Anyone here planning on running the Infineon round (round #3) next month? (May 19,20 & 21st) They are running it in conjunction with the AMA (GAG!) Superbike races that weekend. Kind cool to get more people out there to see what REAL racin's like by tying them together on the same card. PM me if you are we can share a pit space. (That includes you ner-do-wells and scallywags on the other side of the Bay Bridge.... :roll: )
Old pirate term for someone who wears granny panties I think, ask Dale, he should know....... 8O
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Joined Jul 2001
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El Sobrante, Ca. 94803
Back on topic regarding Round 3 of Supermoto USA at Infineon for a moment.
Last year at Infineon was a lot of fun. Look for the San Francisco SMUSA riders #79, #180, #510, #610, #621 in attendance this year somewhere under or near the yellow Husa-tents. #610 promises to avoid the haybale dance this year.
Maybe someday soon Infineon will let us run the race on their sweet Kart track instead the parking lot. Not sure where we would put the dirt section though.
OK, back off topic again.
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SCALLYWAG OR SCALAWAG
A scamp, rascal, or rogue; an amusingly mischievous child.
The word—very variably spelled—appeared first in the US. It was applied to undersized or ill-formed cattle, or to some disreputable person. After the Civil War, it became a term of abuse specifically aimed at those white Southerners who were prepared to accept the measures imposed during Reconstruction, often because they would profit from them. It shifted a little later to mean any politician who was corrupt or an intriguer. It has softened since, being a term these days of only mild reproach, often combined with gentle admiration.
Where it comes from is a matter of some dispute, though the Scots tongue seems to be an intermediary. Some authorities point to the Scots’ word scoloc, the name given to the first-born son of a tenant of a monastery who was given to the church to receive an ecclesiastical education. Later, the word could refer to any monastic tenant, and got turned into scallag for a farm servant or rustic person, also latterly a way of addressing a boy. And there’s also the word scurryvaig for a vagabond, lout or slattern, which might be an influence, if not the source. Either way, it looks as though Latin is involved, since scoloc is really the same word as scholar (from Latin schola) and scurryvaig may have originated in Latin scurra vagus, a wandering fool (scurra is also the source of our scurrilous).
Its abbreviation, scally, is widely known in the north-west of England, especially around Liverpool, for a roguish self-assured young person—typically male—who is boisterous, disruptive, or irresponsible.
World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 1996–2006.
Last year at Infineon was a lot of fun. Look for the San Francisco SMUSA riders #79, #180, #510, #610, #621 in attendance this year somewhere under or near the yellow Husa-tents. #610 promises to avoid the haybale dance this year.
Maybe someday soon Infineon will let us run the race on their sweet Kart track instead the parking lot. Not sure where we would put the dirt section though.
OK, back off topic again.
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SCALLYWAG OR SCALAWAG
A scamp, rascal, or rogue; an amusingly mischievous child.
The word—very variably spelled—appeared first in the US. It was applied to undersized or ill-formed cattle, or to some disreputable person. After the Civil War, it became a term of abuse specifically aimed at those white Southerners who were prepared to accept the measures imposed during Reconstruction, often because they would profit from them. It shifted a little later to mean any politician who was corrupt or an intriguer. It has softened since, being a term these days of only mild reproach, often combined with gentle admiration.
Where it comes from is a matter of some dispute, though the Scots tongue seems to be an intermediary. Some authorities point to the Scots’ word scoloc, the name given to the first-born son of a tenant of a monastery who was given to the church to receive an ecclesiastical education. Later, the word could refer to any monastic tenant, and got turned into scallag for a farm servant or rustic person, also latterly a way of addressing a boy. And there’s also the word scurryvaig for a vagabond, lout or slattern, which might be an influence, if not the source. Either way, it looks as though Latin is involved, since scoloc is really the same word as scholar (from Latin schola) and scurryvaig may have originated in Latin scurra vagus, a wandering fool (scurra is also the source of our scurrilous).
Its abbreviation, scally, is widely known in the north-west of England, especially around Liverpool, for a roguish self-assured young person—typically male—who is boisterous, disruptive, or irresponsible.
World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 1996–2006.
(key up musical score....) "You say potato, I say potata...."
See ya there dude(s).....#581 (the old slow "mobile chicane"!) 8O
Are you louts gonna be ther friday as well? It's open practice in the afternoon and a school in the AM (god knows I need all the help I can get!)
See ya there dude(s).....#581 (the old slow "mobile chicane"!) 8O
Are you louts gonna be ther friday as well? It's open practice in the afternoon and a school in the AM (god knows I need all the help I can get!)
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