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[RoadRaven]

Be sure you don't have any "gunk" gunking up (technical term) the cable feeds under your bottom bracket.

To gunk ?? Gunking ?? Gunky ?? Gunked ?? Gunkerated ?? Gunkatrion

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunk
Main Entry: gunk
Pronunciation: \ˈgəŋk\
Function: noun
Etymology: from Gunk, trademark for a cleaning solvent
Date: 1943
: filthy, sticky, or greasy matter
— gunky \ˈgəŋ-kē\ adjective


And more philosophically from Wikipedia...

In mereology, the term gunk applies to any whole whose parts all have further proper parts. That is, a gunky object is not made of indivisible atoms. In contrast, an atomic individual is entirely decomposable into atoms.

Gunk is an important test case for accounts of the composition of material objects: for instance, Ted Sider has challenged Peter Van Inwagen's account of composition because it is inconsistent with the possibility of gunk. Sider's argument also applies to a simpler view than Van Inwagen's: mereological nihilism, the view that only material simples exist. If nihilism is necessarily true, then gunk is impossible. But, as Sider argues, because gunk is both conceivable and possible, nihilism is false, or at best a contingent truth.

Of course! now I understand!