*books flight for Michigan*

[Vallikat]

a copy of Nascar 2005, and an extra controller. Nice.

I know you don't know the first thing about NASCAR. Not to worry, help is on the way!

WoooOOOHOOooooOOO!!

[Innari]

LOL!

Valli, you crack me up dear.

[Innari]

Um, boss? I feel very sick, I must go home.

Sylvia: "Oh really? What's wrong?"

Me: "I have anal glaucoma"

Sylvia: "What?! What the hell is anal glaucoma."

Me: "I just can't see my ass staying at work today."

Tarryk...you amuse me greatly. I always love reading stuff from you

[Maar]

how can anyone not know the first thing about NASCAR?

the first thing is easy... BEER!

I think the second thing involves screaming at the top of your lungs about once every minute or so as you favorite car passes by.

see? we here in MI are not complete NASCAR noobs.... as a matter of fact, I think Tarryk is only about an hour drive from the Michigan International Speedway.


yeah.... I'm gonna get back to looking like I'm being productive at work now. though I might try using the anal glaucoma line this friday. pure gold!

[Vallikat]

see? we here in MI are not complete NASCAR noobs.... as a matter of fact, I think Tarryk is only about an hour drive from the Michigan International Speedway.

Hehe, Maar

I don't think everyone is MI is a NASCAR n00b. I just happen to know that Tarryk is. I already tried to educate him on his proximity to twice yearly NASCAR goodness, but I don't think it phased him much. Therefore, I think a roadtrip is definately in order.

*runs off to pack her bags*

[Nexeus]

NASCAR - cars go around in a circle... there are 3 flags.
1) Green flag - GO FULL SPEED BUDDY HAVE FUN!
2) Yellow Flag - FU*KTARD! You went tooo fast! Caution, there's a FU*KTARD ON THE COURSE
3) Checkered Flag - The ass whom likes to makes krispy cream on the road, and then drench himself in milk/organe juice/beer

[Maar]

heh, and as payment for you guidance in the ways of NASCAR, you should make him take you to the City Club.

[Vallikat]

heh, and as payment for you guidance in the ways of NASCAR, you should make him take you to the City Club.

Oh hell I would've settled for a drink in Mac's Bar.

[Mynka]

heh, and as payment for you guidance in the ways of NASCAR, you should make him take you to the City Club.

*used to frequent city club way to much* hehe

[Demongirl]

heh, and as payment for you guidance in the ways of NASCAR, you should make him take you to the City Club.

no don't torture the poor girl. take her there if and only if, you have a time machine in the basement.
if you do you might find me even...

[Tarryk]

heh, and as payment for you guidance in the ways of NASCAR, you should make him take you to the City Club.

no don't torture the poor girl. take her there if and only if, you have a time machine in the basement.
if you do you might find me even...

Seconded for me, I'd be wary about going there nowadays.

But 8 years ago? You'd see me there every ruttin' friday. Jammin man.

That's the club that introduced me to the Apotheosis mix of Carl Orff's O Fortuna. In the BEST way possible.


And hey, I'm not COMPLETELY without knowledge of NASCAR. I work for the country station here, among others, so I know the entire race schedule like the back of my hand....but that's about where my knowledge ends.

[Decavolt]

heh, and as payment for you guidance in the ways of NASCAR, you should make him take you to the City Club.

Oh hell I would've settled for a drink in Mac's Bar.

Say when. I'll be there.

Oh, and no thanks the the redneck left-hand turn show. If I want to see that I can watch the ritalin infused brat down the street run in drooling circles for hours before he gets dizzy and runs headlong into a brick wall. Same thing.

[Vallikat]

3) Checkered Flag - The ass whom likes to makes krispy cream on the road, and then drench himself in milk/organe juice/beer

And making a whole shitload of money to do it.

You also left out black (penalty), red (they screwed it up so bad they had to stop the race to clean up), white (one lap to go), and I believe some other miscellaneous flags, as well.

[Vallikat]

Say when. I'll be there.

If I ever actually do have cause to come to Michigan, you'll be one of the first people I call.

[Vallikat]

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OKAY, GORRAMIT, I'M NOT FINISHED HERE
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For crying out loud, 24 hours?? What's that going to give me, like 4 to 5 hours of lifetime? Granted that I wouldn't have that spread of time in any one sitting...EVER...but what if I did, like on a long DJ show on the weekend? Are they going to start fizzling and cutting out on the off-chance that I do a long set or spend many hours recording?

It's almost hilarious how the modern concept of personal convenience has been fine-tuned so tightly that we have finally achieved the ultimate paradoxial statement:

We will go out of our way to be convenienced.

