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Addiction LXXIX

Old 08-29-20, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Some Dougs do some drugs.
No doubt. I am so square I haven’t even tried reefer. No interest.
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Originally Posted by datlas
No doubt. I am so square I haven’t even tried reefer. No interest.
"Whoa! Dude!"
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Old 08-29-20, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by genejockey
"Whoa! Dude!"
Yeah I will never be a mountain bike rider with an uptight attitude. Right?
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Originally Posted by datlas
No doubt. I am so square I haven’t even tried reefer. No interest.
same here. One of my best friends started when we were in middle school. The change was so dramatic it was enough to keep me from ever wanting to try it. Not a fan of the smell either.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Yeah I will never be a mountain bike rider with an uptight attitude. Right?
I'm not even sure you could be a gravel rider.

Or do they do edibles? I don't know anymore! I'm so out of touch with these young moderns, their groovy lingo, and their hippity hoppity music
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I guess it all worked out for a positive outcome. Kudos for us!
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Not necessarily! Back in 1970, in the Can Am road racing series, the Chaparral 2J employed exhaust fans to create suction under the car to provide downforce. Configure your mower blades right, and you could do the same thing!
That Jim Hall creation was a pig with earrings.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Not necessarily! Back in 1970, in the Can Am road racing series, the Chaparral 2J employed exhaust fans to create suction under the car to provide downforce. Configure your mower blades right, and you could do the same thing!
More weight, less aero. Downforce not needed.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
That Jim Hall creation was a pig with earrings.
People threw crap on the track which got sucked up, damaging the fan. It got banned pretty quickly.

I had a Cox Chaparral 1/24 scale slot car when I was about 12, I think. There was a place called Tom Thumb raceway and they had 5 tracks. I don't remember how much they charged for track time but I rarely had enough money to stay on very long.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Dougs don’t do drugs.
You're missing out.
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Originally Posted by datlas
No doubt. I am so square I haven’t even tried reefer. No interest.
I think I first tried it around 13 or 14, already smoking cigarettes by then. I discovered alcohol a few years later, which was a bad thing.

Quit cigarettes when I was 33. Smoking them is the one thing I wish I had never done. They don't add anything to your life, don't get you high, don't give you lots of stories to tell, just a total negative.
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Originally Posted by big john
People threw crap on the track which got sucked up, damaging the fan. It got banned pretty quickly.

I had a Cox Chaparral 1/24 scale slot car when I was about 12, I think. There was a place called Tom Thumb raceway and they had 5 tracks. I don't remember how much they charged for track time but I rarely had enough money to stay on very long.
The Times Grand Prix was a thing to behold. Hearing and feeling those big block things was as close to a Top Fuel feeling there was.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
You're missing out.
I can't stay off the drugs. I've been poppin' Benadryl with these damn allergies and it's makin' me drag... but at least I can breathe and it tamps down the urge to scratch my eyeballs out of their sockets.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
The Times Grand Prix was a thing to behold. Hearing and feeling those big block things was as close to a Top Fuel feeling there was.
Never did that. I did go to Long Beach once the day before the GP and saw some practice and watched an Indy Lights race, That was amazing. They also had a celebrity race, I think Toyota Celicas, and Greg LeMond was in it as was Queen Latifa.

I used to go to Ascot Park, a 1/2 mile dirt oval, and watch the sprint cars. We would sometimes stand in turn 1 and get pelted by balls of sticky mud.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
You're missing out.
I do not approve of this message.
#DogDrugsAreStillDrugs
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I took way too many drugs, way too young. That stopped when I got serious about other things and people.
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Originally Posted by big john
Never did that. I did go to Long Beach once the day before the GP and saw some practice and watched an Indy Lights race, That was amazing. They also had a celebrity race, I think Toyota Celicas, and Greg LeMond was in it as was Queen Latifa.

I used to go to Ascot Park, a 1/2 mile dirt oval, and watch the sprint cars. We would sometimes stand in turn 1 and get pelted by balls of sticky mud.
Ascot was cool. They had all types of racing, from demo and figure 8, to sprint and champ car, and all in between. JC Agajanian owned, which says everything.

Times GP was at Riverside, and if you sat in the bleachers in the esses, you could see nearly the whole track. That was an awesome track.
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There does not seem to be a common definition of "drugs" here.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
Ascot was cool. They had all types of racing, from demo and figure 8, to sprint and champ car, and all in between. JC Agajanian owned, which says everything.

Times GP was at Riverside, and if you sat in the bleachers in the esses, you could see nearly the whole track. That was an awesome track.
A friend raced flat track motorcycles at Ascot when I was about 18. Never went to Riverside.

I went to Supercross several times but the USGP at Carlsbad was my favorite motorcycle race.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Good morning.



what did you do?
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
what did you do?
Tried accessing a broken website.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
A bigger batch of sauerkraut is underway. Got a fancier container this time (pickle jar). Oh yes.
UPDATE: Starting to bubble.
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I got that same message this morning.
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