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Gumball 3000 So Ronery, Still Planning Run To North Korea In 2008

respawn — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:32:12 EDT

@JoeRenault: Haha! A much more accurate description. I didn't mean my comment to imply that I don't think going to NK is a stupid idea. I think that anybody foolish enough to attend this year's Gumball deserves to be fleeced for all they're worth once they get to North Korea. Maybe Kim Yung won't be so ronery anymore.

respawn

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Joepel — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:41:02 EDT

@respawn:

Ok, I didn't actualy read the press release so my earlier comment isn't entirely correct. I shouldn't compare it to running the Mille Miglia through Krakow in the early 40's; it's more like taking all the drivers to Nuremberg to watch lots of loyal little Nazis wave flags.

Joepel

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respawn — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:28:17 EDT

@respawn: s/sentance/sentence. We need an edit button.

respawn

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respawn — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:27:46 EDT

@TurboBrick: The 5th paragraph should also win the William Faulkner award for the longest run-on sentance in any press-release this week. Who the f**k writes their copy anyway?

respawn

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-chet — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:25:59 EDT

@Retiree: Oh no. NK will turn this into a media coup like they always "try" to do.

-chet

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Shapeshifter — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:21:28 EDT

Gumball 3000 in North Korea?

NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!

Their "carbon-neutral" thing appears to be the whole "we'll give money to some windmills somewhere". In other words, paying someone else to be carbon-neutral for them.

Shapeshifter

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badco/LoJ — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:32:36 EDT

"VIP guests of the North Korean government?" Are you effing kidding me?

badco/LoJ

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TurboBrick — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:26:45 EDT

So, let me get this straight - Gumball 3000 is a rally that spans multiple continents promoting the message of carbon gas reduction and visiting sadistic dictators? The whole fifth paragraph is quite amusing, talking about fun and freedom of spirit.

TurboBrick

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FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:26:21 EDT

Hooning all around the world: $120,000
An audience with Kim Il Jong: Priceless
Leaving North Korea alive: Impossible

FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system

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milo_carrera--now with Corrected Politicality — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:13:54 EDT

Occurences of the words "party", "parties", or "partying" in the press release: 6

Occurences of the words "drive", "drives", "driver" or drivers" in the press release: 3

Curiously, however, the word "asshat" does not appear in the press release at all.

milo_carrera--now with Corrected Politicality

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JohnnyWagon — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:46:09 EDT

@respawn: I know I didn't!

Reading comprehension was never my strong suit.

JohnnyWagon

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jeremyc — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:15:27 EDT

"Russian cargo planes"?

Ekranoplan!

jeremyc

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respawn — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:50:51 EDT

@JohnnyWagon: Did nobody read the actual press release where they mention that the NK stage will not include the cars and that the cars will instead be flown direct from Las Vegas to Shanghai?

respawn

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Papercutninja — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:26:21 EDT

So they're not serious about being carbon-neutral? Let the hooning commence.

Papercutninja

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JohnnyWagon — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:40:19 EDT

@Miscellanea: At least I'm not the only one thinking about the possibilities of this occurring.

JohnnyWagon

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Miscellanea, now on the main floor! — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:33:53 EDT

@JohnnyWagon:

Damn. You beat me to it!

Miscellanea, now on the main floor!

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Miscellanea, now on the main floor! — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:33:00 EDT

I bet Kim Jong Il plans to expand his car collection.

Miscellanea, now on the main floor!

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JohnnyWagon — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:32:34 EDT

Me thinks Kim Jong-il will have a stable of really nice cars at the end of this...

JohnnyWagon

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jdepould — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:18:39 EDT

So the Darryl Hannah thing was in 03 and 05? Or did it take her that long to finish . . . I'm confused.

jdepould

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TinaChow — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:14:44 EDT

Of course these people will be carbon neutral. Once into North Korea they will stop consuming meat, fish, chicken or any kind of protein whatsoever. Their cars will be hitched to teams of oxen overseen by starving peasants, as they take three months to get to the finish line.

Once at their hotel, they will then be held hostage for several years.

TinaChow

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Joepel — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:04:37 EDT

How come Maximillion Cooper isn't concerned about the fact that he and his merry band of powder-snorting thrillseekers will be, at best, making Kim Jong-Il look good (or at least normal) and doing absolutely nothing but generate this stupid "contest" more headlines.

North Korea is more than human rights abuses on an epic scale, it's possibly the worst place on earth to live right now. People are live and die under the most oppressive regime on earth, they starve to death while their southern neighbours live comfortably with every convenience and opportunity they could ask for.

No-one outside NK seems to care until - wait - Mr Cooper decides to tear through in a Bentley with his friends, leaving some confused farmers standing at the side of the road. "Terribly sorry about your awful lives, guys, but mind if I floor my Koenigsegg past your emaciated cow?"

What message does this send out? This is about as distasteful as running the Mille Miglia through Krakow in the early 40s (if it were possible at the time). And it's a valid comparison; the NK regime has concentration camps and carries out Nazi-style human experimentation in 2007.

But no, Mr Cooper, you have your fun........

Joepel

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-chet — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:00:02 EDT

I guess being "carbon neutral" somehow justifies hooning-related deaths in the byways along the route. omglaff

-chet

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TexanIdiot25 could use some of that bail out money — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:40:59 EDT

Maybe thats why this is a no cars stage, King Jon Im or whatever the little fools name is doesnt want to be killed by flying cars?

TexanIdiot25 could use some of that bail out money

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smokyburnout — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:21:53 EDT

@bzr: ive got a joke forming in my head about how the carbon dioxide a person doesn't produce because they are run down by a rally car offsets the carbon dioxide the cars produce, but thats just wrong...

smokyburnout

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Jimboz — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:20:55 EDT

To tell you the truth, if an NK death squad decided to ensure that the majority of the rich prick participants in this race never left the North Korean checkpoint, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Excluding Roy.

But then again, I'd be lying if I said this wasn't exactly what I'd do if I was young and obscenely rich.

Jimboz

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bzr — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:12:58 EDT

@smokyburnout: That's clearly what they're counting on.

How could I have missed that line in this beautifully written press release? "carbon neutral!" I fell off my chair laughing, literally.

bzr

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blitzcat — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:07:44 EDT

Lookin forward to Senior Roy's commentary.

blitzcat

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yellofury * * * * * — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:06:18 EDT

just watch out for Porsches

yellofury * * * * *

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smokyburnout — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:39:10 EDT

@bzr: well, north korea is pretty isolated from the rest of the world, so i guess they hope things like that won't make it to the rest of the world's media...
im also guessing the price hike is to cover their legal fees...

smokyburnout

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bzr — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:27:19 EDT

Well, if they accidentally kill off a North Korean, nobody's going to think it's gonna matter either, right?

bzr