Racin'
Stuff:
By Tom Avenengo
First things, first:
A little history on me, and some good news in this section, this week. It was back in November of 2001 when I first started this writing stuff. The late Lenny Calinoff who had the website www.openwheelracing.com talked me into writing for him. He had some assistance in talking me into writing by the late John LeVan. When Lenny passed away, John took the website over. Failure to keep the original OWR up and running by another party, led John to create www.openwheelracers.com. John passed away this past December, and his son, Craig, took over. Some problems came up and on April 7th, OWR “froze” up. Craig attempted to get it going to no avail. He then attempted to create a new website with .net rather than .com. Weirdly, nothing could be posted on that site either. On August 1st, I believe it was, OWR ceased to be a website.
Since I was closest to John, a lot of people had asked me if I’d be interested in taking over the website, or maybe starting up a new one. To be honest, although I might have done it were I somewhat younger, and more computer savvy, I probably would have. But not being the best as far as knowing this computer stuff, and with me having major problems with my computer for some time (looks like they’ve been solved, thanks to my son-in-law Jeff Michelson), I felt it best to have someone else attempt to start up a new website, or continue the old one.
The good news:
Enter Dennis “aXe” Sylvia. Dennis was one of those that attempted to talk me into what I said, above. How others responded to him, if they were asked, I have no idea. But Dennis, who also truly loves auto racing – mostly Open Wheel racing, has decided to take the job on, and in an e-mail from him a few days ago, he sent me this link: http://www.openwheelracers3.com/
Slowly, things are being added to the new website!
Thank you, “aXe”!
Some of my thoughts:
While watching the telecast of the rained out Cup race at Watkins Glen this past Sunday, one of the announcers was saying how the teams have “special” cars for the road courses. Huh? Damn! I was under the impression that the CoT cars were designed so that a team could use the SAME car on different tracks, thus saving the teams a bundle of money. What happened to that?
I have no idea as to what has happened to David Stremme lately, but is there anything he hasn’t hit on the track these last few Cup races?
I hit two tracks this past weekend – Accord on Friday night and OCFS on Saturday. To me, it’s a shame to see only 12 cars entered in the Pro Stock class at OCFS. That used to be quite a lot larger in days long ago. What happened?
Also, at OCFS, during the Pure Stock feature, a car got on it’s roof after an altercation coming out of the second turn. There was an immediate red flag. However, when that red flag came out, there was a car entering the first turn. Yep, you guessed it – that car actually hit the overturned car that was on the backstretch. Unbelievable! I’ve been under the impression that when the red flag/light comes on, you are supposed to stop ASAP – of course keeping safety in mind.
Accord, as usual had a lot of side-by-side racing, and some good passing, too. The biggest problem that Accord has is the dust. Last Friday there was no problem in getting the regular show plus a couple of held over features run prior to curfew.
With the Cup race running on Monday, for the second week
in a row, I was rather anxious to see how the crowd would be at Watkins
Glen. As they were about to start, I
noticed the large red & yellow stands that are on the main straight, to
have mucho empty seats. If I’m not
mistaken, those stands came from the now defunct
There’s been a lot of talk/rumors lately about the possibility of Danica Patrick leaving Open Wheel racing and going to NASCAR Cup racing. In my way of thinking, Danica is just a shade to small to manhandle a Cup car. On top of that, would she be willing to spend a year or two in a lower class, like Nationwide or the Truck Series? After seeing how some of the drivers were at the end of the Watkins Glen Cup race, it just, in my way of thinking, that Danica surely doesn’t have the strength and possibly stamina to run a race like the one run on Monday.
In keeping on the Cup race at the Glen, as they were showing what cars/drivers were going to have in car cameras in them. Jeff Gordon was one of them. When I saw that, I said to my wife – “Uh oh, Jeff will surely crash today”. I was correct. It seems that most every time he has an in car camera, he has problems, doesn’t it? There is a video of the accident and I have a link to it in my “Video time” section, below.
As of Wednesday, I see there are only 45 entrants for the
Cup race in
Going
back, in time:
On
August 13th, in:
1949
Tommy
Hinnershitz won the AAA Eastern Sprint Car race at the Bedford Speedway,
1950
Frankie
Luptow won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds,
1952
Pete
Folse won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Crawford County Speedway,
1953
Bob
Slater won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the
Eddie
Johnson won the AAA Midget race at the Sportsman's Park,
1960
Bobby
Abel won the Super Modified race at the Lincoln Speedway, Hanover,PA.
