SECOND ATTEMPT to upload photos to blogger

nope

MIAMI COUNTYBRIDGES CACHING TOUR

THESE ARE SOME SHOTS I TOOK OF OUR CACHE RUN--JUNIOR, ME, BUDDAMAN AND PATRICK--ATE LUNCH AT HARVEY SCHICKLEGRUBER MEYERS' OR SOMETHING IN PERU. FOUND ABOUT TWELVE AND HID AN ISQ IN MEXICO CEMETERY.

GO GATORS

Never mind. Blogger not accepting photos right now.

GONE CACHIN'

Have a virtual brew on us...

It is 5:35 a.m. and 57.4 degrees!! Patrick and Junior are asleep downstairs and Boarder and cats in Rm#4, presumably.

Going to hit a few in Miami County with Buddaman. Have a nice day!

More later.

A woman scanned the guests at a party and spotted an attractive man standing alone. She approached him. 'My name is Carmen,' she told him.

'That's a beautiful name,' he replied, 'Is it a family name?'

'No,' she replied. 'I gave it to myself. It reflects the things I like most -- cars and men. What's your name?' she asked.

He said, 'B. J. Titsengolf.'

GO GATORS!!

-tr-

2008 CAR SHOWS UPDATE

Matter Park -- Friday Trophy

Junior's Four Trophies to date

Gatorman and Armyman...

Jack & Junior...

Last Chance Sign and CarToon...

Lagro--They took our money but didn't tell us All-Original Cars wouldn't be judged, just modifieds. This was a rigged show, winning cars not ID'd.

*********************************************************

Here is Junior's record thus far, in terms of awards at the Car Shows for the 2002 Pontiac Trans Am:

1. May 17 2008 Cruise-In Syracuse, IN ................. 2nd In Class(1985-Present)
2. June 14 2008 Paradise Park Wabash, IN ......... None
3. June 20 2008 Heritage Days Huntington, IN ... None
4. June 21 2008 Laketonian Days Laketon, IN .... Top Choice
5. June 27 2008 Cruisin Matter Marion, IN ............ Top 50
6. June 28 2008 Cruisin Matter Marion, IN ............. Best in Class(2000-Present)
7. June 28 2008 Pioneer Days Lagro, IN ............... (Not eligible for Judging)

WINNERS!

Just so you don't forget what Trader Rick's Looks like...

It is 5:45 and 64 degrees F. out and Junior and Patrick are downstairs asleep on a couch and Boarder is in Room Number Four with two cats.

Junior won Top Choice Friday Night and Best of Class Saturday in Marion at the Kruisin Matter Park Car Shows. Photos to follow if we ever get off our arses. Also had a CarToon done of the car by "Mikey"--came out pretty good. Rained like the Great Flood Saturday morn, but sunny and HOT in the p.m. Went to the Lagro Show Saturday Night--pretty bizarre judging there--kind of rigged...

So, we be pretty worn out from all that.

More Later

GO GATORS!

BFT

Travel Bug....

It is 6:11 a.m. est and 70 degrees. Patrick is outside, Junior asleep on a couch and Boarder and cats in Rm#4.

We went to the 9th Street Gang's Kroozin' in Matter Park Car Show last night, and Junior won a HUGE Trophy! So we are 3 for 5!

There was an Elvis Impersonator at the band shell and he was fairly good and a Christian. Jack came with us and we ate giant tenderloins, popcorn, peanuts and ice cream. We will go back today, then to the LaGro show tonite.

Photos later on.

There was an old guy there with an old hot rod Lincoln, about a '57 and it had cool Elvis Graphics on it, hand painted.

Also had a ton of Pyle Woofers and Amps in the trunk, neon all over. I told him I thought I recognized one of the woofers, that I might have built it, or at least wound the voice coil. He wasn't all that impressed. I think he must win a lot of trophies. Since this is James Dean Country, he had some graphics of James dean also...

A disturbing thing was one vendor--He was a Vietnam Vet. He had his Army Unit Ball cap on display as well as three framed pics of his Obedience Champion Siberians. He was serving tiny free samples of Spaghetti Sauce and bread (Tasted like RAGU) He was selling very small baggies (1 oz.?) of herbs to put in your pasta sauce for four or five bucks-- Oregano, basil etc. looked like dope.

Now those little jars of spices sell for a dollar or two a pop--he was giving you about 35 cents worth for five bucks...none of this made sense.

It was a total scam.

Now if he was handicapped or something it would have made sense--but anyway I found it rather odd...

Now, this was not a blind man selling pencils. He seemed quite able bodied.

More later.

-gogators-

THIS IS REALLY SCARY!!!

small white animal...

It is time hwat?7:14 am est and how 68 degrees hot and where patrick and junior down and boarder up in her room.

GOT SUCKED DEEP, DEEP IN THE INTERNET THIS MORNING FROM MY EMAIL--THOUGHT I'D NEVER GET OUT--TOOK TWO HOURS TO GET BACK. EVER HAPPEN TO YOU???

Well, well, well. The Boarder is dissatisfied. Probably time for her to go. She is insane and physically and mentally handicapped and homeless and we took her in. Perhaps she would like it better living in a cardboard box at the underpass? Might be time to buy her a shopping cart, and take her out to the interstate or the inner city somewhere.

She certainly has no appreciation for any help given her. Her delusions are now affecting our happy little home in a huge negative fashion. I can't suffer mean-spirited people.

NO GOOD TURN GOES UNPUNISHED.

