Creative Riding EP 048 “The Name Game”
Welome to episode Forty-Eight!
**WARNING**
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ACCENTS
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Hey everyone!
This episode is called the Name Game, and it revolves around the conventions that we all depend on to communicate. The names that we call ourselves. The names that we give to things.
By the way, what is your motorcycle’s name and how did you come up with it?
The first segment has a game called the Hipster Name Game. Every hipster has a radical street name that can only be achieved by being born into a gentrified family, or being named by super posh and/or urban hipster parents. If you weren’t lucky enough to be named Eustacious Brenneforth, then the Hipster Name Game is for you.
Here are the rules:
1. Take your first name and throw that disgusting piece of shit in the trash. Unless you were named by one of the aforementioned social groups, then your name is probably something like Michael Hansen, or Erica Price. That just ain’t hipster.
2. Your middle name is you new first name. But not your stock middle name, because Stock is for Squares. 😉
a. If your middle name is one syllable, drop the last letter: Lee = Le, Kay = Ka, etc.
b. If your middle name is two syllables, drop the last two letters: Tara = Ta, Jerald = Jera, etc.
c. If your name is three syllables or more, drop the first syllable entirely: Christopher = Topher, Kimberly = Berly, etc.
3. Your new last name is your bike’s name. If your bike doesn’t have a name, then it’s market name will do. If your bike’s market name is letters and numbers, then you can always look at Euro/Asian markets. They usually have actual names (CBR in USA = Fireblade in UK/Europe). Perhaps you are a robot and a letter/number combo suits you. Then Stev RnineT doesn’t seem so bad, my robotic friend.
Part two concerns the names of things… parts nomenclature to be exact. Have you ever wondered where we get the words for all of the parts on our old, crappy bikes?
We’ll cover etymology and fun stuff like that. You can tell it to your pillion or stuff it in your panniers – we don’t care.
Part three is a greater concern of mine. I went to write a cool article about biker specific vocabulary, and maybe make up some of my own, such as Blumper: a thumper over 500cc and 200 lbs. But when I realized that “Braap” was the only real biker specific term that I knew, it raised a few more questions for awareness and possible creation of motorcycle specific vocabulary for bikers to identify by.
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