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Mickey Richaud

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...More an observation with tongue in its usual cheeky habitation:

While out on a couple errands today, a young pup in a Honda/Mazda/Subaru/Nissan/Hyundai played tag with the rest of us between traffic lights (all of which, by the way, seem to have minds and timings of their own). No matter how "jack-rabbity" his starts, the rest of us tortoises met up with him at each next light!

Anyway, he had one of those coffee can resonators, and it occurred to me finally what those things sound like: Cars have been sucking helium instead of oxygen!
 
lol

I always reckoned it sounded like the car had a bad case of flatulence. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
Just weed-whackers on steroids, AFAIC.
 
Brings to mind a Fiat Abarth on an autocross course in New Orleans years ago. Sounded like a chain saw running through the pylons: "RIIIINNGG-a-diinnggggg-diiinngggg-diiinnnggggg"

But GEE was it a quick little chain saw!
 
Abarth is to um... ricer, as Rolls-Royce is to Modern Gentleman!

I'd HAVE THAT chainsaw! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
That happens to me all the time in my MINI. Ricers trying to race at stoplights. All you can do is ignore them, and PRAY that a cop sees them squealing the tires when the light goes green!

And, I can't stand the sound of those big can mufflers. It sounds like an out-of-tune lawn mower engine to me! LOL!!
 
I can't hear the kids with the oversized mufflers.

My sound system with the subwoofer and amp drowns them out.

You haven't lived until you've thumped with John Denver.
 
My Son and I call em "F.a.r.t Pipes" /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif
 
lawguy said:
You haven't lived until you've thumped with John Denver.
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"You fill up my - BOOM CHAKKA BOOM BOOM CHAKKA - senses, like a night in the BOOM BOOM BOOM CHAKKA CHAKKA BOOM forrest. Like the mountains in spring CHAKKA spring CHAKKA BOOM BOOM spring time, like a walk in the CHAKKA BOOM BOOM CHAKKA CHAKKA BOOM rain!"
 
lawguy said:
You haven't lived until you've thumped with John Denver.
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THAT'S what I'M talkin' 'bout:

"Rocky Mountain high... <span style='font-size: 20pt'> THUMP </span> ... Colorado..."

Yeah!
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif Good one! Nothing like John Denver with some extra bass. I'm just trying to imagine the look on the ricer's faces... And I love seeing the ricers with exceptionally underpowered cars sporting the noisy coffee cans. Then you can really hear the little motor strangling GAAAAAAAH only to be dusted by the soccer mom with the minivan /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 
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Double post. I was experiencing technical difficulties.
 
Personally I like some up-tempo Bluegrass with the bass wayyyyy up (on those occasions next to the thumpin ricer)
BUM bum, BUM bum, BUM bum, BUM bum, BUM bumbumbumbum....
Drives 'em crazy. hehehehehehe.
My personally developed and "coined term" for said undesirable modified road menaces of Asian origin is
"Sake-Rods"
Now it time to CRANK IT!
Country roads. BUM BUM BUM take me home BUM BADDA BUM (insert random rattling auto body part noises here)
hehehehehe
 
OK - we've switched from coffee can resonators to "thumpers" - all the same to me.

My answer to the "thumpers": BAGPIPES! They'll cause some ears to bleed!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
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Yothu Yindi or a rousing rendition of the "1812 Overture" would be my considerations... but we DO have kazoos. Proud participants in the AWARD WINNING "Red, White and Blue Kazoo Revue" Marching Band! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 
All this talk about John Denver from people outside of Colorado and one of the local Public Television stations (in Colorado) is doing a fundraiser, featuring John Denver CD's and DVD's. In between fundraising they play parts of the DVD's which cover a lot of John's TV specials that he did through the years and footage from his concerts.

While he made some wonderful music, and did some incredible things for charitys and environmental concerns... I can't help but remember his more er... colorful side and how some of the locals in Pitkin County (Aspen) knew him. It wasn't always good... Then again, Aspen has had several colorful characters grace its streets and lanes. It truly is a Rocky Mountain wonderland at times....

I grew up listening to his music and going to his concerts as a wee tike. I seem to remember being drug to another concert by some guy named Diamond. Can't help but have soft spots for the music from both of them. Even when its hard to admit to... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
I can't wait to get that Craig Powerplay 8 track
installed & turned up!"Rebels without a clue".

- Doug
 
Horsemits and her mum were Diamond concert attendees. I was more the "Black Oak, Captain Beefheart" type. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
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