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Rob
04-09-04, 10:24 AM
OMG! :rofl: :laugh: :rofl: :laugh:


Ward and 'Stock Car Ballet': Ward Burton, driver of the #0 NetZero Chevy, will be on hand for the debut of Mansfield's NASCAR Ballet next weekend in Roanoke, VA. Burton will help television newscaster Mike Stevens provide live commentary during the Roanoke Ballet Theatre's performance. Twenty unitard-clad dancers, representing stock cars, will "gracefully careen" around a banked horseshoe-shaped track for 90 minutes, according to the ballet's Web site. Of course, this being NASCAR, there will be crashes -- "stuff's going to blow up," promised Mansfield, who received her MFA from George Washington University in 1995. But other dancers, belonging to the "pit crew," will be on hand to pick up the fallen dancers. "I would say this is by far one of the most bizarre projects I've ever been associated with, no question," said an amused Stevens, who described the hooded dancers' appearance as a cross between bobsledders and members of the Blue Man Group. The "cars" will be adorned with logos of the event's corporate backers -- which also will air commercials on three monitors that will "broadcast" the "race" to the assembled "fans." "Nobody can understand what we're talking about," admitted Mansfield, whose group has been bombarded with calls from confused NASCAR followers who have seen advertisements for the performance. "They're sort of surprised and excited, and that's kind of our thing; to re-excite people about what dance can be." The three performances of NASCAR ballet are timed to coincide with the Advance Auto Parts 500 next weekend in nearby Martinsville, Va. Mansfield said a different dancer will finish first at each performance, but she declined to specify who would dance into Victory Lane.(Washington Post)(4-8-2004)

From jayski.com. (http://jayski.thatsracin.com/cupnews.htm)

skidmarks
04-09-04, 10:34 AM
90 Minutes my ass, 20 into this Bubba will fire his empty bud can at the nancy boy runnin' round in the Gordon leoturd.

Riot ensues.

:rofl:

Mr. Vengeance
04-09-04, 10:57 AM
"Yup, we's gonna go get us some cult-sure".

Please, stop this Nascar madness. :shakehead

CART T. Katz
04-09-04, 11:17 AM
:confused:

lone_groover
04-09-04, 12:07 PM
There they go. Perpetuating that stereotype that all 'NECKCAR fans are stupid rednecks.

:thumbup: :cry: :thumbup:

Joe in LA
04-09-04, 12:10 PM
Only 20 dancers? A short field? Where are the other 23, and which ones have provisionals?

pinniped
04-09-04, 12:27 PM
Gives a whole new meaning to "unitard"

anait
04-16-04, 12:31 PM
A piece of the conversation between Bubba and Dale at Swan Lake (courtesy of my buddy Greg):

"Hey Bubba, what's a plie?"
"I dunno, Daaayel...is it a fancy name for them new fangled short-nosed pliers?"
"Dunno. Y'all think it's got to do with them tootoo thangs?"
"Naw, Daaayel. Tootoots are horns and stock cars don't got those thangs."

fourrunner
04-16-04, 05:48 PM
There are some things that should just not be allowed, and this is one of them! :eek:

JT265
04-16-04, 06:15 PM
Fox Sports had a clip of practice (or quals, I ain't sure, ;) ), and the "racers" all had a slack-jawed, drooly look on their faces.

So I take that to mean that they haven't forgot their demographic.

:D

cart7
04-16-04, 07:49 PM
Boogity, Boogity, Boogity!! :gomer:


Can you see Jimmy Spencer in leotards!! :eek:

pchall
04-21-04, 03:30 PM
This thread needed a bump.

http://www.foxsports.com/netapp/blobs/active/11/4/2326556_7_1.jpg

It's a pit stop. Point shoes changed. Now where do we put the fuel hose?

extramundane
04-21-04, 03:42 PM
They managed to get 400+ and 600+ in attendance for each of the shows. Dancers weren't terribly happy that their training was being wasted on that, but that's what they get for going to Southwest Virginia for cultural reasons.

lone_groover
04-21-04, 05:11 PM
This thread needed a bump.

http://www.foxsports.com/netapp/blobs/active/11/4/2326556_7_1.jpg

It's a pit stop. Point shoes changed. Now where do we put the fuel hose?


Isn't there a fuel guy nicknamed "Choclolate" or something?

:saywhat:

Rob
04-21-04, 05:20 PM
That must be Watkins Glen. They're going clockwise.

racer2c
04-21-04, 05:20 PM
I'm embarrassed for humanity.

JT265
04-21-04, 05:26 PM
That must be Watkins Glen. They're going clockwise.

Nope. They're just all in a spin right now.

This is so far past being sad I can't think of anything rude enough (in a tastefull manner ;) ) to say.

RacinM3
04-21-04, 07:01 PM
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RichK
04-21-04, 07:17 PM
I hear that Jerry Falwell will be protesting the purple one!

http://www.ishipress.com/tinky.jpg

SteveH
04-21-04, 07:32 PM
deserves a boogity, boogity, boogity

Sean O'Gorman
04-21-04, 07:35 PM
I'm embarrassed for humanity.

Not me, I've long since disassociated myself with the human race. :)

pchall
04-21-04, 08:36 PM
Not me, I've long since disassociated myself with the human race. :)

Welcome to the human autocross. ;)

Sean O'Gorman
04-21-04, 08:54 PM
Welcome to the human autocross. ;)

Touche. ;)

cart7
04-22-04, 06:02 AM
They're pretty bunched up, must be a plate race. :gomer: