i usually call my bike the BJ.
jeff piwonka
austin texas usa
> ... thanks, but Blair's comment wasn't PC at all.
> it was more a cat's
> earthy sense over time, in maybe some of these
> people may not have a
> functional winkie, a mr wanker, a one-eyed snake, a
> bannana that needs
> peeling, the log that needs shining, the pear that
> needs a scrape, etc
> this goes back eons.
> when i rode, i used to call my bikes "shit brain",
> please get me home in one
> piece.
> r clair
> italian marriage soup tonight
> alex, va 22308
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Gender Preference ?
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Clair" <r.clair@cox.net>
> > To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:41 PM
> > Subject: [CR]Gender Preference ?
> >
> >
> >> .... my cat (a female shelter rescue) who watches
> the list with me on
> >> occassion, is wondering why several list members
> continually refer to
> >> bicycles in the "she" sense. some sort of ...
> well you get the point.
> >
> >
> > My cat, a female foster home rescue, is utterly
> amazed you are perplexed,
> > Robert! Men (and I suspect women, too) have always
> inferred feminine
> > characteristics to machines from ships to cars to
> yes bicycles from the
> > get-go. You've obviously never gone to sea. Or
> seen the classic film "The
> > Train" where France's marvelous character actor
> Michel Simon, playing the
> > engineer, tells a young helper "A locomotive is
> just like a woman, if you
> > don't treat her right, she'll make your life
> miserable." Kipling began a
> > poem "The liner, she's a lady."
> >
> > Of course bicycles, especially classic
> lightweights, are "she's". Who
> > wants to collect "its", inanimate hunks of steel
> and alloy? Let alone ride
> > them. The cool thing about cycling is that melding
> of men (and women) and
> > machine. Every bike is different, has a different
> personality. A distinct
> > ride. A personality if you will. If they didn't,
> why would will have
> > dozens of them?
> >
> > Now you might very well think the very fact that
> nauseating PC-ism makes
> > referring to things as "she" reprobate is
> sufficient reason to continue to
> > do so at every given opportunity, but I couldn't
> possibly comment.
> >
> > Peter Kohler
> > Washington DC USA
> >
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