Giving Instructions Thread

Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Rodrigo - Wednesday, September 14 2005, 12:26 PM

These days where being a rebel is such a popular idea, one thing that is considered important is the way you transport yourself. So what do you think about looking rude and tough while you park your ride on “El Cuadro” parking lot at Tec? Nowadays, pimping your ride is such a popular theme, so what do you think about pimping your tricycle? This Do it Yourself article will show you the fastest way for pimping your tricycle.

A tricycle is a vehicle, used especially by small children, that has three wheels, one at the front and two at the back, and is usually propelled by pedals. The first thing you need of course is a tricycle, but I am sure you have one. Everybody should have one, unless of course he is a loser.

The first step to convert your common tricycle in to a rude and pimped one will be to find an empty bottle of “Yakult”^MRand place it on the back wheel spokes¹, so when the tire rotates, it simulates the sound a of motorcycle as it makes friction with the back fork of the bicycle.

This step is a very personal secret that makes me feel really proud. Instead of thinking that the pair of back wheels make you look like a “sissy,” what do you think about putting a pair of powerful knives on your wheels so you can be the terror of the streets? Normally I would recommend you to do this with your parent’s help but in this case, that would make you look stupid, so do it on your own. Find a pair of knives at your nearest store. Find some welding equipment and weld the knives on the center of each wheel, so when the tire rotates, the knife can become a powerful weapon.

By this point you should be aware that pimping a tricycle is really easy process with huge benefits. Be prepared to see your popularity grow in an unexpected manner, You will have permission for getting later and drunker on weekends. And many more benefits, so remember, “Pimp” your tricycle RIGHT NOW, it is cheap, fun and easy.

1. To see a diagram of the mentioned parts of a tricycle, visit: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/pubs/cycling/cyclingskills.htm

Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Benjamin - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 12:45 PM

It is a good essay, I like that it is short and useful. This essay, besides being a giving instructions essay, sounds like a persuasive essay too. The essay not only teaches you how to modify your tricycle to make it a rebel tricycle, it also encourages the reader to follow the instructions. To persuade the reader you stated some of the effects of having a pimped tricycle, so it is kind of an effect essay. I like the combination you did on this one.

About pimping tricycles I usually like to add black leather stripes to the ends of the front bar, when riding fast they have a cool visual effect. I’m looking forward to see the photos of your pimped tricycles.

	Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle by Rodrigo - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 12:48 PM
	I am sorry guy, but I haven’t uploaded my pimped tricycles, so you will have to wait, because I am working to create a whole web and a fan club of tricycle pimpers, so if you want to know more, let me know. The link I have is just to show the parts of the tricycles that are mentioned. And thank you for your comment abouth leather strips, I had actually written that but I exceed the word limit.

Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Regina - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 12:52 PM

There is just one word for this essay: SUPERB. This is by far the funniest essay a student at phlurns has ever written. It takes a lot of creativity to write an essay with such sarcasm, cleverness and comedy. I can honestly say that I enjoyed every single word of it. I love that somebody has been smart enough to bring humor into the classroom. I have read this essay at least five times and each time it makes me laugh as much as it did the first time. Now THAT is pure genius. I especially love the part about welding knives on to the back wheels and the importance of doing it yourself because otherwise it will make you look stupid.

There is criticism to some TEC students in between the lines and I find it hilarious.

But aside from the fact that this piece of work is unbelievable amusing, it is very well written. It follows a logical order which makes it very easy to understand. After reading this essay anybody could pimp a tricycle. Also, the originality of the subject is remarkable. It takes a very abstract mind to ever relate pimping with a tricycle.

All in all, I give this essay two thumbs up. I look forward to reading more of Rodrigo’s work because if anyone in the phlurns class knows advanced composition, it’s him.

Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Rodrigo - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 01:01 PM

Hello, thank you for your commentaries, but really I had never thought of this essay as a sarcasm, I really love pimping tricycles, it is really a hobby I have and it is tradition of my family that comes from a foreign country where this is very respected and admired. It’s a shame that you make fun of foreign and ancient traditions.

I was trying to make also a fun cause/effect essay, but it was not considered fun by authorities so I had to make a more formal and propositive essay, so you probable you won’t see more essays of this type, and it is sad for me.

	Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle by Regina - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 08:15 PM
	Do you really think that I would have called your essay superb if I was making fun of it? I do think it is very funny, but I didn't actually make fun of it (which is a very different thing). I thought it was awesome and respect it very much. Keep up the good work.

Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Rodrigo - Thursday, September 22 2005, 12:17 PM

Ok, I think I was misunderstood, I began answering you with a joke, of course it is not a tradition in my family to pimp tricycles, I know you were not sarcastic, thank you for commentaries and cheers. As I also said, I would love to make this kind of dumb/sarcastic essays every time, and I also did an essay of this kind on the Cause/Effect, but teacher refused it, so it is sad for me as I said.

Thank you all the people who answered my essay, I never expected to make an essay that would be come so contagious and all the people would answer with a similar mood that I did.