Just think about that phrase. It gets funnier after a moment or two when it starts to sink in.

Okay, on that subject, bright note: I will be able to continue monitoring the audio feed while AFK without having to wake the neighbors. Although I'm sure Kayten will find it more than amusing, seeing me cross the hallway on a bathroom run with these monsters attached to my head--

--hey, these do kind of resemble a technofied alien face grabber--*phwat* PLHMPPMH!! MPMPHHT!!! MMMMMMMMMMMPPPHPHhphhh...pphh....pht......

*dies twitching*

...

*wakes up, alien bursts from chest and skitters off* But anyway, I don't like the idea that I'm going to have to keep my wired headphones hanging nearby as backup. The thought alone is an inconvenience unto itself. Bleh.

*dies laughing* I'm sorry, Tarryk. It's not really funny, except that it's hysterically funny.

[Merkaba]

If you watch NASCAR for any other reason then to see the cars wreck... *shakes head* I mean how fun is it to watch cars drive around a big circle repeatedly?

[Tarryk]

Sorry, Merkaba (and Decavolt), I gotta call unproductive opinion (read: BS) on that point.

Take a guy off the street who is a fantastic driver (perhaps even a well-trained stunt driver) and put him behind the wheel of a NASCAR number. Odds of him even qualifying: Very Slim

Being a driver in NASCAR takes the type of dedication and training that any and every other sport has. And it therefore has the same flaws every other sport has: Two many people who are top-ranked, all competing, causing a repetitiously boring season to anyone not directly interested in the strategy and design of the game.

Hockey is a bunch of idiots skating back and forth slapping a frozen King Don with a warped golf club. Why would you watch hockey for any other reason than the fights?

Tennis, the same, minus the ice and all but one person per team.

Basketball, the same, plus the shoes, minus the ridiculous thwapping sticks.

Baseball, a quasi-algebraic theory laid over top of the concept of a boy hitting a moving object with a stick.

Need I go on to cover every sport in the book? And for each point beginning with "There's more to (sport) than (mundane action)" anyone could offer, any informed NASCAR fan could stack back in fair turn.

And for the record, I can't stand watching NASCAR any more than I can stand watching hockey, football, golf, or any other sport. But I and anyone else can appreciate the hell out of it's design and purpose.

[Lauri]

If you watch NASCAR for any other reason then to see the cars wreck... *shakes head* I mean how fun is it to watch cars drive around a big circle repeatedly?

That was pretty much my opinion growing up, when my dad watched them.

Nowadays, I tend to appreciate the subtlety that is racing.. NASCAR or not. I recognized how much I "didn't get it", by watching my husband watch a race... hooting and hollering at things I just didn't see at the time. It's pretty damn exciting to me, now to see cars go 4-wide and a rookie pull up front to take the lead, 3/4s in the race. Not EVERY race will be as exciting as the next, but like some football games are just boring as hell, some fans like to keep up with players - points, standing, etc. Numbers. Yahoo.

Me, I just like to cheer for the #20 car. ^.^

[Decavolt]

Making an obvious joke about it doesn't immediately and automatically constitute a complete and total lack of understanding or appreciation for the thing.

When I say I'd like a supernova tomorrow, no one informs me I'm being short-sighted for not seeing the inherant good qualities of our solar system and that my desire for the sun to explode is just dumb. It's a given that I'm kidding...
Any NASCAR driver could wipe the floor with me behind the wheel - duh. I don't like it, but that doesn't mean I'm too thick-skulled to see the skill and talent it requires. Nor does it mean that I can't mock it unmercifully without actually believing it to be something a dead wombat could do.

It was sarcasm. Easily detectable, I thought.

[Tarryk]

What Lauri said, to the letter.

Also brought up a remembered retraction: If I'm over at someone else's place (which I'd have to be if sports were on the tv) and a game is on, I will start to watch it. There are two outcomes:

1. It's a college game. Now this I'll watch, at least for a few minutes. These are kids trying to GET to the pros. Strip away the stats and the game theory and commercialism, and you've got a bunch of people with somewhere to go and something to achieve in life, and they're playing their hearts out because of it, running fast and hitting hard an many times not doing them in a perfect way. I don't even have to know the rules to enjoy watching people play THAT hard for something.

or

2. It's a "pro" game, and it's boring top-ranks all trying to psych each other out in order to get an ounce of advantage. Political debates are more exciting (and that's actually true).

It was sarcasm. Easily detectable, I thought.

My dumb. It is detectable, I should have been a little more generalized than finger-pointing. And at any rate, EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion without question, so I'll shut my mouth about it.