Post Race!

[homer13j]

Oh, goody... The president is coming to town on Wednesday to give a speech at the convention center at 3pm. And of course when it ends every single street and highway between downtown and the airport will be closed & blocked off just as the vast majority of us common, unimportant masses are getting off work.

And there's no way I'm driving downtown during tomorrow's drunkfest. I guess I'm taking the train to/from work the next two days...

Thanks, Obama.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It could be worse. He did the same thing in Boise a few months back (or more, I forget). Boise is a TINY city compared to Cleveland. The paralysis was near total. Had he given the talk just a bit further north it would have done us in completely for the day. Good day to telecommute.

I was caught by one of those presidential trips when I was coming home from college one year. I needed to get on the interstate, and a long series of on-ramps was closed. I ended up driving around Hartford for a while trying to get onto a road that was pretty nearly right beside me. I heard that it was Bush the Elder who was visiting, and he was only VP at the time.

[homer13j]

...and I forgot the NCAA Midwest Regional starts here on Saturday and lasts for a friggin' week.

When did Cleveland suddenly become such a desirable destination?

So I'm looking at another five days of commuting by train. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to share the train with all those people.

That's the main reason I chose to live in a city where nobody else wants to. I guess that's no longer the case.

[homer13j]

I heard that it was Bush the Elder who was visiting, and he was only VP at the time.

Yeah, veeps get the same treatment since they are only "a heartbeat away" despite the fact that nobody really cares.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

So who (besides me) is staying up late (or getting up early in the UK and Yurrup) to watch the F1 race in Melbourne?

Looks like a race for third since the Mercedes are so dominant.

I watched it, but unless the other teams make up some ground it look like its going to be a boring season.

F1 has always had better and worse teams but the good seasons are when they have at least 2 competing teams

It's a safe bet that Lewis Hamilton paid more for his diamond earrings than I paid for my house.

Its a fairly safe bet that Lewis Hamilton has avoided more tax by living in Switzerland then i have ever earn't

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's the main reason I chose to live in a city where nobody else wants to. I guess that's no longer the case.

Move to Detroit.

[dday9]

Move to Detroit.

It's a trap!

[homer13j]

I watched it, but unless the other teams make up some ground it look like its going to be a boring season.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the current engine formula. It's like 10-15 years ago when Ferrari had it all figured out and everyone else was racing for the last spot on the podium.

Its a fairly safe bet that Lewis Hamilton has avoided more tax by living in Switzerland then i have ever earn't

If I made that kind of money I'd be living in Switzerland as well. Or Monaco.

[homer13j]

Move to Detroit.

No. I'm going to have enough trouble selling my house where it is.

[Shaggy Hiker]

They might just give you one in Detroit, so you could become an absentee landlord.

[dday9]

I saw where they had many properties for sale under 10k in Detroit. I doubt that they were in neighborhoods that you'd want to be in(because it is Detroit), but for 10k...

[dday9]

My first home was actually in the ghetto. I bought it for a whopping 40k and it was a 2bed 2 bath with a shed with the washer and dryer hookups. About a year after I moved in, my neighbor was arrested for homicide. Somebody stole some of his drugs and he went to the guys house and shot him 6 times at point blank range.

[Gruff]

I need an emoticon that has hair standing up straight in fright. Just doesn't do it.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It's a good think he didn't try shooting him from only blank range, because he might well have missed.

I only said that because it occured to me that "point blank range" is a really strange phrase, when you think about it.

[dday9]

I was trying to find his newspaper clipping, but I can't seem to remember his name.

[dday9]

The only thing I remember is that the doctor pulled him out of his mama by his arm whenever he was born so his arm was all messed up. It kind of creeped me out, but he could use it.

[Gruff]

Does that mean if you were shot with a blank at that distance it would kill you?

[dday9]

I remember looking it up at one time and I think that it had something to do with shooting animal corpses and misinterpretation from one language to another.

[dday9]

That's also how bull's-eye was coined too.

[Gruff]

Are you sure you don't mean Bull-Puckey?
or in a Pigs-Eye?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I remember looking it up at one time and I think that it had something to do with shooting animal corpses and misinterpretation from one language to another.

That's the modern version of beating a dead horse, right? Shooting a dead horse is just as useful an exercise....unless you live in the south, where roadkill can get pretty bloated in short order. In those cases, I can understand shooting a dead animal, but I'd want to be doing that from as far away as I could safely manage. Perhaps that's what "point blank range" means? Maybe it's the furthest distance you can reliably hit a bloated carcass from.

[Bonker Gudd]

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[Niya]

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lol, the forums cannot interpret base64 encoded images. I can though:-

[Peter Porter]

[Peter Porter]

Shake 'n Bake, Tobacco, & Jimmy Hoffa ~ Jeremy Lavine

It's been a long time since I've done any creative writing. So since I have a brain I thought to myself "Maybe I should start a blog", and after tossing it around in my head like Shake ‘n Bake, I decided to start one. So this is my first blog post.

I bet you thought I was gona write about groceries, am I right? Well, I'm not!...

...Did you know Shake 'n Bake is a brand asset from Altria Group, formerly Philip Morris Companies? That's right! The same people who roll cigarette tobacco with their hands, also pack the bread crumbs into those Shake 'n Bake bags. So if you ever develop lung cancer, and you don't smoke, you know why!...

...Cigarettes kill millions of people a year, so you can imagine how many die from a bag of Shake 'n Bake!...

You can read it in it's entirety here:
http://jeremylavine.blogspot.de/2007...mmy-hoffa.html

[Shaggy Hiker]

I didn't even know Shake 'n Bake was still around. It's too much work, and that's unAmerican. Our food should come pre-breaded or what's the point?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Peter Porter picked a post purporting to play pure havoc with the forum sizing.

[homer13j]

Looks like something written by a division 1 athlete in order to give the illusion of academic achievement and maintain his eligibility.

UNC tutor reveals pitiful, 10-sentence paper that earned football player an A-

[Gruff]

Peter Porter?

Do you work for the Daily Trumpet?
Do you have a family member named Aunt June?
Do you have the equivalent strength of some Insect?
Do you have an enemy named 'Doc Squid' or the 'Green Kobold'?

*Just messing with you. *

[Peter Porter]

Do you work for the Daily Trumpet?

Not the Trumpet. The Trombone!

Do you have a family member named Aunt June?

Close... Have an Aunt Jan.

Do you have the equivalent strength of some Insect?

Yes, a raspy cricket.

Do you have an enemy named 'Doc Squid' or the 'Green Kobold'?

Nah... All doctors, and the Green Giant!

[homer13j]

Nothing cool like this ever happens where I live...

Chain saw-wielding brawlers clash in Big Sandy

[homer13j]

Peter Porter picked a post purporting to play pure havoc with the forum sizing.

Well played... even though it was Bonker's post that did it.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Oh yeah, you're right. I think I'm in a time warp. I forgot that whole post.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We REALLY need to get off this page.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I've done my part. Now we need DDay to step up and spam this thread until we reach a new page and leave that wide post behind.

[Gruff]

I was wondering when someone would notice.

[Gruff]

In my day I'd just edit the offending post and manually add new lines to narrow up the text...
... Oh I see. Yeah Bonker. Never mind.

[dday9]

Shaggy.

[dday9]

I .

[dday9]

Can.