Thank you.

	Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle by Benjamin - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 01:16 PM
	I don't see the sarcasm either.

Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Carlos - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 01:11 PM

I think that pimping your tricycle is the best way to look tough on the streets. I don’t have a tricycle, but I think that the knives on the wheels would look good on a car. Pimping It’s all about culture. Pimping it’s about to telling the falls who is boss and to earn the respect of the neighborhood by showing your bling bling. Pimping is such a tradition that is passed out from pimp to pimp teaching the ways of showing love and fear.

Many people think that pimping its about hookers and crime, but pimping is the reflection of a good man’s will and it is all about love and do better every day, try your best and grow as a person. Pimping will show you the ways of the street and will show the other pimps that the street is of who sees and conquers. Pimping your tricycle is an example of how you can start to pimp the hood.

I think that you a re missionary that start to develop the masters of teaching the pimping principles. This giving instructions essay is basic pimping and will teaches kids that they can start to be pimps from home. Little pimps try this at home!

Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Benjamin - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 01:20 PM

Rodrigo I think you are such a rebel with out cause, and a professional in tricycle riding, also yours ideas are impressive, you probably could be an excellent inventor, those yakults bottles on the spokes and the knives as extra weapon are imposing fashion and changing the way people live.

Only I want you to remember one thing be careful with thieves, especially with Apache tricycles they might use yours ideas in their own benefic. , I mean it is pure applied technology¡¡¡¡

Maybe there is a question I would make to you, Why not use pimped tricycles for good purposes? For example, If each Mexican police have one, criminals wouldn’t have opportunity to escape, also police department could assign a couple for polices too increase the Mexican power and maximize the tricycles quality.

Rodrigo one more thing, what about music, a good pimped tricycle needs good sound, for example the lanbada song, or the cucaracha, maybe Imanol songs, or Laura Leon “La Tesoritos”, playing this kind of pieces of Mexican art needs a very good sound equipment, for this, and for more accessories please go to The cross Market, or the Alamedas mall.

Please consider my opinions, and keep doing beautiful things, you are the Chosen one.

It's all about "pimping"
by Daniel - Wednesday, September 21 2005, 05:48 PM

Just “pimp” it. Who silly guy would drive a Mercedes SL600, a BMW Z4, a Jaguar XK 4.2-S, or a H1 Alpha Hummer? These are not vehicles for a winner, leave them to losers. But, where can you find the style, the respect, and the rudeness enough for a tough guy like you? One answer: just “pimp” your tricycle. The history itself has demonstrated the indispensable role that pimped tricycles have played in the formation of the greatest personalities.

Pimping your tricycle is neither a hobby, nor a Sunday activity, it’s a way of life, and it’s a culture. I’m sure you agree with me because you come from a lineage that has preserved this ancient tradition generation after generation. People who have forged the history of this world have ridden a tricycle. Caesar Julius, Alexander Magnus, Mahatma Gandhi, Al Capone, Michael Jordan, David Beckham, John D. Rockefeller, Pancho Villa, all they used to pimp their tricycles. There are also some ancient written documents not accepted by the Vatican that tell Ben-Hur liberate his mother and sister by challenging Messala in a roman tricycle contest. You remembered me this when you talked about installing knives to the tricycle.

The tradition of pimping tricycles has remained even today because of people like you, people concerned and committed with this culture, with this way of life. Pimping your tricycle is not only a matter of style and expression, it’s the spirit of the great ones in the new ones, and you have it, so use it with honor. Remember, behind each great man there’s a great pimped tricycle.

Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Carlos - Thursday, September 22 2005, 12:43 PM

Hey, I also think you made a great essay; it was actually very funny and original. I didn’t imagine what were you going to say just by reading your title, but just after I began, your essay caught my attention immediately. I think you have great ideas and funny comments and that make the reader to enjoy of an essay. Also, I believe it is too bad that teachers don’t aloud you write this kind of essays, they are actually very funny, or at least this one is hilarious. I agree with all the classmates that made comments about your work, so keep working like this and I am sure that everyone will like to read and respond your essays.

Re: Instructions on How to “Pimp” a Tricycle
by Eduardo - Thursday, September 22 2005, 01:07 PM

Wow, I decided to read your essay because all my classmates suggested as the best essay of the class so, I decided to make my opinion about it, is the funniest essay I had ever read in an English class, actually I can even imagine in how do the idea of pimping a tricycle come over your head, is like kind of wear that someone think about it, I think most of us think in pimping a car or maybe your room but the tricycle what a funny thing.

Actually I can now think that I maybe pimp my bike with your ideas, actually I used the one of the yakult in the back wheel and you instantly convert your bike in a motorbike, that’s very funny and I used to do it when I was a child and I used to ride my bike all day long.

Your essay definitely awesome the class, all class was kind of shocked with your essay and I think that it is because you broke with the rule everybody wrote about a real fact and nobody used the funny fact like you I hope you continue with these attitude through all your essays so we can continue having fun. Congratulations.