It pains me to mention this...

Fred Douglass · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 07:12 PM

...being an American of undiluted Scots ancestry, but......did you guys with SPEED CHANNEL catch the Bwitish Gwand Pwee? Not the wild racing...BUTT the skinny little LEW-NIE in a kilt and his sister's knee-socks? He's running against the grain (not that THAT matters, with the relative speeds in question). Running toward the entrance (for the cars) of the longest straight? Un-fookeen-believable! There will always be an England....and I swear their brand of loonie tops all--especially since they're not religious---just harmless and weird above and beyond the call....

John A. Simpson · #2 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 07:34 PM

It looked like he didn't even need to shave his legs. What a wimp, did you see how easily he was subdued? One little wrist lock and he was down for the count. What an idiot, what cause could possibly warrant such behavior!

CSX 4039 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 07:37 PM

...could start a whole new KILT CAR industry!

Fred Douglass · #4 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 07:49 PM

John...I think that was a "British Rugby Tackle"* (or so said Hobbes)---polite, in other words...

Brett: sorry, after a pun like that you have to open all the windows!

Very Funny

*oops, almost forgot myself "Bwitish Wugby Tah-kle", sorry, chaps

John A. Simpson · #5 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 07:54 PM

You know, he coulda been Kilt!

CowtownCobra · #6 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:07 PM

Wasn't he mumbling something about "party at Wilf's"?

Fred Douglass · #7 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:20 PM

Great pun...but now you get to fumigate the joint...

Dave, let's duck and cover! Awthuh, King of the Bwittuns is about to go "wakey-wakey"! Just as I'm going to go beddie-bye. It's 4:30 a.m. in Wilf-land. Or....do they have metric clocks which wind to the left over there?

kblackav8or · #8 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 09:21 PM

The news mentioned he was a 56 year old french protester. Why the kilt. The beanie is the chosen headgear of frenchmen and most tyrants ala Hussein / Castro would make it too easy.

Tommy · #9 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 05:22 AM

Freddie -
I hate to burst your bubble ("especially since they're not religious---"), but today's news reported that the whacko was a spirtual man trying to bring public attention to the Bible.

Cal Metal · #10 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 07:02 AM

Aren't these the same wimps who saved the free world by fighting off the Luftwaffe in 1940 with a kill ratio of 2 to 1?

Chifo Jr · #11 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 07:55 AM

The only bright light out of the whole situation is that it proved to the world that we Americans dont have a lock on the "Phuqing Idiot" market.

wilf leek · #12 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 02:07 PM

If, by the actions of a single truly mad englishman out in the mid-day sun, we have made you feel a little better about your own seemingly inexhaustible horde of loonies and whackos, (many of whom you insist on voting into public office) we Brits are so very pleased to have been of service.

CowtownCobra · #13 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 02:19 PM

Without the English, we would not have the Cobra that we have today. And I don't think anyone here at CC would be too happy about that

Alex Donghi · #14 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 02:38 PM

How about he guy that ran out on the course to tackle this idiot.. That took some nerve!!!

aumoore · #15 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 02:50 PM

If he had ran out on a Nascar track they would have ran over him rather than lose track position. If the drivers had managed to miss him they could have obliged his death wish with a tow truck.

The Bible? Glad he brought my attention to the oldest book on the planet? If not for him I would have thought the book in every hotel nightstand was a Nancy Drew novel.

decooney · #16 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 04:37 PM

That incident was so stupid. One would think if you are going to risk going out on a track during a race just to say something with all the people in the world watching you, at least you could write BIG DARK LETTERS on the sign you are holding so people could read it. They should have cattle-roped him and tied him to the guardrail til the end of the race... what a dork.

750hp · #17 (**permalink**) 07-21-2003, 06:05 PM

Duane - so true! I was squinting at the screen trying to read his sign (or squinting at the thought of some tosser about to be turned into British GP track puree)....

The most disappointing aspect was that the track marshall didn't slip in a few solid pokes to this idiots nose. Occasionally, our football games have "field invasions", which usually consists of naked fans running around for a short while, then getting the heck out of there before they're arrested. The ladies doing naked cartwheels always seem to get extra attention from the photographers around the ground.....

Now, where was I...... Oh, yeah! Once, a guy ran onto the field and started throwing punches at one of the players. His first king hit from behind hit the spot, and put the player onto his knees. Well, the rest of the team took exception to this fools actions, and he experienced the full force of 12 players (averaging 225lb, 6"+ and angry). Where were these guys when they were needed at the British GP???

Alex Donghi · #18 (**permalink**) 07-22-2003, 10:56 AM

Craig
Why don't you post some of those cart wheel pictures