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Roger, you are truly a multi-faceted dude!! :worship:
What else should we know about you?

You should know that I use a reversible French to English translator from babelfish.com!!! I cant speak a lick of french!!! 2 years ago, we hosted a French exchange student for the summer, and except for polite passing comments, I heavily depended on the translator to talk with this kid...she was really cool. It was a great summer, but man....she thought everything in America was right here....she wanted us to take her to "the Big Apple" to see the Statute of Liberty, apparently she had heard the term BIG EASY and connected it with N.Y.'s Big APPLE!!! ....We took her camping to a nearby state park that always has a ton of gators....she called them DEE-NOSAURS!!!!! She was soo cute!!!
 
poor donnie....... if he hadn't started with those old ladies on the bus and they beat him up
 
Hey Lone-Star!!! I'm selling my home.... it's just 25 miles to FtW & is set up with a 20 x 50 RV port! Wanna buy it?? We're wanting to move to the North Georgia Mountains!:thumbsup2

We would love to buy your house. However work is in Texas for now. So no can do
 

Hmmmmmm. Got nothing to say. So how about another photo of Kate. Arms covered for some of you. Yes, you know who you are.
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All I can say is Nascar SUCKS. I've watched it since I was a kid on tv and been going to races in the SE for 7 years. I had said I would do the 500 this year because it's the 50th and I wanted to be there for that. Nascar is going in a new era and the fans who made it what it is aren't going to be included. Jimmie Johnson was in an article in our local paper talking about the type of sponsors he wants to represent. He said he wasn't looking for redneck, bbq and booze type sponsorship. He prefers Gatorade and other co.'s who show him as a champion. I was just watching where he grew up in a trailer park and went back there recently and was so nice. He thinks he's so cool when really he and Chad Knaus are cheaters who every chance do what they can to cheat and they think it's cool but it affects the fans and that's not good. If Nascar needs all this new glitter to make money so be it. It just won't be mine. Now I can take another trip to FW with the money saved on the 500. Sorry for ramblin but I had to get that off my chest. Oh and Scott thanks for the head comment. All I can say is, full of smart brains and good looks. Well at least smart lol.:lmao: Whatever products Jimmie sells, I can guarantee I won't buy that product. Never have and never will. I'll go out of my way to Home Depot before Lowe's and any other product he represents.
 
I still love NASCAR, but the Daytona 500 was soooooooooooo boring.

Oh, and Fox's coverage was almost UNWATCHABLE, I timed it, they went to commercial EVERY 5 or 6 minutes in the first 2 hours of their coverage, and the commercials would run for like 3 minutes each. There were more commercials than there was live coverage. I hope they get backlash on this, because I seriously considered not watching because by the time you got back into what was going on in the race, they would go back to commercial.

Horrible, worst sports coverage I've ever seen.

And it didn't help that the race was one of the most boring 500's I've ever seen :/
 
Hmmmmmm. Got nothing to say. So how about another photo of Kate. Arms covered for some of you. Yes, you know who you are.
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Professional photography is a wonderful thing, aint it...Here's a pro pic of my wife....they can make anybody look good!!!!! Just kiddin around, I love the ol'broad!!! But she COULD let me pimp out my cart a little quicker!!!

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And here I was thinking it was a great race :confused3

I have to admit that probably the constant cutting to commercial made the race really boring to me. Plus the lead was changing so much, that by the time they would get back from their commercial, you would have no idea who was where and what had happened.

Someone actually timed it all out:

Time of actual race coverage: 176 minutes
Time of commercials during race: 60 minutes

So 1/3 of the race was commercials, which is ridiculous, and to me made it almost unwatchable because you couldn't really begin to follow what's going on and they would go to another commercial.

The last 15 laps or so were really good, but I don't want NASCAR to turn into basketball where only the very end is exciting :(

P.S. At least I had Mr. Budweiser keeping me company during the commercial breaks...lol
 
I have to admit that probably the constant cutting to commercial made the race really boring to me. Plus the lead was changing so much, that by the time they would get back from their commercial, you would have no idea who was where and what had happened.

Someone actually timed it all out:

Time of actual race coverage: 176 minutes
Time of commercials during race: 60 minutes

So 1/3 of the race was commercials, which is ridiculous, and to me made it almost unwatchable because you couldn't really begin to follow what's going on and they would go to another commercial.

