Geezer with a Grudge: The Roar of the Marching Morons

Feb 14, 2010

The Roar of the Marching Morons

This is a freaky funny video. Some of you may desperately want to own a SoundRacer V8. Some of you will recognize the juvenile symptom demonstrated in popular motorcycle magazines when editors and reviewers say "the bike needs a little boost from a less restricted pipe." Some of you will want to apply for a grant to study human perceptions and mental deficiencies demonstrated with the SoundRacer V8 and the usual "performance" gained by wasting money on loud pipes on slow bikes.

Whatever your reaction, it's obvious that this dude is actually deluded into believing his kidmobile can carry on like a sportscar because of the noise made by his car's stereo system. Louder is faster. Damn, humans are dumb. What kind of parent names their kid "Shonky?" Is that a merger of s**t and donkey?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: That thing could actually provide some relief from the incessant boom-boom-boom from the plague of sub-woofers currently found on our streets. The sub-woofer idiots would be unable to pump their so-called music through their speakers when using that thing!

A Fan in Tucson; 2/14/10, 2:55 PM
Anonymous said...: In southern England in 1944 people were occasionally fooled into thinking they were hearing a big single when actually the sound was coming from a V1 "doodlebug", about to auger in and blow everything nearby to bits.

Let us not forget the hallowed practice of tying a balloon or stiff card where it could be excited to produce engine-like sounds as wheel spokes thrummed it. Sheer excitement.

KC; 2/15/10, 9:27 PM

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.