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Re: [ST] Redneck Politics
- Subject: Re: [ST] Redneck Politics
- From: Steve Lawler <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:00:30 -0500
In a previous email, simonb@xxxxxxxxxxx stated:
> Quoting "Masiak, Richard" <Richard_Masiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>Charlotte Motor Speedway was only built in 1959. They were racing bikes and
>>cars at Daytona (on the beach) at least 10-15 years before that! Daytona's
>>the Meca of Motorsports!
>
>
> A slight but important correction for those that don't realise there is a world
> outside the US borders. Unless the US now thinks it's borders cover the whole
> globe :)
> It isn't the Meca of Motorsports it's the American Meca of Motorsports.
Simon,
You are usually right but this time around Richard tripped you up. To
the typical egocentric American cracker redneck, the "Meca" of motor
sports is in the USA whether it's Daytona, Charlotte, Indianapolis or
Englishtown, New Jersey*. Leave it to God-fearing Christian living in
the American southeast to adopt and misspell an Islamic word. To anyone
living in the free world there is no single "Mecca" of motor sports. It
is in a multitude of places: Nürburgring, Brands Hatch, Le Mans, etc.
Daytona Speedway is nothing but a soulless oval in the sand surrounding
an equally soulless rectangular, man-made pond. If someone feels that
Daytona is the "Meca" I say let them keep their religion but please keep
it to themselves.
* http://www.etownraceway.com/
--
Steve Lawler
Verona, NJ, USA
2001 Sprint ST "Blue Devil"
"NASCRAP: Go straight, turn left, repeat."
--Seen on a T-shirt
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