Hello ,Hello
Hehe.......what a nut! I've been through Arkansas , But can't recall what it was like. It has been a looong time ago and only certain places are still embeded in my memory.
Have you thought about picking up the paper again ? or does nobody live on the other side of ya ?
Old Racing!!! MMmmmm good'ol memories back when our tv only picked up the chanels 2,4,6,8,10 and 13 .... and a quarter of those were the snow channel most of the time.
But come the weekend it was usually on the wide world of sports which was AGONY OF DEFEAT on a saturday morning to a kid wanting to watch cartoons !!! but it was ok on the day's they went live to the HUGE figure 8 demo derby's !! don't see anything like those anymore that's for sure. they were great even though alot of time someone was really getting seriously hurt ! but to us at the time.....THAT WAS PART OF IT!! and raceday.....
"Whoa ,dad.....did you see that car go right over the corner and off the track??" !! hehe . but we stayed glued to it ! and I was hooked from then on.
Allison , Yarbourogh , Petty ...... to Kulwicki , Elliott , Earnhardt. So many drivers I liked watching , and when they showed a pit stop.....my goodness....
And OH-BOY.....watching the winner get the victory kiss from the girl !!! Miss Winston Cup !! wow !
Bump me and I'll take you out mentality! loved it ! (terrible aren't I ?) But that was excitement back then!! It beat watching the live news about the war (and I remember seeing them showing people getting shot) or the demonstraters getting clubbed by the riot police!! Dang-it , even showing the streakers on tv!!! Bare butts running away from the camera of course but it was "LIVE" tv.....no time for.....what'
The Barbaric good ol day's !! hehe the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
Hmmm , nope ...... still can't recall what Arkansas was like!
Nice chattin with ya though!
Don't forget your subscription renewal on the other side !
later
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> Does alan still have the locator up on all of us?
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> As for me Brick.. I live in Arkansas.. a lil ol town on the Oklahoma border called Ft Smith. I like long walks and fresh flowers. Shoveling the driveway of snow got a lot easier since we got the flame thrower, and I was getting the newspaper quite regularly till my neighbor cancelled his subscription.
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> I used to live for Nascar. As a kid growing up, and I have said this before, I lived for every tape delayed segment that the Wide World of Sports would show, or any sniglet that CBS would pick up. I praised the day that ESPN would show some of the races, but TNN for a while would show ASA, NASCAR, NHRA, hell, anything that'd race, they'd show it. The smell of burnt rubber, fuel, and the rush of the sound, like a monster out of hell, when the stock cars would shoot out of turn two at Talladega. Now, I pretty much phone in my viewing. DVR is the biggest reason I watch now.
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> One last thing. One night, not too long ago, I accidentally stuck my ignition key in my door knob on the front door, and the house, well, it kinda started. So, I drove it out to the interstate, parked it sideways, and told everyone to get the hell off of my driveway. I was going to call some friends, but my phone has no fives on it. I did however fly to Wichita Ks one time on a plane with only two right wings. The coolest thing is the light switch by my front door. For some reason, it has two switches, and one of them of course turns the light on in the living room, and the other did nothing, or, so we thought. I played with this thing one day, and for like, four or five hours, just clicking it on and off, on and off. We got a letter from a lady in Berlin Germany telling us to knock that crap off.
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> it's a small world.. but I wouldn't want to paint it..
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> From: Heather Guillemaud <dawn1078@..
> To: NASCAR-Group@
> Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 7:25:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [NASCAR-Group] Just out of curiosity , Where's everybody hail from ?
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> I actually love getting to know everbody in the group so this question does not bother me a bit. I am in Dallas and can understand what you mean about the brown but remember Texas is big and most of it does not look like Corpus. Dallas is not brown at all, of course it is not Green either. It is concrete so we have absolutely no color. The Austin area is very pretty, hilly and very green. Love it there, we are in the process of buying a lake lot on Lake Travis
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> I am married to the most awesome hubby. He lets me get away with being me, and hey I am bit crazy so that makes him awesome. He is not a race fan so I am all on own there but he lets me go with my sis and mom and 3 blondes at a race together is just crazy so you know he is awesome.
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> I have 2 boys. My lovey's! They are 1 and 3. They rock and I am brainwashing them to love racing, and hey its working. My oldest Love the Blue car. Kurt Bush, but hey at least he will watch it with me.
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> Ok so that is me! What else you got? Oh and nice to meet ya!
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> Heather
> --- On Mon, 11/16/09, brickyardnut <brickyardnut@ yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: brickyardnut <brickyardnut@ yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NASCAR-Group] Just out of curiosity , Where's everybody hail from ?
> To: NASCAR-Group@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 7:07 PM
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> Not trying to pry any type of "personal" info out of ya , just curious as to the region/area you are from.
> No addresses or anything , If this spooks ya .... saying the next town over is totally acceptable.
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> As for myself , I've lived in southern Indiana all my life just outside of a town called Martinsville , Indiana . Pretty nice area with rolling hills and some of the friendliest people I've ever come in contact with. Done a bit of traveling when I was 19-25 yrs old (45 now). been all along the east coast from Vermont , Conneticut and Maine all the way down as far as Miami and the Florida keys....around the gulf coast states as far as Corpus Cristy, TX and back up towards Kansas , Missouri and Wisconsin. Basically been to most states in that huge circle !
> But alway's come back home to where I'm from ! friendly people everywhere but it's more of a "comfort zone" issue coming back here!
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> Didn't much care for the time I spent out towards and in Texas. I like being around the "GREEN" living trees and landscape!! Instead of looking out and seeing brown. But it was nice to see it all the same.
> Northern states are a bit colder than I like , and it's just the opposite for the southern-most areas I visited.
> I do like the areas in the middle ! southern Indiana (of course) , Kentucky , Tennessee and about all areas lateral on both sides... not too hot , not too cold !
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> Not too much personal history in there , But more than I started out to write down here.
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> Yes , I do rattle on a bit at times !
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> Reply only if you feel comfortable doing so , I'm not trying to pry......... just curious / wondering.
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