Ok, rant over, back to business:

Three car shows to attend in the next 24 hours.

Maria out of Wimbledon early--WTF?

Bobby Jindal's Louisiana is going to castrate Child Rapers. Good for them. Junior says Bobby For President!! If the Commies can have a mulatto, we can have a Continental Indian!!! And Sheriff Joe for VP!! The Dream Ticket...

SCOTUS, those old morons, finally got one right. After siding with the Jihadists, and the Baby Rapers this week, they finally upheld the 2nd Amendment as an individual right. But, 5-4. FIVE TO FOUR????

WE ARE ONE SENILE OLD EGOTISTICAL TOTALITARIAN AWAY FROM LOSING OUR GUNS!!!!!

IF BARACK OBAMA APPOINTS ANOTHER OF THESE BASTARDS TO THE COURT, WE ARE FRIED!!!!!

The Second Amendment, which is REALLY easy to understand,(for those with English as a first language, and those who are not assholes with a socialist agenda) is the one that ensures all the others in the Bill of Rights. GOD HELP US!!

-GO GATORS-

ANOTHER SHOW

It is 5:31 a.m. Patrick got up with me and went downstairs to sleep with Junior on the couch as he is wont to do every morning. Boarder is in Rm #4 with two cats.

That guy that killed his wife and baby got convicted yesterday and will go to prison for life. Shepherd Smith of Fox commented "He killed His wife because he didn't like his sex life. Wonder how he'll like it now?" BURN!

Another show:

Kroozin in the Park to be better, promoter says

June event to change a little this year

BY GEORGE DICKEN
reporter@comteck.com

Published: Sunday, June 8, 2008 1:09 AM EDT

It might never be as big as James Dean weekend for antique cars, but Jerry Hendey, show chairman for the Ninth Street Gang Car Club, couldn’t be more pleased with the progress of Kroozin in the Park set for June 27 and 28 at Marion’s Matter Park.

In its third year, the show has seen significant growth each year. Hendey anticipates more than 600 cars this year.

“I have goodie bags for more than 600 car owners this year,” he said. “Hopefully, we will have that many. Our first year we had 275 cars. That broke my heart because I wanted 1,000. The second year we went to 407. If we have the same increase this year, we should be over 600.”

Counting the entrants is easy. Determining attendance at the show proves more difficult.

“We’re so busy with the show that we don’t have time to make a count, but we have estimated the crowds at 4,000 to 5,000,” Hendey said. “We are hoping for a lot more. Our goal is not to equal the James Dean weekend, but to build toward that. Eventually, we hope to hit 2,000 cars.”

The show will run from 4 to 9 p.m. June 27 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 28.

“We will have all kinds of craft booths,” Hendey said. “We will have automotive parts dealers. A Lifeline helicopter flew in last year and that will probably be back again this year. We will have everything. We will have cars from $4,000 all the way up to $250,000. Last year we had a Duesenberg and a Cord This year we're hoping to have Trader Rick Jr.'s hot 2002 "Last of the Breed Trans-Am, as well as some other rather famous local cars.”[Ed. Just kidding!]

The club has made some changes for the 2008 show.

“We are changing the judging area to speed things up,” Hendey said. “We had a really good band, The Bel Aires out of Fort Wayne, on Friday night. This year we aren’t doing that because Friday is a poor night for us. Last year, we only had 85 cars there. Instead, I have hired Brandon Howard from Fairmount, an Elvis impersonator, to perform for a couple of hours and we will have the top 50 awards on Friday instead of the band. In addition we will be giving some specialty awards.”

Also, last year the show presented 93 awards on Saturday. This year it will have 130.

“We will be separating the cars into classes — the 2000 cars, the 1990 cars, the ’80 cars,” Hendey said. “When we get into the ’70s and before, we break those into categories — roadsters, coupes — 41 different categories altogether. With that many, we think we have just about everything covered.”

The club donates all proceeds for its shows to charity.

“Not a dime is spent on the club,” Hendey said. “Each October we meet to decide whether the money will go to one charity or distributed among several. Whatever charities we donate to have to be 501 charities. This year it will go to the Marion-Grant County Senior Center. We have donated to them three years now. Last year we donated $8,750.”

gogatorsgogators

WE JUST LOVE THAT BOY WITH NO SLAVE BLOOD

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their
days interesting. Well, for example, the other day I went downtown and
into a shop. I was only there for about 5 minutes, and when I came out,
there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I said to him, 'Come on,
man, how about giving a retired person a break'? He ignored me and
continued writing the ticket. I called him a 'Nazi.' He glared at me and
wrote another ticket for having worn tires. So I called him a 'doughnut
eating Gestapo. He finished the second ticket and put it on the
windshield with the first. Then he wrote a third ticket. This went on
for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him the more tickets he wrote.
Personally, I didn't care. I came downtown on the bus, and the car that
he was putting the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said, 'Obama in
'08.' I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm retired. It's

important to my health.

FREE KITTENS

It is 6:14 a.m. and 67 degrees. Patrick and Junior are asleep downstairs, Boarder and cats in Rm #4.

We have been watching Army Wives on TV. we fast forward thru the mushy parts that are just too much to bear...

Richard Gilmore's Parole Board has recommended him for release despite a negative psych evaluation. This animal was a serial rapist and among his victims was a 13 year old girl. I would really like to get some face time with these heinous assholes to try to understand their reasoning...Look them dead in the eyes and see If I can find a hint of a soul there.

