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Sam's Place
Subject: .


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 06, 05:16:28pm

Subject: Same here Rick


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 06, 04:36:52pm
I have a great monitor, but can't find the wolf. Guess I'm not artistic like you. AWESOME work though!
Subject: Perhaps


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 06, 02:03:51pm
you should adjust the brightness button on your monitor.

I sold a 20X30 copy of that image last Wednesday unframed for $265. yesterday I was asked to hang it in a gallery in Truro. The gallery is even chipping in for the frame.
It's not too dark.

yes there is a wolf howling. Look at the stars.
Subject: Uhhh sorry


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 06, 01:44:05pm
it's just too dark on my screen. Is there a wolf in the image?
Subject: whatcha think?


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Friday, March 05, 10:55:29pm
The Spirit Wolf


Nothing is real. made it all.
Subject: The United States Government and the Candian Government have


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Friday, March 05, 05:55:11pm
something in common...

they both go out of their way to waste money.

The Canadian Government once got... and paid... a bill of $700 for a toilet seat and a $3,000. hammer. I shit you not.
Subject: They can change


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Friday, March 05, 10:59:17am
anything they want...Getting people to sing it that way may prove a waste of time.
Subject: Doesn't the Canadian Government have anything better to do ?


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Friday, March 05, 10:06:00am
Truly idiotic. Broom the moron who came up wih the idea.
Subject: The Canadian Government is insane


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Friday, March 05, 07:36:32am
The Canadian Government is considering changing one line in our national anthem because what we've been singing all these years is sexist. here's the lyrics:

Oh, Canada
Our home and native land,
True patriot love
[b]In all thy sons command. [/b]
With glowing hearts
We see thee rise,
The true, north, strong, and free.
From far and wide
Oh Canada
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land
Glorious and free.
Oh, Canada we stand on guard for thee,
Oh, Canada
we stand on guard for thee.

They want to change
'In all thy sons command'
to
'In all thy persons command'

am I the only one who finds this idiotic?
Subject: you guys hear?


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Thursday, March 04, 09:25:44pm
CNN announced this morning that someone, I forget who but its supposed to eb on their website... someone is offering $1,000,000. to anyone who can solve Toyota's acceleration/braking problem because Toyota admits the fix they have may not be a real fix.

million bucks to figure it out. God I hope Ford, GM or Dodge gets to collect that money... and patent the fix so Toyota has to pay them for it.
Subject: Toyota sure isn't comfortable being accountable


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Thursday, March 04, 07:42:52pm
They seem to relish this little secret society of theirs. Never had to answer to any inferior US government officials before. 52 dead Americans, and no remorse from them. Now they won't divulge the contents of the black boxes in any of the crash cars. Too superior to lower themselves to us inferior Americans.

Seems too that the little 25 cent wedge for the gas pedals isn't working either.

And the hole keeps getting bigger. The lies and denials keep piling up, and the lawsuits and recalls keep coming.

What goes up must come down. And all the little people that you stepped on on your way up the ladder will be waiting for you when you came down. Welcome to the United States Chairman Toyoda. I hope you have a nice visit. Asshole.
Subject: my mother used to have a sign in our bathroom when I was a kid


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Tuesday, March 02, 07:07:03pm
haven't seen it since I was a kid but I remember it:

In life, there are only two things to worry about.
Either you are well, or you are sick.
If you are well, there is nothing to worry about.
If you are sick, there are only two things to worry about.
Either you get well, or you die.
If you get well, there is nothing to worry about.
If you die, there are only two things to worry about.
Either you go to Heaven or Hell.
If you go to Heaven, there is nothing to worry about.
If you go to Hell, you'll be so damn busy shaking hands with friend, you wo't have time to worry.


I'm ok. I am grateful for having friends who worry about me. Thank you. But I am quite used to being sick. It gets pretty old sometimes though.
Subject: Man Rick


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Tuesday, March 02, 06:44:07pm
that sounds serious. You're in my prayers.
Subject: sick again today


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Monday, March 01, 08:13:53pm
I wasnt able to hook up to the machine last night and I probably won't be able to again tonight. which means I'll be laying on the sofa most of tomorrow.
Not too much fun.
Subject: a couple of weeks before Adam died


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Monday, March 01, 08:12:53pm
Junior showed up at the track without his driving shoes. Adam loaned him a pair and never got them back before he died. Junior said those shoes are the most important thing he owns now. I am not in the least bit surprised he donated such a large amount of money.
Subject: I taped a string


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Monday, March 01, 08:11:25pm
of Christmas lights to a ceiling fan and turned it on. Thats a 15 second exposure. pretty cool but not exactly what I'd hoped for. She took it to school today and no one could guess what it was.
Subject: Rick


Author:
Larry
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Date Posted: Monday, March 01, 07:45:20pm
RANDLEMAN, N.C. (AP)—Dale Earnhardt Jr. has donated $1 million to the Victory Junction camp for children with serious illnesses.

The donation will be used to build The Dale Jr. Corral and Amphitheater at the camp that honors the late Adam Petty. Earnhardt made it to kick off Victory Junction’s “Keeping the Dream Alive” campaign.

Petty was killed in 2000 during a practice session at New Hampshire International Speedway. He had a passion for trying to help seriously ill children, and his parents started the camp in his memory.

Earnhardt says the donation was in memory of “my buddy, Adam Petty,” whom he called genuine and a great friend.
Subject: Looks like


Author:
Larry
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Date Posted: Monday, March 01, 06:47:05pm
some kind of lights but can't figure what it is.
Subject: Tiffany needed to do 'something' for show and tell


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 10:23:38pm
So I helped her take a picture of something.


what is it?
Subject: I'm not sure


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 09:54:05pm
that you ever want to visit Canada between September and May.
Subject: I take it back


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 08:54:07pm
I NOW know more that I WANT about hockey. God stop the madness. ;)
Subject: JT


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 08:00:19pm
I'll tell you something about hockey. You may find this interesting...
It isn't a sport in Canada. There is nothing in Canada that is more important than hockey. Period. The game was invented here. The first game was played in Nova Scotia, although a town in Ontario makes the same claim.

In 1972 when I was 12, Alan Eagleson, the president of the NHL Players Association made a deal to play a series of 8 games against the Russian national team. Those guys were all in the Red Army. 4 games were played in Canada and the next 4 in Russia. We thought we were going to kick their commie asses right back to Moscow.
30 seconds into the first game, Canada was winning 1-0. We lost that game 7-3. We were rather rudely introduced to two gentlemen named Kharmalov and Tretiak. The two best hockey players in the world... but we didn't know that when the series started. We'd never even heard of Kharmalov and a Canadian scout said the goalie Tretiak 'couldn't stop a beachball.' Of course what we didn't know was that he was scouted the morning after he got married.
Anyway, the point is, during that September in 1972, Canada just stopped. I mean stopped. Every game in Russia took place while school was in and every day they brought tv's into the classrooms and we didn't have to do any school work. Practically every business with a storefront window, put a tv in the window so people on the street could stop and watch the games. The government even stopped.
I can tell you exactly where I was on the afternoon of September 28, 1972. They brought the tv into my classroom and my best friend's class came in to watch the game on our tv. We were sitting on my desk in room 5, Winona Public School. And the place went insane when Paul Henderson scored with 34 seconds left to give us the series.
As a nation, nothing is more important to Canada than hockey. Doesn't matter if you're right wing, left wing, cowboy, Indian... whatever. It doesn't matter. Hockey is the one thing we all have in common. Its a religion.
Subject: I already know


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 07:16:27pm
more about hockey that I EVER wanted. (The score to that game.):P LOL
Subject: you didnt miss much


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 07:13:11pm
of course by now you know the 48 won.
Subject: Thank you


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 06:31:41pm
I agree, the better team won. But the better goalie lost. Guaranteed come contract time, Miller's paycheck gets bigger.
Subject: Congrats CANADA !!!


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 05:55:58pm
What a great hockey game. I hate to admit it Rick, but you called it. The better team won, and it was fun to watch!
Subject: Nail biting time


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 05:36:12pm
Going to overtime tied 2-2. May the best team win!

There's a Nascar race going on too, but.......................
Subject: It was a dumb thing to do all the way around


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 04:56:01pm
But I guess people do dumb stuff in the heat of the moment.

My problem with Team Canada? My favorite player is on Team USA. Phil Kessel. But Canada and the team come first. Sorry Phil... actually I'm not.