Pete
Folse won the IMCA Sprint Car race over Arnie Knepper and Herschel Wagner at
the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds,
Allen
Heath won the CRA Sprint Car race over Hal Minyard and Danny Jones at the Ascot
Park Speedway,
Hal
Rettberg won the URC Sprint Car race at the Bedford Speedway,
Ernie
McCoy won the ARDC Midget race at the Erie County Fairgrounds, Hamburg,NY.
1961
Johnny
Coy won the ARDC Midget race at the Brewerton Speedway,
Buzz
Rose won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Austin Fairgrounds,
Bobby
Hersh won the Super Modified race at the Susquehanna Speedway,
Jim
Hurtubise, in the Sterling Plumbing Special # 56, won the USAC Sprint Car race
over Parnelli Jones , in the Fike Plumbing Special #
1, at the Terre Haute Action Track,
1964
Greg
Weld won the IMCA Sprint Car race over Scratch Daniels, Gordon Woolley, Jerry
Richert and Johnny Myers at the Eldon Raceway,
1966
Jay
Woodside won the Knoxville Nationals Sprint Car race over Lloyd Beckman, Kenny
Weld, Ken Taylor and Tom Bigelow at the Knoxville Raceway ,
Todd
Gibson won the Supermodified race over Nolan Swift at the Oswego Speedway,
Ralph
Quarterson won the Sprint Car race over Bill Banick, Paul Kekich and Tom Galvin
at the Mercer Raceway Park, Mercer,PA.
1967
Jerry
Wall won the ARDC Midget race at the Albany-Saratoga Speedway, Malta,NY.
Rollie
Beale won the USAC Sprint Car race over Greg Weld, Ralph Liguori, Don Thomas
and Billy Vukovich at the Terre Haute Action Track,
1972
Joe
Leonard won the USAC sanctioned Tony Bettenhausen 200 on the 1 Mile Paved Oval The Milwaukee Mile in
1989
Tim
Richmond ... Died ... USAC / CART and NASCAR driver from the 1970's and 80's.
He had his career cut short when he contracted HIV and died of complications
from AIDS.
Rusty
Wallace won the NASCAR Winston Cup Bud at the Glen over Mark Martin at the
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY.
1995
Mark
Martin won the NASCAR Winston Cup Bud at the Glen over Wally Dallenbach at the
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY.
2000
Steve
Park won the NASCAR Winston Cup Global Crossing at The Glen over Mark Martin at
the Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY.
2006
Kevin
Harvick won the NASCAR Winston Cup AMD at the Glen over Tony Stewart at the
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY.
Racing on TV:
Check out what’s on
TV, racing wise, here: http://www.racefantv.com/USTV.htm
The Prelude to the
Dream will be run on September 9th.
Again, it will be on HBO PPV.
However, if things go as they have the last few years, don’t be
surprised to see a condensed version come out in a few weeks on SPEED – at no
cost. In a way, I kinda think that,
although it’s nice to see the event live, more and more will probably opt to
wait a couple of weeks and watch it free.
My thoughts: In time, it might
not be on PPV, and end up on SPEED as a tape delayed event.
Other
forums/message boards and websites:
From the Track
Forum - http://www.trackforum.com/forums/
Well, in a way, is
it “History be damned”? With the announcement that Scott Dixon set a
record for wins in Indy cars with his twentieth win last Sunday, a lot of folks
are wondering about the history of Indy car racing – like what about A.J. Foyt
and his 67 wins, or Mario with 52, Michael Andretti with 42, Al Unser, Sr. with
39, Bobby Unser with 35, Little Al with 34 and Paul Tracy with 31?