FROM THE INBOX:

Subject: Free Kittens
>
>
> Little Suzy had a box of very small kittens that she was trying to
>
> give away, so she had them out on the street corner with a sign
>
> "FREE KITTENS" next to them. Suddenly a big line of big black cars
>
> came up with a policeman on a motorcycle in front. The cars all
>
> stopped and a tall man stepped out from the biggest car. "Hi, little girl,
>
> what do you have there in the box?" he asked.
> "Kittens" Little Suzy says. "They're so small, their eyes are not even
>
> open yet." "What kind of kittens are they?" he asked.
>
< color="red">> "DEMOCRATS" says Little Suzy.
> The tall man smiled, returned to his car and they drove away.
>
> sensing a good photo opportunity, Barack Hussein Obama called
>
> his campaign manager and told him about the little girl and the kittens.
> It was planned that they would return the next day, have all the
>
> media there and tell everyone about these great kittens.
>
> The next day, Little Suzy is standing out on the corner with her box
>
> of kittens with the "FREE KITTENS" sign
> and the big motorcade of black cars pulled up with all the vans
>
> and trucks from ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.
>
> Everyone had their cameras ready and then, Barack Hussein
>
> Obama got out of his limo and walked up to Little Suzy.
> "Now, don't be frightened," he said, "I just want you to tell all
>
> these nice news people just what kind of kittens you're giving
>
> away today." "Yes sir," Suzy said, "They are all "REPUBLICAN" kittens."
>
> Taken by surprise, Obama said, "But yesterday, you told me
>
> that they were DEMOCRATS."
>
> Little Suzy says, "Yes, I know. But today, they have t heir eyes open."

GO GATORS!!

OPTICAL ILLUSION

It is 8:16 a.m. and 57 degrees F. Everybody's asleep.

Four old retired geocachers from Indiana are walking down a street in

Clearwater, Florida. They turned a corner and see a sign that says, 'Old Timers Bar - all drinks 10 cents.' They look at each other, and then go in, thinking this Is too good to be true.

The old bartender says in a voice that carries across the room, 'Come on in and let me pour one for you!
What'll it be, Gentlemen?'
There seemed to be a fully-stocked bar, so each of the men ask for a martini. In short order, the bartender serves up four iced martinis...
Shaken, not stirred,and says, 'That'll be 10 cents each, please'
The four men stare at the bartender for a moment.
Then look at each other...
They can't believe their good luck.
They pay the 40 cents, finish their martinis, and order another round. Again, four excellent martinis are
produced with the bartender again saying, 'That's 40 cents, please.' They pay the 40 cents, but their curiosity is more than they can stand.
They have each had two martinis and so far they've spent less than a dollar.
Finally one of the men says, 'How can you afford to serve martinis as good as these for a dime a piece?'
'I'm a retired tailor from Boston,' the bartender said, 'and I always wanted to own a bar.
Last year I hit the Lottery for $25 million and decided to open this place. Every drink costs a dime - wine, liquor, beer, it's all the same.'
Wow!!!! That's quite a story,' says one of the men.
The four of them sipped at their martinis and couldn't help but notice seven other people at the end of the bar who didn't have drinks in front of them, and hadn't ordered anything the whole time they were there.
One man gestures at the seven at the end of the bar without drinks and asks the bartender, 'What's with them?'
The bartender says, 'Oh, they're all old muggles from Illinois. They're waiting for

happy hour when drinks are half price.'

go gators!!

ANOTHER DAY

It is 7:32 a.m. and 57 degrees. Patrick and Junior are asleep on a couch in the living room and Boarder is in room with cats.

Speaking of Flamingos and coconut palms--they only show up in SOUTH Florida, like Miami--our only MUST WIN football game this year...

more later.

MENU

A cannibal was walking through the jungle and came upon a restaurant operated by a fellow cannibal. Feeling somewhat hungry, he sat down and
looked over the menu...

+ Tourist: $5
+ Broiled Missionary: $10.00
+ Fried Explorer: $15.00
+ Baked Congressional Democrat : $100.00

The cannibal called the cook over and asked, 'Why such a price difference for the politician?'

The cook replied, "Have you ever tried to clean one? They're so full of shit, it takes all morning."

-GO GATORS-

SLOWER THAN DIAL-UP

THIS IS THE GROUP OF GEOCACHERS, SANS CHRIS OF TEAM SHYDOG THAT REMOVED THE ARCHIVED CACHES AT THE CICO EVENT ON FATHERS DAY...

HOW CAN HE DRINK THAT CRAP?

It is 7:17 a.m. and 60 degrees outside. Patrick and Junior are downstairs asleep on a couch, Boarder in her room with cats. Laketon Car show yesterday, Top Choice award for Trans Am, photos later GOGators

NUMBER THREE

JUST SO WE DON'T FORGET WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE...

It is 7:38 a.m. and 67 degrees. Patrick is outside, Junior and boarder in their respective rooms.

Junior and I went to the Huntington Car Show last night. About 150 cars and thousands of people--biggest show yet. Saw lots of people we haven't seen in a while. Whole town was either there or at the beer tent.

