# NASCAR 1, Marijauna 0... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035 "2001-02-19T01:52:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Origato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b2d939/32.png) [@Origato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Origato)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/61 "2001-02-19T06:35:54Z")
**inor** and your argument is??? ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/62 "2001-02-19T06:37:33Z")
Origato, perhaps you should consider switching to crack as your drug of choice. On second thought, considering your wacko, stupid, and almost incoherent OP, maybe you already have… You are a fucking moron! RE: The lawsuit crap…Offhand, I can’t think of a single instance where a NASCAR driver’s family sued after a fatal crash. (I have no cites, and am talking about Winston Cup/Busch Grand National more than the lower classes, could be wrong) The family will be at Rockingham next week rooting for Dale Jr, and all the Earnhardt cars, not thinking about lawsuits. ---
**Author:** ![inor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f475e1/32.png) [@inor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inor)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/63 "2001-02-19T06:40:20Z")
Touche on that though- good show. ---
**Author:** ![Origato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b2d939/32.png) [@Origato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Origato)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/64 "2001-02-19T06:41:27Z")
And **Dewt** , your contribution to the discussion is _name-calling_? What a fucking idiot! Contribute or YOU get tne fuck out, asshole… ---
**Author:** ![Origato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b2d939/32.png) [@Origato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Origato)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/65 "2001-02-19T06:47:52Z")
The Earnhardt Family WILL sue somebody… I HAVE ALREADY PREDICTED IT. I ALREADY HAVE A BET ON IT… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/66 "2001-02-19T06:49:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mechanichik \* > \*\*how many people have been killed Bull Riding? and no one seems to care about that. I wasnt a dale Earnhardt fan, in fact, I disliked the guy, but right now Im balling like an ass because he died. \*\* _cough_ “bawling” _cough_ ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/67 "2001-02-19T06:49:52Z")
And now, as a break from drug addled lunacy, I present to you a series of squiggly lines: ```auto See! It's equally irrelevant and out of place, but less offensive to both eye and mind. Buy yours today! *sigh* ``` ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/68 "2001-02-19T07:03:30Z")
Thanks Myrr, I needed to mellow out 🙂 And dammit, [squigglylines.com](http://squigglylines.com) is taken. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/69 "2001-02-19T07:04:04Z")
Just remember, people, our humble _cough cough_ OP is the same idiot who spawned these threads: [Is the State of Missouri is gonna elect a DEAD guy for US Senator!!!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=44360), followed by its redux, [Resurrected thread! Missouri did elect a DEAD guy for US Senator!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45590), and, of course, the paranoiac’s paradise, [The God-damn media is fucking with our minds!!!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45586). DNFTT. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/70 "2001-02-19T07:13:50Z")
Hello, everyone. My name is Andy and I’m your Straight Dope tour guide today. Here on the left you can witness an ugly horned asshole. Notice how he posts short, simplistic rejoinders to those who call him an asshole, ignoring those who point out the reasons why he is an asshole. NOTICE THE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS. He thinks this strengthens his arguement. Hee! Isn’t that cute? Oh, you’re out of film? I’m sorry. Can I offer you a tshirt with a tasteless color scheme? Coming up on your right is our new exhibit “The three words that end in -gry- A retrospective.” ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/71 "2001-02-19T08:19:54Z")
> [@](#): > > The Earnhardt Family WILL sue somebody… I HAVE ALREADY PREDICTED IT. > > I ALREADY HAVE A BET ON IT… You DO realize that Dale Earnhart had a “zero liability” contract signed with NASCAR, right? As in, he had accepted the fact that he may get seriously hurt or killed while racing? Be prepared to lose that bet, jackass. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/72 "2001-02-19T09:50:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Origato \* > \*\*I AM FULLY AWARE OF THE RISKS OF SMOKING POT, SHITHEAD, I’VE BEEN DOING IT FOR 28 YEARS, YET NOBODY HAS DIED AS A RESULT, DIPWAD!!! > \*\* > [@](#): > > **The point is I’m still alive and he isn’t.** Some would say that _this_ is the true tragedy represented here. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/73 "2001-02-19T10:04:11Z")
Origato I guess you like Runi the Sumo wrestler fuckin you up the ass and JoJo sucking your dick along with Felcia the whore going down on your face, oh and the dog licking you all the while. WTF? That was pretty fucked up. A lot of race fans are very saddened by Earnhardt’s death. He was one of the best in what he did. I was ready to get all shitty on people that disputed my ideas on estate taxes but you Origato really take the cake and side tracked me from that. I always wanted to be a race car driver, in the thick of things, in the midst of greatness, but you had to cheapen it and be the fuckwad about it all. Earnhardt was not the most liked NASCAR driver but he was one of the best. He brought to the sport a sense of competition. He gave to many of his fans what a true competitor needs to give to his or her fans, controversy in the way of wanting to win, but always within the rules. I have watched the sport for almost 20 years and it’s a sport where the best guy wins…Earnhardt lost his life, he did so doing what he loved most, racing. So fuck you and your Pit thread. I hope Runi, JoJo and Felicia gave you what you wanted because you are a complete ass. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/74 "2001-02-19T13:06:42Z")
