It?s the rider, not the bike

I'd say that this video pretty much proves that it is, in fact, the bike, not the rider. At least at this level of bike, anyway.
 
Very enjoyable...attitude, gotta love it.

My favorite line, at the 10:00 minute mark:

"...but the point I'm trying to make is that I rode to Lydden Hill in complete comfort, no bag on my back because all of my crap was in these boxes..."
 
I know guys that can ride the beegeebers out of anything with two wheels. They are just born that way.
 
These are statues of the beegeebers.

 
it's a southern Ohio word I guess lol. You guys never heard of beegeebers?
 
VLJ_imp said:
Bejesus, sure. With 'beegeebers' I suspect mickey is just applying his usual PC filter to 'bejesus.'
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Interesting. Ferret didn't make it up. I like words, how they develop, are used (I teach English, Spanish). I've heard / used "bejeebers" before, and always in the phrase that something "scared the bejeebers" out of me. I know I haven't used "bejesus" in the same phrase, but I think maybe I've heard it? I am from the midwest as well, and so possibly it is a regionalism.

I had to look it up, and found a site called "English Language and Usage" and there is an entry with the title: >>Meaning of “bejesus” in the idiomatic expression “… the bejesus out of …”<<

So, yep, VLJ, you spotted the connection in that "bejesus" does precede "bejeebers", and according to this site, the first time "bejeebers" appears in writing is from the '70s:

"Note the variant spelling in the quotation above. The spellings bejesus and bejeezus both first show up in 1932; bejaysus late in the same decade. The slightly more euphemistic “bejeebers out of” is much more recent; it first shows up in a letter to Time Magazine in 1973."

To me, "that scared the bejeebers out of me" sounds right--probably because I was raised in an environment that didn't accept profane language...and it could be a midwest thing.
 
what an educational post. Thanks pdedse. I don't recall bejeezus either

Jeezalou I use though. Is that midwestern too?

You know we say please here for"What?" As when someone says something you don't hear and you say" Please?" , meaning would you repeat that?
 
The ferret_imp said:
what an educational post. Thanks pdedse. I don't recall bejeezus either

Jeezalou I use though. Is that midwestern too?

You know we say please here for"What?" As when someone says something you don't hear and you say" Please?" , meaning would you repeat that?
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Now that's a new one for me, yet it makes me think of the commonly used "mande" in Mexico (in place of "qué"). It's what you say both when someone calls you by your name to get your attention and it's what you respond with when you don't quite catch what they say. It's from the verb "mandar" which means "to order". So it's the equivalent of "at your service". Literally, it's the command form meaning "order (me)".
 
lol NO, just please, as in could you please repeat that?
 
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