FROM THE INBOX:

If they know of him at all, many folks think Ben Stein is just a
>>> quirky
>>> actor/comedian who talks in a monotone. He's also a very intelligent
>>> attorney who knows how to put ideas and words together in such a way
>>> as
>>>to
>& gt;> sway juries and make people think clearly.
>>>
>>> The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS
>>> Sunday
>>> Morning Commentary.
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it
>>> does
>>>not
>>> bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up,
>>> bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel
>>> discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
>>>
>>> It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I
>>>don't
>>> think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In
>>>fact,
>>> I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters
>>>celebrating >>> this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a
>>>manger
>>> scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu .
>>>If
>>> people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a
>>> few
>>> hundred yards away.
>>>
>>> I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think
>>> Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think
>>>people
>>> who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around,
>>> period.
>>>I
>>> have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly
>>> atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like
>>>it
>>> being shoved down my throat.
>>>
>>> Or maybe I can put it anothe r way: wher e did the idea come from that
>>> we
>>> should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God
>>> as
>>>we
>>> understand Him?
>>>
>>> I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.
>>>
>>> But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica
>>> came
>>>from
>>> and where the America we knew went to.
>>>
>>> In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is
>>> a
>>> little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny,
>>>it's
>>> intended to get you thinking.
>>>
>>> Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane
>>>Clayson
>>> asked her 'How could God let something like this Happen?'
>>> ; (regarding Katrina)
>>>
>>> Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.
>>>
>>> She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are,
>>> but
>>>for
>>> years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of
>>>our
>>> government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is,
>>> I
>>> b elieve He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us
>>> His
>>> blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' (She said
>>>the
>>> same thing when interviewed after 9-11)
>>>
>>>
>>> In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.
>>> I
>>> think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her
>>>body
>>> found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and
>>> we
>>> said OK.
>>>
>>> Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. the Bible
>>>says
>>> thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as
>>> yourself. And we said OK.
>>>
>>> Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they
>>> misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we
>>>might
>>> damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said
>>> an
>>> expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
>>>
>>> Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscien ce, why
>>>they
>>> don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill
& gt;>> strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
>>>
>>> Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it
>>>out. I
>>> think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
>>>
>>> Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the
>>> world's going to hell.
>>>
>>> Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the
>>>Bible
>>> says.
>>>
>>> Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like
>>>wildfire
>>> but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think
>>>twice
>>> about sharing.
>>>
>>> Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through
>>> cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school
>>> and
>>> workplace.
>>>
>>> Are you laughing?
>>>
>>> Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many
>>> on
>>> your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what
>>>they
>>> will think of you for sending it.
>>>
>>> Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us
>>>than
>>> what God thinks of us.
>>>
>>> Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it...
>>> no
>>>one
>>> will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit
>>>back
>>> and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
>>>
>>> My Best Regards. honestly and respectfully,
>>>
>>> Ben Stein GO GATORS!

OK

CAR SHOW PREP

6:50 a.m. ,55 degrees, all asleep.

More later

go gators.

PATRIOTS VS TRAITORS

It is 7:11 a.m. and 54.3 degrees F. Patrick, Junior and Boarder and cats all asleep.

STEMS AND SEEDS:

Ann Coulter has taken to calling, in her column, the democrat party, the "treason party" and the republicans, the "patriotic party". She TELLS IT LIKE IT IS.

Had to delete a political troll blog yesterday that was left on of all things a February non-political post. Don't these morons know we approve or disapprove these things? It says so right on the log posting window. Do they think they can hide stuff? huh!

Urban Meyer #3 on the College Football Coaches' Total Compensation List, and that's with his OLD contract...(I think).

Becky Gayheart Alert: Cable has been showing her sans top at the Beach with her husband--hands covering herself.

Liz Hasselbeck is ten times the lady that Mee-shell mah belle O'bama is...

more later, maybe.

GO GATORS!!

WOW!!!THAT'S A LOT!!!!

THE TROPHY PRESENTED TO ME AT THE CACHE IN/CACHE OUT EVENT SUNDAY AT SALAMONIE FOR MOST CACHES ARCHIVED IN A DAY...

It is 8:26 am and 61.9 degrees outside. Patrick, Junior, boarder all under control (asleep).

More later.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE CICO EVENT TO PICKUP CACHES at Salamonie!

And thanks to Chris for hosting this event...

Team Tigger, Trickworm and I really appreciate it! We're sorry if there was any misunderstandings about what caches to log.

For this event, you can only log caches you or the group you were with physically picked up in the field, even if you had previously logged them in the past.

Thanks to those of you that deleted your finds on caches that were on the list that were not picked up and those that were picked up by others.

Hope to see you all at the next hot dog and root beer picnic. Cache on!

--Rick & Patrick
(Lead Dog and Earth Dog)

gogators!!!

BACK ON HI-SPEED

GATOR BABES

It is 5:29 a.m. and 54.2 degrees!!! Patrick is snuggling with Junior downstairs who is watching TV and Boarder and cats are in Rm#4.

Encountered some blatant liars yesterday who blamed their behavior on "benedryl and dehydration". Uh, no, you're just a HUGE liar, and not a good one at that.

Let's try to upload a test photo, shall we? Any requests? GO GATORS REMOVE THE FIVE WAR TRAITORS FROM SCOTUS!! TRY THEM!! CONVICT THEM!! INCARCERATE OR EXECUTE THEM!!

HIGH SPEED DOWN AGAIN, STILL

It is 7:18 a.m. and 63 degrees. Patrick and Junior and Boarder and cats are asleep.

I'm listening to network morning show, and they are all gah-gah about that Asian guy that was on Star Trek--I won't mention his name because he has been snotty to Shatner for so many years--he's on with his pal and they are discussing their marriage. GACK!!!