Funny thing... Stasny on team USA.. his father is the only player to play for three countries. Peter Stasny was born in Czechoslovakia and played for them in the Olympics. Then he defected to Canada and played for Quebec in the NHL and became a Canadian citizen and played for Canada in the Canada Cup. Then when Czechoslovakia split, he held Slovak/Canadian dual citizenship and when he didn't get picke dby Canada for the Olympics, he played for the Slovaks. Now his son is playing for the US.

And Zak Parise is the son of JP Parise, who was a star for Team Canada during the first real international series, Canada against Russia in 1972.
Subject: Thanks Rick


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 04:47:31pm
I figured there had to be more to that story. Heck I dont care who wins. Congratulations!!! But smoking cigars???? ewwwwwwwww.

If Canada wins? GOOD FOR THEM.

If America wins? GOOD FOR THEM.
Subject: I HAVE to root for the US of A


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 03:56:01pm
They are only down 1-0 after the first period. If we beat them last week we can do it this week too!
Subject: they weren't bad winners


Author:
Rikc
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 03:00:28pm
after everyone left the building except some photographers, the girls went back onto the ice and had champagne and cigars. bad idea and photos were taken. and there are two girls on the team who are 18 so it was technically illegal.

But they won their game and celebrate din public graciously. They shook hand swith the Americans after the game and they gave them an ovation when they got their silver medals. The 'bad' took place in what they thought (stupidly) was private. Nothing is private and they should not have done that.

but there were not bad winners. bad celebraters, yeah. but good and gracious winners.
Subject: Well


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 02:14:28pm
the womens team kicked ass. I teard they were bad winners. I didnt see it my guess that statement came from the losing team? LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Subject: Al Al Al


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 02:04:33pm
The United States has beaten Canada in Olympic hockey once in the last 50 years. That was last week. I think it'll be another 50 years before you do it again.

Funny thing though... the coach of the Detroit Red Wings is a Canadian and is coaching the Canadian team. The coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs is an American and is coaching the American team.
Subject: NUTS


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 12:15:18pm
If he thinks Canada is going to beat USA in hockey today!
Subject: It's good


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 11:56:26am
to know you're feeling better. :)
Subject: Two prayers today


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 10:25:20am
NASCAR:
Pray for a safe clean race. I hope everyone finishes on the lead lap and that your favorite driver wins.

Olympic Gold Medal hockey game between Canada and the United States:

God, be with our guests and help them endure the ass kicking they are about to recieve.
Subject: Rick


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 27, 08:28:31pm
You're always included in my prayers, as is everyone here.
Subject: I just had a nice chat with Al


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 27, 08:25:15pm
I appreciate you guys worrying about me.
I have had a pretty rough stretch. You all know I'm mostly fed by a machine, right? The other day I called in my food order and the lady said, "Thats an awful small order this time, Rick." I said it's because I've been so sick lately that I haven't been hooking up every night so I still have lots left."
I have hooked up the last 3 nights so I'm feeling a little better.
I wil try to be on more.

Nice talking to you, Al.
Subject: Something is wrong


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 27, 07:33:59pm
with Rick. I emailed him the other day asking if he was was OK. I got a response that was unusually short saying that he was not feeling good at all. Just tried calling him and couldn't get through. I'm worried about him. So I'm asking that all of us keep him in our prayers and thoughts. I'll continue to contact him. Thanks.
Subject: Heres a good story...


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Friday, February 26, 08:24:19pm
I wondered why Leo had magic marker all over his hands when he came home from Fontana...

http://www.speedwaymedia.com/articles/Story.asp?S=4990225100708
Subject: Good one Larry!


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Friday, February 26, 08:11:19pm
Bobsleding is on. 500 pound sled. 4 guys. 95 mph on a frozen tube. These guys are crazy!
Subject: Let's have a laugh!


Author:
Larry
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Date Posted: Friday, February 26, 07:24:43pm
The Pope and Tiger Woods died on the same day and because of an
administrative mix up the Pope went to hell and Tiger Woods went to
heaven.

The Pope explains the situation to the administrative clerk in hell,
and after checking the paperwork admits that there is an error..

"However", the clerk explains, "it would be 24 hours before it can be
rectified".

Next day the Pope is called and Hell's staff bids him farewell.

On the way up, the Pope meets Tiger Woods coming down from heaven and
they stop to have a chat.

"Sorry about the mix up", apologizes the Pope.

"No problem" replied Tiger Woods,

Pope: "I am really anxious to get to heaven"

Tiger: "Why is that?"

Pope: "All my life I have wanted to meet the Virgin Mary"

Tiger: "You're a day late"
Subject: Rick


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 25, 07:06:38pm
I hope you are feeling ok. I hope that exchange about the Olympics didnt put you off.
Subject: I wasnt upset


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 10:59:02pm
I hope Rick wasnt.
Subject: Still here


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Al
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 08:52:49pm
Needed a day off to recover from the 48 win, lol.

Guess I opened a can of worms with the Olympics post. Did not intend for it to start a big arguement amongst us, or any hurt feelings. We are are small group with very different opinions on various topics, but more importantly, we are friends, and we stick together through thick and thin. So take a deep breath everyone, and resume our everyday agreeing and dis-agreeing, right here where we belong.

Thoughts and prayers for the womans family who lost her life in Arizona from a dragster tire. How sad.
Subject: So


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 12:58:49pm
Wonder where everyone went?
Subject: 1/2 as much


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 07:17:08pm
as the Super Bowl.
Subject: WOW


Author:
JT
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 06:56:21pm
Thanks Al
Subject: Congrats to Leo


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 06:52:41pm
I hope it was a BIG pool!
Subject: What's that


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 06:38:47pm
About the 48 ?
Subject: Well looks


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 05:54:42pm
like the 48 wont do it. Thats OK one pool win a year is fine with me.
Subject: Oh well................


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 05:17:43pm
I remember your Cougar was in great shape.
Subject: Sorry Al


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Larry
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 05:02:58pm
I sold mine a couple years ago. Got my wife an Explorer 4x4. Wish I still had it. It was a great car!
Subject: Larry !!!!!!!!


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 03:50:57pm
Wanna sell your Cougar ?

I just sold the ex's 96 Cougar yesterday, wouldn't mind getting another if you're looking to sell.
Subject: Houston we have a problem


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 03:47:08pm
If Leo wins, we all lose. Oh well, it is what it is! Wait a sec, Leo just won the Super Bowl, he can't win today. Whew, that was close, lol.
Subject: Leo


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 03:24:36pm
drew the 48 in the pool.
Subject: OK, thanks!


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Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 02:17:43pm
.
Subject: On the pre-race show


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Larry
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 02:13:17pm
they were showing them cutting grooves into the surface so the water will run off instead of seaping on the surface from the underground water. They did that last year also.
Subject: they're


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 02:11:34pm
sawing into the track to let the water out.
Subject: Cutting into the track ??


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 02:03:53pm
What does that mean?
Subject: Track condition update...


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 01:26:03pm
they are now cutting into the track.
Subject: Leo said


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 21, 01:14:04pm
it rained 4-5 hours there last night. Right now? There's about 15 guys with blowers out in turn three trying to dry up weepers.
Subject: I think


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 09:42:02pm
it would hurt more to fall on ice that a polished wooden floor. I was the best of three kids on roller skates.

My mom bought me the skates to get me out of the garage with the "guys". I guess she thought a "Roller Derby" future was better than a "grease monkey" future...go figure
Subject: When I was a kid


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 09:05:02pm
I'd go to the rink and rent double bladed skates, easier to use for a kid. I remember being fast, which was fun, but I couldn't stop! That was 40 years ago, and I haven't tried since. I'm sure Rick will have more input on this.
Subject: Is


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 08:52:58pm
skating on ice, hard? I dont mean fancy tricks, I mean just plain skating. I've never been near even an ice rink. They make it look so easy. I had my own indoor roller skates when I was a kid. I use to love to go roller skating. Couldnt do it now my knees are too bad...
Subject: Sorry Larry


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 06:28:42pm
We posted at about the same time. Didn't mean to "ditto" you, LOL!
Subject: The banner should have said


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 06:27:16pm
Toyota is killing Americans.

But it's true they are taking away American jobs as well. I can only HOPE that they have tremendous financial problems and withdraw fron Nascar this year. That single act will go along way towards bringing upset fans back to the sport. Not to mention bringing American car buyers back to the Big 3. That's the REAL stimulus plan that the country needs.
Subject: It should say...


