Carlisle 2009

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Mark your calendar now, June 5,6,7,8
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merk23literturbo wrote:Mark your calendar now, June 5,6,7,8
Yep, next year will mark the 20th Anniversary of a "Funeral for a Friend" :cheers Anyone have a connection at a funeral parlor that we can borrow a casket from?
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merk23literturbo wrote:Mark your calendar now, June 5,6,7,8
So it runs through Monday next year?
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someone should weld a herse back on a merkur xr4ti front clip.

that would be pimp.
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DPDISXR4Ti wrote:
merk23literturbo wrote:Mark your calendar now, June 5,6,7,8
Yep, next year will mark the 20th Anniversary of a "Funeral for a Friend" :cheers Anyone have a connection at a funeral parlor that we can borrow a casket from?
We should have the Elton John song (one of his best, BTW) playing continuously from inside. I heard the strains of the organ and the bell as soon as I read it!
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I think they meant 5,6 and 7th.
Hopefully, I won't be in Miami. I was lucky this year.
All the others, I have flown back home Friday night by the skin of my teeth, or have called out sick...and came back with sun burn. HAAHAA
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KingpinCEO wrote:someone should weld a herse back on a merkur xr4ti front clip.

that would be pimp.
Scorpios were commonly converted into hearses in the UK and Europe:

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rad hearse scorpio....
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KingpinCEO wrote:someone should weld a herse back on a merkur xr4ti front clip.
Close enough? :lol:

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couldn't have put it a better way!

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i hope to be there 8)
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DPDISXR4Ti wrote:
KingpinCEO wrote:someone should weld a herse back on a merkur xr4ti front clip.
Close enough? :lol:

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yeah close enough..

i guess just paint it black, and it'll be good.


someone should also get one of those scorpio hearses over here!
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indeed it might need to be a dark color... make it look evil
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Post by Ed Lijewski »

What the Brat needs is just a bed liner and a tonneau cover. That cancerous wart-like protuberance growing on its stern should be reserved for trips to the local dump.

At night.

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