Gee, sorry to jump into such a worthy topic so late, but how 'bout:
Cannondale = can o' snails (close to cannonsnail...) Cannondale = can o' whale Fuji = F*cked-Up Japanese Import (dates from late '70s) S.I.S. = Shimano Is Shit (dealer gave me the t-shirt in '84) Specialized = Special Lies
On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:01:21 -0500, The Maaslands
<TheMaaslands@comcast.net> wrote:
>Larry wrote:
>
>> That's it, I'm out, and I kept it family
>> Hopefully one of you secretarial types is keeping a lexicon
>
>I never thought of myself as a secretarial types, but here it is:
>
>AMF = AlwaysMalFunctions
>Avocet = Avoshit
>Baylis = Payless
>Biopace = Biospace
>Bontrager = Buttranger
>Bottecchia = Botchateka
>Bottecchia = Botchelada
>Campagnolo = cramp and go slo
>Campagnolo = Camp in Jello
>Cannondale = beercannondale
>Cannondale = cannonsnail
>Cannondale = canándalé (ca NAN da LEH)
>Cannondale = canyon snail
>Cannondale = Crack & Fail
>Cannondale = Can 'o' ale
>Chesini = Cheese Wienee
>Cinelli = spinelli (Italian slang for 'joints')
>Ciocc = Choke
>Citadel = Shitadel
>Colnago = slonago
>Columbia = Colunkia
>Columbus = Colunkus Tubing
>Condor = Condom
>Croce D'Aune = Crouch down eh!
>Dae Yung = Die young
>Dura Ace = duracé (doo RATCH eh, with a hard "r")
>Dura Ace = Do Race?
>Easy-seat = Sleazy-seat
>Eddy Merckx = Sleddy Mairx
>Eisentraut = Eisentrash
>Eisentraut = Eisen Carp
>Falcon = Fall-Can
>Falcon = Fowl-Can
>Fuji = fudgy
>Gitane = Shit one
>Gitane = Gitank
>Guerciotti = Gear Chucker
>Hakkapeliitta = hock a loogie
>Harley Davidson = Hardly Davidson
>Holdsworth = Holdsworthless
>Huffy = Huffy Puffy
>Hyperglide = Hype or glide
>Invulnerable = Vulnerables
>Jack Taylor = Joke Taylor
>Kestrel = Castor Oil
>Kryptonite = Kleptonite
>Lambert = Slambert
>LeJeune = Le Junk
>LeMond = LeMonster
>Lightspeed = Frightspeed
>Loco.motion = slo-motion
>Lugged Frames = slugged frames
>Maillard = mallard
>Marinoni = macaroni
>Masi = Mousy
>Mavic Open 4 CD = open sore v.d.'s
>Minoura = Manure-a
>Motobécane = Motobecant
>Motobécane = Butter Pecans
>Murray = Schmurray (when Murray sponsored the wheaties team)
>Paramount = Paraquat
>Peugeot = (Peugeot backwards) toe guep
>Peugeot = Pig-wad
>Peugeot = Pig-out
>Phil Wood = Phil Wouldn't
>Pinarello = Peenarello
>Proteus = Bloateus
>Puch = Puke
>Puch = Pook
>Puch = Poke
>Rapid Fire = Rapid Failure
>Regina = Vagina
>René Herse = René Hurts
>Robergel = Rubber All
>Ross = Loss
>Sachs New Success = Sucks no success
>Santana = satana
>Schwinn = schwein
>Schwinn = squint
>Shimano = ShimaNO
>Shimano = Shitmano
>Shogun = Slowgun
>Sidi = seedy
>Simplex = Striplex
>SIS = SI Guess
>Specialized = speckelized
>Specialized = Special Ed
>Specialized = Fecalized
>Suntour = Slow Tour
>Tesch = Tush
>Tomasini = Thomas Ninny
>Trek = dreck
>Trek = Truck
>Tufo = tofu
>Univega = Univagrant
>Viner = Winner
>Viner = Whiner
>Viner = Weiner
>Vitus = Bites
>Windsor = Windsore
>Wolber = Wobbler
>
>Steven Maasland
>Moorestown, NJ
Paul C. Brodek
Hillsdale, N.J. U.S.A.
E-mail: pcb@skyweb.net