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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => World of Speed-specific stuff => Topic started by: Seldom Seen Slim on August 26, 2011, 02:48:34 PM
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I'm not sure if you're all heard the news -- that Nancy and I are going to produce/sponsor/run another Salt Talks this year -- at the World of Speed event in a couple of weeks.
We're doing it for a bunch of reasons: That the "original" one was weathered-out, that we' talked about having Salt Talks at WoS, that we've got a bunch of donated gifts that we didn't have time to draw numbers/give away things.Salt Talks II will be Wednesday evening, the 14nd of September, starting around 5.30. We'll serve the usual comestibles - hamburgers, hot dogs, and the not-so-usual-but-will-be-soon chicken breasts, along with chips, pop, and condiments, of course. We're kinda looking for a couple of folks to step up and tell us that they'd like to be the cooks. The pay is no money, all the burned and greasy bits of meat that slip through the grill, and a big dollop of smoke in your face. Oh, yes -- you get to shoot the breeze with scads of passing racers as they are served their dinner.
We'll have a raffle ticket sale and drawings (of those tickets) for prizes that have been donated, as usual. If you've got something - a couple of team t-shirts, for instance, or a book or DVD that you'd be willing to give away via landracing.com let me know here or by PM or even just by bringing it to WoS and giving it to us.
That's it -- see you at Salt Talks II!
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SSS,
"...We're kinda looking for a couple of folks to step up and tell us that they'd like to be the cooks"
TFA's lil crew has a couple of 99.99% probable candidates if you are still looking for volunteers.
Being TFA, they might eat as much as they cook, but they are plenty friendly.
LMK
Karl
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Unh, gee -- thanks. Maybe we'll have them cook the lousy-tasting stuff.
Seriously -- thanks for finding us some help. At the SpeedWeek iteration of Salt Talks we have a group of about 8 people that help out -- but thanks to this smaller (expected) crowd we should be able to pull it off with four or five (but more will help). See you Wednesday the 14nd.
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Unh, gee -- thanks. Maybe we'll have them cook the lousy-tasting stuff.
Seriously -- thanks for finding us some help. At the SpeedWeek iteration of Salt Talks we have a group of about 8 people that help out -- but thanks to this smaller (expected) crowd we should be able to pull it off with four or five (but more will help). See you Wednesday the 14nd.
SSS,
Bill Kelly & Jake Peters are yr men! I'll pitch in if i'm not fiddling with my bike.
They are flying into SLC on Sun to help me for the event, so they'll get acquainted with you early that week.
I went to grad school with both of them about a hundred years ago, my oldest and bestest buds.
Karl
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Slim Team Fat Ass is the best group of people racing together ... Karl is the glue that holds it together ... they will be fine ... fill em up on the rabbit food before you break out the beef would be my suggestion.
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I am bringing one of the TFA ladies, Brenda Sue, I will see if she wants to do some cooking.
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Not the Brenda Sue ? AKA "the Texas hot tamale".
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I've just sent an invitation to Salt Talks II - to Burly Bug, the guy from the racing VW forum. I asked him to let his "readers" know about Salt Talks. We may have a bunch of "bug"-eyed folks at the event this year. Cool. . . 8-)
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Joe, thats her. She doesn't know how much trouble she is in. She is already addicted to LSR, of the pavement variety. Wait 'til she spends a week on the salt.
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Hey, hey, HEY! We've just received another donation for Salt Talks II -- some watermelon. Nice idea, don'tchew think? Better, of course, since it's the peak of the melon season* in Utah - so there's a good chance that the melon will be extra sweet and juicy.
*Check out the community site for Green River, Utah - near the Colorado border, on I-70. Green River holds the annual "Melon Days" about this time of year, and - since it's claimed to be the melon capitol of the world, or country or something -- they've got great melons of all types. go there on the Saturday or Sunday of Melon Days for all the FREE melon, of any type, that you can eat. It's like a slobbery County Fair. (Link: http://www.greenriverutah.com/melon_days_2010)
Salt Talks II - World of Speed - is coming up in about ten days. If you've got something to donate for the raffle/give-away -- let us know so we can be ready to receive and dispense it. Thanks.
