Best Carlisle Moment

Hospitality suite. Saturday well after midnight. Just some leftover hardcore insomniacs gathered round a battered fold-up conference table in the middle of the room. Kelly. Lane. Alan and Kim. Bruce and Norma. Rocky and Linda. Paul M. Me and Toni. Henry R. And Hoss. Having sat at the table for two hours in amiable contemplation, he suddenly starts doing Flip Wilson's Geraldine. I mean really doing her. Out of nowhere. Just sitting there Hoss starts doing Geraldine like he's possessed. And she's pissed, man. She's one pissed off Geraldine. There is video.

Wow That musta been hilarious! Who woulda thunk it?

wait...till you see and hear this ! ! ! ! ! !

Uh-oh.

Max, she may show up on your doorstep and give you hell for outing her.

Said in voice of Obnoxious Radio Guy (ORG): "Next on Strange but True: Swedish man in large hat possessed by spirit of dead fictional comedic character! Voice from beyond prevents the end of the world!"

Please! I'm looking for this lady, Geraldine, 'cause I need to talk to her. If any of you see her, please ask her to call me. I got to know that what happened last night really happened, that I wasn't having one of my spells. Thank y'all so much.

Lucille

Other Best Carlisle Moments:

Getting a discreet birthday card instead of the usual rousing rendition by the Speedster Owners Birthday Choir (that honor went to Russ whose birthday it really was). Thank you Norma.

Doing a helmet-and-goggles lap around the Hotel Carlisle in the Hoopty.

Running Tom Buchanan's IM all over the Carlisle show field.

Jack Crosby's presentation.

A pre-dawn hangover finally lifting around eight a.m.

We were easy on you Max, promised to celebrate one more if your Speedster didn't show in Carlisle. Next year, well....I'm just sayin'.

I bought speedster #25 ( an almost completed speedster) on Saturday !

Mr. Merklin, you are a madman!

Spending most of the week end at the 52-Speedster show field wondering why that cute, leggy blonde was helping us to attract attention -- like we need that!? So this is a new perk to being the best attended club at the show? I guess she comes along w/ the free tent. Cool . . .

NOT smoking a bunch of moldy old cigars, but hanging with the cool dudes (and dudettes) who do.

Picking up a couple of REAL rain hats at the raffle, so the Al baking pans can be retired.

Running around the PA coutryside ISO covered bridges in the two or three hours when it was NOT raining, or threatening to.

Egg sammiches, and also a Philly Cheese steak that was not too bad -- for both lunch, and later on for Sunday dinner.

Cruising home w/ the Hoopty in the rear view mirror along the roads less traveled (PA Rtes 34 and 15) through the PA back woods and Gettysburg, and riding at a liesurely 3,000 RPM for 20 minutes at a stretch and not seeing a single other car headed our way.

Priceless!!

Great tales guys! I am thinking about making the pilgrimage next year.

Sounds like an awesome turn-out of cars. Guamaniac is definitely making Carlisle 2012!

If not Guamaniac, then my Samoan alter ego - Jr. Felloffasofa

I CANT MAKE IT

What if Vince attends in 2012?

If Vince shows up we won't have to use that lifesize cardboard cutout of him where people have a hole where they can put their own heads and get their picture taken.

If Jr. Felloffasofa makes it I'll carry my Speedster if I have to.

Bwaaaahahahaha

You didn't mention the hole in the Vince life size poster where you can "Stick this!!" I'm just sayin' . . .

Vince in '12 RIGHT ON!! but i hear gerd can't make it . . .

Will: you make the trip, and your stay here will be all taken care of. While I cannot absolutely guarantee it, I may have sufficient time and influence to arrange more than just a quick turn through the parking lot in the Hoopty. Book your flights early, and save. or drive out!!

Best moment: 4

Poor Russ. He gets to drive my car for all of Carlisle 2012.
From the moment I arrive to the moment we go to leave.
What a good sport.

Karen and I met our Doppelgangers, 10-15 years in the future. We pull in to Carlisle, turn the corner to the Speedster area and there's this nice couple in a cream colored BCW TD replica lined up to do the covered bridge run. He's goin', "another BCW! Didn't think I'd ever see another one!" Never heard of 'em or saw them before; they're not on the TD forum.

She's into gardening, like Karen, and wears the exact hat Karen forgot to buy & bring.

He's an over-talkative tinkerer, retired clock maker, and bonkers about his car which he's rebuilt by himself. Basically like me except with mechanical skills.

They're about to get married; planning the honeymoon. We got married a few months back; planning a honeymoon.

The cars look almost identical--'cept theirs is a little nicer & it's a front engine jobbie.

Then we look up and there's six--count'em, SIX! (6!)--TDs on the line. That's three more'n last year, bunkies, and double the number we thought we had coming three days before the show.

Carey and I were driving to the group dinner Friday night in the Sloppy Jalopy when we saw a giant rainbow.
"Man, Carey, check that out! I can see both ends of that rainbow!"
A quarter of a mile later, I remembered what it usually means when you can see the entire arch. With less than a half-mile to go, with the Park Inn sign in sight, we got soaked.
Figures.

Best moment: 4
Followed by the quote f the night "these are the kind of photos that get you in trouble on Facebook" and then a Facebook upload. LMAO

Hey Cory, you probably didn't recognize that car from the rear did you? ;)

Good times guys, good times...

Several:
- Hanging my rear end out on a climbing hairpin on the mountain run on Saturday
- Having ice cream with the goats at our middle of nowhere dairy stop
- Laying rubber on a covered bridge
- Meeting Henry & having him tell me he already knew about me and my car
- Cory's comment about my car
- Lane's Weber tutorial
- The talent in the booth next to ours :)

"What happens in the hospitality room stays in the hospitality room." Ha! Geraldine had been undercover for at least ten years and has been looking for the right occasion to reappear. She has gone back into hiding, but I understand that she sometimes holds court in a little bistro in the D.R.