Check out what some
are saying by going here: http://www.trackforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127130
At one time, the
Indy 500 was the ONLY race that was run at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway. Then NASCAR came in with the
stock cars. Then F-1. Then Indy Lights. Now, someone is asking if there might be a
second race, for Indy cars – using the road course, at the speedway. In a way, I can see this happening,
especially the way Indycar is going – more and more away from ovals. Here’s the link to what some are saying about
a possible second Indycar race at IMS:
http://www.trackforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127226
I don’t know –
maybe I was lucky – but I didn’t hear our National Anthem done the way it was
done last weekend, at Mid Ohio – per what some folks are saying, here:
http://www.trackforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127146&page=1&pp=20
I found the link,
below on TF. I first read of Schumacher
NOT making a return to F-1 in my paper on Wednesday morning. As I said in last weeks
column, I wasn’t all that happy with him coming out of retirement because in
many cases, when a driver does that, the results are sometimes not that good.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/formula1/2009-08-11-schumacher-return-cancelled_N.htm
From
Jayski - http://www.jayski.com/
Red Bull to stay
with Toyota:
It looks like Team Red Bull will be sticking with Toyotas and TRD engines in
2010, rather than jump to Chevys and Rick Hendrick horsepower. Team manager Jay
Frye said he expected to make some announcements on everything in the next week
or so. Brian Vickers' contract renewal with Red Bull has been up in the air,
but Vickers is expected to get a new deal with the team, and Vickers is also
expected to drive some for Toyota Nationwide owner Todd Braun in 2010.(MikeMulhern.net)(8-10-2009)
Note: I’m not surprised on this, especially with
the problems that GM has had.
EGR
to switch to Hendrick engines? If Team Red Bull does stay in the Toyota camp, that
could open up a Rick Hendrick engineering and engine option for car owner Chip
Ganassi and driver #42-Juan Pablo Montoya. Ganassi and Montoya are running
Chevrolets this season, with engines supplied through Richard Childress.
However General Motors' bankruptcy and racing cutbacks have left a number of
issues and sponsorships up in the air.(MikeMulhern.net)(8-10-2009)
Note: As it says above, the GM bankruptcy and
sponsorship issues could possibly throw some monkey wrenches into a lot of
teams and their plans.
Gordon's back
sore after wreck: Jeff Gordon quotes following multi-car accident on lap 61 with
#77-Hornish Jr. and #31-
MAN THAT LOOKED PAINFUL. "It was. It wasn't that hard of a hit its just my back can't stand too many hits. I really was
concerned for Sam (Hornish). He took a heavy hit into the wall, a heavy hit by
me and Jeff Burton. I saw him go off into the grass and I knew he was going to
come out in front of me and I was just hoping to squeeze by and didn't make it.
It just made a rough weekend for the DuPont Chevrolet even worse. Now we just
leave here and focus on Michgian."
HOW DO YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW? "I'm hurting. Everything feels good except my
lower back where I've already had issues. It will jsut take a couple of weeks
for it to heal. By then we'll go to
HOW IS YOUR BACK? ARE YOU OKAY? "It's just not what I needed you know. You
take three or four steps forward up to this point, and you take a hit like that
and you take a couple steps backwards. So yeah, it was a heavy impact. I'm just
glad Sam (Hornish) is all right.
WHAT WILL YOU HAVE TO DO THIS WEEK TO GET READY FOR
"Oh,
ARE YOU SORE? "Oh man, my left side and my back is
super sore. It's going to take probably a couple of weeks for it to heal
completely and then we'll be back to new. This happened at
HOW MUCH DO YOU PROTECT YOUR BACK NOW? "There's nothing you can do. You
got to get out there and you've got to just hope you don't get into situations.
It's not life-threatening or anything its just
painful. I've had MRI's and everything else after these things and everything
looks fine. It's just some spasms that go on. You've just got to calm that down
but it doesn't just calm down by itself in a day. It really does take a couple
of weeks."(Chevy Racing)(8-11-2009)
More on Jeff
Gordon's back:
#24-Jeff Gordon is looking forward to a smoother drive this weekend at Michigan
International Speedway after taking a hard hit during Monday's NASCAR Sprint
Cup Series event at Watkins GlenInternational. During Monday's road course
event at The Glen, Gordon was involved in a frightening accident when Sam
Hornish Jr.'s race car slid into a tire barrier and spun directly into the path
of the #24 DuPont Chevy. The violent hit certainly did not help Gordon's
already aching lower back. "My back is stiff today, but I'll be fine and
ready to go this weekend," Gordon said Tuesday afternoon. "Luckily,
Note: For sure this will keep Jeff out of the
Prelude to the Dream Late Model race on September 9th. With him now having a family, I can see his
racing career cut shorter than what he had originally thought of, with these
back problems.