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Where is it going to be located?
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All of the "modern day" Salt Talks events (that is, since about '02 or '03) have been/will be at the Bend in the Road. We'll start near the end of the racing day -- probably around 5.30 or so when we light the charcoal, near 6 when the first of the food is ready to eat. We'll be selling the tickets (prize raffle and a cash drawing) all the time, have t-shirts for sale, too, and will draw the winning tickets at 7.30 - 8 or whatever. Come on -- it's free (and you're welcome to make a donation to help support the website).
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SSS,
I'll bring the bike. Should be there on Sunday.
Doug :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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Great. Thanks, Doug. We'll be going to Bville via Denver this time so won't pester you with a phone call that breaks up as we travel. And then -- after WoS and the Shootout -- we're flying home and back. Once again - no cellphone contact. But maybe, MAYBE - at the end of WF we'll be towing the whole shebang home and maybe then Columbus would be a stop in our itinerary. No matter what -- thanks again for the scooter. We'll use it and think of you while doing so.
(Not, when I think about it, that it's necessarily a good thing to think of you every time we need to go potty.)
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Sounds good, going to try and make this one...
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I've just finished engraving a pair of stainless steel items to give away. There's a "travel mug" and a "water bottle", both adorned with both the Landracing.com logo and Salt Talks 2011. I hope they're received as well as I hope they are received. See you all a week from tomorrow night.
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This sounds like fun. We'll be there.
Tom Disch
driving from Wisconsin
"Red Ryder" 2006 Dodge Charger
Diablosport
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Tom:
Welcome to the forum. Seeing as you're pretty new here -- I want to make sure you are glad to become one of the unwashed masses, so to speak. As for Salt Talks being fun -- yes, we think it is - but then, we've been attending Salt Talks events since #2 - back in '01. And we've been running the event, first for Jon Amo and then for ourselves - since about 2004. It must be fun for us -- or else we wouldn't put up with the hassles of trying to roast hamburgers in the rain and wind.
On another note -- where in Wisconsin, if I might ask? Nancy and I live near Marquette in the UP of Michigan and will drive through a good portion of Wisconsin on our trip later this week. We usually go straight west, through Duluth, but this time are taking I-70 and so will go down through Oshkosh, Madison, and on to Dubuque. Let us know if you're nearby and we'll toot the horn as we got past.
Welcome one more time. See you on the salt.
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We are coming from Brookfield which a suburb of Milwaukee. You will miss us if you go through Madison I'm afraid. You have us beat for long distance that's for sure. See you on the salt.
Tom
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I wasn't sure where to put this post, Dr. Goggles -- so here 'tis. In a fit of girlish enthusiasm - Nancy has already mailed the shirt to you. And then today I realized that I hadn't enclosed the DPS (I'll never tell :wink:) badge. So - I'm making up a pair of them - you'll see why. And then I'll send them to you soon. Sorry for the cornfusion.
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Here we are in SLC - heading to Bville later this afternoon. Salt Talks II is still on for Wednesday evening, right? Food, raffle, racing-talk, what else? See you then, right? Bend in the Road, probably starting about 5.30 or so.
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Jon, please make an effort to give guidance to the Granite Falls group.
FREUD
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Freud, you might want to contact Wester Potter regarding the school group as he is the USFRA PR guy.
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I'll make certain that he knows and invite him to meet the GF HS group soon after they arrive.
FREUD
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That would be so neat. What an honor for both schools.
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Good idea about the students and Salt Talks. We've already got plans to exchange some landracing.com stickers for the project car, for instance. And I've got a few $$ to donate to the efforts on behalf of all of us on this site. We'll be waiting to see 'em all.
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Well, the car is on the trailer and the "advanced" HS group is driving tomorrow to Wendover - should be at the State Line Quality Inn in the evening; students and chaperones arrive Tuesday afternoon.
We will definitely attend Salt Talks (well, short the sky falling on our heads). Needless to say everyone on the T2011 project is really excited....
look forward meeting new friends - see you on the salt!
