Thought for the day; Some people, some people like cupcakes exclusively While I myself I say there is naught Nor ought there be nothing so exalted On the face of God's grey earth As that Prince of foods... the Muffin
shows how bad my memory is now, even saw him play it. Maybe the words didn't appeal at the time, because lyrics from Cosmik Debris and Montana certainly did, and still do.
I might be movin' to Montana soon Just to raise me up a flop of dental floss Raisin' it up, waxen it down In a little white box that I can sell uptown By myself, I wouldn't fave no boss But I'd be raisin' my lonely dental floss Pure majesty
Some men are in their lives like the carpenter whose work goes so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he has not time to sharpen them. Carmac McCarthy.
^^^ I think I would rather publicly try and diagnose a broken Ducati than be foolish enough to volunteer a stab at the true meaning of this. (Apologies, as this is intentionally cryptic in itself)
I have decrypted it for you: Some men are in their lives like the Ducati owner whose repairs go so slowly that he has not time to ride it.
A typically McCarthy-esque way of saying getting stuck in a rut. Equally applicable to a certain type of anal-retentive Ducati fettler who disappears so far down his own rabbit hole of micro titivating that he forgets to ride the thing. It's not just Ducati-ists though. Where I used to live there was a bloke down the road with Harley. One of the super-kitsch chrome-covered varieties. On a nice sunny weekends he'd wheel it down to the end of his drive, spend half a day washing and polishing it then leave it there for the rest of the day for everyone to admire before putting it back in the garage again. A very expensive ornament. It never seemed to occour to him to try riding it for a change.
In fairness it's a Harley; why would you want to spoil the illusion that it's a motorbike by riding it?
Why buy it then? I've seen plenty of Harleys with over 100,000 miles on them. If you don't want to ride it there are far cheaper things to polish.
Yep. As above there are two types of Harley rider: showers and goers. The latter ride their bikes, keep them for years and and often run up very high mileages. The former buy them to show other people that they've got one. Not unique to Harley though it's got to be said.
