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  1. Celebrity spokesmodel for the games was international star of stage and screen Mr Steven Seagal. "If Genghis Khan was alive, he'd be here with us."
  2. Knew a stripper named Bambi so this hits close to home for me.
  3. Didn't watch the video, did ya, pal? Yes. There is mare milking. A non-competitive women's activity in the yurt village. Going off half-cocked as usual. Buzkashi (decapitated goat polo) is the Afghani word for kok-buru (picture after the burning man running). That thing where they ski around and shoot rifles at targets in the Olympics? Shoot at each other. Mongolian up, bro.
  4. "The Central Asian Olympics." Opening ceremonies September 2, 2018, 8:00PM. Closing ceremonies September 8, 8:00PM. Kyrgyz Republic. This year there will be children's events. Competitions for the ladies: archery, archery on horseback, dancing and synchronized dancing on horseback. Also a fashion show and best yurt / tent contest. New this year is the World Nomad Cuisine so let's get cooking, girls! For us guys, looks pretty much like the same old same old. About seven different kinds of archery (four on horseback), about seven different kinds of wrestling (two on horseback), throwing wooden javelins at each other on horseback, horse racing, hound racing. Then there are the more obscure sports: burkut saluu (hunting with eagles on horseback), setting a guy on fire and chasing him (I don't know the nomad word for this event), kok-boru (kind of like polo except with a decapitated goat carcass), and oert jalymdagan chabandes (burning nomads on horseback - racers get their the fire extinguished in the order they cross the finish line.) They even put it on a postage stamp. The USA contingent has only won two silver and two bronze medals. Let's step it up, America!
  5. What? My guest bathroom is black. #noracist
  6. Well, the officer and the girl are African-Americans.
  7. Idea for an amusement park ride from the December 1919 issue of Electrical Experimenter magazine.
  8. Catrina's daughter's tattoo didn't turn out like the example.
  9. Found while posting Eskimo Hut review.
  10. Goodbye C Struggs May you ever grow in our hearts You were the grace that placed itself Where lives were torn apart You called out to our ghetto And you rapped no shit Now you belong to heaven And the stars spell out your name And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never fading with the sunset When the rain set in And your footsteps will always fall here Along Austin's brownest hills Your candle's burned out long before Your legend ever will
  11. I was three years old. My parents and I were on the way to my grandparents' to celebrate his birthday. When we got to Capitol Dr, I asked my father to go to the Sinclair gas station. My mother and father were very surprised. They must have thought I was confused with the free premiums and wanted a plastic dinosaur. (These were the old days when men wearing caps and ties pumped the gas for you and cleaned the windshield.) Hell no. I been saving my money. I wanted to get grandfather a birthday present. I hopped out of the car (these were the old days - no child safety seats) and went into the station. They sold gasoline, motor oil and cigarettes. And there was a soda water machine. I asked for a pack of cigarettes. "Which brand?" The kind with the dog on the box. After going through Chesterfields, etc with the dog on the box the selection was getting pretty thin. Then I saw an advertisement on the gas station wall. THAT DOG! Pack of Camels cost me 17¢.
  12. Hey, pal. Didn't get the memo on not using Imgur?
  13. No. It was a golf tournament to raise money to fight childhood cancer.
  14. User's name is very fitting. The Sting. Henry Gandorf would have pulled out after the first scam with a better payday. I'm certain McDonald's can afford it, too. Don't recall reading this in the article. Possibly I glossed over it. Is McDonald's awarding the prizes? Yes, the Big Macs and french fries and Coca-Colas. I mean the big prizes. The reason I ask, there was a charity golf tournament in which I participated. As incentives, there were pro football players and and celebrities playing along in the foursomes, outstanding buffet lunch and supper, drinks, pretty girls on the drinks cart. And, if you got a hole-in-one on the seventh, you won a brand spankin' new GMC Yukon or something. Some guy hit a hole-in-one on the seventh. Except for one thing. It was supposed to be the eighth hole. The insurance company insuring the prize refused to award the Yukon. The guy sued the charitable tournament. That was a revelation that a man I considered a peer would act so ungentlemanly. He won. After taxes and legal fees it was a Pyrrhic victory. If he hadn't behaved like a little bitch, things would have worked out differently. I digress. Curious. Whether it was an insured or a direct loss, I am thinking McDonald's was more concerned about the integrity of the game and their public image.
  15. You insensitive bastard. It was neck cancer.
  16. Jumprope chant which my nieces sing today: Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one Late Thursday morning, August 4, 1892. Fall River, Massachusetts. The bodies of Lizzie's parents were found in the family home. Her step-mother suffered seventeen wounds to the back of her head. Her father, attacked while napping in the parlor, received eleven wounds. The inquest began August 8. Lizzie's behavior was strange and her testimony contradictory. Probably due to the morphine her doctor prescribed. Lizzie was arrested on August 11. Her jury trial began June 5, 1893; she was acquitted June 20, after only an hour and a half of deliberation. The sensational murder trial of the nineteenth century. Had the Borden home been converted to a bed and breakfast and gift shop during my rebellious teenage years, I would have wanted to spend the family vacation in Fall River.
  17. That is why if you have to fart at Chicago O'Hare Terminal 5, head for the most Persian-looking group. They think someone is cooking; everyone else thinks it is them.
  18. Whether it's a day collecting aluminum cans or a casual evening dinner party at the soup kitchen, you're ready for either in this versatile look from the Woynarowski Collection. Available at eBay and finer St Vincent de Paul's.
  19. Stoogey

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    I never drink water. Fish fuck in it. - W C Fields
  20. You are absolutely correct. And the proper way to warm up a car is to drive slowly through the neighborhood because you need to warm up the transmission fluid, too. I had to teach my wife to take the parkway along the river to warm things up before getting on the freeway because she is a southern girl. In fact, for winter driving, you should change your motor oil to a lighter weight. And change the battery every three years. And in rural areas, snow tires instead of all-season. Also, if you live in an urban area or take the highways, there is salt on the roads. Salt corrodes metal. Which is why I have three cars: My summer roadster. My practical car. And my winter beater. Steam? Immediately check the head gasket. Unless you are driving a Stanley Steamer, there is no steam. There may be drops of water dripping from the tailpipe but that is the exhaust forcing out the condensation caused by cold headers and muffler and cat with the warm exhaust. That is why modern exhaust systems are stainless steel. I remember replacing exhaust systems on almost every car I owned. That is exhaust - which does have some water vapor. When it is cold enough, it won't matter how far you drive. You can see the exhaust.
  21. I can remember reading the Brookstone advertisements in Skymall magazine. There must be something about flying where a $250 automatic cat litter box almost makes sense. And I don't have a cat.
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