:
    
    A local TV station has been powering its state fair newscasts that way since 2007.
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