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You're going to need a license for anything other than the Lemons race. That takes time and money, you'll be lucky to make a race next season.

That may be up to the track. It's a question of insurance (no, not auto insurance).

Here's a close up of one of the cave beasts that we collected out in Dillion St Park: http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5210/isopodxf2.jpg

A phrase coined for the election of a black Prez, now applies to marriages: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/SuddenlySingle/fewer-divorces-in-a-bad-economy.aspx The sanctity of American marriage is being made less of a joke by tough economic times... slightly.

For scale, a dude in the rocks. The rope on the right is what I'm hanging from. http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7516/hobbswn8.jpg

My son: "Dad, I got a leach on my scrote" Me: *blink blink* "You better get that looked at." Honestly, what kind of fucking idiots think it's a good idea to fuck in a creek? You just pumped her kooter full of infection, congrats. Did it in a gazebo next to a playground once, on a picnic table, where kids have birthdays. I'm a horrible person.

Hmm, everything below the waist is shared. It poses sick but legitimate questions, which brain does that stuff report to, I don't really see how it could be both....?

Two mouths in close proximity to each other. Be creative.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/11/joe-plumber-media/ A hundreds thousand people die each day, why can't he be one?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2120555.ece Would that be a 3some, or a 2.5some... 2.25some?

Something else to consider: Basic instruction. We have a few very capable drivers posting in here, it'd be good to have them speak to the lot periodically throughout the day.

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That shit is hilarious. Why he got cereal an no milk?

Brad Pit, 12 Monkeys. Also a good loony.

Watch it fast before it gets taken down.

This is how most "offs" go: Nuthin but grass. Passing rules keep keep the cars apart.

They originally were going to make it R, but instead they edited bloodspray out and emasculated his tag line so they could try to appeal to a younger audience. http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/word_inspirations/bowdler3.jpg

Not really. They're generally protected and almost always on private property. The local exception being at Indian Village Camp down in hilliard. The caves are in a ravine just south of the rowing clubs boat house.

Ehh that would be very frowned upon. "In some ones front yard" was not an exageration. When you bent over to look in there, you'd be wiggling your ass at their front door. plus, it's so deep, wet, and warm (compared to the outside) that you wouldn't see much other than your light refraction off the fog. If you want to get buggy, I've got a cave for you over in Dillon State Park. The folk I was with were collecting specimines of various things. I managed to find and capture a wee cave isopod. It was full of cave crickets, many small weird things, and gobs of these spiders: http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/298/metaei0.jpg

Sink holes, caves, or sisterns? Has anyone been in them? Mind if I come have a quick look? Should only take a few minutes each, just basically shining a light down any cracks I see. What we're doing is a continuation of the Ohio Cave Survey, trying to log all of these things. Could you PM me an adress so I can mark them on an area map? Would like to see where you are relative to previously mapped "Karst Terrain". This is quite cool.

Division of Natural Areas and Preserves, specifically Ecology. Clay: Sure ti was all man-made? It's not rare for people to find a cave on their property and convert it into something else. Most commonly, it's wells. I've heard of at least one old well that just looks like a well at the top, and a fair bit of the way down. But at the bottom of the well, there's an underground stream and a narrow cave. The one I was in would have made a great sinstern, all they'd have to do is cement the small crack that drains the floor.

Dayum! Sure it was man-made? May be a sistern?

Not yet. I didn't take any, but others did. Even one with my ass plugging the hole. This was just today.

Started off simple enough. Some people had a sink hole in their front yard, with a dark bit in the bottom. Small cave, word gets around to the ODNR, who goes to have a quick look. Has an ancient chainlink cover over it, which is packed with leaves, debris, and actual soil. Shines a light into a gap at a funny angle and she sees a crack, bout 4ft deep, 2ft wide, runs off out of sight. http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2225/holezb9.jpg Emails are passed around, a few volunteers show up. Fortunately I have a camp-shovel in the subaru's "WTF Kit", so I get to digging out the steel gate. As I dig, bits fall in the cave and go "plunk" into some water. We notice that it's taking a really long time for them to go plunk. Neat! http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5972/pitip2.jpg The old crap is off, revealing a deep dark hole. Everyone is remiss for not bringing their vertical gear, no one thought that they might run into something like this.... ...Except me. Conversation: Me: "I've got a harness and some rope, looks like some one could get in and out of there" Group: "Nuts, we didn't bring anything" Me: "I've got spares, willing to share. Who's going in first?" Group: "*blink*....*blink*...you." So I got to rappel through this wee crack. Once through, things open up into a room about 12ft long, 6ft wide, and a 16ft ceiling. I'm also rapping down next to a huge floor to ceiling flowstone formation with a pot at the bottom, definitely the biggest in central ohio. http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1166/roomsq6.jpg The ceiling is dripping like rain, so I only got a couple of bad pictures. There are a few small cracks that lead to a lower (and oddly dry) room. No one else is coming down, so I opt not to risk it. Getting out was a difficult mix of rope climbing and rock climbing. If one were to fall down there, they wouldn't get out. I don't think paramedics could get you out without snapping your likely broken neck. I felt that, at any moment, some one would shout down "It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again". You can see the sinkhole from Section Line Road, the entrance to the cave is only 100ft away, but no one's been down this thing before. Boldly going where no man wanted to go before.

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