Went to CICO event yesterday, good hotdogs. There was a JRT puppy in attendance and the owners said they were inspired by Patrick!!! This little pup even had a brown spot just like Patrick... Will post pics as soon as possible...

More later when we return to the 21st century.

ain't this the truth

> A husband and wife came for counseling after 20 years of marriage. When > asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate, painful > tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the 20 years they had > been married. > She went on and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, > loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet > needs she had endured over the course of their marriage. > Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient length of time, > the therapist got up, walke d around the desk and, after asking the wife to stand, embraced and kissed her passionately as her husband watched with a raised eyebrow. The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a > daze. > The therapist turned to the husband and said, 'This is what your wife > needs at least three times a week. Can you do this?' > The husband thought for a moment and replied, 'Well, I can drop her off > here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish.'

GO GATORS

STILL ON DIAL UP

It is 6:10 a.m. and 64.8 degrees outside. Patrick and Junior are asleep downstairs, Boarder in her room.

Will post pic of yesterday's Wabash Car Show when we get back on hi-speed. Today, Cache In Cache Out event at Salmonie hosted by Shydog. No pics of that either unless I can find some batteries for the energy-eater from Kodak...

Go Gators!

DAMNED DIAL UP

It is 6:24 am and 66 degrees. Patrick, Junior, Boarder all asleep. Hi speed down--45 seconds to minute and a half between mouse clicks and many pages won't open...

So, later.

Go Gators.

THE DAY AFTER THE GREAT SATANIC BETRAYAL

INITIAL POST SWALLOWED UP LET'S TRY AGAIN:

It is 6:41 and 75 degrees out. Day Two of the Great Betrayal. Patrick and Junior are asleep downstairs and Boarder is in Rm#4 with cats.

Bonfire last night after the game.

Today opens the Summer Car Show season--campaigning the Trans Am.

More later.

GO GATORS!
TRY THE NEW TRAITORS AND EXECUTE THEM!!!

JOHN F. KERRY

JANE FONDA

ANTHONY KENNEDY

JOHN PAUL STEVENS

DAVID SOUTER

RUTH BADER GINSBERG

STEPHEN BREYER

SPIT ON THESE BASTARDS IF YOU SEE THEM!

ENEMIES OF THE STATE

THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN JUDGED TRAITORS FOR GIVING AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY IN TIME OF WAR:

ANTHONY KENNEDY

JOHN PAUL STEVENS

DAVID SOUTER

RUTH BADER GINSBERG

STEPHEN BREYER

THEY ARE EVIL DEMONS OF SATAN AND DESERVE TO BE TRIED AND BEHEADED IN PUBLIC, A FITTING AND IRONIC PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR ANTI-CHRISTIAN, PRO-TERRORIST CRIMES.

THEY ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS.

MAY GOD CONDEMN THEM TO ETERNAL FIERY BURNING IN HELL!!

THEIR PERFIDY WILL GO DOWN IN INFAMY IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THEIR CRIME MAKES BENEDICT ARNOLD LOOK LIKE AN AMATEUR.

WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY

Two Radical Arab Terrorists boarded a flight out of London . One took a window seat and the other sat next to him in the middle seat.

Just before takeoff, a U.S. Marine sat down in the aisle seat. After takeoff, the Marine kicked his shoes off, wiggled his toes and was settling in when the Arab in the window seat said, 'I need to get up and get a coke.'

'Don't get up,' said the Marine, 'I'm in the aisle seat, 'I'll get it for you.'

As soon as he left, one of the Arabs picked up the Marine's shoe and spat in it.

When the Marine returned with the coke, the other Arab said, 'Th at looks good, I'd really like one, too.'

Again, the Marine obligingly went to fetch it. While he was gone the other Arab p icked up the Marine's other shoe and spat in it.

When the Marine returned, they all sat back and enjoyed the flight.

As the plane was landing, the Marine slipped his feet into his shoes and knew immediately what had happened.

'Why does it have to be this way?' he asked. 'How long must this go on? This fighting between our nations? This hatred? This animosity? This spitting in shoes and pissing in cokes?'

THE FEW.
THE PROUD.
THE MARINES.

GO GATORS

TWO DAYS TO GO!

ROWDY YATES AND CINDY

THIS IS THE KIND OF PRESIDENT WE NEED--SOME ONE WHO WILL THUMP THE CHEST OF BRUTAL MASS-MURDERER DICTATORS,EVEN IF THEY HAVE THEIR FINGERS ON THE BUTTON!! NIXON, REAGAN, MCCAIN!!

It is 5:34 a.m. and 67.2 degrees F. with 90 predicted. Junior and Patrick are downstairs playing computer games, Boarder and cats in their room.

CINDY MCCAIN IS SO HOT I CAN'T STAND IT! HER RESUME MAKES THAT PIG MICHELLE O'BAMA'S LOOK LAME!

NOTICE CLINT'S PINK McCAIN HAT IN THE PHOTO ABOVE?

