Cheech

No sooner did I hit submit and the page just starts to refresh, and the power goes out. I think I was out for about 4 hours. Saw lightning so close I swear I saw little fireballs of air immediately after the bolt. I drove to the New Albany Rd. exit of 161 at about 8:45 and saw no indication of a tornado.

Thundering pretty good by IP now. Clouds are rolling in low and FAST. Looks like I'm getting some quick chow and staying my ass inside.

you're the man now, dog!

in all fairness, the questions would be about the same...

Speaking on behalf of the godless pinko heathen librul's, happy birthday you commie libertarian slut.

Since my dental insurance company is screwing me over here, I really can't afford to do this. Sorry gang, if someone else wants to put this together I'll leave everything here.

meh, I've seen better. It's got one hell of a pilot though...

oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. /oh my god.

you should have told me you were here for the gang-bang...

you get sloppy seconds.

am I?

I missed where this dumbass spraypainted his entire rotor. This man is dead.

there is only one garden gnome I trust to give the boys a good massage...

Sorry I missed, was pretty tired from the NC drive home.

seriously, how could you believe with a straight face that this "contest" wasn't rigged from the start? Even more so with someone like Simon, who has proven again and again he'll do what it takes to get and maintain ratings and therefore stay on the air. wake up, sheeple!

1. Go to Iron Pony 2. Purchase Crashing Sucks sticker 3. Put over boo-boo 4. Profit

Just ask these guys: /ah, buckle this!

No. NK basically has one ally: China. The diplomatic links are tenuous at best, China allows NK to do whatever as long as it doesn't pose a threat to their interests. SK is a decent sized trading partner with China, so if tensions were to escalate I'd look for Wen Jiabao to put some pressure on KJI to sit down.

North Korea is doing what North Korea has done almost every year for at least the last 10 years, probably before that: start some shit to garner international attention so they can be "diplomatically talked down from the brink" with more free aid, both financial and humanitarian. What I find incredibly amusing is that everyone's mind just resets after a few months when nothing happens until the next time that they start shit, then no one knows what's going on. The problem with this game is that you have to keep raising the ante of provocation otherwise your bark doesn't seem that menacing anymore. Last time around it was the nuclear test/missile tests, this time they one-upped it by attacking a warship. KJI got the front page headlines he wanted, if the UN is involved he's going to get the aid he wants (they don't know how to do anything else but) and everyone is going to sit back down again in about a month/2 months. As for the NK offensive threat, yeah Seoul is pretty much screwed. The only issue is that the arti pieces that NK currently has pointed to Seoul are pretty old, and I would imagine they'd all have to be portable otherwise they'd be already targeted by US/SK batteries/airstrikes which would make quick work of them, but not before they were able to launch a volley or 5 and do some serious damage. As for the Persians, would someone please scissor Xerxes so they can calm the fuck down?

put me down as definitely maybe. If everything goes according to plan, or "comes together" so to speak, I'll be leaving NC at noon or before and will be there either in the rental or on the bike. If I don't, then I won't.

you may borrow my sharpie. Problem solved.

so you're going to ride a supersport that is designed for track riding and has never previously seen rain through 4 states and 1,160 miles, with arguably as little stopping as possible, going through whatever weather you encounter? Don's dead on here man, start looking for a chiropractor now. While you're at it, if the bike's still in one piece when you return, you may want to prepay and book your appointment with Pauly. I suspect it's going to need a thorough cleaning when you return. Having 8K cash in savings isn't too bad of an idea either. I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money, but for someone who just hit 6K on the RR, you can certainly pick up a good supersport for less locally. It may not be a Ducati, but that may not necessarily be a bad thing either.

and we're done here. It saddens me that the Frenchies didn't make it, but I hope Toews accidentally steps on Pronger's neck and clamps down. Hard.

i dig the bewst. good luck finding the 1.21 jiggawatts though.