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View Poll Results: What will you be doing on May 2nd?
Enjoying donuts/doughnuts on MobileRead Doughnut Day 8 34.78%
Watching the Kentucky Derby 1 4.35%
Drinking Mint Julips 1 4.35%
Drinking anything I can find 5 21.74%
Ignoring the whole thing 9 39.13%
Waiting for the blue one to get nearer to the fish 5 21.74%
Boxing a longshot in the race so I can pay off my student loans/loan shark 0 0%
Forget dounuts and mint julips, I want chocolate 6 26.09%
We're not in Kansas anymore 4 17.39%
Germany wins in a photofinish over Portugal 8 34.78%
pshrynk option: on call all weekend (AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!) 4 17.39%
Shark toof huntin' 3 13.04%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-01-2009, 04:58 PM   #1
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Derby Day
Also on Uncle Duke's MobileRead's Doughnut Day (the 2nd of each month) for May 2009 there will be a horse race in Louisville called the Kentucky Derby.

This is also the first leg of the triple crown of horse racing.

What are your plans?
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Old 05-01-2009, 05:43 PM   #2
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Old 05-01-2009, 07:39 PM   #7
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after writing my last post I just did a search for it, cause its my Girlfriend who is planning the outing,

http://www.bbg.org/exp/cherries/map.html

they are actually tracking every tree in the botanical garden for "bloomyness" that's interesting

cool video. http://www.bbg.org/exp/cherries/timelapse.html

Odds are I am a few of those 3000 frames
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Technically it'll be the 3rd when I have my "organic" donut from the Farmers' Markets, but, as they say, the sun is over the yardarm, et cerera, et cetera...

Also, only two people voted for "not in Kansas", and one of them was me...so who else is in Oz this weekend, and which airport do they want me to pick them up from? I've the drinks ready, and have hired the outriggers for some open sea "Big Game" Piscatorial Dentistry (I'll hold the shark's head, you drive the gas pipe into Brown Town then get back up here quick-smart for that root canal).

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Also, only two people voted for "not in Kansas", and one of them was me...so who else is in Oz this weekend, and which airport do they want me to pick them up from? I've the drinks ready, and have hired the outriggers for some open sea "Big Game" Piscatorial Dentistry (I'll hold the shark's head, you drive the gas pipe into Brown Town then get back up here quick-smart for that root canal).

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I didn't see the wink there Marc so maybe you didn't recognize this poll is public. Or was this a veiled, or not so veiled, invitation to our Paris friend to escape the predations of the tiny winged variety to the larger finned variety?

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I didn't see the wink there Marc so maybe you didn't recognize this poll is public.
I only give winks or nods to blind horses. Also, I'm lazy. Also, I didn't notice. Also, it's late. Also, I've run out of excuses, and vodka, and hyper-shrooms, and small, crunchy iridescent beetles that taste a little like lime jelly doesn't. Forgive me?

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Veiled? I would do the Dance of Veils for Queen Zee if it would have her flee from that meteorologically schizophrenic SHUM-haven mosquito-farm to our beautiful world filled to the multi-legged brim with natural predators of the mossie. I've even offered to supply all of the ducklings she can eat. I've pointed out the 25 hours of free reading time she would get on the plane. The beautiful, warm, humid, tropical weather. Still, she refuses. ~sigh~ It's enough to make one despair, if it only hadn't left me with so much ZCD and so little to have to share.

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Have you ever seen a drunk shark? Well, okay, I have, but it was a wobbegong and they're notorious piss-heads, and hardly ever shout, and if you pick them up on it they turn on you, but it's more of a nibble than a bite and they taste nice battered with chips and some salt and vinegar after a night on the crawl, so, it's all good.

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