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On 4/10/2004 jonnyx
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hehehe its funny you should mention chris, i was just thinking about how we really didnt get on when we met but the more i see of the utter disrespect he shows for some of the tossers round here the more i get to like him. funny how things turn out.
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On 4/10/2004
Aunt Sally
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But have you ever beat Chris Chaput?
He would swallow you up and spit you out!
Ha!
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On 4/10/2004 jonnyx
wrote in from
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results EDI santa rosa 1999 downhill skateboarding
1 Biker Sherlock
2 Todd Lehr
3 Dave Bryant
4 Jon Warburton aka jonnyx
5 Sean Mallard
6 Manu Antuna
7 George Orton
8 Lee Dansie
9 Rat Sult
10 Rick Kludy
11 Darryl Freeman
12 Rob Molt
13 Randy Madrid
14 John Gwiazdowski
15 Reed Lowry
16 Eric Lee
17 Herve Pellarin 16
18 Dane van Bommel 15
19 Jimmy Flindt 14
20 Frank Waterhouse 13
21 Beau Brown 12
22 Joe DeGennaro 11
23 Tony Smallwood 10
24 Jarrod Gordon 9
25 Ron Hanstein 8
26 David Forsyth 7
and thats after crashing at pushing 60mph in practice.
still, its not the first time uncle sam has been wrong.
who wants a bet its not the last?
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On 4/10/2004 Uncle Sam
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Palmer, Johnny doesn't know how to skateboard
Goad, Johnny has no Balls
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On 4/10/2004 jonnyx
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thank you for you considered, rational and intelligent responses. you have both clearly put a lot of thought into your essays. bravo.
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On 4/10/2004
goad
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jonny you are a pussy and i would like to kick you in the balls
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On 4/10/2004
PALMER
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JONNYX GIVE IT A f#@!ING BREAK AND GO RIDE YOUR SKATEBOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!
PALMER
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On 4/10/2004 jonnyx
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Where are you now, the cheerleaders for war on Iraq? Where are the US Republican hawks who predicted the Anglo-American invasion would be a "cakewalk", greeted by cheering Iraqis? Or the liberal apologists, who hailed a "new dawn" for freedom and democracy in the arab world as US marines swathed Baghdad in the stars and stripes a year ago?
Ann Clwyd, who regularly visits Iraq as the Tony's "human rights envoy", struggled to acknowledge in an interview on monday that bombing raids by US F16s and Apache helicopter gunships on Iraqi cities risked causing civilian deaths, not merely injuries. The following day,
16 children were killed in Falluja when US warplanes rocketed their homes, and then, in what may well be the most inflammatory act of slaughter yet,a US helicopter crew killed dozens of Iraqis in a missile assault on a Falluja mosque.
The attack on a mosque during afternoon prayers will, without doubt, swell the ranks of what has become a nationwide uprising against the US-led occupation. By launching a crackdown against the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr -and, in an eloquent display of what it means by freedom in occupied Iraq,closing his newspaper - the US has finally triggered the long-predicted revolt across the Shia south and ended the isolation of the resistance in the so-called Sunni triangle.
The evidence of the past few days is that the uprising has spread far beyond the ranks of Sadr's militia. And far from unleashing the civil war US and British pundits and politicians have warned about, Sunni and Shia guerrillas have been fighting side by side in Baghdad against the occupation forces.
Still its nice to know the worlds a safer place now.
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On 4/9/2004
DigitalDojo
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Yeah.. SiTes Great but could use a carpool/shuttle Forum..
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On 4/7/2004 DAve G
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My memorable was traveling from Waterford (Eire) to Myrtleville Shifting "goofy", hedgerows and stone walls to be alerted to a sign that read.."unattached pebbles" Soon found out what the Irish call LOOSE GRAVEL!!!!
Did my first Cliff Side Cliff slide in a V.W!!!
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On 4/7/2004 Duane
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My rule of thumb for travelling in Europe: figure out how long it would take to do that distance in the States, then double it. Best trip: blasting from London to Birmingham to Newcastle in a brand new hire Peugeot, driving on the wrong side for the first time, scraping hedgerows and opposing traffic. Reserved an automatic but presented a standard. so shifting lefty for the first time as well. Holding the wheel at 90 degrees off-center to steer straight, check engine light comes on immediately (legendary quality control). Only to have British Air deliver my (lost) luggage to the wrong Swallow hotel (Oh, you mean THAT Newcastle ?).
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On 4/7/2004 DAve G
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A bit of trivia... The Roman chariots are the reason that railroad tracks "standard gauge" are set at the distance the are to this day! They planked dirt roads with wooden "rails" to halt the ruts being formed by continous traffic! So in part, we owe a bit of the Rail system to the Roman Empire.. Now, does anyone know why R.R-- R.O.W s are set at 66' feet?? 33' from ctr line of the laid tracks??? There will be a test next week!
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On 4/7/2004 jonnyx
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settled, yes.
open for viable trade with the manufacturing regions of the northeast, no.
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On 4/6/2004 David Eye
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California was "settled" long before the railroad came to it.
remember too, the first transcon railroad was built from Omaha, west, and from San Francisco, east, meeting in Utah. The railroad played a much larger role
in settling the interior-west, places like Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lake than CA.
Alot of places in central Kansas and NE owe their entire existance to the railroad even today (150 trains a day through Cheyenne-Omaha right now).
Also, the roads were first paved after alot of lobbying from groups like the League of American Wheelmen, made up of bicyclists and early motorcyclists; the most radical personal transport available in the late 1800's. The horsemen(which was most of America,in 1900) fought pavements advancement and any taxation to pay for it, tooth and nail for many years.