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Larry
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 06:13:33pm
"TOYOTA killing Americans with their cars"
Subject: Hey Al


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 05:56:12pm
Leo is out at Fontana and says there is an airplane pulling a banner that reads..."TOYOTA killing American jobs"
Subject: I just said


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JT
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 05:50:37pm
I dont judge people. I'm not qualified...If the Olympic committee allows it who are we to dispute? Well I guess you are JUST as entitled to your opinion as I am mine.

I happen to think that kid did a great job. that was jmo. If she wants to leave her country of birth and pledge to another, that is her right.
Subject: and just because you think countries who


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 04:58:27pm
flagrantly abuse the spirit of the games are ok doesn't make you right.

Several years ago Iran entered able-bodied athletes in the Special Olympics. They couldn't make the national team so they must have been disabled and therefore qualified for the Special Olympics I guess.
Subject: Well I dont judge people


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jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 04:50:29pm
I'm not qualified but seems to me if the Olympic committee allows the practice and if the countries involved dont have a problem with it...Everyone is playing by the rules.

Just because you dont agree doesnt make you right.
Subject: everything


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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 04:23:17pm
Subject: OK you wanna play rough?


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 04:16:46pm
I could, you know, but I won't. You're a good wisenhymer (fancy word for smart alec).

My masculinity is very much intact. Miss my post about NOT being a figure skating fan? I have thick skin so I can stand the heat. Wait a minute. You don't even drink beer or eat meat! What the hell do you know, LOL?!
Subject: as for spandex...


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 03:26:31pm
I watch the women.. yes I admit it. But I would never EVER say I\"I watch figure skating" and leave it at that. I occassionally watch 'women's figure skating.'.... Al, do you watch men or women?
and no, I am not mad at anyone despite how my post may read.
Subject: I wholeheartedly disagree with you JT


Author:
Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 03:25:00pm
yes that kid may indeed be a great figure skater. I didn't say she wasn't. What I did say was that she has no buisness skating for a country that she hasn't even visited, and yet has citizenship.

Are you telling me that in the entire country of Georgia, there isn't a single woman who can skate as well as someone who wasn't even good enough to make the American team?

here is the point: the Olympics are about sportsmanship. Thats it. If a country cannot enter one of its own citizens... if it has to buy a citizen (payment is entry into the Olympics) than that country should not be permitted to enter.
Do you think for one minute that that girl would become a citizen of georgia if she wasn't promised entry into the Olympics? Not a freakin chance. Do you think she's going to move there? She hasn't even visited the country!

At the Calgary Olympics, Jamaica entered a bobsled team. Everyone laughed at them. Jamaica didn't stand a chance and they had never entered an athlete in the Winter Olympics in ANY sport. But some Jamaicans did it. They could have done what Georgia did... promise citizenship to Canadians or Americans who didn't make out national teams, but they didn't. They entered a pure Jamaican team. They got their asses handed to them, but by God they did it honestly.

You are wrong about that skater belonging in the Olympics. She wasn't good enough to make her own country's national team.
Remember something... that kid who got killed on the luge? He wasn't good enough either. He had never once raced at that level but he was all georgia had so off to the Olympics he went and he got killed.

If you can't make your own country's national team, you have no business being there.

How would Americans feel if they won the Gold medal in men's hockey, and then discovered that every player on the team was a Canadian? Same thing.
Subject: Now thats the SPIRIT!


Author:
JT
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 03:13:59pm
:)
Subject: JT you're right


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 02:46:19pm
I DO love women in spandex.

It's the "guys" they skate with that worry me, if you know what I mean.

But, hey, for a gold medal, I might don some skates, wear a fruity tutu, and become a citizen of North Korea!
Subject: Whats wrong


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 12:08:04pm
with watching figure skating??? I thought you guys love looking at women in spandex. lol
Subject: OK smart ass


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 11:29:43am
I was waiting for the mens downhill competition. Figure skating just "happened" to be on first. I have never been a fan of figure skating. OK? LOL!
Subject: Love of the sport


Author:
jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 10:41:35am
That is why they do it. Now I know you probably dont consider figure skating a sport but it it the pure love of what they do. If they didnt skate for another country they would never get that "shot". They would never advance.

That 15 y/o skated well beyond her years and maturity. I believe she desreves to advance in the sport she loves. This is the only way that would happen.

It's just like car racing either you "buy" a ride to get the chance. OR you are such a remarkable driver that you get discovered. Problem is, there are more remarkable drivers than the sport supports. They are out there, the furture jeff gordons, kyle busches...they just dont have the wallet.
Subject: btw


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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 09:02:27am
That isn't the only one, Al. There are Canadians on teams from other countries and during the opening ceremony, they mentioned four or five others competing for countries they were not born in.

I agree there is somethign wrong... even worse in the case of the figure skater. How can you become a citizen if you've never even been there? You watch... she will become an American citizen again when this is over.

Idiots.

You know, there are a lot of Canadian kids... 19, 20, up to probably 25 years old that are really good hockey players but not good enough to make a living at it. So they go to Europe and play in some obscure European leagues. I know a guy in Ontario who played in germany for years. Got pays $40,000 a year, free aparetment. Volkswagen sponsored the team so he got a free lease on a VW while he was there. He played there for 5 or 6 years. Now I can live with him being asked to play on the German national team. He's earning his living there. I don't like a Canadian playing against Canada but I can at least understand it. But to become a citizen of a country you've never been to, just to participate in the Olympics?

You know what this will open up right? Outter Mongolia will offer a hundred grand to twenty decent Canadian hockey players and then send them all to the Olympics in 4 years.

Sheer stupidity and it ought to be illegal.

but Al still watches figure skating.
Subject: When I was in Ontario last summer


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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 08:03:40am
I was at my aunt and uncle's place and my cousin came over to see me. We argue all the time and this time it was about the stupidity of watching cars go around in circles. He said its the most boring sport on the planet so I mentioned football and baseball. The argument went on for quite a while and finally, Kevin said, "You and I are never going to agree on any sport except hockey."
So I said, "Women's beach volleyball."
He said, "Ok.... and synchronized swimming."

So we came away agreeing on three sports.

Al, you are a single man. Tell people you were watching hockey, even if you were really watching figure skating. At least if I watch figure skating I can say it was already on when I cam ein the room and I couldn't change the channel because of my mom. You have no excuse.
Subject: Al watches figure skating


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Date Posted: Saturday, February 20, 07:59:14am
Subject: So I am watching the Olympics tonite


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Al
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Date Posted: Friday, February 19, 08:54:35pm
Here is 15 year old Allison Reed figure skating with her partner. They represent the country of Georgia, and are the first Olympians to compete since the death of the Georgian luger. So far so good. Then, they mention that Allison is from WARREN MICHIGAN (10 minutes from here) and has never even been to Georgia. The Georgian government pushed through her citizenship just in time for her to compete.

WTF ?????

Oh, btw, she plans on "visiting" Georgia this summer. Yeah, I'll bet. Only if they win a medal, What a crock of shit.
Subject: I could be mistaken, but


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Date Posted: Friday, February 19, 12:37:49pm
I recall Schrader waving his arms for help when he was at Dale's car. Maybe, maybe not. I agree that the slow ride was out of respect, for sure. At work, someone asked me who I thought the next "Dale" would be. I just shook my head and said that wasn't going to happen. That's like asking who the next Elvis, or Reagan......there are no more. The "sub-modern" era of Nascar ended on that day as well.
Subject: The ambulance was slow


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Date Posted: Friday, February 19, 09:32:31am
because there was no need to go fast. Remember when Schrader looked in the window? He just walked away. If Earnhardt had been hurt, Schrader would have stayed there. And afterward a reporter asked him how bad Earnhardt was hurt and Schrader said, "I'm not a doctor."

Earnhardt, no matter what NASCAR claims, died at the race track just like Tony Roper, Kenny Irwin and Adam Petty because every one of them died of a basular skull fracture... and that kills you instantly. NASCAR just doesn't like having people die at the track.

At least in open wheel there's no hiding it. When Greg Moore was killed he was killed dead right on the spot. No doubt about that. But nascar doesn't do that.

Personally, I think that ambulance left the track slowly out of respect for earnhardt because that driver knew Earnhardt wasn't coming back.
Subject: You're right Rick


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 18, 09:48:22pm
nascrap couldnt get Dale buried fast enough.

