You cannot un-know this.

Salanis wrote: Maybe they should include a packet of Skittles with each book. Then readers can flush them down the toilet and feel like they're watching the action!

LMFAO!!!

Tim Baxter wrote: What, you'd rather the GRM ones be jeweled and beaded?

If it makes women take their tops off . . . yes.

but only a small portion of those willing to take their tops off are work it

JFX001 wrote: NASCAR Fans can read?????

I seem to remember BS Levy saying publishers said the same thing about The Last Open Road. I wonder If Burt has a pen name?

I just died a little.

There's money to be made in a NASCAR themed daytime-TV soap opera series, based on the best selling NASCAR novels, starring D-grade actors fresh from roles in low-budget Shakespeare plays, and probably called 'Danger Zone', or 'Full Throttle'.

Soap opera... check... D-grade... check... Enough of a car connection (apparently)... check...

Gentlemen, I think we've got us a NASCAR-themed soap star!

Osterkraut wrote: Soap opera... check... D-grade... check... Enough of a car connection (apparently)... check... Gentlemen, I think we've got us a NASCAR-themed soap star!

I dont have any idea who that is, but it makes me wonder why you do.

It's Eric Stromer, one of the presenters of the new American Top Gear.

Woodyhfd wrote:

JFX001 wrote: NASCAR Fans can read?????

Perhaps it's a coloring book.

...and here I thought they only read the Bible and Reader's Digest.

Go figure...

Tim Baxter wrote: What, you'd rather the GRM ones be jeweled and beaded?

I would rather it be Bedazzled.

porksboy wrote:

Osterkraut wrote: Soap opera... check... D-grade... check... Enough of a car connection (apparently)... check... Gentlemen, I think we've got us a NASCAR-themed soap star!

I dont have any idea who that is, but it makes me wonder why you do.

What up G hey...

John Brown wrote:

porksboy wrote:

Osterkraut wrote: Soap opera... check... D-grade... check... Enough of a car connection (apparently)... check... Gentlemen, I think we've got us a NASCAR-themed soap star!

I dont have any idea who that is, but it makes me wonder why you do.

What up G hey...

"Don't knock it till you've tried it"

The measuring tape cracks me up

"Not that theres any thing wrong whith that"

P71 wrote: Maybe they should include a packet of Skittles with each book. Then readers can flush them down the toilet and feel like they're watching the action! Hey! That's MY line!

Hey Mike, please remember that the internet is all about the free trade and expression of other peoples ideas.

And Porn.

ThunderCougarFalconGoat wrote: Hey Mike, please remember that the internet is all about the free ... Porn.

I fixed it for you.

I'm curious about all the anti NASCAR sentiment.

I'm a fan of machines. I like cars most...boats, aircraft, trains, guns...if it's a neat machine, I like it. Nascar has its niche...and it's obviously got a stereotypical iconic "Fan" that gives it an image that it may or may not deserve (based on the fact that probably most Nascar fans don't fit the stereotype).

I'm a roadracing fan. That said...I don't get much enjoyment out of WATCHING a race. I like working on the machine and/or driving (though I've never had the opportunity to do much driving).

Given the opportunity to race circle track, would I do it? Heck yeah! It's racing.

I compare the stereotypical nascar fan to the stereotypical American football fan (and other athletic sports). A bunch of people (fans) getting very worked up about someone else (the "players") doing something that really has ZERO signifigance in the grand scheme of things. And you get to see all the teams in the league compete at the same time (unlike athletic sports)! Very efficient from a fan's perspective on wasting time!

Now...racing is significant to me...so I appreciate most of its forms.

All that said...I am fully aware that all this nascar bashing is really just a heckuva lotta fun, so I don't really mean to interrupt...I'm just sayin', that's all ;)

And that stereotypical nascar fan, in this sense is a middle-to-older age white female soap-opera-watching, romance-smut-reading, cheap-cigarette-smoking, bud-light-drinking, [edit for John Brown] camry-grocery-getter drivin' [/edit for John Brown], drama lover. I guess...

Fire fuelin', dead horse beatin', devil's advocate bein',
Clem

Don't forget that they drive Toyotas

I fixed that for you, I think ;)

That does bring a whole new aspect of stereotype to the nascar scene doesn't it? Suddently I don't envision as many guys in tool belts and contractor vans standing in the stands when I visualize the stands at a nascar race ;)...

Clem

I <3 ClemSparks...

Clem, I don't even like NASCAR and gave you a vote up for that one.

I drive a Toyota. 4-5 of them. Does that make me a NASCAR fan?

I'm sure it's exciting to drive. I bet it's more fun with a cobbled together machine on a dirt oval. Doesn't mean I'm interested in watching oval racing. I've tried golf and found that an enjoyable past-time. I don't want to watch it though.

Actually, I think it would be entertaining to watch grassroots NASCARS on a dirt track.

I did roll my eyes when I checked out a major NASCAR website and they were complaining about the frustration of having to run on road courses, and saying that Infineon wasn't wide enough for the kind of passing they wanted to do.

Dr. Hess wrote: I drive a Toyota. 4-5 of them. Does that make me a NASCAR fan?

No. That makes you kinda weird for having that many appliances. That would be like have 4 washing machines or 4 refrigerators. Well, I can see the 4 fridges, that's a lot of beer.

I have two washing machines and three refridgerators plus a freezer. And while I'd say the Camry was kinda appliance like (in a good way), I wouldn't say the others were. Truck, LS400, 20 valve Corolla, 20 valve MR2 based Locost (WIP).