FROM THE INBOX:

I   BOUGHT A BIRD FEEDER. I HUNG_
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>>  _IT   ON MY BACK PORCH AND FILLED_
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>>  _IT   WITH SEED. WHAT A BEAUTY OF_
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>>  _A   BIRD FEEDER IT IS, AS I FILLED IT_
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>>  _LOVINGLY   WITH SEED. WITHIN A_
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>>  _WEEK   WE HAD HUNDREDS OF BIRDS_
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>>  _TAKING   ADVANTAGE OF THE_
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>>  _CONTINUOUS   FLOW OF FREE AND_
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>>  _EASILY   ACCESSIBLE FOOD._
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>>  _ _
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>>  _BUT   THEN THE BIRDS STARTED_
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>>  _BUILDING   NESTS IN THE BOARDS_
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>>  _OF   THE PATIO, ABOVE THE TABLE,_
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>>  _AND   NEXT TO THE BARBECUE. _
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>>  _ _
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>>  _THEN   CAME THE POOP. IT WAS_
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>>  _EVERYWHERE:   ON THE PATIO TILE,_
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>>  _THE   CHAIRS, THE TABLE .._
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>>  _EVERYWHERE!   _
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>>  _ _
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>>  _THEN   SOME OF THE BIRDS_
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>>  _TURNED   MEAN. THEY WOULD_
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>>  _DIVE   BOMB ME AND TRY TO_
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>>  _PECK   ME EVEN THOUGH I HAD_
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>>  _FED   THEM OUT OF MY OWN_
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>>  _POCKET.._
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>>  _ _
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>>  _AND   OTHERS BIRDS WERE_
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>>  _BOISTEROUS   AND LOUD. THEY_
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>>  _SAT   ON THE FEEDER AND_
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>>  _SQUAWKED   AND SCREAMED AT_
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>>  _ALL   HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT_
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>>  _AND   DEMANDED THAT I FILL IT_
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>>  _WHEN   IT GOT LOW ON FOOD._
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>>  _ _
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>>  _AFTER   A WHILE, I COULDN\'T EVEN_
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>>  _SIT   ON MY OWN BACK PORCH_
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>>  _ANYMORE.   SO I TOOK DOWN THE_
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>>  _BIRD   FEEDER AND IN THREE DAYS_
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>>  _THE   BIRDS WERE GONE. I CLEANED_
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>>  _UP   THEIR MESS AND TOOK DOWN_
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>>  _THE   MANY NESTS THEY HAD BUILT_
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>>  _ALL   OVER THE PATIO._
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>>  _ _
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>>  _SOON,   THE BACK YARD WAS LIKE_
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>>  _IT   USED TO BE .... QUIET, SERENE_
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>>  _AND   NO ONE DEMANDING THEIR_
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>>  _RIGHTS   TO A FREE MEAL. _
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>>  _ _
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>>  _NOW   LET\'S SEE._
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>>  _OUR   GOVERNMENT GIVES OUT_
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>>  _FREE   FOOD, SUBSIDIZED HOUSING,_
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>>  _FREE   MEDICAL CARE, AND FREE_
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>>  _EDUCATION   AND ALLOWS ANYONE_
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>>  _BORN   HERE TO BE AN AUTOMATIC_
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>>  _CITIZEN._
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>>  _ _
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>>  _THEN   THE ILLEGAL\'S CAME BY THE_
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>>  _TENS   OF THOUSANDS. SUDDENLY_
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>>  _OUR   TAXES WENT UP TO PAY FOR_
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>>  _FREE   SERVICES; SMALL APARTMENTS_
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>>  _ARE   HOUSING 5 FAMILIES; YOU_
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>>  _HAVE   TO WAIT 6 HOURS TO BE SEEN_
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>>  _BY   AN EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR;_
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>>  _YOUR   CHILD\'S 2ND GRADE CLASS IS_
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>>  _BEHIND   OTHER SCHOOLS BECAUSE_
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>>  _OVER   HALF THE CLASS DOESN\'T SPEAK_
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>>  _ENGLISH._
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>>  _ _
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>>  _CORN   FLAKES NOW COME IN A_
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>>  _BILINGUAL   BOX; I HAVE TO_
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>>  _"PRESS   ONE" TO HEAR MY BANK_
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>>  _TALK   TO ME IN ENGLISH, AND_
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>>  _PEOPLE   WAVING FLAGS OTHER_
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>>  _THAN   "OLD GLORY" ARE_
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>>  _SQUAWKING   AND SCREAMING_
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>>  _IN   THE STREETS, DEMANDING_
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>>  _MORE   RIGHTS AND FREE LIBERTIES._
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>>  _ _
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>>  _JUST   MY OPINION, BUT MAYBE_
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>>  _IT\'S   TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT_
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>>  _TO   TAKE DOWN THE BIRD FEEDER._
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>>  _IF   YOU AGREE, PASS IT ON; IF NOT,_
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>>  _CONTINUE   CLEANING UP THE POOP!_

More Later.

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PBR LIGHT IN CANS...

• When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.


• Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.


• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.


• Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.


• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.



• Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

• Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.


• Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.


• There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.


• When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.


• Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.


• Chuck Norris’ hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.


• Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.


• Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.


• Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.


• Chuck Norris does not get frostbite. Chuck Norris bites frost


• Remember the Soviet Union? They decided to quit after watching a DeltaForce marathon on Satellite TV.


• Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.

On December 12, 2007, ESPN reported that Chuck Norris had sent a congratulatory letter to Tim Tebow, quarterback of the Florida Gators, following his Heisman Trophy win.

GO GATORS

HIGH SPEED DOWN, AGAIN.

"Donna" never looked this good on that 70's Show...

It is 7:50 a.m. and 68.9 degrees outside. Patrick and Junior are asleep in his bed, Boarder in Room #4 with cats.

We have a stray cat hanging around, very friendly. Followed Junior and I around the property yesterday. Has a puncture wound through one leg, but no infection present and no limp. We'll see.

