Two and a half hours in a race car can take off ten pounds. It's a pretty intense workout.

I know racecar drivers--even local stock and sprint cars knock the shit out of you. My sister's ex built and drove his own sprint and he worked out all the time because it took a lot of strength to drive that car.

Competitive ditch-diggers are athletes.

Hmmm.... are the Harlem Globe Trotters athletes?

(Personally, actually, I'm grey on calling Racing a "sport". I stick with "motor sport". But to me the drivers are deffinately athletes.)

I will marry french fries, especially steak fries, if there are no breakfast potatoes (that recipe needs bacon) around. Chuck hash browns, because they are too often limp, and fuck tater tots, but delicately, because they rasp my mouth.

We were big on the croquettes when we moved to the UK.

I know racecar drivers--even local stock and sprint cars knock the shit out of you. My sister's ex built and drove his own sprint and he worked out all the time because it took a lot of strength to drive that car.

t overcome by trance

I'm looking into the future...

I see Cass... I see Cass saying "where is your sister?" while logging on to farecast.com...

t snaps out of it

I've never had a tater tot. I don't think I could pick one out of a potato line-up.

I'm not convinced jockeys are athletes. On the one hand, they do have to do contortionist poses in the course of their competition; but on the other hand, they're not the ones running the race, you know?

Dude, they're totally athletes. Jock and horse are a team, and if they weren't athletes, then any tiny little man with no body fat could make a living at it. Which ain't the case.

They're guiding a half-ton of extra-stupid, inbred horseflesh around a small oval (if I'm being NA specific) while going 35-40 miles an hour, finding the holes and the part of the track that's best, making sure they don't pull the trigger too early so they don't have a tired horse in the homestretch.

And have you SEEN them shirtless? Those guys are RIPPED.

(Female jocks, sadly, rarely pose that way.)

OMG. PEOPLE (obviously not Buffistas) SHUT. UP.

OMG. PEOPLE (obviously not Buffistas) SHUT. UP.

I second the motion.

We will now vote on passing BHR 101, the "People! Shut the fuck up already!" Act

I see Cass... I see Cass saying "where is your sister?" while logging on to farecast.com...

Indiana. But he's retired as of this year (he's 49). Sold his car and everything. He's raced at Eldora (Where the World 100 is) and in the Little 500 sprint car race in Anderson, IN, several times.

He was racing with Jeff Gordon when JG was a little snot cutting his teeth on sprints in Indiana.

After it passes in here, do we need to take it to Bitches? Then a Natter/Bitches resolution committee?