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14) Baseketball
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11) Happy Gilmore
10) The big Lebowski
7) Sandlot
2) Slap Shot
15) Talladaga Nights
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
The Sandlot must win. Too bad Slapshot is so old. I get the feeling we could have a 15 beat a 2.
It would be an unfortunate upset if Slapshot lost in the first round. It is definitely a Sweet 16 movie, and could contend for a Final Four spot if enough people have seen it. The 6/11 game looks to be interesting as well.
Sandlot, hands down.
I wonder how many people under 25 have never seen Slapshot... If you haven't, get it!
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Slapshot....Hanson Brothers "Rock"....
Meet them at a Hockey promo a couple years back still lookng good at 60....?
Old Time Hockey....
Caddy Shack.....will dominate this grouping
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People should really see Best in Show........if most did, it would win this round hands down.
IF anyone votes for sandlot of Lebowski you should be banned!
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
Did you really have to pair Happy Gilmore and Kingpin together? That's just odd...
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"Success is just failure that hasn't happened yet." - life advice from Latrell Spreewell
Please don't let Talladega Nights beat Slapshot.
Originally Posted by superdorf
Please don't let Talladega Nights beat Slapshot.
Agreed, I love Will Ferrell, but Slap Shot is an absolute CLASSIC.
Surprised to see Happy Gilmore so low! Priceless quotes in that movie!
I think that overall Kingpin is a funnier movie than Happy Gilmore... but I do love both.
Originally Posted by Cyclonepride
People should really see Best in Show........if most did, it would win this round hands down.
No doubt about it, Pete.
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I'm so far very happy with the software and pleased that I got rid of MS Exchange!
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Man where have you been? i haven't seen a post or heard from you in a long while. Is everything ok?
Road is still closed. Tried to go u friday evening with no luck. They have got to open it soon though. Can't wait to get in there and do some hiking. I got drawn for the G38 (X10 late season tag) so I will be starting my scouting over there too. Going to be a busy year!


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Fri Jul 16 12:00:00 EDT 2010
The land appears to be elevated above a white layer in this picture. This mirage is the result of warm air over cold water and earth, and is quite common along the rugged, beautiful coast of Labrador, Canada, where we are now. We came in to the Labrador coast to sit out a forecast gale at sea, and have seen many mirages today.
I don't like being at a dock with the keel raised if there is a stiff crosswind (or the possibility of one)...it heels much more noticeably with the keel up. Being anchored with the keel up is fine--in any strong wind the boat will end up facing it, so I don't think it could get knocked down.
A tornado landed close to Issuma once in Argentina, while she was tied with two bow lines to shore and two anchors off the stern, cross-wise to the way the wind hit. I was glad I'd lowered the keel earlier because the boat heeled a lot (it was 0300, dark and I don't know how much it heeled, but things were flying all over the place inside the boat).
Thu Jul 15 12:00:00 EDT 2010
The charts that are currently being used are stored in the pilothouse on Issuma. Charts for other areas are stored in the bedroom, under the mattress, in strong garbage bags (to keep them dry). Every once in a while, I dig through the garbage bags of charts in the bedroom to find the ones we need next.
Tue Jul 13 12:00:00 EDT 2010, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Night view of the south end of the harbor from Issuma.
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Mon Jul 12 12:00:00 EDT 2010, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
View of the lighthouse at the entrance to St John's harbor.
St John's is a pretty city, with friendly, helpful, seafaring people.
Sun Jul 11 10:00:00 EDT 2010, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
We had a pleasant sail and motor in mostly light winds from St Pierre to St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. St John's has a great harbor, very well protected by the cliffs on either side of the entrance.
Fri Jul 9 6:00:10 EDT 2010, St Pierre, France
View from the hill of St Pierre. Issuma at anchor in the bay.
Thu Jul 8 5:37:29 EDT 2010, St Pierre, France
Early morning on a quiet street in St Pierre.
Wed Jul 7 5:40:23 EDT 2010, St Pierre, France
St Pierre, from the harbor
Tue Jul 6 12:00:00 EDT 2010, St Pierre, France
Pointe Aux Canons, from the water.
Mon Jul 5 12:00:00 EDT 2010, St Pierre, France
The entrance channel to the port of St Pierre.


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Made this tonight and it was a hit. I used leftover turkey breast that we had frozen at Thanksgiving. It's easy to make and comes together well and looks nice. I fixed instant mashed potatoes with it and also put out some jellied cranberry sauce that I had frozen (never tried that before and it came out great).
