I'm on a roll, guess what this is

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kmjt1021

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But before the picture, did anyone notice if the state of the union address was a few minutes late getting started. If so it was my fault. True story.
I'm running late for a job in DC, and I'm trying to get downtown. I get close to my destination and notice police cars with lights flashing at every corner. They don't seem to be doing anything just sitting there. Well I pull up to a corner and am trying to determine which street it is, and this guy comes running over to the truck, so I roll the window down and he starts asking what's going on. Well at the time it hadn't dawned on me what was up. So I'm sitting in a turn lane taking to this guy for a few minutes, and the policeman sitting in the car at the corner yells at me from his loud speaker to move on, so I start to pull away and he yells at me to pull over. I'm thinking what did I do. Well it turns out that they are ahead of the presidential motorcade shutting traffic down until the motorcade goes through. When I looked back I saw the motorcade three blocks back stopped waiting on me to get out of the way. Whoops my bad! The policeman was pretty cool, he said as I was coming to the light they were questioning whether to stop me or let me go on, well they let me go and dumb o'l me stops to talk to some weirdo on the street instead just driving through. What this has to do with anything I don't know I just thought I would share.
Now here's the pic I promised
Guess what it is and I'll introduce you to the weirdo from my story.
 

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The radiator fan from the presidential limo? or wait no, is it an inline fan? no wait, its a close up of Janet Jacksons new jewelry that she plans to wear to the Superbowl!
 
Ok that wasn't fair, on my part. No one will ever guess what that is, try this one.
 

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Come on russ you know what a hooptie is right????
Hooptie
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A hooptie is typically a large car popular with the "gangsta" and hip-hop culture. The cars are usually old 1970s or 1980s model cars, often outfitted with hydraulics or other accessories (Houston rapper Paul Wall refers to these vehicles as slabs - usually Cadillacs). A hooptie is too old to be nice, too new to be cool.

More recently, hoopties have moved along with the Spinner fad. Hoopties were popular in movies that seriously portray life in the ghetto and movies that poke fun at various people of other races acting as if they were blacks in the ghetto.

Buick Electras were common as hoopties (e.g. Sir Mix-A-Lot's 1990 hit "My Hooptie"); hoopties include beaters covered with house paint or rust buckets.

Hooptie has various meanings in Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, and New York City. For example, the Miami scene emphasizes on 1971-76 Chevrolet Impalas, while in Houston, the 'slabs' refer to any pre-1980 General Motors luxury car regardless of the division. In the Houston Metro area, hoopties with the elbow rims (common to 1983 and 1984 Cadillacs) are a rare find.

The term may be related to a much earlier usage (1930's-1940's) for an old or beat-up car, "hoopie" or "hoopy", in the Southwest and California. Another source of the word may be "Coupe D", as in the Cadillac model Coupe de Ville.

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Current use of the word
A Hooptie now refers to a beater car. It is a car that gets you to and from work. It is not your family car but just a car that you can abuse and neglect. Hoopties are usually cars that were nice when new. A hooptie can still be a nice car but it is not your prized car- it is not the car you take downtown and drag or show off. Also, a hooptie can be a barely running, 'would not be caught dead in it' car. The meaning of the word has changed from exclusively large cars; some hoopties are fuel saving cars and therefore small. This is because usually they are driven daily to work and back and rack up lots of miles
 
Gee the stuff some of you will dig up, shouldn't you be out working instead of reading year old post. LOL

That pic is a inline fan for a spray machine at a tannery, I used to pull 9 grand a month out of that place, and we only had to do it on Sundays, it took 5 of us 10 or 12 hrs but it sure was nice while it lasted. They moved to Mexico a few months ago. Maybe I charged to much! LOL
 
You should have worked in the rain like a real man did.
 
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