Wednesday, May 26, 2010

"You have to use your butt as a fulcrum"

I stopped in at a cycle shop in Interlochen today looking for a motorcycle.  I was chatting with the shop folks about the type of bike I was after, and how I didn't want anything too big, nothing I couldn't pick up if it fell over.  At that, the 60-something, buxom matron of the shop said, "No!  You can pick up ANY bike!  You just have to use your butt as a fulcrum."


ful·crum

  [fool-kruhm, fuhl-] noun, plural -crums, -cra   verb
–noun
1.
the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in 
moving a body.
2.
any prop or support.
3.
Zoology any of various structures in an animal serving as ahinge or support.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to fit with a fulcrum; put a fulcrum on.

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