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  Rice rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term is derived from the speed of the motorcycle (rocket), and the "Japanese" origin of the vehicles (a reference to cultural and historical importance of the rice crop in Japan).
Rice Rocket is an American slang for imported Japanese cars often modified, customised, and tuned for performance or racing use.
Additionally, rice rocket is sometimes used synonymously with the term rice burner.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rice_rocket   (209 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Amaechi a Rocket; will Rice show up?
John Amaechi and his embarrassingly large salary for sitting at the end of Utah's bench are gone, and the Jazz actually got something in return — conditional draft picks, qualification for the NBA-minimum team salary level and less of a payroll/salary cap hit for next season.
Rice's pay for the coming season is on the books for $9.6 million, but his actual salary is somewhat less due to an upfront bonus he received for signing his four-year, $36-million deal three years ago.
For instance, if this year the deal calls for the Rockets to place in the first 12 of the lottery, and it does, the next year the stipulation might be that Houston would have to place in the top 10 in the lottery.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,515035609,00.html   (975 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: rice rocket
A 'rice rocket' is usually characterized by a high sticker-to-horsepower ratio, massive Boeing 747 wing (apparently to hold the rear wheels on the ground), and an exhaust sound somewhere between a lawnmower and a jetski.
A slow car, usually a 4 cylinder mitsubishi lancer or hyundai excel that is 'riced' up by the owner by putting stickers all over it and adding a rear wing (for extra downforce on the rear to improve acceleration in their front wheel drive car).
Rice rockets usually described Japanese bikes that were superior performers off the line, were more likely one up bikes, and cafe style, before european cafe was cool.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=rice+rocket   (873 words)

  
 texas rollergirls - HOTROD HONEYS
Delicate as a lily and sweet as cherry blossom, Rice was the pride of her strict, traditional family.
Rice wasn't like other girls who obsessed over lipgloss and Hello Kitty...Her fantasies were filled with chassis, transmission mounts, superchargers and T-gauges.
Rather than allow her to bring more dishonor to the family, Rice was given two options: She would wed a 65 year old pig farmer and spend her life beating his laundry on a rock and caring for his 36 children.
www.txrollergirls.com /hotrodhoneys/ricerocket.htm   (274 words)

  
 rice - Ask.com Web Search
Rice refers to two species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) of grass, native to tropical and subtropical southeastern Asia and to Africa, which together provide more than one fifth of the calories consumed by humans.
Rice is an annual plant, growing to 1-1.8 m tall, occasionally...
Rice is an extremely healthy food for a number of reasons.
search.ask.com /web?q=rice   (332 words)

  
 Who Needs A Stinking Rice Rocket?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
As alluded to by its name and alone among the cruiser fold the Rocket III is powered by a triple cylinder engine, an engine format that Triumph has very much made its own.
While the Rocket III statistics and its looks are striking, this motorcycle is built to be ridden, not just admired.
Built around the Rocket III motor is a chassis that’s more than a match for its monstrous output.
www.sports-chat.com /forums/showthread.php?p=9691   (568 words)

  
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The forums are still slow but have a few rice rocket enthusiasts, and the Rice Rocket Forum archives have been confirmed to work on some mobile internet devices, but not on most mobile phones.
Check out the new Rice Rocket Forums, or if you are on a mobile phone or similar mobile internet device, you may try the Rice Rocket Forum Archives, which is basically just a HTML version of the forums.
Rice Rocket is not a racist term for people or drivers, but rather a label stemming from the car's origin.
www.ricerocket.com   (869 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Mojave Prepares to Make Space History
The small desert town of Mojave, California is bracing for a close encounter with space history later this month as the first privately funded rocket plane attempts to soar to the edge of space.
The NASA X-15 rocket plane, for instance, roared to life high above the Mojave landscape for nearly a decade, piercing the sky to attain speed and altitude records starting in the late 1950s.
The spaceships pilot still to be announced is to fire the crafts rocket motor for about 80 seconds, reaching three times the speed of sound (Mach 3) in vertical ascent.
www.space.com /news/mojave_history_040610.html   (1573 words)

  
 Car Forums - "Rice cars" - Car Forum Archives
Rice Rocket is something old American Motorcycle guys used to call Japanese street bikes.
As for what is 'rice' and what isn't, it's always going to be a grey area where people have their own opinions on it.
"Rice rockets" are fast Japanese cars but any cars that have been modifyed in bad taste, no matter what their origin can get called "ricers".
www.car-forums.com /archive/t194.html   (1503 words)

