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Post by smbrm on Dec 14, 2013 18:56:03 GMT -5
An interesting comment from a totally different web location, by an anonymous poster: subject is F1 budget caps. Not only interesting, but you get learn a new word!
"...I share your contempt of a redistribution of wealth idea for F1.Maybe every team should get a nice trophy at the end for participation?
But there is merit of, somehow, assuring a larger field of truly competitive teams. If the bottom teams went away because they got tired of micturating against the wind the field would be small.
But the main problem in my opinion is that they have regulated the sport down to the liters of flatulence allowed by each crew member per race. I get sick of watching such a stupid officious behavior week after week. Just my opinion - - fortunately there are a lot of other kinds of racing to watch...."
It just struck me funny!
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Post by indycals on Dec 14, 2013 20:17:54 GMT -5
I haven't heard a form of 'micturate' since the original Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy  |
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Post by 2lapsdown on Dec 14, 2013 20:19:55 GMT -5
At least now I know what to call it when I know I'm doing it
John
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Post by racerbrown on Dec 14, 2013 21:17:58 GMT -5
when i was a kid my mom once caught me micturating and said i'd go blind if i kept doing it… duane  |
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Post by clm1545 on Dec 14, 2013 22:30:13 GMT -5
when i was a kid my mom once caught me micturating and said i'd go blind if i kept doing it… duane Damn, maybe that's why I need glasses. Who knew? Craig |
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Post by Calvin on Dec 15, 2013 0:45:11 GMT -5
I'm too dumb to figure this thread out!  |
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Post by 2lapsdown on Dec 15, 2013 9:07:50 GMT -5
Calvin, it's better that way. You don't want to get involved in this anyway
John
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Post by Patrick on Dec 16, 2013 10:38:52 GMT -5
I never heard of "mic%$#*@!!" and I taught kids vocabulary! Nye on 66 years old and still have flatulence,too!
Patrick
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Post by johnwebster on Dec 19, 2013 5:07:03 GMT -5
Micturate is medical talk for piss, as in pissing against the wind.
The original post was about regulating the money spent by different F1 teams so that they all could produce identically piss poor cars just like in current Indy car racing.
That would make it easier for us modellers; one model, 30 decal sets per year.
I think they should set a minumum weight and some safety features and let the designers loose. Yes there would be turbines and moving wings and sucker cars and 6 wheelers.
F1 would begin to look like it was back in the 60s and 70s when a lot of the technology used on street cars today was developed.
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Post by indydog on Dec 19, 2013 16:56:12 GMT -5
... I think they should set a minumum weight and some safety features and let the designers loose. Yes there would be turbines and moving wings and sucker cars and 6 wheelers. F1 would begin to look like it was back in the 60s and 70s when a lot of the technology used on street cars today was developed. We can't have that, the fans would love it and we all know that The Circus don't give 2 hoots about the fans! I think that's how ALL racing should be... |
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Post by indycals on Dec 19, 2013 17:34:49 GMT -5
Micturate is medical talk for piss, as in pissing against the wind. The original post was about regulating the money spent by different F1 teams so that they all could produce identically piss poor cars just like in current Indy car racing. That would make it easier for us modellers; one model, 30 decal sets per year. I think they should set a minumum weight and some safety features and let the designers loose. Yes there would be turbines and moving wings and sucker cars and 6 wheelers. F1 would begin to look like it was back in the 60s and 70s when a lot of the technology used on street cars today was developed. I honestly thought it was a made up word as the only time I ever heard it was in this Vogon poem from Hithchikers Guide to the Galaxy: "Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!" And for those not familiar, the Vogons are known as the worst poets in the universe, to the point that having to listen to one of their poems constitutes torture  |
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Post by smbrm on Dec 19, 2013 18:12:29 GMT -5
Gee, and because it was a new word to me, I looked the word up! I suppose that's a novel approach!!
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Post by indycals on Dec 19, 2013 18:38:45 GMT -5
I should clarify, I thought it was made up UNTIL the first post of this thread, when I realized it was real.
But now I'm wondering about 'plurdled gabbleblotchits' and 'footing turlingdromes'
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Post by racerbrown on Dec 19, 2013 22:45:18 GMT -5
hey michael, that sounds like jabberwocky!
duane
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Post by Calvin on Dec 20, 2013 0:36:12 GMT -5
What the Heck is afafdhsdfahhdhdsjdfiooriorwonvniuiqbebinbiasbi?  !!!!!!  |
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Post by Patrick on Dec 20, 2013 12:05:45 GMT -5
Twas brilling! I had 8th graders "translate" Jabberwocky...very funny!!!
Patrick
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