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Haiku Tuesday: Wine Country Edition

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It has been said that 0.001% of IndyCar fans appreciate both racing and haiku. To which I say: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Prior to our yeoman-like efforts, that number was at 0.0001% - we're making progress, folks!

And thank goodness for that, because without a little creativity and outside-the-box thinking we'd probably be stuck in the same giant vacuum-hole of SUCK that emanates from off-weeks that everyone else is in. Seriously, why can't those lazy-ass race drivers put their necks on the line for us more often? It's like they need off-time or something. LUDICROUS! *cracks whip obtained from sources best left undivulged... okay, it's Hobbson's, and I don't know what the strange fungus is on the handle, which is why I'm wearing three layers of latex gloves*

Haikus after a not-very-significant-jump-at-all-but-watch-your-shins-anyway:

Star-divide

Off week it may be,
But even on city streets
Milka is still slow.

Preach it, young Rahal!
Though you are yet a rookie,
Still call out your peers!

Cotman got a job.
So does Robin move up too
Like Navy wives do?

One more road course race.
Then it is back to ovals.
Results won't change much.

Thank God for Twitter.
Without it we would not know
Danica's meal plans.

Which is more phallic:
Delta Wing, or new engine?
(It's a "stressed member.")

Thought experiment:
Blogger disses blog in blog.
That is so meta.

JR drives again.
The kid deserves it full-time.
Get on that, Randy.

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“Preach it, young Rahal?”
What are you, high? Probably.
Dude should shut his trap.

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What the hell, TJ? According to Mssr. Rahal, ‘tis better to have a suck-ass race w/ everyone being gentlemanly & get NO national exposure than to have a suck-ass race w/ people showing emotion & get ALL KINDS OF NATIONAL EXPOSURE??? Pfffffft. (That’s me scoffing.) I question this marketing approach. Not as much as I question “”http://twitter.com/IndyCarNation/status/21424133863" >@PigFarmer65" winning IndyCar’s great Magnum Boots giveaway … but still. It’s bush.

by Roy Hobbson on Aug 17, 2010 3:25 PM EDT reply actions  

I was being ironic!

Buried in the subtleties of my poesy are gentle suggestions that Rahal calling out the rest of the paddock is like Lindsay Lohan explaining to Meryl Streep the finer points of acting. I forgive you for your misinterpretation, as I am aware of the recent toad embargo from Panama that has gutted your stock-on-hand of psychedelic amphibians (FREE THE TOADS! FREE THE TOADS! DAMN YOU, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!).

You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
Pop Off Valve - A greasy hot tenderloin of IndyCar goodness!

by Tony Johns on Aug 17, 2010 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

Let's be honest

PigFarmer65 can probably use those boots far more than you or I. Of course, when I’m outrunning that rogue Predator at Chicagoland, I might think differently.

In any case, I say:

Feel the force, Rahal.
Berate your fellow drivers.
Then grow the mustache.

by Bill Potter on Aug 17, 2010 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

A Grahammorific mature Haiku

Off week blues now cured
Package comes to my doorstep
NEW IRON MAIDEN!!!

Amazon.com
Goofed. Sent new Maiden
Album too early (Their loss, MY GAIN!)

“The Final Frontier”
Best damn album of the year.
F*CK LADY GAGA

Moved into new house
My broken, beaten laptop
With Windows ME

Cotman 2012
DON’T LISTEN to Dallara
OR Honda, Tony

The last twisty race
Last chance for Bad Ass Wilson
And for the Swiss Miss

How is it pronounced?
Simona? Oops. Sonoma?
I call it SEARS POINT

Why must last twisty
Be Sears Point? Why not go to
LAGUNA SECA (Corkscrew FTW)

Oh, poor Danica
Thou need not worry. OVALS
COMING VERY SOON

by fleshwound_NPG on Aug 17, 2010 4:10 PM EDT reply actions  

Now I goofed

Amazon.com
Goofed. Sent new Maiden album
A day too early

….3rd shift ain’t what it used to be.

by fleshwound_NPG on Aug 17, 2010 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

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