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drewdrawshashtags
06/04/09

In reply to Sir Stirling Moss Is A Huge Nerd
I quite literally bumped into him at Le Mans in 2001 while he was walking out of a hospitality tent and he was very pleasant about it (I was pretty much stunned silent).

Ironically, I had chased him all over Goodwood about a year before trying to get him to sign a painting I had done of him to no avail.
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optical10
06/04/09

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what is he driving in the last picture whilst wearing the helmet, is that a motorcycle with a cargo compartment section on the back? If so I seriously would like to know who makes such a useful vehicle as I'm disabled and that looks like it could be lots of fun out and about town for instance.
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drewdrawshashtags
06/04/09

@optical10: I believe that he's driving a Honda Gyro Canopy scooter.

[en.wikipedia.org]
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B1663R
06/04/09

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is...is that Murilee standing beside Winston fuckin' Churchill?
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scroggzilla raids again
06/04/09

@B1663R: No. It's Denis Jenkinson (Moss's co-driver/navigator for the 55 Mille Miglia, also a writer for Motorsport Magazine), and "Winston Churchill" is Alfred Neubauer, the head of Mercedes Benz's racing team)
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the good dr zero
06/04/09

@B1663R: I saw a similarity too.
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TimothyAntigone
06/04/09

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Moss' other house is on the same road as my parents. He rips is cars up and down it quite often. At the end of the road is a really tight blind corner. One day as i came round it he was hurtling towards me, he braked slightly then threaded his Jag through a tiny gap and sped off. Legend!
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Peter Orosz
06/05/09

@TimothyAntigone: Whoa.
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UDMan
06/04/09

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Ah, I hope I'm that limber and agile when I reach 80. I only I reach 80, being in and around the crappiest drivers in the country (Ny and NJ) I have my doubts.
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Dr. H. F. Danger
06/04/09

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He is raising his had to tell you he is pooping.
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Boosted Lego Wagon
06/04/09

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"To me now racing is - the dangers are taken away: if it's difficult, they put in a chicane. So really now the danger is minimal - which is good, because people aren't hurt. But for me the fact that I had danger on my shoulder made it much more exciting... And I think with driving a motor car, the danger is a very necessary ingredient. Like if you're cooking, you need salt. You can cook without salt, but it doesn't have the flavor. It's the same with motor racing without danger. For me."

-Sir Stirling Moss

By the way, never mind the Maserati, those suspenders are a bit birdcage.
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Pete Gaines
06/04/09

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But where does the giant bowl of soup come from?!
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Boosted Lego Wagon
06/04/09

@Pete Gaines: The bones of his fallen competitors.
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Peter Orosz
06/04/09

@Pete Gaines: I strongly suspect a certain Mrs. Moss the Third.
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engineerd
06/04/09

@Pete Gaines: I have a soup bowl delivery system, as well. I call her "Wife".

She also doubles as a dishwasher.
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PetroSapien
06/04/09

@engineerd: I have one of those as well. Fortunately, I changed a few lines of code in the main program, and upgraded mine to beer delivery system.
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engineerd
06/04/09

@PetroSapien: I'm still working on that. Although, she does ask me what kind of beer I want when she goes to the store. She came home with Oberon last night. Mmmmmmmm...
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B1663R
06/04/09

@engineerd: I gotta flash the BIOS on mine... it keeps crashing and i constantly need to booty it to do anything.

i think that when i updated from Girlfriend 3.5 to Wife 2.0 i musta downloaded that NaGiNg Virus that's been going around...
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SirNotAppearing
06/04/09

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What, no stripper pole descending from the ceiling? He is not using his fame and money wisely.
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Deartháir II
06/04/09

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I can only hope to be that awesome when I'm his age.

For a moment there, I thought that last photo was of engineerd. Old fart that he is, you know.
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SirNotAppearing
06/04/09

@Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: Man he really is an old geezer. I don't know how the arthritis doesn't keep him from commenting.
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engineerd
06/04/09

@Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: What? You're going to have to speak up.

Damn kids.

P.S. If I ever make it to 80, I hope to be at least 20% as cool as Sir Stirling Moss.
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engineerd
06/04/09

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You forgot an "e".
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Syrax
06/04/09

@engineerd: hugee?
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
06/04/09

@engineerd: Happy Birthday engineerd!
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engineerd
06/04/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: Thanks!
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Syrax
06/04/09

@engineerd: Oh, it's your BD? I'm not on Facebook so I wouldn't know. Feliz Aniversário!
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drewdrawshashtags
06/04/09

@Syrax - Official Unfunny Commenter: I am, but am apparently not cool enough to be a friend.

Happy B-day anyway, 'neerd
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Armand
06/04/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: Seconded-- happy birthday!
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
06/04/09

@engineerd: Happy birthday, sir!
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Dr. H. F. Danger
06/04/09

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Those suspenders are rad.
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Syrax
06/04/09

@Dr.Danger...now with more smarm®: I was thinking the same: who cares about his gadgets when you could write a full story on those suspenders.
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scroggzilla raids again
06/04/09

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KLAVIN!
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scroggzilla raids again
06/04/09

@SCROGGS!!: Mwa-hey!

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Armand
06/04/09

@SCROGGS!!: Mwa-hey, nice Maser-RAW-tee, with the tubular spaceframe and the Webers and the hey-hey-hey the handling's not-so-good.

From now on, every quote I read from Sir Stirling will be done in the Professor Frink/ Jerry Lewis voice. What's more entertaining than driving a Humber Super Snipe from Oslo to Lisbon, going through fifteen countries in five days? Doing it while being an enormous nerd, that's what.
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scroggzilla raids again
06/04/09

@Armand: Nicely done.
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B1663R
06/03/09

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Holy shit!! someone actually photoshopped Murilee in the passenger seat!!!
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bzr
06/03/09

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Hey, I used to collect stamps as a kid too! All the cool kids did it. The losers went out and played JV football and tried to score with cheerleaders in their jacked-up pickup trucks. (And I'm from Massachusetts.)

My favorite stamps always came from obscure-assed little islands that were awesome enough to put old Peugeots on their stamps, like this:

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MushyHeirloom
06/03/09

@bzr loves a Chinese Hummer (long time?): I thought "St. Vincent and the Grenadines" would be a great name for a band, but the fucking Dutch beat me to it.
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