This guy reminds me of what I came across when Doug Henning died. Remember him? Goofy magician guy? I was looking up some info on him for my aunt, and I came across a board on a fan site. There was actually a troll on there talking about what a long-haired faggot he was and how the world was lucky he was dead. I couldn’t believe my eyes. A troll on the Doug Henning memorial boards? Some people REALLY need to get out more. The the OP. Take a logic class or something- learn how to argue a point. ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/75 "2001-02-19T13:49:33Z")
Forgive me members of this board for bothering to reply… Origato, It’s already been mentioned that your analogy sucks rocks so I’ll just skip on by that. I’d just like to point out that if you’re going to bother to compare death rates of one type of activity to another you might want to at least have some statistics handy. How can you claim no one has ever died from Marijauna? Bob Marley? Or are you going to claim that it was lung cancer not your favorite drug that killed him? It was marijauna related you can be sure. If you want to make the claim that marijauna has never killed anyone you peruse through some auto accident databases and find out how badly people react while smoking the stuff and driving. Yes, I know that alcohol and cigerettes have the same results as I mentioned above but my points are: 1. You claim no deaths caused by marijuna when that is almost certainly untrue. 2. You’re an insensitive clod. Is it logical that cigerettes and alcohol are illegal while your drug isn’t. No. Do I care if you smoke while sitting quietly in your house? No. But I do wish you’d disconnect your computer and phone until you learn some compassion for others. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/76 "2001-02-19T13:53:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Origato \* > \*\*The Earnhardt Family WILL sue somebody… I HAVE ALREADY PREDICTED IT. > > I ALREADY HAVE A BET ON IT… \*\* This, above all of your other posts in this thread, show just how little you know about NASCAR as a sport, and the families that live it day to day. Theresa Earnhardt will not sue. I will take any bet you’re willing to give. I can use the money. I’m trying to move. So let me tell you the reason she won’t sue, from a LIFETIME of racing experience. And it doesn’t have to do with any paperwork Dale signed. She’s part of the racing community. The racing community knows the risks as a whole. They accept those risks. Theresa knows, just as Patty and Kyle Petty knew last year when Adam was killed, just like the wives and families of all the NASCAR drivers have known as far back as I can remember, that her husband was killed doing exactly what he loved to do. He was racing for the checkered flag. He was going fast, foot on the floor, and running wide open. Racing was in his **blood** , handed down from his daddy, and he handed it down to his sons. Theresa couldn’t have been married to him as long as she was without knowing all this. And, if the thought ever DID cross her mind, she knows Dale would haunt her until her dying day, because, the type of driver he was would **NEVER** have condoned something like this. Unlike any other sport I have ever seen, NASCAR is a family. During the off season, on the weekends off, the drivers and their families get together and laugh and have fun and just spend time together. When you go to a track, they’ll come up to you and talk to you, shake your hand, ask you how you are and, if it’s after the race, how you liked the race. They may be competetors on Sunday afternoon, but after that race is over, they are back to being family. And with as close knit of a family as that, you don’t think about sueing and “what’s in it for me?” Theresa’s first thoughts, after the grief has subsided a little, will be how to continue Dale’s legacy of a race team. She’ll run it with all the panache that Dale did himself. She’ll be hugged at the funeral by Bill France Jr and Mike Helton, who **will** be there, lending all the support they can, and trying to assauge their own guilt. I’m sorry that you’ve never had the opportunity to experience the racing community, to see the true **love** that they have for everyone involved. It’s a shame to me that you will never realize what it means to not be out for only yourself. You are missing out on so much. ---
**Author:** ![activgurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@activgurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/activgurl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/77 "2001-02-19T14:34:38Z")
Well, when Origato gets finished with his weed, climbs into his 64 Falcon to go to his fast food job, and wipes himself out in a curve, I will re-consider his OP. Or I will just put my finger on my head, “things that make you go HMMMM”, and promptly forget all about him. Dale, buddy, ya did a fine job with the youngsters. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/78 "2001-02-19T15:19:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Origato \* > \*\* The point is I’m still alive and he isn’t. You gotta problem wid dat? \*\* Many people might have said, > [@](#): > > Do you have a problem with that? . Remember, Origato, girls don’t get intimate with boys who’re illiterate. Neither do other boys 😃 😃 😃 Cartooniverse p.s. And, isn’t it usually pronounced " **Ah** rigato ??? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/79 "2001-02-19T15:23:15Z")
Y’know, I opened this thread to find out what it was **really** about. Nobody, I thought, could be so insensitive and idiotic as to make a completely invalid analogy using a tragedy that was less than 24 hours old. It couldn’t **really** be about the first thing that crossed my mind… Apparently I was wrong. Sad, really… :wally ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035/80 "2001-02-19T17:34:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Origato \* > \*\*in this country who dob smoke pot, THAT is a CRIME… \*\* Say whut? Is this another line from that fucked up Japanese computer game? I know all about legalized marihuana. I’m from a country where you can buy the stuff at every street corner, practically. And I can attest that marihuana usually doesn’t have the effects that **Origato** is so unfortunately demonstrating here. Unless you’re on a fucking automatic hash-oxygen system 24/7, for 28 years. It’s either that, or he needs to close the damn White-Out on his desk. Jesus Christ, what a train wreck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nascar-1-marijauna-0/55035.md?page=5)