The "F" Word
08-04-06 | 03:01 PM
#28
Louis, Louis, Louis, everyone knows that language is a living thing that changes over time. Hence, party has become a verb. If we take the cycling language into the new era, we might get:
I can drink all I want because I've got handlebars.
I go both ways because I BIcycle.
I won't even begin to suggest where rim tape will take you.
I can drink all I want because I've got handlebars.
I go both ways because I BIcycle.
I won't even begin to suggest where rim tape will take you.
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08-04-06 | 03:03 PM
#29
Time for a change.
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I hate these language difficulties. I dont care if I have a set of forks or a fork up front.
My brain hurts trying to figure this one out.
My brain hurts trying to figure this one out.
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08-04-06 | 03:54 PM
#31
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Originally Posted by Louis
Most 50+'ers will remember the days when the device used to secure the front wheel on a bicycle was called a fork. Nowadays as I prowl the internet it seems the word has become pluralized. Example: "I love the ride of my bike since I upgraded the forks." or "does that bike come with carbon forks?"
Rant warning!
A fork is a fork, period. It is not a forks. There is only one fork on a bicycle.
I have seven forks because I have seven #*&*$# bicycles and each one has only one #@&*$# fork.
Aw, fork it. I'm going out for a ride.
Rant over.
Carry on.
Rant warning!
A fork is a fork, period. It is not a forks. There is only one fork on a bicycle.
I have seven forks because I have seven #*&*$# bicycles and each one has only one #@&*$# fork.
Aw, fork it. I'm going out for a ride.
Rant over.
Carry on.
"...............and then the wheels came off"
08-04-06 | 04:03 PM
#32
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So is it a fork in front and a fork in back?
And:
Everone knows that the average male would want a wife like Mary ann in the daytime (when your in the mood for a fork) and a wife like Ginger at night (when your in the mood for forks).
And thats the forking truth.
And:
Everone knows that the average male would want a wife like Mary ann in the daytime (when your in the mood for a fork) and a wife like Ginger at night (when your in the mood for forks).
And thats the forking truth.
08-04-06 | 06:42 PM
#34
Ginger or Mary Ann, what a silly question. Ginger AND Mary Ann, of course 
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B'Dog
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2004 Salsa LaRaza aka "Mmmm, Blue Salsa" (853 steel is real, baby!)
2003 Kona Humu Humu Nuka Nuka Apua'A Singlespeed - Gone, but not forgotten
1998 Diamondback Outlook MTB
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08-04-06 | 07:28 PM
#38
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From: Small town America with lots of good roads
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Originally Posted by crazyb
And how do you clip into clips?
08-04-06 | 08:11 PM
#40
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What do you call that "lefty" thing Cannondale makes? A Fork? It doesn't....fork I mean.... yet they call it a Fork....why?
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Carpe who?
08-05-06 | 08:31 AM
#42
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Originally Posted by spearce
after i installed my new fork the other day i was surprisied to realize that i had gotten grease all over my clean pant.
Was it a simple yet elegant black spandex short, a khaki work trouser, or perhaps a traditional blue denim pant? And if it was a denim pant, had you cut it off with a scissor?
Pair of pants.
Pair of slacks.
Pair of trousers.
Pair of shorts.
Pair of scissors.
08-05-06 | 11:13 AM
#43
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Originally Posted by va_cyclist
A fork is a fork, of course, of course.
08-05-06 | 01:17 PM
#44
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Mary Ann (it's the pig-tails).
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08-05-06 | 01:20 PM
#45
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Originally Posted by RobCat
Mary Ann (it's the pig-tails).
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08-06-06 | 06:51 AM
#47
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Originally Posted by crazyb
What bugs me the most is people using loose or loosing instead of lose or losing, as in I'm loosing my mind.
lose, loose
losing, loosing
your, you're
me, I, as in "They gave a new bicycle to my wife and I."
We had a whole thread on this once.
08-06-06 | 06:57 AM
#48
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Originally Posted by crazyb
What bugs me the most is people using loose or loosing instead of lose or losing, as in I'm loosing my mind.
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08-06-06 | 07:07 AM
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I am a little obsessed, and was trying to determine how to fit to, too and two into one sentence, and it just got strange...
As one ballerina was recently overheard saying to another ballerina:
I want to have two tutus too.
Or overheard at a diplomatic event:
Did you two talk to Tutu too?
Now time to go for a ride...
Do you like to ride on two wheels too?
As one ballerina was recently overheard saying to another ballerina:
I want to have two tutus too.
Or overheard at a diplomatic event:
Did you two talk to Tutu too?
Now time to go for a ride...
Do you like to ride on two wheels too?
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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08-06-06 | 07:10 AM
#50
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Originally Posted by Little Darwin
I am a little obsessed, and was trying to determine how to fit to, too and two into one sentence, and it just got strange...
As one ballerina was recently overheard saying to another ballerina:
I want to have two tutus too.
Or overheard at a diplomatic event:
Did you two talk to Tutu too?
Now time to go for a ride...
Do you like to ride on two wheels too?
As one ballerina was recently overheard saying to another ballerina:
I want to have two tutus too.
Or overheard at a diplomatic event:
Did you two talk to Tutu too?
Now time to go for a ride...
Do you like to ride on two wheels too?