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Who's ready to get super drunk and watch tiny people race roided out horses around a track for 120 seconds?!?!
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:12 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 23:58 |
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the kentucky derby is decadent and depraved
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:13 |
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There's a poll choice for that!
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:15 |
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I shook my head and said nothing; just stared at him for a moment, trying to look grim. “There’s going to be trouble,” I said. “My assignment is to take pictures of the riot.” “What riot?” I hesitated, twirling the ice in my drink. “At the track. On Derby Day. The Black Panthers.” I stared at him again. “Don’t you read the newspapers?” The grin on his face had collapsed. “What the hell are you talkin about?” “Well … maybe I shouldn’t be telling you … ” I shrugged. “But hell, everybody seems to know. The cops and the National Guard have been getting ready for six weeks. They have 20,000 troops on alert at Fort Knox. They warned us — all the press and photographers — to wear helmets and special vests like flak jackets. We were told to expect shooting … ” “No!” he shouted; his hands flew up and hovered momentarily between us, as if to ward off the words he was hearing. Then he hacked his fist on the bar. “Those sons of bitches! God Almighty! The Kentucky Derby!” He kept shaking his head. “No! Jesus! That’s almost too bad to believe!” Now he seemed to be jagging on the stool, and when he looked up his eyes were misty. “Why? Why here? Don’t they respect anything?” I shrugged again. “It’s not just the Panthers. The FBI says busloads of white crazies are coming in from all over the country — to mix with the crowd and attack all at once, from every direction. They’ll be dressed like everybody else. You know — coats and ties and all that. But when the trouble starts … well, that’s why the cops are so worried.” He sat for a moment, looking hurt and confused and not quite able to digest all this terrible news. Then he cried out: “Oh … Jesus! What in the name of God is happening in this country? Where can you get away from it?” “Not here,” I said, picking up my bag. “Thanks for the drink … and good luck.”
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:19 |
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Although, I must disagree, these fine folks seem down to earth!
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:19 |
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Do they ban dwarf jockeys? Because if they are allowed then all the jockeys should be dwarfs.
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:19 |
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Steadman wanted to see some Kentucky Colonels, but he wasn't sure what they looked like. I told him to go back to the clubhouse men's rooms and look for men in white linen suits vomiting in the urinals. "They'll usually have large brown whiskey stains on the front of their suits," I said. "But watch the shoes, that's the tip-off. Most of them manage to avoid vomiting on their own clothes, but they never miss their shoes."
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:20 |
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Universe Master posted:Do they ban dwarf jockeys? They'd need some custom stirrups I imagine.
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:21 |
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TEAYCHES posted:“Those sons of bitches! God Almighty! The Kentucky Derby!”
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:22 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf4u8sQosVA
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:23 |
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it's sickening that this "sport" is still allowed in our society 1) it's for rich people 2) it's cruel to animals 3) it promotes gambling
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:24 |
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Yes, but what about...Tradition! We can ALL get behind watching multi-million dollar horse investments and sing "My Old Kentucky Home" quote:All merry, all happy and bright; bahaha
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:27 |
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Ein cooler Typ posted:it's sickening that this "sport" is still allowed in our society Pish posh, old sport, the Derby is an everyman's event!
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:30 |
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The Derby isn't just for the rich. There is a place for paupers to go:quote:Now, looking down from the press box, I pointed to the huge grassy meadow enclosed by the track. "That whole thing," I said, "will be jammed with people; fifty thousand or so, and most of them staggering drunk. It's a fantastic scene--thousands of people fainting, crying, copulating, trampling each other and fighting with broken whiskey bottles. We'll have to spend some time out there, but it's hard to move around, too many bodies."Is it safe out there?" Will we ever come back?" "Sure," I said. "We'll just have to be careful not to step on anybody's stomach and start a fight." I shrugged. "Hell, this clubhouse scene right below us will be almost as bad as the infield. Thousands of raving, stumbling drunks, getting angrier and angrier as they lose more and more money. By midafternoon they'll be guzzling mint juleps with both hands and vomitting on each other between races. The whole place will be jammed with bodies, shoulder to shoulder. It's hard to move around. The aisles will be slick with vomit; people falling down and grabbing at your legs to keep from being stomped. Drunks pissing on themselves in the betting lines. Dropping handfuls of money and fighting to stoop over and pick it up."
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:36 |
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hunter thompson was the first troll
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:39 |
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i like dog racing better do they still let the monkeys ride the dogs? nothing like seeing a monkey whip a dog down the backstretch! but enough about my sex with your mom
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:40 |
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Paupers? Why whatever do mean by that?
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:42 |
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odincode posted:Paupers? Why whatever do mean by that? This is the infield at the Derby:
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:46 |
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kentucky derby is for olds like my dad and his old friends
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:47 |
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Bob James posted:This is the infield at the Derby: Look deary, it's the poors! Well aren't they vivacious.
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:53 |
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So much cocaine.
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:55 |
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is that a pallet of ice lol
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:10 |
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:13 |
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Well there's a $2500 mint julep this year, so
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:38 |
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Someone pick a horse for me. One that's in the race, preferably. Got a party to go to in an hour, gotta gamble a few bucks.
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:40 |
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Internetjack posted:Someone pick a horse for me. One that's in the race, preferably. Got a party to go to in an hour, gotta gamble a few bucks. Pick the one with the dumbest name and go with that.
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:43 |
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Ars Arcanum posted:Pick the one with the dumbest name and go with that. That's pretty much the plan so far.
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:45 |
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Carpe Diem is confirmed by a horse trainer I know. Something about bad gates on other horses.
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:47 |
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and by confirmed I mean not confirmed, but uhh...good chances i guess?
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:47 |
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odincode posted:Carpe Diem is confirmed by a horse trainer I know. Something about bad gates on other horses. Quick, everybody put down your life savings on this horse. We can't lose!
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:48 |
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best of luck in your bets goons!
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odincode posted:Carpe Diem is confirmed by a horse trainer I know. Something about bad gates on other horses. uh. is he a mudder?
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:49 |
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There's a horse named Ocho Ocho Ocho, and American Pharoah with pharaoh spelled incorrectly.
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:53 |
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Keen Ice is the worst name and 40-1!
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:54 |
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If I had a horse in the race, I would name it "Horse".
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:57 |
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# ? May 2, 2015 21:59 |
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Ars Arcanum posted:Well there's a $2500 mint julep this year, so lol, is one of the ingredients California Chrome's $$$emen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agQpK6H3LP8
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# ? May 2, 2015 22:18 |
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a horse has hit the finish line
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# ? May 3, 2015 00:03 |
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reports claim that a second horse has hit the finish line
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# ? May 3, 2015 00:04 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 23:58 |
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I don't want to blow you guys' minds but has anyone ITT read................... Hunter S. Thompson? Crazy stuff imo
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