The Happy News thread

[Kotik]

Kotik's a happy hippo Got tickets for next year's Wok Racing World Championships

[Cogito]

That's a typo, right?

[Kotik]

No it's not a typo. It's Gin-you-wine wok racing

Here's a video : Two Americans watch Joey Kelly at the 2007 Wok World Championships on German TV The quality isn't much, but their comments are hillarious.

Basically Wok racing is pretty simple. You wear protective gear (pretty much like a ice hockey goalie), strap ordinary kitchen laddles to your hand and feet, sit down in a wok and hurtle down an olympic ice track at 70 mph. Simple really

And here's an Article about how it was invented

8-time Single Wok and 2-time 4-man wok World Champion Georg Hackl:

[Weeble]

ok, back from fishing and nearly over the cold i caught. I will return to fully active in the next few days starting with a response to the beta supremo Cogito, as another chappie of "Forks" is in my inbox.

[Weeble]

Jeez,

No one's been happy in a while....Well I am. Was able to transfer my blueberry cordial into bottles last night, in about two months it will be yummy. double happy is that gave me an empty jug and miraculously a bunch of raspberries started hollering. triple happy is I went to the optometrist (finally) and figured out that I can't buy the cheapie reading glasses anymore cause my eyes are too different. that explains the headaches I have been having and my difficulties with editing and typing.
Hopefully there will be an increase in accuracy (and output).

[Alelou]

Yay, though I'm a little worried about those raspberries! (I'm trying to decide whether that means you want to make raspberry cordial or you drank so much of the blueberry cordial that you hallucinated talking raspberries.)

[Weeble]

Hee hee,

No the blueberry definitely needs a couple of months aging. I taste test confirmed that..... Easter could be fun though...

The raspberries have sucked up almost all the sugar already. This batch is gonna be good...

[lfvoy]

My cousin took home a bronze medal (500m speed skating) and a GOLD medal (777m) at the Special Olympics World Games!

[Kotik]

[Alelou]

That's very cool!

[Kotik]

Carnival is great. Wolfi got laid. First sex in the last 8 years. Totally worth it

[Distracted]

TMI, Kotik.

At the risk of sounding like your mother, or at least your older sister, I sincerely hope you don't end up with something permanent to remind you of the evening. You may want to visit the doctor. Some of the things you can bring home from a night like that have no symptoms... or at least not yet.

Sorry. Can't help it. I do STD prevention counseling for a living.

[Weeble]

Cringe....

[Alelou]

I'm just looking forward to more relaxed Kotik.

[Kotik]

Dis, I may have been pissed out of my skull, but even in that situation ol' Kotik is clever enough to use the ol' rubber parka on the lil' engineer Anywho, I'll spend the rest of the day nursing my hangover. At my age they tend to last a week

But no matter what, a nice evening was had The barkeeper did look a bit funny, when I ordered "sto gramm" (traditional Russian quarter-pint of Vodka). And when I inhaled the thing in one gulp, I think I must have grown a second head if his look was anything to go by I think he would die of shock were he ever to see what a party in Russia looks like