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Post by fuglyeunuch on Aug 26, 2006 0:55:51 GMT -5
I've been googling that one too. So far, all I can find is he and a friend (Rusty? Shani?) were in the car. It doesn't say who was driving. It also doesn't say anything about ice.
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Post by jay on Aug 26, 2006 0:56:29 GMT -5
i'm begging you to
1. please tell the truth
2. please use a simple English since i have no skill of 'reading between the lines'
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Post by fuglyeunuch on Aug 26, 2006 0:58:09 GMT -5
I think whoever that was was pulling your leg.
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Post by tabatha on Aug 26, 2006 1:00:52 GMT -5
I thought it may have been Shani in there, but I too forget. Nice to see you back B, the goblin king. That said, I have no idea what's going on, refuse to be passive aggresive here, messed up there big time, so I'll just keep my mouth shut. Though as you can see, I haven't been able to do so in the past.
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Post by Bowie The Hurricane Carter on Aug 26, 2006 1:03:52 GMT -5
i am telling the truth, jay. snoop dog wrote a song about it. like bob dylan and rubin carter. only different because carter was an actual athlete and not a figure skater.
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Post by BBP on Aug 26, 2006 1:05:12 GMT -5
hey tabbi! good to be back.  |
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Post by jay on Aug 26, 2006 1:06:04 GMT -5
thanks for messing me up, Bowie the Jim Carrey
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Post by tabatha on Aug 26, 2006 1:21:36 GMT -5
you're welcome, the local forum comedian
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Post by majestic on Aug 26, 2006 2:12:58 GMT -5
In regards to the car accident, I had remembered reading about it in his autobiograpahy...so, I pulled out the book and typed out the paragraph in which he discussed it. For anyone who has the book, it's the last paragraph of the chapter entitled "Climbing the Mountain" (pages 100-101.) I assume, by reading this passage, that Apolo was the one driving.
Here is what was written...
"Two and half weeks before the Olympic trials, Shani and I were driving home from practice and the roads were slushy, but not too bad. We were in the outside lane on a divided six lane road going 10 miles under the speed limit, which was 45mph. All of a sudden, my SUV started to veer to the left. 'What the hell is going on' I wondered. 'I'm not trying to turn.' I looked in my rear view mirror, thinking that someone had bumped the car and I just hadn't felt it. No one was there. We kept veering, sliding across three lanes on what we later discovered was a patch of black ice. Seconds later we hit the median. I looked over at Shani. 'You okay?' BOOM - we flipped over the median and rolled twice into oncoming traffic. The SUV crumpled like tin foil (total devastation), but there were no oncoming cars and we escaped to safety. It was the scariest moment of my life. I thought I was going to die, and I thought my best friend, Shani, was going to go too."
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Post by tabatha on Aug 26, 2006 2:17:39 GMT -5
oh, wow, that's scary, thanks for the info maj! my fave driver flipped his truck over ice, i'd be so terrified, i'd not want to drive a long while after that!
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Post by jay on Aug 26, 2006 2:33:31 GMT -5
thank you so much for that Christy...i'll exalt you after i had my time out
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Post by tabatha on Aug 26, 2006 2:46:47 GMT -5
2,000 post for jay, yay ;D
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Post by jay on Aug 26, 2006 2:48:57 GMT -5
ohh i didn't recognize that....thanks Tabby Wabby hehe
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Post by mostly silent observer on Aug 26, 2006 7:59:03 GMT -5
Coincidentally, this reminded me of you (Ruffian & Fugly) FOOLING OURSELVES "Inherent human bias is reflected in studies that show that the average person believes they are less biased and more ethical than others (in addition to being smarter and thinner). That is, we tend to see ourselves as ethical and unbiased, but believe that not so much to be the case for others." This is only part of the article Courtesy The San Diego Union-Tribune, Friday, August 25, 2006 wow. it's freaky, MG, how quickly you've absorb Mama Davis's lessons! |
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Post by fuglyeunuch on Aug 26, 2006 8:39:13 GMT -5
In regards to the car accident, I had remembered reading about it in his autobiograpahy...so, I pulled out the book and typed out the paragraph in which he discussed it. For anyone who has the book, it's the last paragraph of the chapter entitled "Climbing the Mountain" (pages 100-101.) I assume, by reading this passage, that Apolo was the one driving. Here is what was written... "Two and half weeks before the Olympic trials, Shani and I were driving home from practice and the roads were slushy, but not too bad. We were in the outside lane on a divided six lane road going 10 miles under the speed limit, which was 45mph. All of a sudden, my SUV started to veer to the left. 'What the hell is going on' I wondered. 'I'm not trying to turn.' I looked in my rear view mirror, thinking that someone had bumped the car and I just hadn't felt it. No one was there. We kept veering, sliding across three lanes on what we later discovered was a patch of black ice. Seconds later we hit the median. I looked over at Shani. 'You okay?' BOOM - we flipped over the median and rolled twice into oncoming traffic. The SUV crumpled like tin foil (total devastation), but there were no oncoming cars and we escaped to safety. It was the scariest moment of my life. I thought I was going to die, and I thought my best friend, Shani, was going to go too." I gotta know what kind of SUV crumples like tin foil in a single car, less than 35mph accident. I sure don't want to buy it. |
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