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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on September 8, 2010 at 8:56am

LOL -who me? :-P

Words are fun. We can disagree non-violently and nobody needs to be whacked over the head (or through a windshield) with a U-lock ;)

H3N3 said:

OK, thanks-- I thought maybe you were looking for an argument.

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on September 8, 2010 at 9:23am

Oh, yes -you needed me!

I'll see you that and give you my own Melissa take-off:

I've got a chrome-plated bike
Scrappers in the alley trying to tear it apart
I've got 'linkers crying from up above
and they got rust in their eyes, they got rust in their posts
But I have learned to leave no lock unlocked
And keep the wall against my bike
And this ride is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night

I got a two dollar tube
Frame pump in my pouch, and peel-off patches in my hair
I got bad intentions on the soles of my SPD's
With these red hot bearings and these chromium blues
And I will feel another linker`s wheel
And ride for miles and not look back
And this ride is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night

On my chrome-plated bike
Scrappers in the alley trying to tear it apart
I got 'linkers crying from up above
And they got rust in their eyes, they got rust in their posts
And the only way I know where this month's mass will go
Is when I`m sleeping in Daley Plaza
And the ride is real as the day is long
And the night is black, as black as night
And the night is black, as black as night
...



H3N3 said:

James:

Smile an everlasting smile, a smile can bring you
near to me.

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Permalink Reply by wig [ isaac ] on September 10, 2010 at 12:42pm

all my friends that do scraping ( i have a lot of them) keep a working bike on the truck since ther trucks are such shit...

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on September 10, 2010 at 1:14pm

Lookin' hella retarded...

He got that right!

Still, I think I like it ;)

H3N3 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geIsWq5xOSE

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on September 10, 2010 at 2:26pm

Because the wheels scrape on the forks and frame due to the painted aluminum foil in the spokes. It also has to do with the cars with spinners that are also popular in the Bay Area which are also called scrapers.

Scraper is something or someone who scrapes (i.e. "to scrape"). Scrapper is someone who picks up scrap metal (or sometimes scrapbookers are called scrappers) -with two p's. Like many other words in English how they are spelled changes the meaning and how they are pronounced. How strange is that? ;)

M.A.R.K. said:

I never understood why they say scr-A-per(like ice scraper) and not scr-ah-per..
H3N3 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geIsWq5xOSE

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