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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    I grew up watching the blimp fly out of Carson CA to the West toward the ocean and back again.
    Back in the days when my then step kids at least pretented to love me my stepson entered the Soap Box Derby. I worked on those two chunks of wood for 3 days so one could be my backup car.

    I also made his display for our race
    Cars that were aptly named "Jeff Flash" and the other was named "Gordon".

    I had a model of the GY Blimp suspended in the air ( as if by magic)

    We won Best Display and 3rd in the race.

    For that memorable and very special evening we were the Baddest Ass mfers on the planet (and even the Secular World)

    Deep joke " secular vs racing. Oh I get it. "Speed on mfer, Hell isn't half full yet"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    I remember seeing the Goodyear Blimp moored at the Indianapolis Airport Memorial Weekend 1973.
    That must have been some weekend if you remember it that precisely.
    "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison

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    Quote Originally Posted by Collateral Damage View Post
    That must have been some weekend if you remember it that precisely.
    We were in town for the 1973 Indy 500.
    I remember seeing Evil Kneival in a downtown parade .

    I met Jim Nabors


    I bought a cigar in the lobby of our Marriott for 25 cents.

    Ate breakfast at the Speedway Hotel the morning of the festivities.

    We were in a Navajo Twin Engine as opposed to commercial. I was 14, my friend was 13. Our fathers took us to the race. The Navajo made what could have been a dreadful journey into a thing of beauty.

    On the way to the airport for departure to Indy my friends father bought a bunch of Donuts


    My fat friend hammered down about 6-7 chocolate donuts while we were still on the tarmac back home.

    He got sick as hell and shat his pants lol

    I'll never forget that when we landed in Indy my friends father made him carry the shat in pants etc in a bucket across the staging tarmac . I lmao .
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    I think it is good to see Michael Moore active again.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Collateral Damage View Post
    That must have been some weekend if you remember it that precisely.
    Another weekend I remember clearly.was Labor Day Weekend 2001 in Gatlinburg (.your neck of the country ). We ventured to the Chejrokee Nation . We were on the reservation , Cherokee NC .

    We went about 15 -20 miles from Cherokee and visited Harrah's Casino .

    How far do you live from Harrah's?

    If I may ask
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Booman View Post
    I think it is good to see Michael Moore active again.
    I wonder what he is doing?
    I know for sure he's a hypocrite .

    He showed up at the OWS Fleabaggers riot to show unity with his people .

    Twas quite the task

    His people were mostly dumbfuks that were against capitalism
    The simple fact that capitalism built this once great country was of no value to them.

    They had the siloution to the question that was actually never asked. Twas as follows

    1. Crap on the side of cars

    2. Stand around with a bunch of other losers whining about the gall of someone suggestion that genetics , education , hard work be the path to success .

    The other bright idea this disgusting toads had was sexing up the playas on Herpes Hill while the others tore up sht. Mostly govt property .

    The main stage featured fat disgusting hypocrite Micheal Moore pushing about $50 million + net worth while I engaged in a lawsuit that he did not make enough money on his last false narrative . Only $20 million

    Next : Reba McEntires $200 million + sex doll , Susan Sarandon $65 million and climbing ...


    It brings the hypocrisy of old man Warren Buffett to the front.

    He was saying at the Obamas "Magic Knee Grow" speech that " my poor secretary pays out at a higher rate than I do"

    Really? How about God Forbid but pay the bich better?

    Oh...while in attendance that 2011 day was Buffett sitting with Hussien playing the Greta Dumberg card which is basically nothing but hanging out saying weird sht to attempt sounding philosophical .
    Guess what , it's not working

    Buffett was at that very moment spending ten million plus on attorneys, accountants etc fighting the IRS about how much he was having to pay.


    Buffett, eat my dust
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    Back in the days when my then step kids at least pretented to love me my stepson entered the Soap Box Derby. I worked on those two chunks of wood for 3 days so one could be my backup car.

    I also made his display for our race
    Cars that were aptly named "Jeff Flash" and the other was named "Gordon".

    I had a model of the GY Blimp suspended in the air ( as if by magic)

    We won Best Display and 3rd in the race.

    For that memorable and very special evening we were the Baddest Ass mfers on the planet (and even the Secular World)

    Deep joke " secular vs racing. Oh I get it. "Speed on mfer, Hell isn't half full yet"
    Tis an honor to say " thanks to all of you " for ignoring this post of mine (among others) as a symptom of passive aggression. , Lazy fukism etc

    Twas quite the honor

    Really , it was
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Booman View Post
    I think it is good to see Michael Moore active again.
    Speaking of blimps?
    Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes​

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thom Paine View Post
    For some reason, Always, a nearly mesmerizing sight.
    That is exactly what the nurses said about me as they stood around my crib on the day I was born and gazed in wild wonder
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    That is exactly what the nurses said about me as they stood around my crib on the day I was born and gazed in wild wonder



    You too ?
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