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Vroom Vroom Leak

In an amazing turn of Open Comment Night events, as soon as we started our cars they started leaking — even our new friends from askpatty couldn’t help. It seeems their vehicles were leaking the most links all night! It’s as if the cars WERE the link leak virus.

The Link Leak Virus was to be part of the whole operation, whether we were Mother Teresa, Mark Cuban, Lucille Ball, or Donald Trump.The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes.Things quieted down as our engines warmed up.

We still told some wonderful car stories.

Cat woke to Tanks and a coup. She’s in our thoughts.
HART says never ask a police officer fo an ID.
It’s a Birthday for Designers Who Blog

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared.

Vrooom, Vroom Summary by Rick Cockrum

What Rick writes makes us all sound so interesting. I think we should do this again!

Liz our hostess once again,
Open mic once more begins.
Tonight it’s cars and highway travel,
Women and garages, the pain unravels

Breanne is first, she made our day,
Working with women and the web she’s not shy
With dogs and cars she loves to play.

Douglas stopped in for a glance.
Of American cars he is derisive,
European luxury is his vision.

Susan came for a while,
Click and Clack make her smile.

Jody popped in with statistics galore
Of cars and women she can tell us more.

Kirsten has good luck car shopping,
But mechanics can really get her anger hopping.

Cat’s in the middle of a Thai coup,
No TV, no phone, with tanks all around,
Communication through the net is still sound.

Katiebird tells us of her great scare.
A truck has attacked her
With never a care.

HART has stories that are really quite grand.
We can’t help but say
HART, You’re the MAN!

Scorpia rides a taxi and walks a fair bit,
But storms are around her,
She returns to her cave to prevent getting hit.

Joe makes us jolly with his verse wit
The women console him,
They say they won’t nip.

And Candice is the sys-op, Ferraris her bag
Stuck in an Accord
Made her quite sad.

Seanrox loves his Mustang, he’s built for speed,
Laptop in one hand, pizza the other,
He rides through the land,

Ben drives up in an old Mazda.
He says his car sucks,
So The Great Big Small Business Show was noted.

Trisha watched House before she came.
She couldn’t stay long
Due to rather bad neck pain.

Renée sold her car and wanted advice
On what car she should get for the tall and the short,
Abby wrote in and called for divorce.

Meikah sang a song about strong inner pain,
Fast cars and freedom, our childhood dream.
That leads to life that our parent’s life sang.

Starbucker’s hearing the train’s lonesome wail,
Life has been good, he’s seen his family and then
Phil, his main man.

Tony picked our collective minds,
About a problem with driving as our ages do climb
We had little to say, the law doesn’t help,
We just cross our fingers, and in time cross that line.

Becky’s car broke down,But she still brought the drinks.
Happily married she’s in a small town.
Her spouse the mechanic, she cures computer hijinks.

Christine made it in at the end of the night,
But her wifi wouldn’t last,
She had to take flight.

And Easton had Arny, a little Geo
With tires like cookies,
The car finally had to go.

AdLib slept in for once I should say
But day or night,
He can’t stay away.

And Alvin, though clueless
With cars as it seems,
Has a brother who sees them fulfilling his dreams.

And finally we end , sixteen hours in,
Hendry Lee with a Wow! You talk like the wind!

Rick, you are the special one. Thank you so much for doing this again! thanks to everyone who participated!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Comments

  3. Jody DeVere says

    The Cars topic open mic was so awesome. Thanks for the mention in the re-cap!

    Impressive that so many folks joined and commented…and all that poetry makes me just pop a gasket! ( thanks Rick and Joe)

    Jody DeVere
    President
    Ask Patty — Automotive Advice for Women

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  7. Renée says

    OMG! Rick you are getting better and better each time.

    Liz, life can’t get any better without having you as our hostess.

    BTW, I showed this and last night posts to my ‘sponsor’ (better half) and he’s considering some options suggested but won’t tell me ’til the car arrived. FYI, divorce is not an option…said he. Me…Phew!!! ;p

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  8. ME Strauss says

    Glad to hear, Renee, that we didn’t ruin a marriage. That would weigh heavy on my heart. 🙂

    It was great to have you. Next week you should bring him along with you . . . can you use the same computer?

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  9. Renée says

    Liz, he’s flying off again next week. But will let him know about next week open mic night. BTW, he’s not into blog thing, never got the hang of it after years of persuding him to post just one paragraph on any of my blogs. Busy schedule could be one part of it.

    Thanks for the invite…said he!

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  15. Starbucker says

    That Rick is getting pretty darn good at this, isn’t he? Liz, you may need to appoint him as “Poet Laureate” of Open Mic Nite! He’s got my vote. See you all next week.

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  16. HART (1-800-HART) FF says

    You know .. I don’t think you should “fire” Rick from his Poet Laureate position here .. however, I would be glad to attempt to recap next week’s commentary .. provided I can do it in “Kids Font” Oh .. and in Limerick form too. 😀

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  17. ME Strauss says

    Hey Starbucker,
    What great idea! (though I’m not sure Rick would agree) Maybe we should plan a ceremony, one with music, pomp, and circumstance — no speeches, only comments to make the official decree.

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  18. ME Strauss says

    HART,
    I think that Rick would be happy to have you as a guest summarizer. Kids font and limmericks are okay with me. It seems for that kind of summary we should pick a special kid kind topic. Hmmmm

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  21. Rick Cockrum says

    HART gets my vote to do next week’s summary.

    Limericks are fun,
    when made on the run.
    They’re amusing to see,
    We read them with glee,
    Especially when you put the right font on.

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  22. ME Strauss says

    There you go, HART.
    It appears that our Poet Laureate has bestowed his official blessing on your guest limmericking and fonting. 🙂

    Thanks Rick!

    Now for that topic selection.

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  25. candice says

    As a bit of a coincidence, I just bought a car yesterday, finalized the deal this morning, no less.

    As for the Ferrari story, I was programming back then. (And man, did the DEC parking lots ever have some cool cars.)

    I have at least in the meantime, gotten to drive a porsche. 🙂

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  26. ME Strauss says

    Hi Candice,
    Congratulations on the new car!!

    I’ve driven a 911 on more than one occasion. I was disappointed. Sore arms from holding that puppy and sore butt from the ride. Now the 12V Jag was another story.

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  27. candice says

    Hey Liz, Thanks!

    I’ve actually been toying around with the idea of buying an 944 or somesuch as a project. Next year. I might well buy a motorbike instead though.

    The jags are a little too big for me, most of them, but that sounds cool.

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  28. ME Strauss says

    Hi Candice,
    I just love the open sky when moving down the road. It’s a completely different feeling. So a motorbike does it for me too.

    The jag btw was a test drive when I was 20 or so. Can’t figure out why the guy let me do it, except that he thought I was cute. 🙂

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