Thanks Al. That is what I remember too, that SLOW ambulance. :(
Subject: JT, I share your sentiments


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Al
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 18, 09:20:11pm
When Dale died, so did a whole chapter of Nascar, and I'll never forget that ambulance ride that was way too slow. He passed away doing what he loved best.
Subject: all the real shit started about


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 18, 07:47:37pm
the 19th. The 18th was the last day of the nascar we loved.
Subject: Feb. 18th


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jt
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 18, 04:19:31pm
I miss you Dale...
Subject: Now that I'm not a Richard Petty fan anymore


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 06:20:12pm
I can say something I've thought for years.

Don't you find it odd that Richard Petty won exactly 200 races? Granted, it's unlikely that anyone will match 199, but Johnson is capable of it.... but isn't it odd that Richard won his 200th race, with an illegal engine and then never won again?
Isn't it possible that France and Petty cut a deal that day? Richard got #200 in front of the President... his car was illegal, but he got to keep the win. he made history, but he never won again. hhmmmmm
Subject: I don't know


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 06:16:36pm
Remember what Knaus said on the radio? "Are you sure it's flat?"

"Its tearing the car apart!"

"Ok, come on in then."
My point is, I don't think Knaus was ready to throw in the towel just then... but to play devil's advocate again.... what would be the point in a top teir team cheating at Daytona? hear me out here....

Let's use Joe Nemecheck as an example. He started at the back and no one expected him to get a top 30. At the end of the race they tear down to top three cars plus 3 or 4 cars chosen at random. So at the end of the race, assuming Nemecheck was still running, he had about a 1 in 10 chance of having his car torn down for post race inspection. pretty good odds that it wouldn't be. So let's say Nemecheck uses TC in order to finish higher... not because he stood any real hope of winning... even he is smart enough to know that wouldn't happen... But he finished 43rd. Lets say he missed his accident and the TC allowed him to finish lets say 35th. That means he'd have made about $30,000 more than he did. That would mean he'd be able to make another race and if he did that all year, he could theoretically make all of the races on the winnings he earned as a direct result of moving up a few spots each week.
He sure as shit wouldn't wan tto win a race. remember when Petty won his 200th race. He was celebrating with Ronald Reagan and the news guys and all. DW knew somethign was wrong and he asked if he should stick around and France told him to leave. Petty was called outside and told the engine was illegal. Petty got to keep the win but lost his purse and points. Later Petty said if Maurice had told him the engine was illegal, he'd have finished 2nd or 3rd and no one would have known.

And that is my point. If Nemecheck used TC to move up a spot or two I bet he could get away with it all year. But if Johnson won a race with it, they'd catch him. And don't say they wouldn't because both Knaus and Letarte have been suspended for cheating before. So everyone knows they've done it and that they're capable of doing it again.

So what would be the point of Knuas using it in a race he wa scapable of winning, knowing full well they might find if during the tear down?

Now remember what I said, the TC device is about the size of a dime and can be turned on and off from a source outside the track so the chances of getting caught would be slim. But if they did get caught.... even Hendrick's money couldn't pull a rose out of Chad's ass....
Subject: I wouldn't trust Chad Knaus with ANYTHING!


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 02:49:29pm
I'd almost bet the 48 car was rigged in some form Sunday. I loved watching him and Johnson with that flat tire deal, what a charade and acting job. They BOTH knew Jimmie wasn't going to finish the race. If that car was legit, JJ would be throwing a fit to get back out on the track. BIG JOKE.
Subject: And THAT


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 01:03:55pm
is EXACTLY my point...I'm just agreein. ;)
Subject: well now


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 11:57:10am
Johnson got 58 points on Sunday. He's 132 back of the leader.
Keep in mind that I like Jimmie Johnson. Can't stand his crew cheif, but I like Johnson...

so he pulled out early. Got a grand total of 58 points, but he was only about 3 laps behind Newman. Thats 3 points if he could have come out and done four more laps. Why didn't he?
I'll play Devil's Advocate here... I don't think Hendrick would risk cheating, although I have no doubt what so ever that Knaus would if he thought he could get away with it.

So let's suppose for a second they did cheat. Is Johnson/Knaus really good enough, or arrogant enough, to say, "We can write off the Daytona 500 because we know we will make those points back later?" Johnson has been know to have some bad luck.. wrecks mostly, but bad luck. But by ducking out and going home early gives them one benefit... their car doesn't get torn down and inspected after the race because it's already off the property.

I'm just sayin.
Subject: Oh I dont


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 10:35:10am
doubt that. but I do think David has proven himself that the best that CAN be done, in the cars he drove, WAS done. Thats good enough for me. I know he's never gonna be a kyle busch, or a jj. I know his talent is limited. I also know he drives with heart and works hard.

It's not so much that I like him. I have met his family. I like them alot. So I cheer him on. Him being a left coaster has a little to do with it also.

I DO wonder why jj pulled out of the Daytona 500 so quietly. No thrashing to "get it fixed. No drama. I understand it wasnt at the end of the season points and all THAT drama. But it DID seem weird. I mean it was the DAYTONA 500.
Subject: You know JT


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 09:22:49am
there was a guy.. I forget who it was now but it was a crew chief from a major team, interviewed a couple of years go. He said that he had been approache dby a manufacturer... 'do you want traction control?' The thing was smaller than a dime and fit soemwhere under the dash. It was totally controlled by a cell phone.. turning it on and off could be done from China if they wanted too.
That crew chief said he turne dthem down flat but that he knows for a fact that teams bought it.

That was a couple of years ago. You can bet your ass that they have gotten smaller and easier to turn on and off too.

Guaranteed, someone is using it. I seriously doubt that Rick Hendrick would allow it. If they were ever found out, that would be the end of them. But I do think that smaller teams are using it. When you see a one-car team, or a part time team qualify or race way above their own talent, thats who is using it.
I have a distinct feeling that someone you like used it. Gilliland in the Nationwide Series. He was the only Nationwide driver to win a race that year. He was immediately given a Cup car and what did he do with it? He got one or two poles and thats it. I think his case is one where TC could have been used that one time.
Subject: I don't think McMurray was using Tc


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 08:08:04am
I know where you hide. I have people.


This is rich.... Toyota is now set to have a recall of 2009 and 2010 Corollas... th best selling car in the world. This one could get expensive since it's for power steering and every Corolla has it.... but... there are going to be Senate hearings on this whole mess and Washington is demanding the head of Toyota USA be there to answer questions. They also want the president of Toyota... that would be the little Japanese bastard, to be there. That 'gentleman' said last night that he will not be going to the US to answer any questions from anybody.

Now, if I was Barack Obama, I would issue this statement, "The United States Government is holding hearings to decide whether or not Toyota products are safe enough to be sold in the United States. If it is decided that Toyota quality does not meet the standards set forth by this Senate Panel, than Toyota will no longer be welcome in the United States. Whether or not Toyota officials choose to attend those hearings and answer questions will have a direct impact on our decisions."
Subject: I seriously doubt


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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 16, 10:37:20am
CK would share any of his "secrets" with Ganassi.

If Jamie was the only car on old tires and still won the race? Then yeah, I think it is *just* as possible TC was involved.

I was JUST makin a little joke(I DID include an LOL). Obviously poorly.

I will go back into hiding where I belong.
Subject: and McMurray used it in the Cup race?


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Date Posted: Monday, February 15, 07:06:43pm
Subject: So


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Date Posted: Monday, February 15, 03:51:22pm
how did jj have such good traction control in the shootout? Oops did I say traction control? Nawww thats illegal. Right?
LOL
Subject: you keep patching it


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 09:38:02pm
until the drivers say 'fix it.' You heard Clint Bowyer... find a way to fix the holes and then leave it alone.

The will screw this track up. Next will be Talladega.

Then they'll make the road courses faster by taking the turns out of them.

spekaing of road courses... you know what someone ought to do?
Build a track the size of daytona. 200,000 seats in an oval shaped grandstand... But have the track as a road course. Hills, valleys, turns, sand, everything. So every person in the grandstand can see every inch of the road course. Fans would have their brains explode because they'd have too much to see. That would be an awesome track and people would stop saying road courses are boring.
Subject: So, how do you tell


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 08:38:21pm
The repavers to leave in the bumps and dips? Aint gonna happen. Daytona will be smooth as silk, and the drivers will hate it. Same as telling the guy repainting your car to put in orange peel and runs. Won't happen. On the other hand, how long can you keep patching a 32 year old surface?
Subject: I can't say anything bad about McMurray winning


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 08:10:39pm
I've always liked him and I like to think the E in Earnhardt Ganassi had very little to do with this.

