Bravo Joe! I think the touchiness comes from something else and rice is just a word that sets it off. I think deep down it's a case of what laymen call "Rice envy". It is often exhibited when one who has been told one thing for a long time cannot face the factual evidence that threatens to tear their world of false premises asunder. Clinically, it would be called Theyhavecondoleezaandwedontitis.
Rice probably means something a little different to most everyone. I equate it with what we used to call posers. Except that for me, rice is taking poserdom to the next level. A poser may get away with their deception, but a ricer is the person for whom it is instantly and painfully obvious to everyone else that their attempt to fool anyone was an abyssmal failure.
If you tell your buds your VX cost $60,000, I think you are a poser. If you put Mercedes emblems on it, I think you are getting kinda ricey.
Ya know what I'd love to see? Someone should take that Weird Al parody of Ice Ice Baby (Rice Rice Baby), toy with the lyrics a little, and put it together with some video of the worst ricer cars around. That would be a hoot.
Bantan, I found this regarding an earlier question you had and wanted to pass it along:
http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/ind...16/Sec2397.HTM
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