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September 4, 2009
Caroline and Edward's wedding at the 63th Street Beach House was a blast to photograph. Innovative decor (including corn hole), awesome guests from around the world, and the wedding couple's cute interactions made my night. Oh, and I did have one fun run to Lake Michigan's shore when two guests deciding to take a dip. I'm not sure who was more entertaining to watch: the guests flopping around in the lake or me with my camera equipment flopping around my neck as I ran to capture them in action. Either way, the guests had some memorable views.
Caroline and Edward, I can't thank you enough for hiring me to photograph your wedding filled with comedy, tears, and good times.
(Don't forget to view the slideshow at the bottom of the post for more photos.)
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DJ or Band: Toast & Jam (Kristin Marks)
Catering: Blue Plate Catering (Kelly Cavanaugh)
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Hair and/or make-up: Hair (Katy Sugarman); Makeup (Emily Schiclione)
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Awesome, awesome, awesome! The hair piece, the dress, the groom, you capturing perfect moments. Fantastic!(09.04.09 @ 01:15 PM)
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After seeing this mount offered by Skywatcher but not available in the USA I wrote to Skywatcher.
Not the Celestron division (although I did mail them they have not replied)
but Skywatcher themselves.
Initially they responded as follows...
Unfortunately, this product is not being considered for the North American market at the moment. If you would like to order one, you might have to order it online through Optical Limited Vision.
I thanked them & mentioned I would look online but I thought there could be a real demand in North America
They wrote back....
We are sorry about the inconvenience, but it's an item that the Head Office is really not sure about.
If they would import this product to North America, how big of a demand you would think there will be?
It is a very complicated question for you to answer, but if you would to estimate. How much you think would be in demand?
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So I told them I would ask here on CN for them & see if there was much interest.
For those that have not seen it here it is....
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2010 Bonneville Speed Week - Racing On The MoonWritten by Mike Finnegan on December 1, 2010 Contributors: Speed by Spectre The 62nd Annual Bonneville Speed Week From A Newbie's Point Of View
Land Speed Racing, specifically on the Bonneville Salt Flats, is Freiburger territory when it comes to coverage in HRM. He's made the trek from California to Nevada religiously, while practically memorizing the Southern California Timing Association rule book in an endless search for new classes to compete in. Show him a photo of almost any LSR car and he'll tell you what's under the hood and how fast it's been. In short, the guy lives for this sport and its most iconic annual event, Speed Week, but had other corporate commitments this year and had to send me to cover it for HOT ROD.
An admission of guilt: Before last week, I'd never been to Bonneville and never really paid much attention to land speed racing. I had read about it in magazines, sure, but the premise of the sport seemed so far-fetched and unattainable that I never entertained the thought of attending an event, let alone racing at one. A single day spent roaming the snow-white salt as cars, trucks, and motorcycles ripped by at blinding speeds, plus inhaling the sweet fumes of exhausted race fuel and chatting with the most gracious group of volunteers and fans I've ever met, changed all that. I spent four more days meeting as many racers as possible and soaking up the atmosphere, feeling blessed for the opportunity. I've got the fever now.
The salt crunches softly beneath your sandals at Bonneville, and were it not for the mountains surrounding the venue, the place would look like a playground for lunar rovers, not race cars. Some of the vehicles look like they belong in a science fiction flick and not on a race course, but that's part of the appeal. Somehow each of them fits into this scene. The fenderless lakesters, dart-shaped streamliners, chopped coupes, and roadsters modified until their origins are unrecognizable all have a home at this track and within this family of racers, who inject all their being into creating machines that punish the salt and give an aerodynamic middle finger to the wind. And what is the payoff for all the hard work, ingenuity, luck, and money required to set a record here? A trophy and the respect and admiration of their peers, for there are no monetary rewards for excelling in this racing discipline.
From the outside looking in, this is a sport for madmen, a dangerous and unnecessary exploitation of automotive machinery in a place where Mother Nature surely had different intentions. Once you're sucked in, though, it makes just as much sense to bolt a turbocharger onto a Suzuki compact car and charge toward greatness for miles at triple-digit speeds on this hallowed ground as it does to swap an LS engine into a first-gen Camaro and blast down a suburban quarter-mile dragstrip. The danger of spinning or barrel-rolling helplessly across a racecourse without man-made barriers is ever present, but everyone here believes the pursuit of mind-blowing speed far outweighs the consequences that come with too little downforce and too much horsepower. Like all motorsports, this one generates unbelievable stories of mountainous highs and subterranean lows. Here are a few of my favorite moments from Speed Week 2010.
