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    The "CB" designation for Hondas stands for "City Bike". So I guess "CBR" stands for "City Bikes for Roundabouts".............

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    Quote Originally Posted by WINJA
    ANIMALS ONLY HAVE THEM SELF TO BLAME FOR BEING SO DELICIOUS
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    Quote Originally Posted by OMGWTFBBQ
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    I've finally figured it out.

    So what you're saying is .. really Winja needs some work done "upstairs"?

    Should we all chip in for a shrink?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timber020
    None of the beach boys knew how to surf.

    The honda civic was named after its revolutionary engine, the cvc, which broke a US carmakers ability to stop smog restriction laws by simply collectively refusing to make cars to meet them.

    the mitsubishi starion was so named because the japanese couldnt pronounce stallion.
    that's another urban myth:

    Yet perhaps the most notable feature of the Starion was the origin of the name. According to an apocryphal story, the car was originally intended to be named the Stallion, in accord with the equine theme that Mitsubishi Motors was using at the time (e.g. Mitsubishi Colt, Mitsubishi Lancer), but the name was recorded incorrectly due to the Japanese pronunciation of the letter "L". Mitsubishi Motors stated instead that the name was an amalgamation of the phrase "Star of Orion", and that it was related to the series of models with similarly mellifluous but meaningless names (e.g. Tredia, similarly contracted from "three diamonds", and Cordia) and internal combustion engines with similar names (e.g. Sirius, Astron) being introduced at the time. On the other hand, Mitsubishi subsequently named one model the Pajero, which means masturbator in Spanish, and other models the "Lettuce", "Town Bee", "Pistachio" and "McTwist", precluding any analysis of the reasoning behind their model names.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alarumba
    THE ZX-10R has more HP than a AX100

    http://motorbikes.be/en/compare/4650/732/ < Evidence
    That doesn't list horsepower :-o
    You might be running 500 psi in that lil 98 cc engine and then where would we stand?

    *tease tease tease*

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    Quote Originally Posted by thehollowmen
    That doesn't list horsepower :-o
    You might be running 500 psi in that lil 98 cc engine and then where would we stand?

    *tease tease tease*
    :-o!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    I stand corrected, I thank you sir

    Quote Originally Posted by Pixie
    that's another urban myth:

    Yet perhaps the most notable feature of the Starion was the origin of the name. According to an apocryphal story, the car was originally intended to be named the Stallion, in accord with the equine theme that Mitsubishi Motors was using at the time (e.g. Mitsubishi Colt, Mitsubishi Lancer), but the name was recorded incorrectly due to the Japanese pronunciation of the letter "L". Mitsubishi Motors stated instead that the name was an amalgamation of the phrase "Star of Orion", and that it was related to the series of models with similarly mellifluous but meaningless names (e.g. Tredia, similarly contracted from "three diamonds", and Cordia) and internal combustion engines with similar names (e.g. Sirius, Astron) being introduced at the time. On the other hand, Mitsubishi subsequently named one model the Pajero, which means masturbator in Spanish, and other models the "Lettuce", "Town Bee", "Pistachio" and "McTwist", precluding any analysis of the reasoning behind their model names.

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    HRH Princess Anne is the only female athlete in the modern era not required to have a sex test prior to competing at the Olympic Games.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher
    HRH Princess Anne is the only female athlete in the modern era not required to have a sex test prior to competing at the Olympic Games.
    For a stickler and head of BDOTGNZA, I thought you would abide by the rules Sir Hitcher.... :spudwave:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniper
    For a stickler and head of BDOTGNZA, I thought you would abide by the rules Sir Hitcher...
    Seeing as everybody else had already hijacked the thread, I thought it was Open Season.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WINJA
    ANIMALS ONLY HAVE THEM SELF TO BLAME FOR BEING SO DELICIOUS

    If animals arent meant to be eaten
    Why the hell are they made of meat??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher
    Seeing as everybody else had already hijacked the thread, I thought it was Open Season.
    If that's the case, here's my one off-topic little known fact that I read just the other day:

    There are about 120 corpses remaining on Mt Everest to this day still not retrieved! :spudwow:

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    Quote Originally Posted by thehollowmen
    I've finally figured it out.

    So what you're saying is .. really Winja needs some work done "upstairs"?

    Should we all chip in for a shrink?
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