Post Race!

[dclamp]

That is hilarious

[Shaggy Hiker]

GREAT idea!!

[dday9]

My co-worker's nephew was murdered on Friday.

[dday9]

Because we're such a small office, the atmosphere is not the best right now.

[dclamp]

Facebook suggested that I may know you. I wonder how they figured that out. Everyone else had several mutual friends. Facebook is taking over the world.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Mutual VBF addiction?

[dclamp]

Its only an addiction if I don't have any control.

[dday9]

:O

That is me too!

[dday9]

We have no mutual friends, so I guess FaceBook checks the most visited sites or something.

[dday9]

You can request me, but I don't get on FaceBook too often. So it may be a week before I accept it.

[homer13j]

Bailey Izumita is really cute. I'm going to have to look her up.

[homer13j]

Okay, I did... and she looks like she's still in high school...

[homer13j]

If anyone is interested the name I use on facebook is "Occhialoni Paesano." How I ended up with that name is a long, strange story.

[dday9]

How I ended up with that name is a long, strange story.

This is the post race...

[dday9]

Gruff, you never told me that you are in Louisiana!

[homer13j]

It goes back to the mid-'90s when I picked up a copy of Papyrus' Nascar Racing simulator. After growing bored racing against the AI cars I started racing online. A few people I raced against used their real names, but mostly it was names like "Hugh G. Rection" or "Oliver Clothesoff." Being reluctant to use my real name and not wanting to go the juvenile route I chose a rather obscure name from an episode of The Flintstones that aired before I was born.

The story begins with Barney building a race car in his garage so Fred decides to enter it in the Indianrockolis 500 so the prize money could be used for Pebbles' and Bam-bam's college fund. Unfortunately Fred has to work on race day so he calls in sick. At the track Fred spots his boss so he pretends to be Italian and enters the race under the name "Goggles Pisano." I believe it was the only character name in the entire series that wasn't rock, stone or mineral-related. I ended up winning several online championships under that name.

I also use that name on a few dirt bike message boards so all my dirt-biking buddies know me as "Goggles" as well.

Years later my now ex-girlfriend got me to sign up for facebook and I just naturally used Goggles Pisano there. Those who know me figured it out and I even got a few overseas friend requests from racing fans that I most likely would not have received if I used my real name.

Then last year facebook decided to begin enforcing a new rule where you had to use your real name and my account was suspended. So I stopped using facebook. From what I know there was a huge outcry from the drag queen community (yes, it exists) who demanded to use whatever name they wanted. After seven months I was suddenly allowed back on facebook, but it still wouldn't accept my chosen name, so I changed it to Occhialoni Paesano ("Goggles Countryman" in Italian) . This was deemed acceptable and remains my facebook name to this day.

Perhaps one day I'll change it back. Or maybe I won't.

[homer13j]

Is he riding on a gator's back? Gotta be photoshopped...

[dday9]

That was a very long story, but I use to love the Flintstones when I was younger.

[dday9]

A lot of the older cartoons that use to air when I was growing up don't anymore.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Its only an addiction if I don't have any control.

How about if you have only a user control?

[dday9]

I tried to find the episode of Tom and Jerry where Jerry and his son are mousketeers in France. I remember them singing Alouette and saying "Bonjour monsieur *****cat!"

[dday9]

Hmm, well I could see why that word is filtered I guess.

[dclamp]

I tried to find the episode of Tom and Jerry where Jerry and his son are mousketeers in France. I remember them singing Alouette and saying "Bonjour monsieur *****cat!"

I remember that episode. Tom and Jerry was the best. Amazing how good that cartoon was and they never spoke.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Gruff does appear to be riding on the back of an alligator. It may be that the photo was taken on the back stretch of the Greater Louisiana Gator Race (GLGR) where various animals have been trained to guide and ride gators around a lengthy course. Raccoons are frequently used due to their intelligence and dexterous paws. The viewing stands are all on the front stetch of the course near the start and finish line, naturally. This adds an element of challenge because the gators and their riders encounter a stretch where they are out of sight and sound (except for loud Yeeeee-haws) of the spectators. As you might expect, a gator that returns minus its rider is disqualified. Gators are dumb as bricks, though, so a gator that loses its rider (or eats it) almost never returns to the finish line.

On the other hand, it might just be a cold day, at which point the gator is barely able to move.

[dclamp]

You can request me, but I don't get on FaceBook too often. So it may be a week before I accept it.

I will consider it. I have you put you through a background check first.

[dday9]

I will consider it. I have you put you through a background check first.

Well right now, my background is a greyish wall with some insurance company logo's stickered on.

[homer13j]

Well, that's a relief...

The sun has not exploded

[dclamp]

Well right now, my background is a greyish wall with some insurance company logo's stickered on.

You have passed.

[Shaggy Hiker]

So has gas.

[dclamp]

Yes the price of gas has passed

[homer13j]

Another difficult but entirely typical night for Cleveland sports fans.

[dday9]

Que pasa?

[szlamany]

??Syntax error??

[dday9]

Oh...



Golden State Warriors (4-2) 105 - 97 Final Cleveland Cavaliers (2-4)

[dday9]

I saw this and could not pass it up:
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[dday9]

I'm so-so with the Browns. I sympathize with them because I know how it feels for a team to go so long without a super bowl.

[SJWhiteley]

This is the post race...

"First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died ..."

[dday9]

Dinosaurs died?!

[dday9]

I thought that they just became extinct.

[Gruff]

Or in another universe... Maybe not! You Tube Link