The "F" Word
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The "F" Word
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.
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after reading this, you can stick A fork in me - I'm done
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Originally Posted by MichaelW
When you reach a fork on the road you can travel along the right fork or the left fork, hence every bicycle has three forks and two prongs.
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While we're at it, why does everyone say "rear triangle"? There are two rear triangles! One fork...two triangles...Are we square now?
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What about the term handlebars? Each of my bikes has only one handlebar.
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Louis, fork-give us for forking off on your forking thread.
(Please, can some power with some moral authority intervene here befork we're all forked over?)
Ironic, that someone is paying me to do work today....and here I am forking the system by using my hired-out labor time to take part in this. Just another BF workplace insurgent!
(Please, can some power with some moral authority intervene here befork we're all forked over?)
Ironic, that someone is paying me to do work today....and here I am forking the system by using my hired-out labor time to take part in this. Just another BF workplace insurgent!
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This thread is forking ridiculous...and I'm not even over forkin fifty!
Crazy old forks!
Crazy old forks!
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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.
And God help anyone who splits an infinitive around Louis. And don't even get him started on subject-verb agreement . . .
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Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
Yogi Berra said: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
What did Boo Boo say?
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#21
Okay Louis you started it....
why is bra singular and panites plural?
can a hearse drive in the car pool lane?
if the professor on Gilligan's Island could make a radio from a coconut then why couldn't he fix the boat?
Ginger or Maryanne?
why is bra singular and panites plural?
can a hearse drive in the car pool lane?
if the professor on Gilligan's Island could make a radio from a coconut then why couldn't he fix the boat?
Ginger or Maryanne?
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Originally Posted by jisaak
Okay Louis you started it....
why is bra singular and panites plural?
can a hearse drive in the car pool lane?
if the professor on Gilligan's Island could make a radio from a coconut then why couldn't he fix the boat?
Ginger or Maryanne?
why is bra singular and panites plural?
can a hearse drive in the car pool lane?
if the professor on Gilligan's Island could make a radio from a coconut then why couldn't he fix the boat?
Ginger or Maryanne?
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#24
Originally Posted by velonomad
If you used your fork to stir concrete would that make you a mortar forker?





