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  May 25 2006, 10:18 PM
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Q: What is 'Rice'?
A: This is a perennial question on the Neon Message Boards. Generally, being 'ricey' centers around having a lot of Touring style appearance items without any actual performance modifications, but that's not the whole story. Just adding gargantuan exhaust tips, tall spoilers, multitudinous stickers, ground effects, driving lights, hood pins, huge wheels (and calling them rims), etc. doesn't automatically mean you are 'rice'. Style, after all, is a personal thing.
Rice is more of an attitude problem. Ricers confuse appearance with reality, and convince themselves that a car that looks fast is fast. Talking the talk without enough performance work to walk the walk is what makes someone a true Riceboy or Ricegirl.
The term 'rice' itself derives from the predominantly Japanese cars favored by the early trendsetters of this style, and the graphics of untranslatable Asian characters that they often carry. It is not a reference to Asian people in general.
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Jun 14 2006, 11:10 AM
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QUOTE(mfalik @ Jun 13 2006, 10:14 AM) What "ricer" means to me:
All show, no go!
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simply said.......
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Oct 19 2006, 10:44 PM
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QUOTE(fullmoon @ May 25 2006, 10:18 PM) Q: What is 'Rice'?
A: This is a perennial question on the Neon Message Boards. Generally, being 'ricey' centers around having a lot of Touring style appearance items without any actual performance modifications, but that's not the whole story. Just adding gargantuan exhaust tips, tall spoilers, multitudinous stickers, ground effects, driving lights, hood pins, huge wheels (and calling them rims), etc. doesn't automatically mean you are 'rice'. Style, after all, is a personal thing.
Rice is more of an attitude problem. Ricers confuse appearance with reality, and convince themselves that a car that looks fast is fast. Talking the talk without enough performance work to walk the walk is what makes someone a true Riceboy or Ricegirl.
The term 'rice' itself derives from the predominantly Japanese cars favored by the early trendsetters of this style, and the graphics of untranslatable Asian characters that they often carry. It is not a reference to Asian people in general.
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I can agree with that. My MAJOR complaint about ricers is that most of them don't know anything or do anything for themselves as far as their cars are concerned. Yes, I realize not everyone wants to be a mechanic, but damnit, paying someone to do your work is lame.
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Oct 20 2006, 01:39 AM
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rice /raɪs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rahys] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, riced, ric‧ing.
–noun 1. the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
2. the grass itself.
–verb (used with object) 3. to reduce to a form resembling rice: to rice potatoes.
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[Origin: 1200–50; ME ris, rys < OF < It riso, risi (in ML risium) < MGk orýzion, deriv. of Gk óryza]
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Oct 20 2006, 07:52 AM
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QUOTE(unspokengift @ Oct 19 2006, 10:55 PM) First thing that comes to my mind is food. I'm always hungry and love eatin some rice.
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MMMMMMMMMMMM, Sushi. Speaking of Ricers. Last night I saw a guy who pulled over by the cops. It was a domestic ricer. A 90-94 Chevy Lumina with a huge wing on the back. This is the conversation that I imagine between cop and driver. Driver: Officer, why did you pull me over? Is it because my ride is faster than yours? Officer: Nope. I pulled you over because you are a huge ****, and it's my duty to prevent the gene pool from being corrupted by you idiotic genetic material.
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