Al, I know you said 'patch' but they are going to re-pave the track after the July race. They ought to learn how to fix it and then leave it be. Because they will screw it up.
Subject: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA JRRRRRRRRR


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 07:46:07pm
Mc Murray made ME cry!
Subject: Congrats


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Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 07:41:23pm
To Jamie McMurray. Never had much luck with Roush, but what a win today! Thought Biffle would pull it off. And where did Junior come from at the end? Good day for 24 and 48 ........NOT

toyota???????? Pack it up and forget about racing.......

Rick, I say patch up Daytona, DON'T resurface. Don't let Daytona become another Bristol.
Subject: you know what I was thinking?


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 06:58:55pm
well I'll tell you. they said they are repaving Daytona next year. You don't think they'd be stupid enough to do what Bristol did, do you? God.... they might. Racing has gotten so 'good' at Bristol.....
Subject: It's obvious


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Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 06:33:41pm
That Floridians know as much about potholes as we know about planting palm trees. Not much.

Major embarassment to nascar, as if they cared. The beer and souvenier vendors have to be loving this, good for them.
Subject: down here


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 06:18:38pm
they'd get a raise for being so fast.
Subject: I called my buddy Mark who is retired from the


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 06:09:29pm
road commission and watching the race.

He said he would have been fired for taking that long to fix a couple potholes.

2 potholes. 1 hour 40 minutes. RIDICULOUS
Subject: best line so far


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 04:13:03pm
"Who doesn't love puppies, kittens and.... little baby seals?"
Subject: that


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 03:12:33pm
was an awesome Coke commercial. If I was a Pepsi drinker, that would make me switch.
Subject: .


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 12:39:00pm
Let's all pray for a safe, clean race. I hope everyone finishes on the lead lap and that your favorite driver wins.
Subject: Dodge ??????


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Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 10:56:35am
You only have 3 Dodges in the race.

13 Blue Ovals
13 rice burners
14 chevies

Today, I would trade ANY Ford victory for a Mark Martin win!
Subject: Al Al Al


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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 10:13:02am
Rick? A Ford? I'm sorry buddy... that just ain't gonna happen. If I can't pull for a Dodge, I'm going for a Chevy. In fact I'm having such a hard time switching to Chevy that I am seriously considering naming Kurt Busch as my driver for the year.
For now though, it's Mark Martin.
Subject: GO MARK!


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Larry
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 14, 09:57:08am
Sorry Al, Got to be loyal. I guess the Ford I will root for if Mark doesn't get it done would be Edwards #99.
Subject: Danica


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Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 13, 05:16:58pm
Damn near drove through the big one unscathed. I can see she's reluctant to draft and bumpdraft. That'll have to change if she wants to compete on the superspeedways. Despite all the media hoopla, the stands still looked like all the fans arrived in one bus.

Tomorrow, pick a Ford. Any Ford!

And Rick, please consider posting your old pre-race wishes for a safe race that was once our tradition. I'd appreciate it.
Subject: on my lawn this morning


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Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 13, 12:50:36pm

the little one will come within a couple of feet of me. A couple of times he was ready to take it out of my hand but both times Molly, my tame deer jumped between us and scared the crap out of him. I think she's jealous.
Subject: I watched the opening ceremonies last night


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Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 13, 08:13:48am
even when the games were in Montreal and Calgary I didn't do that. I just don't really care about the Olympics very much. I think when the Iranians entered healthy athletes in the Paralympics I became disinterested altogether.... but I watche dlast night.

Please trust me when I say Native Canadians don't dress like that every day..... we don't all play the fiddle and most of us do not admit that kd lang is a Canadian. believe it or not, despite appearances, kd lang is also a woman.

That said.... I have decided to pull for the Fins this time. Did you see the women they brought with them? Their whole freakin team could be supermodels.
Subject: I heard that and I agree about safer barriers but


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Date Posted: Saturday, February 13, 08:09:55am
if they made it absolutely safe, no one would do it. Those people are adrenalin junkies through and through. There is no other explanation for participating in that sport.

I will also guarantee this.... I don't have enough interest in the Olympics to know this... but wherever the next Winter Games are held, their track will be faster. It may indeed be safer, but I guarantee, it won't be slower.

That said, I have always been against the nascar policy of slowing cars down. If you don't want to go fast then take up knitting. But when you're sitting on a sled that probably weighs 3 pounds, and going 154 miles an hour three inches off the ice, than yeah, I think maybe its time to slow them down a little bit. But to do that would mean no more world records and that would spell the end of luge as an Olympic sport. So I don't know what the answer to it is.
I can say that even if they dressed that guy in body kevlar, the outcome would have been the same.
Subject: I think the IOC should either cancel the event


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Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 13, 07:32:12am
OR take a lesson from Nascar and install some safer barriers and a catch net on the track. Apparently, many crashes have occured during practice, and the young luger who died was very nervous before his fatal last run. One participant even likened the track to a test bed for crash dummies. Either fix it quickly or close it down out of respect.
Subject: what about those idiot sliders


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Date Posted: Friday, February 12, 09:46:20pm
who go down the run on their stomachs face first? man that takes some serious balls... or medication. Not sure which.


and you're right. you wouldn't drive that fast in a 2 ton truck so what makes you think doing it in a rubber suit is a good idea?
Subject: It's the fastest luge track in the world


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Al
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Date Posted: Friday, February 12, 09:15:13pm
Designed by a German man. The Germans are the best at luge racing. Probably more dangerous for less than average teams, including Georgians. Sad day. 88 mph is too fast for most people to drive a car, and way too fast to fly down a chute of ice, on your back no less. Just my opinion. I like the winter Olympice, but never saw the attraction of luge racing.
Subject: death at the Olympics


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Date Posted: Friday, February 12, 08:47:00pm
A Georgian luge slider was killed this morning. CTV news debated all day whether or not to show the tape and they finally deicided to tonight. The guy was doing 144 miles an hour at the instant of the crash. A former Canadian slider was interviewed tonight and he said he'd been involved in the sport since the 1980s and he has seen a lot of crashes. he said he's seen boards leave the track but this is the first time he had ever seen a person leave the track.
I saw the tape. he was cartwheeled out of the track and slammed into a steel post. He never even twitched after he hit. They did CPR and flew him to a hospital in Whistler, but I am absolutely sure he was killed instantly.

I am not sure that a country whose Olympic team has exactly 9 members, can possibly be experienced enough to compete at this level. The slider who was killed had never competed at this level. One 'expert' said the guy had only competed in Triple A type events. If thats true, what business did Georgia have sending him to compete on the fastest and toughest track in the world? And why did the Olympic Committee allow him to compete?

This is exactly the same reason Danica Patrick is not allowed to drive at Daytona tomorrow. LACK OF EXPERIENCE ON THESE TYPES OF TRACKS. Why doesn't the IOC get that?
Subject: well now


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 07:47:19pm
maybe ohshit45 doesn't work because it's not the right name.


Subject: hhhmmmmm


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 07:45:23pm



Subject: Rick, it should look like this


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 07:13:42pm
>img src=http://www.rickdupuis.com/beyond/ohshit45.jpg<

with the first and last >< reversed
Subject: I got 2 of the 3 to work


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Larry
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 07:09:26pm
I could not get the oshit2 to work
Subject: Rick


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 07:07:51pm



Subject: Rick


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 07:03:31pm
You need to put >img src=
in front of the url you listed and
< at the end and reverse the ><
Subject: Larry


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 12:20:30pm
shouldn't >img> >/img> work? with left side > inverted?
Subject: Larry


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 12:20:00pm
shouldn't work?
Subject: why doesn't that work?


