Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

It takes me months to figure that out. I'll know by summer, I hope.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It is NOT the winter of my discontent. In fact, I'm feeling downright ebullient.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I have gotten into making smoothies. I only mentioned this because I created a fascinating thixotropic solution the other day. It was VERY messy to drink, but anytime you get to use the word thixotropic correctly, you really should do so.

[szlamany]

Years are always tough for me. I've been in the 2015 fiscal year since July 2014.

You start building a budget in November of 2015 (which is the 2016 fiscal year) for the 2017 fiscal year.

I've got a customer that has a PENSION year that starts in October - so it's been pension year 2015 since October 2014!

Who's on first?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, I try not to pay attention to that. We have a fiscal year that begins on July 1st, but I work on a contract that has a fiscal year beginning on October 1st, so I'm not even in synch with the agency I work for.

[homer13j]

It's official: Louisville stinks.

[dday9]

Have you ever been to New Orleans?

[dday9]

P.u.

[Gruff]

I have gotten into making smoothies. I only mentioned this because I created a fascinating thixotropic solution the other day. It was VERY messy to drink.

We used to hunt thixotropics. Up around Saratoga it was. Long horns they was. Ugly brutes.

[homer13j]

Have you ever been to New Orleans?

Yes. In the middle of summer. But not since Katrina.

By far the worst-smelling city I ever encountered was Steubenville, Ohio in the early-'70s when the steel mills were still going strong. Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Youngstown all had a similar odor, but not nearly as bad.

[dday9]

There use to be a rice mill in Edgerly, LA. and when I was younger we'd visit a caretaker of a cemetery that my dad owned and I knew instantly when we were close.

[Shaggy Hiker]

A few years back, I was driving down a street and approaching a stoplight. Ahead of me was a large, high-sided, truck. There weren't any obvious markings on the truck, but as I got closer, I saw a hoof sticking up out of the top of the truck. So...it was carrying dead animals, and it was open, and the temperature was up around 100 degrees, and the light was red. I barely survived.

[dclamp]

provo alone

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's getting kind of cheesy.

[dday9]

Knock Knock.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Who's there?

[dday9]

Queso.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Queso who?

(I'm not knocking cheese)

[homer13j]

A few years back, I was driving down a street and approaching a stoplight. Ahead of me was a large, high-sided, truck. There weren't any obvious markings on the truck, but as I got closer, I saw a hoof sticking up out of the top of the truck. So...it was carrying dead animals, and it was open, and the temperature was up around 100 degrees, and the light was red. I barely survived.

I had a somewhat similar experience that involved a friend's English foxhound and a pile of putrefied beaver carcasses that had been trapped, skinned and dumped on an abandoned railroad line we were hiking along on a hot summer day. The dog had suddenly disappeared and we soon found her happily rolling around in this godawful mess. We tried our best to rinse her off in a creek, but needless to say the long ride home in my beater cargo van (with no rear windows ) was quite difficult to endure.

[dday9]

Queso who?

(I'm not knocking cheese)

Ok, so who?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Those dogs must have been horrid. I remember that particular rotting smell vividly, but it's hard to say what it was on here without triggering a slew of off-color jokes.

[Gruff]

Off color? you mean like... Gang Green?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Any discussion of rotten beavers is likely to go where no thread should go.

[dday9]

Any discussion of rotten beavers is likely to go where no thread should go.

Well, just leave it to beavers I guess.

[Shaggy Hiker]

A drive-by Wossing caused the Post Race to plummet down the page.

Balance has now been restored.


You're welcome.

[dday9]

You're welcome.

Phew!

[homer13j]

A drive-by Wossing

That sounds dirty.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It usually is.

[homer13j]

When Fox Sports One took over Speed Channel they promised us rabid race fans their auto racing coverage would be so good we "will never miss Speed Channel."

Now Fox is attempting to extort more money out of AT&T and as a result instead of showing a race this afternoon FS1 (at least on U-verse) is showing... darts.

F'ing darts. I didn't even know it was an actual sport.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Having played darts, I can see that it is a sport if poker is a sport, but I'm not sure that anything can be counted as a sport if you can play without even putting down your drink.

[szlamany]

I always felt that if golf was a sport then pool/billiards is a sport.

And if you are going to go that far then darts fits right in.

Poker - you don't even have to stand up - it's just lounging with cards in your hand. If that's a sport then reading the sport pages is sport.

After you type sport so many times it doesn't even look like a word...

[dclamp]

Typing the word sport is also a sport.

I was out with a friend one night and a restaurant was playing WSOP on the TV. I made a comment about how boring it must be to watch someone else play poker. Several minutes later I was actually glued to the screen watching. Its actually pretty fun to watch people spend a lot of money.

[Shaggy Hiker]

They don't spend money, they spend chips. There should be some fish thrown in there to liven things up. They go well with chips, I hear.

In any case, why don't you tell people about the mishap with the crazy glue that resulted in you being actually glued to the screen.

[Gruff]

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[Bonker Gudd]

Hey woman hey you you do you know why I hate you baby?

[homer13j]

[dday9]

[homer13j]

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's only a tokin reference.

[dday9]