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17 January 2006 

So what does it mean?

When I was very young, my father tried to teach me how to say the word "motorcycle". We did this phonetically - he would instruct me to say "motor" and then "cycle", and I would respond in kind with "motor" and "cycle". When asked to put them together, however, I would respond with only one non-sensical word - "motorchrome!". "MOTORCHROME, MOTORCHROME, MOTORCHROME !!!". We would start over and over, with familiar results each time unit the dance with anger ended. Was this a game meant only to frustrate my father? The world may never know.