Back then, bicycle-racing was a huge spectator sport across the alot of nation, rivaling horse-racing and baseball. A major circuit of races on wooden tracks travelled extensively across the nation on the rails and would set-up in a town for awhile and people would come and gamble on winners.THe depression killed personal spending, gambling sports declined and the wooden tracks fell apart.
This history is largely forgotten. On these same board tracks, in places from Ottumwa Ia to Milwaukee Wi, Madison Square Garden there was also Roller-skate
(quad) races and later, Roller-Derby. the Chicago-truck, used in early skateboards dates back to this period (I believe). This history is largely forgotten, over-shadowed by by baseball (whihc really was not as big back then as we'd like to think it was). "History" is often what people remember it to be, rather than what it really was.
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On 4/6/2004 MissouriMatt
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Who invented the wheel?
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On 4/6/2004 Crunchy Knee
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Also, if it were was not for the cheap Chinese "slave" labor laying the railroad into the west, it probably never would have happened either. So, continuing the logic presented earlier, we have skateboards because of the Chinese. Which is funny because they are the very people who are ruining skating with their current flooding of the market with crap boards...well along with the US companies that push the bad product.
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On 4/6/2004 jonnyx
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"Without the steam engine and the rail system of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s there is probably no California"
I THINK YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD
WASNT IT THE RAILROAD THAT OPENED THE WEST?
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On 4/6/2004 MissouriMatt
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The Guest Book was so peaceful when it was all about politics. Then some slalom trash talk made its way over here and things got ugly.
But, man, finally I see things with JONNYX… Without the steam engine and the rail system of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s there is probably no California as we know it, and without cars there’s no motivation to pave lots of streets. Maybe without this Trevithick guy the skateboard isn’t invented in California. But what if it had been invented anyway, before the train or the car? Roads were paved to keep the beasts of burden comfy and lots of good pavement awaited skaters, who dominated the commute scene. Instead of watching out for cars you’d be looking for horse and carriage and dodging piles of animal waste. Horses#@! slalom. Watch the those nasty wipeouts.
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On 4/6/2004 JONNYX
wrote in from
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HACK WROTE - "SKATEBOARDING WAS INVENTED BY AMERICANS AND STILL RULES IN AMERICA,
BY AMERICANS! WE TAUGHT THE ENTIRE WORLD HOW TO SKATEBOARD, PERIOD."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAtrevithick.htm
NOW THAT YOU KNOW WHO INVENTED THE MOTOR VEHICLE COULD YOU PLEASE RETURN YOUR ENTIRE MOTOR INDUSTRY TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNER THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND YOU CAN STICK YOUR VIPER UP YOUR SHELBY
OR IS THAT THE OTHER WAY ROUND?
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On 4/6/2004
Longy
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Debating with US skaters is like eating pot noodle, it looks good at first and you get a waft of gorgeous smells and the promise of tasty food...then you find out its just the same old cardboard flavour, the same old stringy s#@!e, the same old repackaged argument. What we Euros should do is agree with everything they say full stop, agree that pot noodle is a culinary masterpiece, why eat in expensive restaurants when we have POT NOODLE! We are not worthy to skateboard we beg forgiveness from our American cousins for even thinking about skateboarding, how dare we. I declare "Team Pot Noodle" who travel to the US not to actually beat them (which is a sin)but to run around replacing cones, and worshipping at the "Altar of Groff" deep in the Northern California hills between the redwood trees where a massive 80 foot statue of "The Groff" is available for you to prostrate yourselves in front of. Gaze at the living leg-end, imitate the mantra "**** you" extend the middle finger at all and sundry. Abuse everything as everything is abuse, we are sorry for skateboarding as we are not worthy.
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On 4/5/2004
We llive next door
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If you want an "impartial" view of France then Stride is your man.
Chris
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On 4/5/2004 Une amie de Michelle
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please can Johhny Halliday (Frances greatest living rock star) join BLR? I think he and Olson were seperated at birth?
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On 4/5/2004
Jack
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Can we return this forum to slalom? This whole thread was started by someone posting about downhill. I got caught up in it, let's take the political stuff over to the "guest book".
There's a lot of good stuff happening in slalom. The NW guys have really got things happening in there area, Ricky's contest is going off, Attila's Blitz looks to be a blast.
We all come here because we love to skate slalom.
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On 4/5/2004 USA
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sometimes you think that, huh jonnyx?? you're an idiot.
and the fact remains - europe is europe because of Black Jack Pershing and
a bunch of 18 year old AMERICANS ( whose great grand parents hopped on boats
to move away from the place cause it sucked ).
Let's get back to some good ole AMERICAN slalom talk
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On 4/5/2004
FLUITT
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I guess I started this Franco-American skate crisis inadvertently with my call to send Olson to Paris.
Sending Olson to Paris was publicly announced as a diplomatic détente. In truth there is a more serious reason for Olson's mission. And that is the current fashion crisis that started in Paris last year and is spreading across the international slalom community.
Spandex showed up in a race in Paris last year. The next thing you know, Mollica is wearing spandex in the World Championships, right here in the good ole US of A. Hiking boots on Hutson was an unrelated anomaly we think, but still concerning.
Last year, Gilmore was the fashion ambassador to France, but with JG's current list of injuries (noteably from a euro-type snowboarding activity), he is unfortunately sidelined for Paris.
And besides, it's all about leather this year.
So, stop bickering and show your support with a paypal donation to sendolsontoparis@skateboardracing.com
If you need instructions contact me.
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