# I won a bicycle!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-a-bicycle/821327>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 14, 2018, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-a-bicycle/821327 "2018-09-14T06:51:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-a-bicycle/821327/21 "2018-09-19T21:54:06Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> This is bugging me now–there is an ancient Sesame Street skit where one character says “I won/one an\* x\*”, another says “I two an _x_” and the numbers increment upwards to “I eight an _x_”, at which point the other character says “You \*ate \*an _x_?” (Might have been Bert and Earnie, with Bert being the (_ahem_) straight man.) Wasn’t bicycle what was used for _x_ in that skit?

It was Bert and Ernie but what Bert “eight” was a sandbox, not a bicycle.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jBgUNmW4TMM/hqdefault.jpg "Classic Sesame Street - Ernie & Bert: Jazz #8/Ernie's Sandbox game") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBgUNmW4TMM)

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-a-bicycle/821327/22 "2018-09-20T16:28:57Z")

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Congratulations!

When do you start joining bike gangs, wearing skintight lycra, obsessively tracking your stats, etc? 🙂

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