  
 Valkyrie review from a rice rocket rider
My first thought was that I was going to rip all the chrome off the pipe in about 5 seconds taking any corners, but it handled them well.
It does not corner like a rice burner or anything, but it was smooth and took curves at over 100 mph, so I was satisfied.
This bike is very well made, it is fast, it handles well for a bike of it's size, and it is extremely comfortable.
www.timskelton.com /valkyrie/gen_interest/rice_rocket.htm   (391 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: rice burner
rice burner ricer honda rice rocket asian rice rice mobile 2 fast 2 furious bogan chink civic corvette crotch rocket decals decor falcoon ford fucking go-faster stripes import tuner negro pimpmobile pretentious racing stripes rice burners ricerocket shit whistle suzuki tuner two smoke underground 2
Not to be confused with a "tuner car", which may be quite a bit faster than anything you've seen away from a racetrack.
Adapted from it's original meaning in the mid 90's, a term used to describe an R-Type vehicle based on the phrase "riced up", which denotes a heavily modified car that is usually an import, where the cost of the actual modifications usually exceed the vehicles bluebook value.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=rice+burner   (764 words)

  
 Rice burner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has been suggested that rice rocket be merged into this article or section.
A "riced" Dodge Neon, including clear taillights, an overly large spoiler, 'Fart cannon' tailpipe, useless hood scoop, body kit, despite having no performance modifications to the engine.
Alternates include riced, riced out, riced up, and ricey.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rice_burner   (2478 words)

  
 Israel Pounds Southern Lebanon, Says It Hit Key Rocket Base; Rice Says She'll Return To Region - CBS News
Meanwhile, the guerrillas continued to launch rockets into northern Israel on Friday, with 10 fired at the towns of Ma'alot, Karmiel and Safed by midmorning, the army said.
Rice, who was attending a regional security conference in Malaysia on Friday, had said earlier that she was "willing and ready" to return to the region to work for a sustainable peace agreement.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced she will return to the Middle East to try to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/07/28/world/main1844277_page2.shtml   (768 words)

  
 Rice Rockets
For every rice rocket out there that actually has some speed, there are 50,000 that have a stock 4-banger with 125 horses, a $100 aftermarket muffler, and a sticker that says "Fast" on it.
These rice rockets are cheap, and have great reputations for dependability.
I love a good rice rocket but i look at cars with stickers saying bla bla bla racing and vtec and crap like that to boast about it.
www.freemypeople.com /Rants/ricerockets.htm   (1557 words)

  
 AudiWorld Forums: Heavily modified Honda Civic "Rice Rocket" vs. NM TT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Heavily modified Honda Civic "Rice Rocket" vs. NM TT Yesterday, someone who owns a NM TT (not me, of course) was challenged my an obviously heavily modified Honda Civic.
Rice Rocket couldn't pass the TT but still held its own.
Of course the TT was built to do 135 and I'm sure that the rocket was not.
forums.audiworld.com /tt/msgs/17107.phtml   (183 words)

  
 "couch rocket" definition from Double-Tongued Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Crotch Rocket to my understanding is a ‘spin off’ from the term ‘rice rocket’.
Though ‘rice rocket’ has been coined to mean any zippy little Japanese car (or zippy wannabe), the term ‘Crotch Rocket’ came out of the ‘need’ to define the typically over-powered Japanese motor bikes.
I really don’t have a dirty mind, but when I was in college, a “couch rocket” refered to a really desperate guy falling on a sofa with his date.
www.doubletongued.org /index.php/dictionary/couch_rocket   (351 words)

  
 BREITBART.COM - Pumping iron, with Condoleezza Rice
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will flex more than her diplomatic muscles when she demonstrates her personal workout regime on network television this week.
In an unusual departure for such a high-profile official, Rice not only pumps some iron, but also discusses how she manages to stay fit during her continual globetrotting and reveals strategies for coping with high-calorie banquets.
According to Harrison, Rice talks about managing her fitness regime when travelling and how, during official banquets, she manages to stay within her calorie range "and not insult anybody by not eating something that they've gone to great lengths to prepare."
www.breitbart.com /news/2006/02/28/060228181106.0amnm6nc.html   (342 words)

  
 What is a rice rocket? - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
in that movie Gone in 60 seconds i noticed that blond girl dissed those asian gangsters and said 'now get back in your rice rocket...' Like she was telling them to go home to asia or something.
rice rockets are cars that are all show but no go.
ppl who think a sticker adds speed to their car and a loud muffler adds 100 hp to their engine, most likely own a rice rocket.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=49675   (451 words)

  
 The Rice Thresher Online | A & E | CD Reviews: rocket from /the crypt
On Group Sounds, the first new album by Rocket from the Crypt since they left Interscope Records, the band has noisily thrown off their major label trappings and reverted to their old-school screaming guitar onslaughts.
Rocket from the Crypt is still a fl belt in the art of punked-up indie rock, but Group Sounds sorely lacks the musicality and catchiness of their previous releases.
The Rice Thresher, Rice University MS-524, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA.
www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/88/01.03.16/current/ane/cd2.html   (433 words)