200 MPH Club Stories
The Bonneville 200 MPH Club is a beast because it's very difficult to get into. Not only do you have to run in excess of 200 mph to be eligible for it, but you don't get the coveted red hat unless you break an existing record at Bonneville at the same time, and you must also meet the mph minimum that is established by the club; sometimes the existing record is the minimum, sometimes it's higher. Consequently, land speed racing is chock-full of stories about racers who tried and failed to get their hat. Of the 487 vehicles competing at this event, only 22 drivers got into the club and only two more got into the vaunted 300 MPH Club. Mike Manghelli (shown here in the White Goose Bar) tunes the White Goose Bar '80 VW pickup now, but it took a decade full of crashes and several other car builds before he joined the club. He crashed in 1994 at 258 mph in a big-block-powered lakester during a qualifying pass that was faster than the existing record. Mike broke his humerus, elbow, and hand and then wasn't able to back up his run due to the accident. He spent the next nine years helping others get into the club in various cars, including Mike Cook's Alfa Romeo. In 2003, he was finally in the right car at the right time and scored his red hat with a 232-mph run in the Wilson Waters highboy.
Since the very first Speed Week event in 1949, HOT ROD has presented a special award to the team that makes the fastest pass down the salt. Several years ago, the trophy had to be enlarged to fit all the distinguished names onto the brass placards. After working his way up the performance ladder in a pair of roadsters and his most famous race car to date, the Troy Trepanier-built Blowfish, George Poteet strapped into the Poteet & Main D/Blown Fuel Streamliner and made sure his name would be among the greats engraved in brass. With a 5.0L Duttweiler Performance Hellfire V-8 aboard the Speed Demon, George drove the D/Blown Fuel Streamliner to a new record of 404.562 mph. His top time of the meet was 418.486 mph, which is the number that goes on the trophy. The Poteet & Main team got their name on the HOT ROD trophy for the first time in 2009 at 394.346 mph, and this year's run met the goal of getting a 400-plus number engraved on the brass. It's the first top time to exceed 400 mph since Nolan White's 422 mph in 2002.
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Canadian Gord Drieger is living the dream. After reading about Bonneville for years in HOT ROD and dreaming of racing here, he found his '53 Studebaker 99 percent ready to race while on vacation in Napa, California. After striking up a conversation with a local hot rodder, Gord learned the coupe was almost finished when its owner and builder passed away. Gord bought the car, tied up the loose ends, and was sitting behind the wheel at the starting line here in less than a year. He drove the flathead-powered XF/Gas Competition Coupe well enough to earn his D-class license and says he'll be back next year to chase the record.From a photographer's standpoint, Bonneville rules because there isn't a bad backdrop for a photo in sight. No matter what you drive or where you park it, your car is going to look beautiful, and this Model A proves it. The unknown rod wasn't racing this week, but like so many others, it was cruising the salt with its owner behind the wheel, taking in the sights and sounds.Bonneville event participant stickers are more than symbols that a car has passed tech inspection-they are badges of pride.We've shown you Lee Sicilio's ludicrous '69 Daytona several times in past years. He was one of many fortunate racers whose car was impounded after putting a leg on an existing record. After sitting in the impound lot overnight, the car delivered a backup run that was good for a new A/Production record of 235.715 mph. A 498ci Ray Barton Hemi provided the power.The bump in this Jaguar XJ6 hood is there to clear the turbo bonnet of the 367ci Buick Fireball Dynaflash Eight engine that powered the car to a new XO/Blown Gas Coupe record. Doug Grieve went 188.205 mph at Speed Week in one of the most Dare To Be Different combos ever. The straight-eight engine is so long that part of it extends into the driver compartment. We dig the Salt Cat Racing entry.Alcohol plus turbos sometimes equals huge fireballs when an important part like the MAP sensor fails. The Hinton Performance team smoked a piston and then fried the paint right off the roof of its Buick LeSabre T-type C/Blown Fuel Altered at 200 mph, ending its week a bit earlier than planned.Terry Hunt built the Guam Bomb '53 Studebaker over the course of seven years while commuting from his home in Guam to his brother's garage in Phoenix. Every few months, he'd get a two-week break from work and spend it religiously working on the LSR car. The Studebaker finally met the salt in 1998, but it took three years of trying before it set a record. In 2001, Terry got into the 200 MPH Club with a 224-mph record in D/Gas Altered. He set the D/Fuel Altered record at 234 mph and then sold the car to his friends. The car currently runs in E/Gas Altered and E/Fuel Altered with a 258ci mechanically injected small-block Chevy that makes 845 hp. Mechanical gremlins wreaked havoc on the car this week. The team blew up an MSD distributor cap and mangled a Jesel shaft-mounted rocker arm.The carnage was of epic proportions when the Stringfellow & Kirk E/Blown Fuel Competition Coupe spun out, got airborne, and slammed back onto the salt several times.The impact of the crash was so traumatic that it actually broke the hoop of the left rear wheel out of the center. We caught up with driver Jim Kirk after he checked out of the hospital and made his way back to his pit. He was surprisingly upbeat about the incident, as were the rest of the teams we interviewed that suffered similar bad luck during Speed Week.
