Frenchy's Rant

I’ve found it! The next motorcycle to add to my collection!

It’s a little redneck-ish, but still…

Yes, it is a motorized beer cooler! What a blast! Need a cold beer in a hurry? Be right there!! Pull into the nearest beer store, and say “Fill ‘er up!”

Any day that I can ride around a parking lot on a motorized beer cooler is a good day in my book! Oh yeah! I wonder if I could make it through Baja on this?

We’re in Birmingham, Alabama today for RAW. Birmingham is a great place, always warm, with friendly people and good food.

The downside? I believe the literacy rate is fairly low.

The last time we were here, I proudly wore a Guinness T-Shirt. I noticed one of the local riggers intently staring at it, trying to decipher it’s meaning. It took him a few long minutes to compute.

With a puzzled look, he finally said, “Y’all a genius, huh?”

Yup. You too, huh?

Hey! You!

Yeah, you! In Amsterdam!!

Who are you?

And you, over there in New Zealand???

Or mein Freund von Deutschland?

How about it? How’d you end up here?

Stateside too!!

Georgia? Cali? DC?

C’mon Faithful Fifteen! Drop me a line at frenchys-rant@att.net and introduce yourselves!

Well, it was bound to happen eventually. All good things must come to an end, thus, my cone experiment has officially concluded. I scientificially postulated it might be over yesterday as I watched someone from the building observe the cone, then lift it up. He tested the light spot underneath to see if it was wet, pondered it’s true meaning a while longer, then he put the cone right back where it was. The experiment continued!

This morning when I came in for the last day of basketball broadcasting this week, the cone had finally been moved. I suppose someone from -Mgmt. noticed it last night and said, “What da hell is this fuckin’ cone doin’ heah anyway?” Then the knuckle-dragging science-hater probably kicked my little experiment into the corner.

I could put it back, but I feel that after three days, the cone has lost the majority of it’s scientific (and entertainment) value. Now if I can only find a Groundhog or two to blow up, I think I’ll make it through the day.