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So, do we have a roll call? Who all is going?


I thought I heard Coot*, Slim, Michael & Rose, and me?

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Bzzzz.

I'm really sorry to report a change in Sio's plans.
Rose's back is hurting and I need to stay back.
I'm very sorry to miss this. I was really looking forward to seeing everyone.


You have no idea. We're talkin' beer, here.

Hopefully we can schedule a second visit and include all the folks that can't go on the 21st.

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I have to listen to coot* and Slim the whole time? I am truly blessed!

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I am heading to Manchester on Friday - I will have to call it a night fairly early on Saturday night - I have to drive back in the morning on Sunday to the Encompass Senior PGA tournament - I got free tickets to a hospitality tent and need to meet a few friends there - tee offs are from 9-11, and it's a 4-hour drive back.....

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Good afternoon

Wont be in Iowa but I wil be at a local beer festival on Saturday. Lettuce is headlining the music

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So, do we have a roll call? Who all is going?


I thought I heard Coot*, Slim, Michael & Rose, and me?

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Bzzzz.

I'm really sorry to report a change in Sio's plans.
Rose's back is hurting and I need to stay back.
I'm very sorry to miss this. I was really looking forward to seeing everyone.


You have no idea. We're talkin' beer, here.

Hopefully we can schedule a second visit and include all the folks that can't go on the 21st.

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What, the Sio's aren't going to be there? I have to listen to coot* and Slim the whole time? Yikes!

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A firecracker you buy from a stand can legally have no more than 50 milligrams of flash powder.

But Kyle Lovelady, a federal explosives expert, has seen illegal fireworks 20 times more powerful — and sometimes far more potent than that.

“When the accident happens, it’s not just ‘I have a burn on my hand,’” Lovelady said. “It’s ‘I don’t have a hand.’”

results can be far worse when something goes wrong in a basement where illegal fireworks are being made.

A Kansas City man died last week after an explosion in his house tore off both legs and one arm. Three years ago in Independence, a garage exploded, killing a man and throwing his body into the backyard of another house.

This time each year, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives begins hearing more reports of illegal fireworks on the street.

Why?

That’s not hard: People like to blow things up.

“There’s something about it,” Lovelady said.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article564366/Makers-of-illegal- fireworks-can-pay-a-deadly-price-when-the-process-goes-wrong.html

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What, the Sio's aren't going to be there? I have to listen to coot* and Slim the whole time? Yikes!

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I could come and then you could listen to a sober person.

Really, I would like to be going to Iowa, but as I am now a non-drinker who loves beer, it probably wouldn't be the best idea. I have only the time spent in the Cedar Rapids aiirport as my exposure to Iowa. It would be great to spend time with a few bona fide yahoos.

...and the Exide tour sure is tempting.

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A firecracker you buy from a stand can legally have no more than 50 milligrams of flash powder.

But Kyle Lovelady, a federal explosives expert, has seen illegal fireworks 20 times more powerful — and sometimes far more potent than that.

“When the accident happens, it’s not just ‘I have a burn on my hand,’” Lovelady said. “It’s ‘I don’t have a hand.’”

results can be far worse when something goes wrong in a basement where illegal fireworks are being made.

A Kansas City man died last week after an explosion in his house tore off both legs and one arm. Three years ago in Independence, a garage exploded, killing a man and throwing his body into the backyard of another house.

This time each year, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives begins hearing more reports of illegal fireworks on the street.

Why?

That’s not hard: People like to blow things up.

“There’s something about it,” Lovelady said.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article564366/Makers-of-illegal- fireworks-can-pay-a-deadly-price-when-the-process-goes-wrong.html

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Woods has been telling us that for years.

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What, the Sio's aren't going to be there? I have to listen to coot* and Slim the whole time? Yikes!

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I could come and then you could listen to a sober person.

Really, I would like to be going to Iowa, but as I am now a non-drinker who loves beer, it probably wouldn't be the best idea. I have only the time spent in the Cedar Rapids aiirport as my exposure to Iowa. It would be great to spend time with a few bona fide yahoos.

...and the Exide tour sure is tempting.

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What, the Sio's aren't going to be there? I have to listen to coot* and Slim the whole time? Yikes!

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I could come and then you could listen to a sober person.

Really, I would like to be going to Iowa, but as I am now a non-drinker who loves beer, it probably wouldn't be the best idea. I have only the time spent in the Cedar Rapids aiirport as my exposure to Iowa. It would be great to spend time with a few bona fide yahoos.

...and the Exide tour sure is tempting.

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I soon as I read Exide Batteries I instantly thought of Jeff Burton in the #99 car.

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What, the Sio's aren't going to be there? I have to listen to coot* and Slim the whole time? Yikes!

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