Lawsuit reveals
insight on crew pay: A lawsuit against Roush Fenway Racing gives a look into the world of
crew members and what they earn and what their contracts can be like. Jason
Myers, former car chief for Carl Edwards, has filed suit against Roush Fenway
Racing for wrongful discharge (i.e. firing) and in violation of the Family
Medical Leave Act. Myers, who joined Roush in 2002 and was Edwards' car chief
(title just below crew chief) from 2006-2008. Court
documents stated that Myers suffered from depression and attempted suicide
three times. The court document states that on Feb. 17, 2009, the team fired
him "for allegedly not noifying anyone that he would miss work on Friday,
Feb. 13.'' The case has moved to federal court. Monday, Roush Fenway Racing
filed a motion to dismiss Myers' wrongful discharge claim. Roush Fenway Racing
claims in court documents that Myers was "not employed with Roush as an
employee at-will as required to state a claim of wrongful discharge under
Note: Here is the link to what kind of pay and
other “benefits” that were/are for Jason Myers:
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/08/lawsuit-reveals-pay-cup-crew-member
NASCAR.com: http://www.nascar.com/
Quite a nice little article about Howard Augustine “Humpy” Wheeler can
be found on NASCAR.com if you go here:
http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/features/05/15/charlotte.moments.humpy.wheeler/index.html
Dirt Track
Digest’s forum: http://www.dirttrackdigest.com/forum/index.php
Check it out and
see what everyone is saying, and check out race results, too.
http://newenglandtractor.com/racereport/
Have
you checked out this website, yet? It’s run by a fella named Jeff Johnson. He’s into racing with his son Kenny, racing a
Tobias Slingshot. Jeff is nice enough to
let me post my columns on his site, along with John Schoeble’s Dirt Oval race
reports and Ralph Corwin’s photos.
OCFS
- http://www.orangecountyfairspeedway.net/
And, from the OCFS
website: “And as a special treat for
A
couple of big races are coming up at
Hamlin
The big thing at Hamlin this coming Saturday is: ,Restricted Junior Champ "20 Lap Challenge", lap sponsorships, driver introductions.ntroductions!
Accord
- http://www.accordspeedway.com/
On tap for the “Big A” this coming Friday:
Hewitt's Matco Tool Night
$2000 to win Modified + all other divisions
Accord-Lebanon Valley Spec Sportsman Chase Race
OVRP’s
Dirt Oval - http://www.ovrpdirtoval.com/
Ok, I admit it – last week I had a major “Brain fart” and forgot to put
in that the Dirt Oval was closed last week.
I had it written down, too, and never checked it off!
This
week at the Dirt Oval: Double point race
and a World Formula race
Former
OVRP Dirt Oval runners:
At
Penn Can, in the Modified feature, Danny Creeden was 14th. In the 600 Modifieds, Brad Szulewski was 3rd.
Johnny
Guarino was 12th in the Modified feature at New Egypt.
The
ARDC Midgets went down to
Roger
Coss was leading the Legends feature at Wall Stadium by a full straight when he
hit some oil and spun. He ended up 7th.
David
Webb won the SK Light Modified feature at
At
At
Accord, on Friday night, in the held over Modified feature, Greg Hastie was 18th. He duplicated that finish in the nights regular feature.
In the Sportsman feature, Brian Krummel was 6th and Mike
Ruggiero 19th. Anthony
Perrego won the Spec Sportsman feature with Kyle Rohner 2nd.
In
the Super Dirt Series Modified feature at Canandaigua, Michael Storms was 24th. At Brewerton, in another SDS race, he was 20th.
At
OCFS, in the Modified feature, Danny Creeden was 7th and Clinton
Mills 23rd. Anthony Perrego
made it two feature wins in two days when he won the Sportsman feature. Rich Coons was 2nd, Matt Janiak 4th,
Matt Hitchcock 5th, Mike Ruggiero 6th, Joe Conklin 7th,
Bobby Hassenmayer 22nd and Doc Young 23rd.
This
past Tuesday, at Penn Can in the RoC event, Danny Creeden was 24th.