Notice anything missing from the Sundowner Corvette? In addition to frying a trans, the car blew the top clean off the veteran Stingray midtrack, shattering the roof and decklid.With some ingenuity, a 12-pack of Keystone, some kitty hair, and resin, anything is fixable. The mishap was not going to keep the Sundowner team from racing.Mike Cook kept blowing tires in the Jesel & Cook car and yet was smiling every time we saw him. The car looked amazing and sounded even better, thanks to Wayne Jesel's Dodge NASCAR engine planted beneath the hood.We spotted the Klos Spacek Sutliff V4/Vintage Oval Track entry on its way from impound to the starting line. On the return run, it reset the class record to 123.63 mph. The V4 engine class is for vintage flathead four-banger engines, most commonly Ford Model A, B, and C units.There is a minority of racers who don't rely on pusher vehicles to give them a running start at the course. The other teams come up with all sorts of contraptions to temporarily connect the push vehicle and race car together during the running start. Old shoe soles were one of the more interesting ways to cushion the blow of a truck shoving a car forward across the salt.Rod Nestmann and the HVAC Express team battled blown head gaskets and an upper radiator hose that wouldn't stay put all week long, but still set a record. The D/Production Mini-Midsize Pickup record was reset to 173.393 mph by Rod's GMC Sonoma.If two hose clamps won't keep a radiator hose in place, then add some coat hanger wire to the assembly, cut the rubber out of a 4-pound radiator cap, run a drain hose down to the chassis, and let 'er rip anyway. The radiator in the HVAC Express puked out every ounce of water during the record run. The engine gave up shortly thereafter.You'll see everything from scaled-down streamliners with electric motors to vintage motorbikes running at Bonneville. Yeah, yeah, we know this is a picture of a Suzuki, but it was built by our friends Tom Habrzyk and Richard Holdener in just three weeks, and it set the F/Blown Gas Coupe record with a turbocharged four-banger and Road & Track magazine's Sam Mitani behind the wheel. The car went 203 mph, and then Richard climbed behind the wheel, turned on the nitrous system, and with the turbo disconnected, tried to set a record in another class. It didn't quite work out, but the jackstand chassis dyno testing the guys performed in their pits while trying to get the tune-up worked out is the stuff legends are made of.Amir Rosenbaum, owner of Speed by Spectre and driver of the 38 foot-long Spectre Speedliner called Infidel, set multiple records at the meet and was one of two drivers to march into the next chapter of the 200 MPH Club, the 300 MPH Club. He got his coveted blue hat using twin-turbo Cadillac power. The 500ci and 528ci engines were built by Cad Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico, amazingly using stock blocks and cranks. Amir set records in AA/Blown Gas Streamliner, A/BGS, and went more than 366 mph at the meet.
The Marsh brothers built this Blown Gas Modified Roadster so they could get their dad, Jason, into the 200 MPH Club just as soon as he finishes the chemotherapy treatments that will hopefully rid his body of cancer for good. The car has been well over 200 mph already at just 5,000 rpm, and the plan is to get Dad behind the wheel at the World Finals in October 2010 with even more boost.Phillip Grisotti (center) waited 20 long years before he was presented with his 200 MPH Club hat by Larry Volk (left) and Dan Warner (right). He was recognized for setting the C/Classic Blown Gas Coupe record in Snyder's Salty 'Cuda at 226.24 mph.The Duttweiler Performance 300ci turbocharged Hellfire V-8 is impressive. It pumps out more than 2,200 hp and has all the trick stuff like a Dart block and heads, a dry-sump oiling system, individual MSD ignition coils for each cylinder, and a sheetmetal tunnel-ram. The team also has a 347ci version of this engine in the trailer just in case. Last year the team chunked a quick-change rearend on every pass. This year it was transmissions.