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Blog Guy, don’t make any plans for tomorrow. I have tickets for us to go see…
Let me stop you right there. Thanks, that’s very thoughtful, but I’ve already seen it.
I didn’t even say what it is yet. It’s a horse race, so I know you haven’t seen it!
Ah. Right. I meant to say I can’t go because I’m allergic.
Allergic to what?
To that guy who will be sitting right in front of me. It never fails. Whether it’s a movie, a play, a church service, a colonscopy, whatever. Look at that cigarette dangling from his big mouth, do YOU want to sit through anything with him?
Wait a minute, Blog Guy. Maybe it won’t BE that guy. Maybe it will be three wild and frisky young women. Fancy hats, high-heeled shoes….
Look at me. Do I look like I enjoy wild and frisky? My family calls me “Mr. Fun,” and it’s a masterful use of sarcasm.
Well, I’m not giving up on you. I’ve got you pegged now.
You’re more of a quiet introvert, huh? Maybe you’ll meet a mysterious person from an exotic culture different from your own, on a voodoo mission involving the dead…
HUH? How did we get from horse races to voodoo? And the frickin’ dead? Is it too late to bring back that bozo with the funny hat and big mouth?
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Top: A race-goer cheers as jockey Gerald Mosse of France rides Americain to victory in the Melbourne Cup at the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, November 2, 2010. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas
Right: Race-goers strike a pose before the running of the Melbourne Cup. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas
Left: A Haitian voodoo practitioner dressed as “Gede”, a spirit of the voodoo, smokes during a ceremony at the national cemetery in Port-au-Prince, November 1, 2010. Haitians celebrating All Hallows visit cemeteries to pay respects to the dead in a two-day national holiday that offers food, alcohol and flowers to Baron Samdi, the guardian of the dead in voodoo. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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Ok Lamar, I’ll take voodoo for $400, as long as I don’t have to sit next to the smoking dude. They offer food AND alcohol? Maybe it’s not too late to change my name to Baron Samdi. Someone else can have the flowers.
Shoeeeeeeeesss!!!
I thought Truman Capote passed away……
Voodoo you say?
What? Lamar couldn’t nag you into watching a horse race?
Brilliant post, BG! I want some of whatever’s in your coffee this morning.
Go Zenyatta!!!
@KWest, Imma let you finish but Elvis has the best “did he really die?” conspiracy ever.
How did I do with that? It’s my first time, go easy on me! :p
One cup of Kopi Luwak coming up for justCAM.
Aren’t there an awful lot of white hats around today? I’m just saying … maybe staying home is a good idea.
A very good point, BethyB. You suppose that guy is the brains behind the conspiracy?
Brains behind the conspiracy … now there’s an oxymoron if ever I heard one.
Let’s see now – loudmouth guys wearing funny hats, drinking beer at a horse race.
Yep, has to be Australia.
I wonder if there were any football players there to film themselves simulating… err, um, ‘entertaining’ the horses?
“Race-goers strike a pose before the running of the Melbourne Cup.” is the caption of ths second picture. Funny, I have never seen a cup run before. I have heard stories of a fork running away with a spoon but nothing involving a cup.
I’m offended and outraged about the gentleman performing in white-face! It’s insensitive and inflammatory to my people!
…also, I hope I didn’t cross a line just there…
the girl with the lavender flower in her hair needs to look out for bees….
That guy in the first picture looks like Robert Blake to me. Somebody let him out of jail?
@Unca & @Spin… you must be toking! Unless you are chickens, cause then you’d be choking? Wait… what was the question again?
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHH HHHHHHHHH!!!!
WHITE HAT CONSPIRACY! WHITE HAT CONSPIRACY!!
Quick, quick, get the aluminium foil and make your head cones now!!
Sorry, no medidoughnuts in a long while!