Family
members in racing:
Until
he gets some more dollars, grandson John Rizzo, down in
Other racin’ stuff:
Something I didn’t know, believe it or not – at one time there was a stand-alone midget race at Watkins Glen, which will be covered in my “More racin’ stuff”, below. With the exception of Sir Stirling Moss, in 1959, in a Formula Libre race that was held at the Glen, on a cold, rainy and snowy day on October 18, 1959, Eddie Johnson would have won that race.
Here’s a link to some
excellent photos from that 1959 race:
http://www.barcboys.com/GlenFormLibre1959.htm
And, if you notice a little
box in the upper right hand corner – well that leads to the race results, if
you clicked on it, which I’ve done for you, here:
http://www.barcboys.com/Images/GlenLibre/1959/59%20WGFL%20results.jpg
Yes, Moss won by seven
laps. My brother was there for that race
and he said that Moss would pass the midgets on the inside of a turn, in the
rain and snow, and as he passed, he’d give them a wave.
In the photos, there is one
of Jiggs Peters in a Ken Brenn # 24 midget.
Well, since this race was a few months after the Lime Rock Formula Libre
race, which Rodger Ward won in a # 24 Ken Brenn midget, I’d venture to say
that, yes, it’s the same car.
More
racin’ stuff:
As I said above, I was unaware of a stand-alone midget race ever being
held at the Glen. Being a member of the
Yahoo! Race History Group, I do receive all e-mails sent out by other group
members. Yes, at times, there are quite
a lot of them that might pertain to one specific subject. Here, below, I one of those e-mails. This one gives the story of that midget race
that was held at the Glen.
“The stand alone midget race at Watkins
Glen was on 23 August 1963*
Results:
1 Eddie Johnson
2 Mel Kenyon
3 Bud Tinglestad
4 Tommy Kopp
5 Leonard Stephens
6 Herb Swan
7 Billy Mehner
8 Johnny Riva
9 Les Scott
10 Cotton Farmer
The interesting thing is that the midgets averaged 93.6 mph for 100 miles. The
main event of the sports car meeting the day before saw Dick
Thompson win the main in a Corvette Grand Sport. His average was 90.8
for 62 miles.”
I don’t know if there were more than 10 cars in the race.
What I find to be somewhat interesting is that USAC sanctioned two
midget races here in the East on that date, which was a Friday. The one above and one at the Wall Township Speedway in
“Total Travel Estimates: Time: 5 hours 9 minutes Distance: 287.10 miles”
*Note: I
questioned this in an e-mail to the Yahoo! Race History Group, and I received
this response:
“Here's what happened re the 1963 USAC midget race at Watkins Glen.
The SCCA had a National event on Saturday 24 Aug 1963. 9
races for various classes.
USAC had a midget race on Sunday 25 Aug 1963. No sports
cars or Formula Libre cars entered. I know
nothing of heats, etc.
BTW, there are sites where you can get historic calendars to check day of
dates. I checked the above.
Sorry my original posting had an incorrect date.”
The
History of the Sport:
At times, we’ve lost drivers while they were
competing on the speedways. Here, below,
is just a small, partial list of those that have perished while doing what they
loved to do – alphabetically, with last names starting with the letters “N” and
“O”, this week. I imagine that you might
recognize some of the names listed.
Later on, in future columns, I’ll continue my way through the alphabet.
Lyle Nabbefeldt, Bob Nagel, Johnny Nardiello, Tom Naylor, Mike Nazaruk, Carrie Neal, Harry Neale, Darren Needham, John Negley Gary Neice, Jim Nelson, John Nemechek, Kenny Nemire, Roger Newell, Frank Newman, Jack Nichols, Mike Nichols, Bob Nicholson, Eddie Nicholson, Harold Nicholson, Cal Niday, Gilfert Nielson, Pete Nielson, Randy Niese, Jimmy Nix, Hob Noel, Todd Noffsinger, Greg Nogowski, Eric Nord, Jack Norris, Jim Norwood, Lloyd Nygren, Henry Nykaza, Pat O'Connor, Jack O'Dell, Ken O'Neill, Peter O'Reilly, Jim O'Rourke, Al Oberlander, Albert Odell, Wolfgang Offermann, Dr. Charles Ogle, Don Olds, Tim Olenski, Greg Olhava, Jimmy Olson, James Olson, Jay Opperman, Jan Opperman, Paul Orendo, Rodney Orr, Vince Osman, George Osten, Benjamin Ostrander, Phillip Owens and John Owens
Video
time:
Maybe you’ve seen this, maybe not, but it’s a short video of the
accident that featured Sam Hornish, Jeff Burton and Jeff Gordon at Watkins
Glen, last Monday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZgdXwPk96E&feature=related
Other (non racing)
news:
Cash for Clunkers – how
about this, which I found on the internet on a message board:
My
just-out-of-college friend Rose would have benefited greatly from this program.