The last 15 laps or so were really good, but I don't want NASCAR to turn into basketball where only the very end is exciting :(

P.S. At least I had Mr. Budweiser keeping me company during the commercial breaks...lol

I did get in a " Nascar nap" but since I was at work, Mr Budweiser wasnt in attendance. I agrre on the commercials, the worst used to be TBS when they had the races. At least I like Larry Mac, DW and Mike Joy, last year when Rusty was on ESPN it was barely watchable for me. All Crusty ever does is babble about the same thing over and over and over. I think Dale Jarret does a much better job. I forgot to bring my Sirius radio with me, they have 10 channels of the driver feeds plus the audio is MRN so it makes for a more imformation packed race.
I think Nascar needs to back off on the greed a little before they alienate all their old fans.
This years car is a huge improvement over last years, you NEVER saw the breakaways last year.

I hope Donnie can stop the hatin ! Maybe he is just going to the races with the wrong crowd ? some people just know how to have fun and others dont.... :thumbsup2
 
I was telling a friend today how boring it was and he asked what do you want to see happen, somebody get killed? Never would I want that but I want to see the cars having to fight each other to take the lead. The drivers have so much control over that car now that wrecks and passing will no longer be a big factor. The new spoiler controls the back end and almost makes it impossible for a driver to get the leader loose. I'll be at the fort for the 400 like I was last year. That was the 1st 400 I'd missed in person for about 10 years. Oh well, I'll be looking for another hobby now. I hate to say it, but with all the legends retiring or running limited schedules really makes me lose interest too. Last year no North Carolina native won a race. It's a sign of the times, you got people making millions of dollars and it becomes a cash cow/media frenzy. Maybe they'll find out the drivers took steroids or is using illiegal drugs and that'll become interesting because yesterday was NOT!!!!!!
 

Professional photography is a wonderful thing, aint it...Here's a pro pic of my wife....they can make anybody look good!!!!! Just kiddin around, I love the ol'broad!!! But she COULD let me pimp out my cart a little quicker!!!

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Here's what I look like after a pro took my picture with Santa Claus

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Professional photography is a wonderful thing, aint it...Here's a pro pic of my wife....they can make anybody look good!!!!! Just kiddin around, I love the ol'broad!!! But she COULD let me pimp out my cart a little quicker!!!

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I've noticed that, generally speaking, wives are significantly better looking than their husbands, and I frequently wonder how my wife puts up with someone as ugly as me - I think she could do much better.
 
they feel sorry for us. That's what my wife keeps saying anyway.
 
There secret is THIS....good looking women look FANDAMTASTIC when standing next to an ugly guy...and most prefer to have less than drop dead gorgeous friends, as well...when your surrounded by ugly, you're suddenly beautiful!!!!

What women DONT realize....A good looking broad sees an ugly guy with a another good lookin broad....she starts to wonder"Whats he got to keep her so happy?" and the the cat fights commence...life has its funny little ways of keeping things fair and interesting.
 
I actually left the room at the 50th lap, because I was so bored! And, of course I come back at the end to see my buddy, Matt, (:worship:) get bumped out by his OWN TEAMMATE!!! :scared1:

Rats. :guilty:
 
We would rather do laps at the Fort in our Buggy [golf cart].:thumbsup2
 
I actually left the room at the 50th lap, because I was so bored! And, of course I come back at the end to see my buddy, Matt, (:worship:) get bumped out by his OWN TEAMMATE!!! :scared1:

Rats. :guilty:

I was sitting just a little after where that happened. Looking at the replay I wasn't for sure if the 6 had a tire problem and slid up or if his spotter said clear outside. At 190 mph by the time a spotter says clear something changes. It can't be easy to go to those Monday meetings after that. I remember when Jr. hit Waltrip a couple years ago at Charlotte. Mikey was like what did I do to him. It was during the time he was announcing he was leaving DEI so I guess he thought it was intentional. Guess he didn't know Jr. was planning his own little exit. I hope Nascar can get the COT on track and how it wants to handle the future of racing. All I heard at the track was how people are sick of how unexciting racing is. I thought the Shootout was good racing and that was how it was going to be. Obviously not. I was really surprised at Newman winning (bet he was too) but that's plate racing. Watching Hendrick win 18 races last year got pretty old too. I think you're going to see more of the same this year with the 24, 48 and 88. Why watch when you know who wins before the flag drops? IMO I think race teams should be limited to 2 teams. Of course Hendrick and RCR build all the motors for GM and Evernham builds for Dodges and Gibbs will be doing the Toyota program so there again everything becomes "fixed" as I call it. Rest in peace Big Bill France. Your legacy has been ruined by your little adopted grandson.
 
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