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 12:18:40pm
http://rickdupuis.com/beyond/ohshit45.jpg
http://rickdupuis.com/beyond/ohshit2.jpg
http://rickdupuis.com/beyond/alice3.jpg
Subject: I am bored today


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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 12:16:36pm
http://www.rickdupuis.com/beyond/ohshit45.jpg
http://www.rickdupuis.com/beyond/ohshit2.jpg
http://www.rickdupuis.com/beyond/alice3.jpg
Subject: Ok I am going to share something with you guys


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Rick
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 11, 07:41:31am
You all know I am not well... no I'm no sicker than I was last week, don't worry.... But you know that I am on a pension and that I will never be allowed to work again... and most of you know that I get about 80% of my nutrition from tube feeding. Thats how serious my health problem is.
My income tax papers arrived from the giverment the other day and with it was a large brochure for people with disabilities... here's one paragraph...
The Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) is a refundable tax credit that allows low income individuals and families to keep more of their work related income, A disability supplement is also available to individuals who qualify for the Disability Tax Credit and meet the eligibility requirements.
So I called Revenue Canada and asked how I get the supplement, thinking, stupidly, that the supplement would be the same as the supplement that Mom gets on top of her senior's pension, which is about $6,000 per year. You know what that bitch said to me?
"You don't qualify because you can't work."
Excuse me?
"If you were able to work, but were paid $19,000 or less, we would give you a suppllement because $19,000 is the official poverty line. The Government of Canada would bring you above the poverty line."
Ok, wait a second. My pension is $10,044 per year. You will help someone who can work and get paid $19,000 per year because that's the poverty line and you don't want him there, but because you pay my $10,044, thats not poverty? Whats wrong with that picture?
"Sorry, Sir."
So I asked about getting help with my prescriptions.
"You just said your income is $10,044 per year. That is $44 above the line at which we issue drug cards."
What?
"Your income is too high to qualify for help with your prescriptions."
You're kidding me, right? Three weeks ago some asshole gets off a boat in halifax and is immediatelt given an apartment, a health card, a drug card, a social insurance card so he can get a job, and welfare until he finds one. And he hasn't paid taxes in Canada in his entire life and he isn't even here legally.... but I'm $44 beyond help? Are you people insane? I voted for this bunch of assholes.

"If you're going to get rude, I will hang up."
Are you going to help me?
"I can't."
Then hang the hell up anyway!

So I was on the phone to my federal representative, whom I voted for, and my local rep, whom I didn't, all day yesterday. Both were very helpful and have some ideas for help for us, and are getting back to me tomorrow and Monday.

But can you believe the givernment considers $19,000 the poverty line when someone else is giving you the money, and $10,044 above the poverty line when they are giving you the money? God Almighty.
Subject: I guess


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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 07:09:09pm
I will just have to go into hiding.
Subject: I called the lawyers...they're out of the office till after Easter.. sorry.....


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 02:41:09pm
think his punishment should be very fair. I'd let him stay in the military and make him go out on patrols with people the corporal served with. I bet on the first or second patrol they'd come back and say, "He tripped an IED. Sorry 'bout that."

But really, he will have to stay in uniform until his court martial. If he killed the corporal on base, he'll end up in Edmonton... thats our Leavenworth. If he murdered her off-base, he'll probably stand trial for both murders at the same time. My guess is if that happens, the air force will wash their hands of him and say, "You're on your own." The Canadian Armed Forces hasn't tried a murder case since the Airborne killed that kid in Somalia... the airborne was disbanded because of it.... And we haven't had a wartime murder trial since World War 2. The military may bump it to civilian court anyway, because they have more experience.

A leader of men. what the hell happened to honor and integrity?
Subject: I really


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jt
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 02:06:27pm
didnt mean to minimize honest I promise to be more careful next time I post. Pleazze call off the lawyers. THEY SCAREZ ME.

So whats gonna happen to the douche bag?
Subject: ok


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 01:33:23pm
The sheriff will serve you papers tomorrow afternoon. Please be there. see you in court baby.

I can't believe I just called you baby.

That guy raped and murdered a woman under his command.

This just pisses me off. Our soldiers have enough to worry about right now.
Subject: ok so


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jt
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 11:13:49am
my bad. I just didnt want to wait for the story to reload to check what I thought my eyes read. Sue me.
Subject: Policeman?


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Rick
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 06:32:44pm
He's the commanding officer of one of our Air Force bases.

They oughta send him out on patrol in Afghanistan with some of the guys that corporal served with.
Subject: Lock him up


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Al
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 03:50:21pm
And throw away the key.
Subject: I dont know


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jt
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 03:48:11pm
which career your refering to, that of a policeman or of a serial killer. Wow.
Subject: Instant poll


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Rick
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 02:30:20pm
Who thinks this guy's career is kaput?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100209/national/colonel_murder_charges
Subject: ahh


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Rick
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 08:49:47pm
shows how often I watch motorcycle shows.
Subject: Rick


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George
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 05:52:28pm
American Chopper was on TLC; is about Orange County Choppers of New York. The Teutels are a family of a father with 2 sons who ran a motorcycle building business, they have broken up, show is over. Jesse James has a motorcycle business in California and the Monster Garage TV show. Oh, it's really cold here too.
Subject: consider


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jt
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 02:04:19pm
trying to fashion a slide mount. I know they exist on the market some where, but to fit a particular size box...I dunno. I know I could figure it out and if "I" can do it...
Subject: Got the email.. back atcha


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Rick
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 11:37:23am
I haven't even gone outside with a camera since Christmas. It's too damn cold now. Before Christmas it was awesome. No snow, barely cold enough for a jacket. Now its freakin nuts. Still not a lot of snow but the temps are cold cold cold. My deer have frost hanging from their eye lashes.

I am trying to figure out a way to mount the box camera to amy tripod. It doesn't have the threaded hole so I have to come up with something. I intend to use that camera with every photo shoot I do.

I put a roll of your 35mm in the AE-1 but haven't used it yet.
Subject: YES


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JT
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 11:36:26am
There was a football game and YES I watched it! I'm happy for the fans and people of New Orleans. It's about time something good happened for them.

BUT My happiness is a little selfish...Leo won $1,000 on a pool he was in!!!
LOL. I told Leo, IF he did win, he could go to the Fontana race. and another BUT... He gives me the rest of the money! We made a deal. HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!

Color me Black n Gold!!!
Subject: Rick


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jt
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 10:30:50am
CYE

AND have you used any of that film yet???
Subject: This is going to be very difficult for me


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Rick
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 09:42:24am
But I am actually going to try cheering for a driver this year. Two actually. Even though I have hoped certain drivers would win a race occassionally, I have never actually cheered or really gotten behind anyone whose last name didn't start with P and end with Y.

This year in Cup I am going to attempt to throw my considerable weight behind Mark Martin and Danica Patrick. I ain't buying their die casts, but I'll try to root for them.

and no. I do not have a favorite driver right now. I am hoping Kyle runs a race or two this year. If I win the lottery, I am leasing a car from Hendrick and put Kyle in it for a race or two.
Subject: I think


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Rick
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Date Posted: Monday, February 08, 07:01:37am
If I was married to Sandra Bullock, I'd be too tired to build motorcycles.
Just sayin


was there a football game yesterday?
Subject: OCC


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George
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 07, 11:40:48pm
In case you guys haven't heard the news one last American Chopper episode is the end of the show, the 2 sons have left the show. Stay warm guys.
Subject: as long as Junior can keep her signed


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 07, 08:12:52pm
she won't be in a Toyota.
backwards and still finished 6th. I'd say she done good. She is the only reason I am at all excited about this season.

During the ARCA race my aunt phoned me to say, "Six women in this race? Who is supposed to cook supper for the men? Those women need to get into the kitchen where they belong."

she hates women playing any sport that men play. When Manon Rheaume started in net for the Tampa bay Lightning, she about died. and that was one NHL game... pre season even. Can't imagine how she'd have felt if Rheaume played a whole season. This nascar season may kill my aunt.
Subject: I'm happy for her


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Al
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 07, 05:10:03pm
Unlike Patty Moise and Shawna Robinson, Danica seems to "have what it takes" to compete. And I'm convinced she will help nascar fill empty seats in Nationwide. Granted we've only seen her in one Arca race, 6th place ain't too bad! She's smart enough to take the low road into nascar, rather than an insist on Sprint Cup or don't bother me attitude. That would have been her un-doing in fendered cars. So I'll enjoy watching her go up through the race and someday, who knows, she may even win the Daytona 500.