  
 Rice Rocket and Lozano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Lozano tells Rice Rocket that the stripe on his head looks like a bad combover.
Rice Rocket comes back with telling Lozano he's lucky he's not sitting next to someone's kitchen sink like a sponge.
Lozano tells Rice Rocket that he's two colors away from being frickin goldfish.
www.oddtodd.com /ricerocket.html   (70 words)

  
 jdm or rice rocket? - Honda-Acura.net
ok what should i do...i cant decide between makin my civic a rice rocket (17s, bodykit, aluminum spoiler, etc.) or go for the jdm look (15 fake spoons, jdm lip kit, factory spoiler etc.) i know these things are at opposite ends of the spectrum, but i dont know what i want to do.
If you go with the rice look, most people are just gonna shake their heads when you drive by (maybe a few 14 year olds will think your car is cool, but thats it)....if you want that, go rice.
As far as rice goes, Alum Spoilers are the Cream of the Crop.
www.honda-acura.net /forums/showthread.php?t=14889   (1685 words)

  
 IRL News: Rice Rocket's Red Glare!
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Rahal Letterman Racing's Buddy Rice powered the #15 Argent Mortgage/Pioneer Honda/G-Force to victory in the rain shortened 88th running of the Indianapolis 500.
Rice, driving in just his fourth race for Rahal Letterman Racing, dominated the Memorial Day classic by leading 91 of the 180 laps and spearheading a Honda entourage that captured the top-seven spots in the race and nine of the top 11.
The victory was the first in the Indy Racing League for Rice, who joined Rahal Letterman Racing as a replacement driver for the injured Kenny Brack.
www.fastmachines.com /archives/irl/001916.php   (646 words)

  
 Field Chronology - 2000
Rocket nets set out on colony, terns did not return
Rocket netting began (60 terns captured, 40 radio tagged, 0 morts)
Rocket netting (153 captured and processed, 1 mort - hit by rocket)
www.columbiabirdresearch.org /Chronology/Chronology_2000.htm   (148 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com: Feature: Rice Rocket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Not since the 1960s, when Bruce Lee introduced martial arts to middle America, have API males played such a major role in shaping pop culture.
Rice rockets have generated whole new industries, from import car shows that boast attendances of up to 10,000 to the mostly Asian American import car models, whose faces (and bodies) are featured on dozens of Web sites devoted just to them.
Ed Arguelles, coordinator for AutoFest 2001, an import car event scheduled for July 23, sees growing interest in the import scene, evidenced by an increase in import car clubs and hefty profits — some $20 billion annually — posted by the modification industry.
www.asianweek.com /2001_06_22/feature.html   (2764 words)

  
 Car Forums - The most tunable Rice Rocket?!? - Car Forum Archives
my opinion is the supra is by far the most tunable rice rocket in existance to this date.
In my oppinion the Honda civic is the most Non-Tuneable rice rocket in the world every where i go i see some riced out totally slow ass Civic with a big fart can and lots of stickers!
Another great tool in the skyline is the button that turns off the awd so that you can have some fun in it so i would like to see a 1000hp supraTT and a 1000hp Skyline GTR Spec V. That would be a good race.
www.car-forums.com /s15/t3172.html   (2153 words)

  
 Threadless T-Shirts - OMG!! Rice Rocket's everywhere.
No matter where you go, these days you can find a rice rocket anywhere from Hondas to Acuras to Mitsubishis.
Now I like to go fast like anyone in something with 4 wheels but when people like my friends car here put a shelf on the back and a muffler the size of a coffee can and nothing done to the engine, well I just have to make fun...
The text says rice rocket or rocket of the United States literally translated and thanks for the feedback
www.threadless.com /submission/8436/OMG!!_Rice_Rocket's_everywhere.   (494 words)

  
 A Rice Rocket, huh? - Sportbikes.net
She goes, "no thats a rice rocket." At that point i could have gone off on her, but since she is considered one of my bosses i thought i would let it slide.
It's a pet peeve of mine to hear "crotch rocket" or "rice burner".
I dont know about anywhere else, but where i grew up in CA, a rice rocket was the same as a rice burner.
www.sportbikes.net /forums/showthread.php?t=5369   (1121 words)

  
 "Rice Rocket" on the History Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Was just watching the History Channel and their show about drag racing.......guess what they called the import racers that are so popular now?
RE: "Rice Rocket" on the History Channel - 9/22/2004 11:38:00 PM
RE: "Rice Rocket" on the History Channel - 9/22/2004 11:40:53 PM
www.dodgeforum.com /m_82827/tm.htm   (277 words)

  
 purevolume™ | white rice rocket
all aboout the rice rockets, music is my only other passion, bass playa
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www.purevolume.com /listeners/whitericerocket   (51 words)

  
 Rice Rocket goes swimming: no pics unfortunately - Ultimatecarpage.com forums
Rice Rocket goes swimming: no pics unfortunately - Ultimatecarpage.com forums
My dad said that once when he was in Maimi on business, he saw two riced Honda Civics streetraing during business hours.
He accelerated and blew past them, and guess what speed he was going when he blew their doors off in his Buick rental?
www.ultimatecarpage.com /forum/showthread.php?t=17296   (264 words)

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