Michael
well, a few more things left to do to wrap it up here at home
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"State Line Quality Inn"? Unh, I know of the Quality Inn, and the Nugget that used to be the Stateline -- but that's okay, you know where you're going and I don't need to know. Whatever -- it's easy to find the SSS pit trailer, that's for sure -- and Nancy and I will be hanging around there and looking forward to seeing you when you've got time for a quick "howdy". Our pit is front row and close to registration. Unh, these are high school students, right? I remember how much I ate way back when I was in HS -- should we lay in extra burgers?
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Thanks Slim for a great get together! I was lucky enough to win the mug, and Bonneville news sub scription. You efforts with the fprum are greatly appreciated! :cheers:
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Wow.
My very first Salt Talks, and I so pleased the SW event got blown out so I could be there for WoS STII.
Thank you SSS and all the folks who put up the raffle prizes.
I was just thinkin I donated a double sawbuck for keepin Landracing. com functioning.
What? Raffle tickets? Talk about kharma.
It means a lot to a team of folks that plan their entire year around WoS.
Gratefully,
Sam & Team Graybeards
#6062
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SSS, can I still sell tickets next year even if I missed tonight?
FREUD
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I dont know Freud, my girl, Brenda Sue, was selling tickets and she is a lot cuter than you. :evil: A good time was had by all, especially the kids from Granite Falls. TFA furnished the cooks and they did a great job. Cant wait 'til next year.
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There can only be one Brenda Sue ... From Team Fat Ass .. The Texas hot tamale.
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If I get aced out by a stylish chick I'll just relate it to old age.
As long as the GF Team had fun.
FREUD
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Salt Talks II last night was great. Not so many people as at SpeedWeek -- and that's a good thing, I think. Lots of people, though, lots of talking and laughing, we all but ran out of food (thanks to Steve Wa's Bad Banana for the beans, Paul Busta for the watermelon, and that team whose name I don't remember for the potato salad). The guys from team Fat Azz did the cooking and serving and even the cleaning up. Wow - o - wow, what a help were they! Thanks.
We gave away a big bunch of prizes and gifts, some money, and best of all -- helped make sure there's money in the kitty to keep landracing.com up and running for quite a while.
The T2011 team, in their orange livery, looked to me like they were having fun -- but it might have been 'cause they were enjoying seeing Marlo and Korey and all -- wearing the team's PINK colors.
Wow, what a fine Salt Talks. Thanks to all. C U again soon.
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Who got Doug Grieves {Salt Cat} motarized bicycle ? {if it made it there }
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Well, umm, nnhh, the Red Rover (or whatever you'd like to call it) has become, at least for a while, the SSS pit vehicle. We elected to not give it away at the Salt Talks 'cause the winner might well have had trouble getting it home. Nancy and I are using it, posing with it for photos, and we'll probably either adopt it -- or auction it off on the site after this year's season ends.
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Karl and Team Fat Azz ... there are none better ... Joe
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Karl and Team Fat Azz ... there are none better ... Joe
gosh Joe :cheers:
Bill & Jake love to do these kinda things, they had a ball.
Mike Hooks and I were busy with RustBucketRoller, too bad our efforts were for naught.
Salt talks was great, too bad Mike & I got there late.
BTW Joe, see you at Maxton end-Oct?
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I will be there and racing ... for a change ...
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Thanks to Jon, Nancy and all those who helped make Salt Talks II a great evening at the famed 'bend in the road'. I hope our small contribution to the raffle has helped Landracing.com.
Jane and Malcolm Pittwood, Fast FACTS Editorial team, Speed Record Club.
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I had a great time at Salk Talks... a bunch of us VW guys did some serious bench racing, bought some raffle tix. In fact, I was watching the DVD I won, last night! :cheers:
On another note, a buddy of mine made me an offer I couldn't refuse. After he'd made it into the 130mph club, he tossed me the keys to his red 1969 VW Karrman Ghia, and told me to go have some fun. My 'calibration pass' and (2) back-to-back 138mph passes later, I too got into the 130mph club :-o Good times!