Boarder spotted two hummingbirds yesterdayfeeding on some of our flowers. I have been resisting paying ten bucks at Wally World for a new feeder to replace our destroyed one. Guess I better bite the bullet.

I wish I could find one of those dollar ones, that you just screw a 2 liter plastic bottle into...maybe since they stopped putting the black dish on the bottom of those, they aren't practical any more... won't attempt a photo today. Bye-Bye!

Later: Hi speed back up. made a hummingbird feeder out of a rabbit waterer.

TICK WARNING!

I hate it when people forward bogus warnings, and I have even done it
myself a couple times unintentionally... but this one is real, and it's
important. So please send this warning to everyone on your e- mail list.

If someone comes to your front door saying they are checking for ticks
due to the warm weather and asks you to take your clothes off and dance
around with your arms up, DO NOT DO IT!! THIS IS A SCAM!! They only want
to see you naked.

I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid.

GO GATORS

HODAGS WIN AGAIN

It is 7:20 a.m. and 67 degrees and raining. Patrick and Junior are asleep downstairs and Boarder is in Room Number Four, with cats.

Watched the Gators go down in defeat to the Wisconsin Hodags in Collegiate Ultimate on TV last night. Don't know much about Ultimate, but Junior says he has played pick-up games.

Hodags are animal devil demons local to Wisconsin. They are the defending national champs. Gators had a 41-1 record, and were ranked #1...

This is not NCAA, but club teams...

Gators were National Champions in 2006.

GO GATORS!

HOT HOT HOT

It is 10.17 a.m. and 81.1 degrees. Patrick is outside and Junior is in his bedroom asleep and Boarder is in her room.

more later.

go gators.

PRINCESS HILLARY, THE WICKED QUEEN

It is 5:23 a.m. and 76.5 degrees outside. Patrick and Junior are asleep downstairs, Boarder and cats in their room.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's "concession" speech Saturday was a farce, and Baraxo Osama knows it.

She raved on and on and on about herself and her accomplishments and her goals and her pants suits for thirty minutes. She devoted maybe three or four minutes to Osama.





KATIE IS TOO HOT TO TOUCH!!

Boy did she have a tell!!! When lauding herself and her over-the-hill groupies, she was all SMILES.

When giving her obligatory due to Osama, she was all stern and monotone-ish. Like the BILE was coming up in her mouth, and she couldn't stand it. Gritting her teeth. She was doing it on purpose. She wanted us to know this was just lip-service. She just don't like that uppity darkie. GO GATORS!

BIG BROWN? horse shit....BIG RED FOREVER!!

Today's TV coverage of the Belmont stakes by ABC or whatever incompetent network it was was abominable. For 90 minutes all we saw was Big Brown, who must be the first branded, sponsored racehorse, with UPS on his colors, or his trainer or a sick child.

It was like the producers were yelling "Camera Three--that last shot had another horse in the background--do that again and you're fired!"

90 minutes of this hype and you'd never know there were any other horses in the field--The other eight horses got maybe a combined four minutes of coverage, if that.

The sick kid had more coverage. I'm sorry, I didn't tune in to see that. I've got my own problems, so does everybody--can we focus on the race, please?

Sickening and shameful coverage. If Brown loses, do we get to see the kid cry???

When they show the race, they'll have to show the rest of the field, right? Or will they just do a closeup head and shoulders of Big Brown and Jockey. Boy, he better fuckin' win after all this hype. Guess he will, since his best competitor scratched...

OK, they're off!! There ARE other horses in the race. In fact, one goes wire-to-wire to win!!

So, Brown can't win, so the the jock pulls him up, and he just cantors over the finish line. WTF?

If he's hurt, I want to know about it. Don't see anything, and believe me the cameras are all on him, not the WINNER, who frankly we don't even get to see...
So shoot the fucker and do an autopsy--I want to know if he just got beat or did he hemmorage or something.

What a joke. Still don't know the name of the frickin winner...

FROM THE NET:Secretariat remains No. 1 name in racing
By Ron Flatter
Special to ESPN.com

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Seldom does performance match excessive expectation.

Super Bowls are rarely super. Pay-per-view fights are hyped without money-back guarantees. And there's that old expression that applies so perfectly to horse racing: There's no such thing as a sure thing.

	Secretariat was sold to a breeding syndicate for a then-record $6.08 million.

Then there was Secretariat at the 1973 Belmont Stakes.

He carried a lot more than jockey Ron Turcotte when he went to the gate a 1-to-10 favorite. He had the weight of Secretariat Mania on his back. The international buzz surrounding him was deafening. He was being counted on to win the race and become the first Triple Crown champion in 25 years -- the first of the television generation that had already put him on an unrealistic pedestal.

Secretariat's response went beyond unreal. He won by a jaw-dropping 31 lengths. His time of 2:24 for 1 1/2 miles set a world record many argue may never be broken.

Secretariat became so popular, Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated featured the horse on the cover the same week. The William Morris Agency booked his appearances the way it would for a hot movie star. At the time, no movie star was as hot as "Big Red."

"This red horse with blue and white blinkers and silks seemed to epitomize an American hero," said Penny Chenery, who owned the playful, barrel-chested colt during his racing days.

In a career that spanned only 16 months, Secretariat started 21 times, won 16 and finished in the money in all but his first race. He was an odds-on favorite 17 times, winning 13. By the time he went to stud, he had won back-to-back Horse of the Year awards.

The true measure of Secretariat's greatness was his performances in big races. As former Pimlico general manager Chick Lang said, "He looked like a Rolls-Royce in a field of Volkswagens."

