Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 16:09:49 -0700
Reply-To: stephen steele <steeles159@YAHOO.COM>
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From: stephen steele <steeles159@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Hydraulic Lifter Week*
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--- Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> (*Hydraulic Lifter Week is the world's premier
> upper-valvetrain event, attracting participants and
> spectators from far and wide. Held in the lovely
> Calamari Coast region of southern Ohio, the event
> hosts numerous workshops and competitions, so pack
> the Loc-Tite and a stopwatch. Unlike that certain
> other "Week" down in Daytona Beach, there are no
wet
> T-shirt contests, nor drunken brawls with the local
> constabulary, so bring your family and your feeler
> gauges.)
It's not Friday but I just couldn't wait...
Dammit Earl...there you go again with your blabber
mouth tendancies to expose the Whole Wide World to the
secret garden spots of real people. And hey... If
this place was good enough for the mound builders,
it's good enough for me; but I've lived here off and
on all of my life (so far) and never heard of this
"Calamari Coast". Is it near KnockemStiff?
I am sworn to secrecy but I can tell you that this
year's HL Week will be held somewhere between
Spargursville and Nipgen. Thank goodness that you
didn't post the dates!
I am surprised that you didn't post about the Rocker
Arm Regatta on the truly beautiful Rocky Fork of Paint
Creek. We line up all the boats, no paddles, no
motors. The goal is to make it downcreek to the
finish line without hitting the bank. The winner gets
a new shotgun and the chance to hit the bank in
Lickskillet.
And what's this about no wet T shirt contests? Why
everyone 'round here pushes and shoves to see all the
local mechanics do the "GutBuster" Beer Guzzling
Competition... I'm not sure if they named it that
because of the drinkers or the laughers.
It's dang near patented (I heard on the QT that
someone's been talking to some city slickers about a
new realty show based on it...shhhh). Anyway, we line
up all the entrants and they get to drink as much Ole
Frothenslosh as they want! They just can't use their
hands. Teeth, wrists, feet, elbows are all fair
game...just no hands. NO losers here.... among
entrants or watchers.
Workshops this year will include "How to make your own
duct tape feeler gauges" and "The Ins and Outs of
Valvesetting". But nothing will top last year's,
"Moonshine: The new Alternative Fuel". I also need to
mention two of the event's main sponsors...
Bill's Bulk Baling Wire and Bait Shop and The
Combined Ross and Pike Counties Coonhunters' Lodge and
Public House.
And you are sure right about the local constables and
deputy sheriffs and drunken brawls. Half of 'em take
the week off and leave town and the other half take
the week off and come to the shindigs. Yessiree, no
drunks fighting with the cops here.
Well, I got to go out and see if my lifters are a
clattering.
Jimmie Joe Jones
Stephen's Country Cousin
* ;)
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