She needs a new car, and she's specifically interested in small hybrids-not
married, no kids, no trailers loaded with cinderblocks to tow or oil rig crews
to haul....she has a 1990 Taurus, which is by any reasonable definition, a
CLUNKER. It has enough miles on it to get to the Moon and most of the way back, and literally makes clunking noises when it shifts. It
can be started with a screwdriver. It has large holes in the plastic bumper
cover in front and the tail lights are jury-rigged. But she found out two days
ago that she can't trade it in as a clunker for this program because, way back
when during the first Bush Administration when hair metal was king and Saddam
hadn't yet invaded
While on
the subject of car sales, have you heard that out of the 250 GM car dealers in
I suppose
that by now you’ve heard about the new GM Volt car that is being touted as
getting 230 MPG? What I can’t figure out
is that they won’t be available for over a year from now. Whether the $40,000.00
price tag will hurt sales remains to be seen. Here’s an article about it on Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090811/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gm_volt_mileage
Health news:
Less
consumer “protection”?
Here’s just a little from the link, below”
“It's one issue in the health care debate
that nearly everyone — even the insurance lobby — seems to agree on: Better
consumer protections are needed to end the nightmare of not being able to get
covered for a treatable, if costly, illness.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090809/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_consumer_protections
Closing with these:
I got these two in two different e-mails. Hope no one is offended!
"TENJOOBERRYMUDS"....
This is a hoot ..... Sad, because
it is TRUE ...... But a hoot!!!!
By the time you read through this YOU WILL UNDERSTAND
"TENJOOBERRYMUDS"....
In order to continue getting-by in
With a little patience, you'll be able to fit right in.
Now, here goes...
The following is a telephone exchange between maybe you as
a hotel guest and call room-service somewhere in the good old U S A today......
Room Service : "Morrin. Roon sirbees."
Guest :
"Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
Room Service: "
Guest: "Uh..... Yes, I'd like to order bacon and
eggs."
Room Service: "Ow July den?"
Guest: ".....What??"
Room Service: "Ow July den?!?... Pryed,
boyud, poochd?"
Guest: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry.. Scrambled, please."
Room Service: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"
Guest: "Crisp will be fine."
Room Service: "Hokay. An Sahn
toes?"
Guest: "What?"
Room Service: "An toes. July
Sahn toes?"
Guest: "I... Don't think so."
RoomService: "No? Judo wan sahn toes???"
Guest: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know
what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."
RoomService: "Toes! Toes!...Why
Joo don Juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"
Guest: "Oh, English muffin!!! I've got it! You were
saying 'toast'... Fine....Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
RoomService: "We bodder?"
Guest: "No, just put the bodder on the side."
RoomService: "Wad?!?"
Guest: "I mean butter.. Just
put the butter on the side."
RoomService: "Copy?"
Guest: "Excuse me?"
RoomService: "Copy...tea..meel?"
Guest: "Yes. Coffee, please... And that's
everything."
RoomService: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem,
Anglish moppin, we bodder on sigh and copy ....
Guest: "Whatever you say."
RoomService: "Tenjooberrymuds."
Guest: "You're welcome"
Remember I said "By the time you read through this YOU
WILL UNDERSTAND 'TENJOOBERRYMUDS' ".....and you do, don't you!
Then there was this one:
Unreal....
How would you pronounce this child's name?
Le-a
Leah?? No.
Lee-A?? Nope.
Lay-a?? No.
Lei?? Guess again.
This
child attends school in
Her mother is irate because everyone is mispronouncing her daughter's name.
It's
pronounced "Ledasha"
When the mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she
said, "the dash don't be silent."
SO, if you see something come across your desk like this, please remember to pronounce the
dash. If they axe you why, tell them the dash don't be silent...
May “Guardian Angels” sit on the shoulders of all of our race drivers and guide them safely around the
tracks!
Drive safe!
As
usual, you can reach me at: ygordad@yahoo.com
