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I ran across this site while googling. Haven't looked through it much yet, but here tis, fwiw: http://www.unwords.com/
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fun! thanks, Anna! Quote:
guitarded (g?-tärd-?d)
a. (adj.) One who owns a guitar and displays it prominently to make oneself appear more attractive, even though they have no idea how play.
heh.
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Actually, i don't care for "guitarded". Of course I own a guitar, that I got for next to nothing decades ago and gave up on learning to play.
I have several friends who play guitar. They enjoy picking it up and playing. It's been no skin off my nose to lug it thru life and have it around for their pleasure in playing and my own in listening. If not prominently displayed, it is certainly not hidden. It sits in a corner.
Funny thing, I've only ever been asked once or twice if I play.
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Glancing thru the site, I don't see that much fun there, either.
Having worked in automotive repair for years, I can certainly say that the definition of "riceburner" is nothing in current usage abd as applied to motorcycles is only out-dated by three decades or so.
"Aeroma" as the aroma from an aerobics class?
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formerly known as etaoin...
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A young fellow, testifying in court last week, described his Japanese-manufacture motorcycle as a "rice rocket." Should I have been offended?
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I often have the opportunity to hang out with "bikers" and they all (still) call them "rice-burners". As far as I know it originated from early Japanesse motorcycles which burned rice-alcohol, but clearly Harley owners use the term with quite different *affections.
A "crotch rocket" is a specific motorcycle design, originally for racing, where the rider is bent over forward in an effort to distribute weight evenly between the front and back wheels and add speed through aerodynamics.
A "Rice rocket" would be a Japaneese racing bike, just like I've heard BMW's called "Brat rockets" and Ducatti's called a "Pasta rockets". If the Norwegians made a racing motocycle you could bet I'd call it a "Herring Rocket"... or sump'in.
There's a whole subculture of "ricing" one's vehicle similar to "hot rodding"... not very mainstream 50 years ago either, but.
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BMW's called "Brat rockets" I'll have to tell Hubby! 
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It's not so much that I hang out with bikers, more that I am one. I've been in the wind for a quarter century, I've been riding Beemers (BMW) for more than a decade, rode a Harley for ten years before that, and have never heard the term "Brat rocket". 'Schnitzel burner' yes, brat rocket no.
The only words I have heard rocket appended to are rice and crotch. Rocket does not designate racing bikes, it merely indicates the performance capabilities of ordinary Japanese street bikes. (Way back in the day, as the saying goes, Birmingham Small Arms, BSA, produced the Rocket 3.) The Kawasaki H1 and the Yamaha RD were known as "crotch rockets" long before the more recent vogue of radically race-styled machines. I also worked for a branded Big 4 dealer and in independent bike shops for alost 10 years, so the cant was my everyday language.
I don't think that "rice burner" had anything to do with the fuel allegedly used in the machines - certainly they never used rice based alcohol fuel in this country. I believe it was just your ordinary racist perjorative.
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Quote:
I've been riding Beemers (BMW) for more than a decade,
Back in the day, a BMW motorcycle was known as Bumble Double U. BSA was a Beezer (or a Beezah, depending on your provenance). This was from one of the two out groups at Beloit College in the pre-60 60s. The Philosophy Group were all a bunch of motorhicle hoodlums and most rode Harleys. There was one guy had a BMW one lunger. You could always tell from blocks away that it was him because you couldn't hear it. There was also a high school student that hung out with us, the Philosophy Group and the Archy Group both, that had a Harley, but he had an Ariel Square Four, too, but that's a whole nother story.
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