(I just hope it's not in a toyota)
Subject: Like I've said before


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jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 07, 04:06:52pm
I cant see Danica excited to start race #20, especially in the middle of summer. I HOPE I'm wrong. But for now I'm a Danica fan in both series Indy AND nascrap.
Subject: In case anyone had any doubts


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, February 07, 08:04:03am
Danica Patrick can handle a big stock car.


yes, all Waltrips should retire.


interesting.. heard this on CNN this morning. 75% of all NFL players are either bankrupt or in deep financial trouble within 2 years of retirement. The NFL is trying to find out why.

I am going to tell them why right now. You have kids who can barely spell... I saw studies which show a huge percentage of US college students couldn't pass a grade 7 math test (the same study showed a huge percentage of Canadian college students couldn't find Canada on a freakin globe)... these kids are given scolarships to college for one reason... they can play football. Then the colleges make it easy for those studenst to cheat so they can stay on the team. Since 1990 479 of those studenst quit scool early just so they could enter the draft. Of those only 332 were drafted. This shows an incredible amount of stupidity on the parts of the studenst, their parents, the colleges and the NFL for encouraging it.
So these kids who are often not the brightest bulbs in the sockets to begin with, are suddenly given contracts for obscene amounts of money. They start living like movie stars and spending money like Howard Hughes. The problem is, their bodies cannot last that long. The average player in the NFL has a career of about 3.5 seasons. Some lucky ones have their huge contracts spread out over ten years or more... it's called deferred payments so they still make money after retirement but it means making less money while playing. Dumb ones with greedy agents and managers don't do that because agents and managers have their money deferred as well.
So you have these kids making millions for 3 and a half years, who suddenlt aren't making it any more. But do you think a 24 year old kid is going to give up being a celebrity just because his career ends? No. he's going to keep living that way and the people who surround him are going to keep sucking the life out of him until its all gone.
If the NFL really cares about its players, they need to start drafting players only after they leave college. That means every player becomes a college graduate. And I'd make sure they graduated with a degree in something important, so they can make money after football.
The NFL could do that starting next season if they wanted too. But they won't. Because getting the next hot thing is more important than what happens to an idiot kid after his career is over.
The NFL isn't alone. The NHL drafts 18 year olds right out of high school.
Subject: The entire Waltrip family


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Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 06, 09:59:20pm
Should retire.
Subject: Enjoy the Shootout


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Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 06, 08:13:07pm
Here we go with another year of racing !!!
Subject: Prediction


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Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, February 06, 05:27:07pm
Mark Martin
Subject: posting before coffee?


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jt
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Date Posted: Friday, February 05, 01:37:16pm
Wright off? LOL
Subject: Oh I doubt


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jt
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Date Posted: Friday, February 05, 10:28:44am
any rules were broken after all this was just the "West" series. The guys I spoke to were more laughing at what a joke it was, like "Who did they think they were fooling" attitude.

You're right about using stripped GMC's. You'd *think* using their own brand would be some kind of "advertisment" tax wright off, if they are THAT expensive.

Then again if they DID *illegally* write them off as toyotas, I guess they could have made THAT much more money...I'm just sayin...;)
Subject: I woder


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Rick
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Date Posted: Friday, February 05, 08:14:22am
what was under the hood of that Chevy.
There seem to be no rules against this however... well sort of.... RPM ran a Dodge last season with a Ford engine in it for one race, prior to the race in which Elliott Sadler began running the Fords. But in that case, the car was clearly a Dodge and carried the Dodge logos. The engine was a legal Yates Ford engine.

When Larry, Al, David and I went to Bristol, during the Busch race David and I were wandering through the vendors area when we ran across a Toyota souvenier truck. It was a 5th wheel trailer, clearly marked with the TRD logos, but the truck hauling it was not a Toyota. It had the stock grill removed and one of those cool chrome chainlink grills installed with no logo. The tailgate was also missing. The fender logos were gone as well. But there was no question the truck was a GMC with dual wheels.

I have a photo someplace. I asked around when I got home and everyone was of the same idea: it was cheaper (despite embarassment) for Toyota to use an off-ther-rack GMC than to produce a single dual wheel truck for the racing operations.

To me, it seems that it would have been more intelligent to produce two or three duallies, even using GMC rear ends if necessary, than to blatantly use a GMC to haul their Toyota products to events that host 200,000 people every day for three days. Makes no sense but then as we see lately, Toyota isn't making a lot of sense.

This morning (this afternoon in Japan) the head of Toyota (the founder's grandson) called a press conference. But the conference was to take place in an hour, two hours outside of Tokyo. It was virtually impossible for reporters to get there if they hadn't been informed earlier. The conference is going on now and that little bastard is being asked easy questions and is avoiding difficult ones.
Subject: FYI


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JT
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 04, 08:00:34pm
Tonights "American Chopper" will feature a motorcycle built for Stewart-Haas Racing.
Subject: Hey did you guys know


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jt
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 04, 07:16:30pm
the winner of the toyota shootout joey lagano was driving a CHEVY with toyota stickers on it. LOL
Subject: Nothing to be sorry about Al


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jt
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Date Posted: Thursday, February 04, 10:59:55am
Actually I had forgotten to refresh the site before posting that. Then the page is FULL of conversation about toyota. I felt kinda dumb, but oh well too late.

I dont mind talking about toyota f$&%ing up. They laughed at us because we couldnt fix OUR floor mats? Well who's laughing now??? Really not funny. The 911 call of that officer trying to save his family in a runaway car was heartbreaking and horrific. toyota needs to pay.
Subject: If you guys haven't seen it yet


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 09:15:11pm
rent The Hurt Locker. I don't think it's based on a true store like Black Hawk Down was, but it was don almost as a documentary and is a really exceptional movie.
As we all know, I am for the war, but I can't figure out if this movie is pro or anti and in my opinion, that makes a good war movie.

You should see it boys and girls. I am going to buy it.
Subject: Sorry JT


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Al
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 09:08:21pm
I'm anxious too for racing to start. Besides the holidays, it's been a rather boring winter. This toyota deal is a hot topic and gives us something to talk about. Personally it's real important, but I try not to harp on it, just keeping conversation going. I'd rather be talking about the Daytona 500, and the Bud Shootout. We're getting close.
Subject: Racing


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jt
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 08:13:14pm
starts tomorrow.
Subject: First fix was zip ties for the floor mats.


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Al
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 07:27:39pm
Now a 50 cent shim for the "sticking" gas pedals. These gas pedals aren't sticking, the are being depressed by a faulty ECU, much the same way the your cruise control "resume" feature works. Press the button and the gas pedal is electrically depressed to resume the speed you were set at. Only in toyota's case, these faulty ECU's can floor the car anytime, anywhere. That's why people can't get the pedals on the cars to "stick" to simulate the problem.

Thimk it's bad now, wait 'til the Feds land on this one. Shit will hit the toyota fan, and this might bankrupt them.

The ECU's, as you know, cost a bit more than the shims!
Subject: oh my God


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 06:01:06pm
The Transportation Secretary has to backtrack. Earlier today he said "People who own a recalled Toyota should stop driving them."
Now his is going to release another statement in which he says he misspoke.... I just guess he did.
Think about it.... How many cars were recalled? 2 or 3 million, right? To get them all fixed will take months. 3,000,000 drivers told not to drive their cars by the US Government. So they rent cars until their's are fixed... and they will sue Toyota for those rental fees. that, my friends, could bankrupt a company.
Subject: I heard a news report


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Larry
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 05:32:56pm
a couple days ago that said Toyota is thought to be loosing a million dollars a day! POOR BABY!NOT!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Rick, you're not wrong


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Al
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 01:53:19pm
Merely mistaken, lol.

I hate automatic computer updates. I disabled that long ago. The machine tells me and I decide when, much better.

