No races until September the fifth. The First Anniversary of The CrabLine was on August the 2nd, so I’ve taken the liberty of restoring Issue #1 to it’s original form from the pdf version. I’ve also put in some new links for your enjoyment. See you this weekend.
Dr Sanders I presume,
Sorry I didn’t get back to you last evening, we can blame it on bad brains or something.
Crabs went very well. I got a head’s up from one of our guys at Ross that his wife and some of her coworkers were going to be there. So I expected a few more than the twelve to fifteen we’ve been drawing, and when I got there, the place was pretty full. First legit sellout in a couple of months at least. There were a couple of medium groups with lots of newbies and it was Brenda’s birthday so she had a couple of extra people. Dr Carl and Nurse Holly were there as well as Buddha and a couple of Facial Shot racers. Andrea was in the kitchen and Nelia and Steve were waiting tables.
The Brickyard was the theme (really heavy board, that’s why it only comes out three times a year) . I raced for the Lost Gilligan’s, but just one episode, and I really never did see which one he was. We’ve used that board five or six times and I think Sonny nailed the music this time. We pushed “The Rodeo Song” and “Rawhide” back to the beginning of the second half and made the first half all NASCAR (did I mention that the board is really heavy?). I know you like playlists, so here it is (to the best of my recollection, twenty four hours on)-
PreRace:
Fatboy Slim- Sympathy for the Devil
Bill Withers- Use Me
Trivia Answers
1) The Black Sea
2) Red River Valley
3) June Taylor Dancers*
4) 27*
5) Natalie Wood*
* (not one hundred percent sure about these)
National Anthem (fourth verse)
Intro:
Blues Brothers- Closing: I Can’t Turn You Loose (live)
Preliminaries
First Half:
1) David Robidoux- Thunder (The NASCAR Theme)
2) Pat Boone– NASCAR Time
3) Rik Roberts- Nanna Was a Nascar Driver
4) Tim Wilson- Dale Darrell Waltrip Richard Petty Rusty Awesome Bill Irvin Gordon Earnhardt Smith… Johnson, Jr.
5) (This one slips my mind)
6) Tim Wilson– The Talladega Song
7) Tim Wilson- The Jeff Gordon Song
8) Bob & Tom- Look At All Those Cars/Cletus T Judd- Grandma Got Run Over By A Race Car
Halftime
Fatboy Slim- Wonderful Night
Fatboy Slim/Bootsy Collins- The Joker (offended Nurse Holly (Steve Miller fan), but the kids dug it)
Second Half:
9) Gary Lee & Showdown?- The Rodeo Song
10) Frankie Lane- Rawhide (Boys- 3, Girls 0)
11) The Foundations- Build Me Up, Buttercup
12) Manfred Mann- Do Wah Diddy
13) Paper Lace- The Night Chicago Died
14) Rick Derringer- Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo
15) Stealer’s Wheel- Stuck in the Middle With You
16) Billy Joel- Pressure
Goodbye Losers:
Steam- Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Semifinals:
1) Heywood Banks– If Pigs Had Wings
2) Heywood Banks- Eighteen Wheels on a Big Rig
3) Heywood Banks- Toast
4) Heywood Banks- The Dinosaur Song
Finals
Intro:
Kenny Loggins- This is It
Race:
Bill Conti- Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)
Outro:
Bill Conti- The Final Bell
Time: Minus Six
Fourth Place- HW&AWD – Start Slow, Finish Fast- Jerry (new regular)
Third Place- T-Shirt- Tens Done Your Sister, Bud- Rob (not a clue)
Second Place- $20- Lick My N*ts- Facial Shot Racing team
First Place- $50- Sterile Cheryl- Mike (new racer)
Overall, a pretty good night. There’s always craploads more energy with a big crowd.
We’ll keep you posted, see you one of these days
j