Secretariat was born on March 30, 1970, at the Meadow Stud in Doswell, Va. He was the third offspring of 1957 Preakness winner Bold Ruler, the greatest sire of his generation, and Somethingroyal, who raced just once but whose breeding was of top quality. Secretariat was the brightest of chestnuts, deep-chested with the muscular quarters of the speed horse and the length and scope of the stayer.

In Secretariat's debut on July 4, 1972 at Aqueduct, he went off as the favorite but was impeded at the start and finished fourth in the 5 1/2-furlong race. Eleven days later, he broke his maiden in a 6-furlong race at Aqueduct.

Secretariat's only other defeat as a two-year-old would be on a disqualification, in which he was placed second for bumping Stop the Music in the Champagne at Belmont. His seven victories in nine races enabled him to become the first two-year-old to be voted Horse of the Year.

Before his 1973 season, Secretariat became the solution to a financial crisis. Christopher Chenery, Penny's father, died in January. As the builder of Meadow Stud, he left behind hefty estate taxes. His family decided to pay the bill by selling Secretariat to a breeding syndicate that would assume ownership at the end of the horse's racing days. The price tag was a then-record $6.08 million.

Secretariat won his first two races that year, but in his final tuneup before the Kentucky Derby, he finished third behind Angle Light and Sham in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. At 1 1/8 miles, Secretariat seemed to hit his limit. The Derby -- all 1 1/4 miles of it -- was only two weeks away.

It turned out that just hours before the Wood, an abscess was found under Secretariat's lip. When the abscess broke before the Derby, the pain he was suffering was gone. But was the abscess the reason Secretariat lost? Or was it an excuse?

The answer came soon enough.

The 13-horse Derby shaped up as a duel between Secretariat and Sham. The two held back early -- Secretariat at the rear; Sham just off the lead. Then Laffit Pincay moved Sham to the front just before the final turn. Turcotte moved Secretariat to the outside to close on Sham, who was picking up steam.

"I didn't think anybody would be able to catch him," Pincay said of Sham. "I knew we were going to win."

Secretariat had other ideas. He caught Sham halfway down the stretch and won by 2 1/2 lengths in a world-record time of 1:59 2/5, the only Derby winner to crack two minutes.

Two weeks later in the Preakness, Secretariat went from last to first on the clubhouse turn, never relinquished the lead and beat Sham again by 2 1/2 lengths. Clockers timed him in a Pimlico-record 1:53 2/5 for the 1 3/16 miles, but because of an apparently malfunctioning clock, the official time was recorded as 1:54 2/5, two-fifths of a second off the track record set by Canonero II in the 1971 Preakness.

Only four horses challenged Secretariat in the Belmont, even though the previous seven horses to have won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness withered in the 1 1/2-mile race, unable to match Citation's 1948 Triple Crown.

ZONE POLL

"Big Red" changed all that on June 9, 1973.

Secretariat and Sham broke together and stayed that way into the first turn. They were by themselves on the backstretch when Secretariat made the biggest move ever seen in a Triple Crown race.

"Secretariat is alone. He is moving like a tremendous machine!" track announcer Chick Anderson yelled. "He's going to be the Triple Crown winner. Unbelievable! An amazing performance. He's 25 lengths in front!"

"I kept hearing Chick Anderson," Turcotte said. "I finally had to turn to see where the other horses were. I know this sounds crazy, but the horse did it by himself. I was along for the ride."

Secretariat paid $2.20 to win and his 2:24 remains a world record for 1 1/2 miles on a dirt track, and it's still two full seconds better than subsequent challengers to his Belmont Stakes record. The 2 3/5 seconds by which he broke Gallant Man's 16-year-old track record was the equivalent of 13 lengths.

But most impressive was the 31-length gap. It was so big, even the widest angle of the CBS camera covering the stretch run could barely show Secretariat in the same shot as the next-nearest horse, Twice A Prince. As Charles Hatton wrote in The Daily Racing Form, "His only point of reference is himself."

The ensuing months were anticlimactic for Secretariat. Suffering from a fever, he lost the Whitney Stakes at Saratoga to Onion in August and the Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park to Prove Out. But he went out in triumph. On Oct. 28, 1973, he won the 1 5/8-mile Canadian International Championship Stakes by 6 1/2 lengths in the cold of suburban Toronto, raising his career earnings to $1,316,808.

In stud, Secretariat sired such future champions as 1988 Preakness and Belmont winner Risen Star and 1986 Horse of the Year Lady's Secret. But none of his offspring came close to matching the standard he set.

He remained a popular figure even after Secretariat Mania subsided. But his life ended tragically. Suffering from laminitis -- a painful hoof disease -- the 19-year-old superstar was given a lethal injection on Oct. 4, 1989, at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky.

"It was a terrible day for all of us," Claiborne president Seth Hancock said. "We just couldn't stand to see him suffer."

To this day, Secretariat remains one of the first names everyone thinks of whenever the topic of horse racing comes up. "It's hard to believe after all these years," Chenery said, "but hardly a day goes by that I don't get mail about Secretariat."

That bit about the Rolls Royce in a field of VW's is true. He DID stick out in a crowd. Big. and Red. and MAGNIFICENT

We know. We were in the Belmont Grandstands when he won the triple crown by 31 lengths.

And we were at the rail in Saratoga when the little speed horse Onion beat him...

To this day No horse has ever run a faster Derby or Belmont...

So it goes.

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