Toyota should, and I believe will be punished. The government may slap a big fine on them, but the car buying public will be the ones who should make them pay by avoiding the product, plain and simple. In our business, customers who bring in japanese cars for service have a "chip" on their shoulder, much like the manufacturer, a holier than thou attitude. Can't stand it, but have to deal with them with kid gloves like they are special. If only they realized how stupid they were in the first place to own this junk,lol. But alas, we bite our tongues. But this recall deal should knock them down a few pegs, at least for a while.
Subject: By the way Al


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 09:19:57am
I was wrong.
Acording to the Transportation Secretary, Toyota had to be strong-armed into ordering the recall and there may be charges filed against them.

and you will be happy to know that car sales were up in January... for everyone except Toyota. Give that a couple of months and see if they get punished by the people for this mess.
Subject: talk about glitches


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 09:18:03am
I have been working on a photograph for more than a month. I am doing it for one reason: to win the photo contest this summer. The night before last I finished working on it for the evening and for some reason, I didn't save it. I just left it open in photoshop and went to bed. I got up yesterday morning and got the message, "Your computer was updated. This update required your computer to be restarted."
so I lost the entire photo and I have to start over.
I will never make that mistake again.
The upside is there are some things I can change about the photo now but it still pisses me off.
Subject: Nice to see you again


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Rick
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Date Posted: Wednesday, February 03, 09:14:57am
Computer glitches...... at least it wasn't our problem. it seems to have been across Voyforums servers.
Subject: That's what I thought too


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Al
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 02, 10:44:15pm
But it didn't work at home or at work, glad it's back!
Subject: At least


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jt
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 02, 10:37:01pm
it wasnt just my computer.
Subject: HEY we're back on again


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Al
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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 02, 10:17:06pm
All the voy sites were dead for 2 days. Wonder what happened? I was going to start emailing everyone for a back up plan, but, guess there's no need now.
Subject: I should point out however


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, January 31, 10:21:50am
that my whole attitude would change if a Toyota team gave Kyle Petty a ride.
just sayin
Subject: I just like screwing people


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, January 31, 10:20:46am
who desperately need to be screwed.
Subject: I think the fact that Camry's where


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Larry
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Date Posted: Sunday, January 31, 08:48:23am
produced in the 2010 model year probably will allow them to run this season. According to Toyota, parts are on the way to the factories to get production going again. I think they will look at it the same as when Ford, GM or Chrysler shuts down a production plant due to overstock. They technically not producing that car during that period of time, but did not permenantly stop producing that model. Toyota shut down will be classified as a temperary shut down, not stopping production of a model.
Subject: I just asked Roush Racing about it


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, January 31, 08:44:58am
and while writing the note, I realized that Toyota isn't making the Tundra right now either. They may be well and truely screwed if someone of importance actually realizes this.... and does something about it.
Subject: I sent Jayski an email last night and


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Rick
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Date Posted: Sunday, January 31, 08:37:19am
he responded saying some teams ran the Grand Prix for two years after they left Cup.
That is true, except Pontiac left the sport. They didn't stop making the Grand Prix. Thats the differenc ehere. We're talking about running a car that isn't in production.
Subject: I bet Y'all


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jt
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Date Posted: Sunday, January 31, 01:44:23am
missed the "showdown". 16 Year old Sergio Pena, reminded me why I love to watch racing.(his first time in a west car) He finished 2nd to logano tonight. They traded the top spot back and forth all night.
Subject: Hahahahaaaa


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jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 30, 08:34:14pm
stayed tuned...
Subject: I know


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Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 30, 06:45:22pm
oh my God.... that made me think of something though. Holy shit....

nascar rules are clear.... each car company has to race a production automobile. What if the Camry isn't back in production by the 14th??????? Does that mean that technically Dodge could enter a 1970 Dodge Daytona with a 426 Hemi?
Subject: I hope you know


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jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 30, 03:30:00pm
I was just making a joke.
Subject: yeah the Camry's will be there


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Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 30, 01:13:27pm
apparently they don't use the same throttle that the street Camry uses.


You guys remember when Ford went from the T-Bird to Taurus in Cup? Ford made a big to-do out of it and at the unveiling, the curtain went up and there sat a Cup taurus and a street Taurus. France had a shit fit because no one was ever supposed to see those two cars side by side because one had absolutely nothing in common with the other.

I remember when David and I visited Andy Belmont's shop. belmont said nascar was insane with some of their rules and he pointed out the body as an example. He said nascar rules demand that the hood, roof and deck lid all be steel and that they must be factory-supplied street peices. The problem is, the Taurus deck lid is aluminum. So it was impossible to follow nascar's own rule. You can't have a deck lid for a Taurus that was identical to the street version, and still be made of steel.
Subject: Yeah but


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jt
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 30, 12:21:40pm
will the camry's be there??? :P :D
Subject: Works for me


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Al
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 30, 11:16:38am
Daytona 500 in 15 days!
Subject: Al


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Rick
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Date Posted: Saturday, January 30, 08:18:35am
something like 50% of all Canadian grown potatos are shipped to the US.
I'm just sayin.


I will say that while I am not quite as anti-Japanese as you are, I am finding it more difficult to see their point of view. The problem the Japanese have, and this is historically and goes way beyond cars, they think they are superior to the entire world. Its in their psyche. Its like in that Tom Clancy book, the Japanese were offended when the US started to inspect every japanese car because they said their cars were built to much higher standards than American cars so they didn't need to be inspected the way American cars did. Its like that with everything the Japanese do. Its born in them... kind of a moral superiority that not matter what happens, they can't see past it. That was their downfall during the war and it will be their downfall again.

That said, if I am going to argue with friends, its going to be about something more important that the Japs.
Subject: I don't claim to be an insider


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Al
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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 09:25:37pm
on all things automotive. Just that living and working where I do and doing what I do lends itself to a lot of conversation with car guys and dealer customers and friends, and hearing stuff that the rest of the country might here later. Around here, when the Big 3 does well, I do well, and work goes well, and house values remain steady, and people work and eat and pay their bills. So my anti Japanese carmaker stance isn't just based on the fact that I hate foreign cars, my existance depends on people buying "American". So I am biased, naturally, just like a guy living in Idaho would feel if people started buying imported potatoes. This toyota deal with the gas pedals won't solve any long term Big 3 ailments, but this area will get a boost for a while. I just wish it was based on people buying American for the right reasons, and not as a result of a toyota mess that's getting worse. But, selfishly, I'll take what I can get.
Subject: I have


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jt
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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 08:49:08pm
to agree with Al on this whole thing. It has turned into a coverup. I'm sure it began with the people in charge poo pooing the problem saying dumb Americans cant even pull their floor mats out of...Probably had a BIG laugh at our expense. Well? Nobody's laughing anymore.
Subject: toyota is making matters worse not better


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Al
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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 07:17:53pm
Sending new gas pedals to the factories instead of the dealers implies that toyota cares more about resuming production than it does fixing dangerous cars already on the road.

TOTAL STUPIDITY.
Subject: ""We're not ready to launch this program yet," Lyons said,"


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Rick
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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 07:15:55pm
they better get ready soon. If anyone else dies while they're making up their minds, Toyota may be toast.

You know what this reminds me of? Tom Clancy wrote a nodel a few years ago.... God I have it in a box but can't recall which one it was. This is really quite similar... I gotta find it.

A fictional car company in Japan is making the most popular car in America, and they are assembling them in the States. An American company submits a proposal to the company saying they can make gas tanks cheaper than the car company can make them in japan and ship to the states. The company refuses, saying the American tanks are of lower quality.
So Two of the cars are traveling along a US highway. One, the sports model, contains two younf women. The other contains a family of five. The sports car clips a tractor trailer and causes an accident and the fuel tank explodes. The family crashes into it and everyone burns to death.

The Japanese do not take responsibility for it so an American senator gets a bill passed. This is whats amazing. The new bill doesn't ask for anything except equal treatment. They want every single Japanese car brought into the US to be treated exactly the way every single American car is treated when imported into Japan. Which means that every single Japanese car has to be inspected from bumper to bumper, as it is taken off the ship and before it can leave the shipyard. So all of the carcarriers are now sitting at anchor outside of every American port. No ships are heading back to Japan for more cars and cars are piling up at japanese shipyards. Finally the Japanese car companies have to stop production, throwing every single Japanese auto worker out of work.. as well as everyone who supplies car companies and everyone who supplies companies who supply car companies.

Of course, in the book Japan declares war on the United States again. But they lose again. This situation with Toyota just reminded me of that book. I gotta read it again.
Subject: Toyota, Doing the right thing??????????????????


Author:
Larry
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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 05:52:13pm
Toyota
Subject: Thanks Rick


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jt
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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 04:02:36pm
it did load easily. VERY COOL! Cant wait to show this to Leo. lol
Subject: Those billboards


Author:
Al
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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 03:05:34pm
Have been put up all over this area for months now. Maybe they are new for other parts of the country. They are REALLY popular on Woodward Avenue. Just a blur though for toyota drivers going way to fast to read them, lol.
Subject: JT


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Rick
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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 02:47:55pm
there is no flash or anything so it ought to load pretty quick for you. Forget the text. scroll down under it.

I just thought of one... I'm gonna go make it.
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