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Detroit, 4:05 PM
Sun Nov 8
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03:57 PM
they had spent a whole summer rebuilding a 2.3L fox body mustang but it just never ran right..... ever... so... the next summer (after being asked to clean out the shed, i helped him) we took a box of greasy old parts to his dad (the box was labeled "mustang pieces") and dumped it out... then asked him if he knew why the mustang didn't work..............
truth was they were old pieces of engine stuff we found and soaked in old oil for a while... and then labeled the box ourselves... but the way he freaked out was well worth it..... #howto
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I just wad them up into a big ball. #howto
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02:44 PM
This would be especially effective if the person getting penalized is also ignorant of how guns work, and must first teach themselves from military issued instructional materials. #penalties
02:35 PM
On a Colorado rally, the Thin-Air TT, there was one bonus which appeared quite easy, for those in the know about the location. Sure, there was a dirt-road shortcut the large-displacement dual-sport machines, and the adventurous on street machine, but my wife and I stuck to pavement. 85+ on pavement potentially 15 MPH on dirt, and repairs required to continue.
The clue read:
"At between mile marker 45 and 46, there is a ranch on the south side of CO County Road (insert road number here). In the space below, what is the name of the ranch. It must be spelled correctly to receive points."
Dude...no problem! I've got my passenger, a high-end audio hookup, and she's learned to write in 85-95 MPH wind. Hold on, "must be spelled correctly"....
Pffffft!!!
I done gradgimatated from college, yo...
I say, "okay, it's coming up", slowing down not one bit.
She replies, "I'm ready!"
As I'm passing the place, I get three syllables into the name and realize I couldn't spell correctly with a gun to my head, so I immediately say, "hold on", and grab hand and foot-loads of brake.
My wife says, "what's wrong?!"
I reply with grunting and aggravated murmuring, punctuated with creative cursing.
We turn around, go back the 1/8 mile, and sit across from the entrance, with me spelling it at least three times, just to make sure.
As a bonus for the rally-bastard, if you took the time to go out of the way for this bonus, you'd get to the next town just in time for a parade, which had the two through roads closed.
I thought those bonus points were kinda high for how easy they appeared....
A solid 1/3 of the field did not make the first checkpoint before it closed. Sure, we were in good company, and we learned about being greedy, but man, that was mean on multiple levels.
The rally-bastard claimed he didn't know about the parade, but did so with a smirk.
This is the kinda fun LeMons reminds me of. #penalties
02:31 PM
And I gotta say, that foxbody Mustang with the Russian flag looks good enough to drive on the street (even though it's a four-eyed fox). I'm not bemoaning the fact that it's being LeMonsed, I realize there were more than 1.2 million of them produced between 86-93 alone. #penalties
02:23 PM
It does have racing pedigree. Sort of. #1975
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02:16 PM
p.s: We need a Joe Wilson punishment during the LeMons-conservative edition. #penalties
02:17 PM
@FTGDWolverineEdition'09: #penalties
02:48 PM
/really enjoyed The Daily Show last Thursday...and I'm not "liberal" or "conservative", just not an idiot #penalties
02:12 PM
Also, gotta love the Crown Vic team who named themselves "Save the Whale". A guy on tB calls his "POWERWHALE", and I endorse that as well. #24hoursoflemonsthunderhill