In article <
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"Scott M. Kozel" <
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>> >> Real cyclists DO NOT refer to themselves as "bikers". Duh!
>> >
>> > Who defines what is a "proper cyclist" or "real cyclist"?
Humpty Dumpty.
"I don't know what you mean by `glory,'" Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you
don't -- till I tell you. I meant `there's a nice
knock-down argument for you!'"
"But glory doesn't mean `a nice knock-down argument,'"
Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather
scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean --
neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make
words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be
master -- that's all."
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass
It seems to me the bicycle rider should be master of
his or her own self-definitions.
>> If you have to ask, you are obviously not one. Here is a hint - their
>> single track vehicles are NOT powered by V-Twin engines.
>
> The point is, that YOU don't get to define words for everybody.
>
> The dictionary definitions trump your static worldview.
Especially the One True English Dictionary (Cambridge University's,
of course.)
Anyways, so much for frantic semantic antics. I've gotta
be a bicycle rider and go to get stuff before visitors arrive
for Saturday night dominoes, tunes, oblations, snacks and
various other entertainments & indulgences. Would that I could
ride to the Cajun restaurant for a take-out order of frittered
catfish fillets, cornmeal-frittered crawdad tails, hush puppies
and sweet potato fries. And a bucketful of some kind of gravy.
And biscuits. And a couple of jaded women who need a break from
their workaday worlds, and need to feel appreciated, and have a
little joie de vivre. But a few rounds of dominoes, a bag of
Cheetos, a coupla tokes of *Kush, some social conversation and
some Led Zeppelin is pretty good too. Gets us "cyclists" off
the streets and out o' trouble.
cheers,
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
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