Daily Trivia – 4 January – Special Edition
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Maybe you don’t like them fried. They fry everything around here. Sometimes I even have fried watermelon.
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They just get all hot and bothered and I have to put out the fires.
LoE LOVES fried green ‘maters
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MLT says we should let it go for awhile before she makes a guess.
She is vertically challenged.
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she’s gonna cut you legs off and then we’ll see who is the vertically challenged one.
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You are the best, I don’t care what LT says……
The Settrington Cup is a car race for special pedal cars built by disabled coal miners starting in 1947. The little things fetch up to 7 grand these days and then families go to town fixing them up for the race. It’s a little over 100 meters in length and has a Grand Prix start. And they take it VERY VERY seriously:
The kids-only Settrington Cup is all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Or until someone slaps down $7000 for a freaking peddle car. Which is everybody. And that makes it as serious as brake failure on the Autobahn. Even the announcers are serious, which makes the whole thing wildly entertaining.
Held annually at the Goodwood Revival since 2012, the Settrington Cup race is for children age 6–9. If you think that means every kid with a pedal car can join the fun, you’d be wrong. In addition to the drivers’ age restriction, the only pedal cars allowed are Austin J40 models built by disabled coal miners beginning in 1949 (true story). If you happen to find one, expect to pay $6500 or more for it, plus hundreds more to get it race ready.
According to Jalopnik and Petrolicious, families modify the cars so the cockpit can be expanded as the young drivers grow, install new low-friction bearings, swap heavier components with lighter materials, and tinker for hours to get the balance and setup correct. The pedal cars also have working lights, horn, and pneumatic tires.
If that isn’t serious enough, the race features a Le Mans-style start in which the drivers sprint to their cars and start pedaling as quickly as possible. The length of the race is only about 100 meters, but it is a long and grueling test of endurance for the young drivers. And the British announcers describe the action as if the pedal cars were actual race cars.
Full article here.
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It’s called the Knob Hill Inn in Idaho. Voted one of the top 25 most romantic places for a weekend get-away. You should love this place. Check it out MLT……
Of course it looks like this right now, but that’s even better as far as I’m concerned…..
Take a couple days off sometime and try something like this out, will ya??
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was reading something about setting up a staging site so I can trouble shoot this mess without killing it accidentally. I posted your win and the prize afore you posted this…….
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