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• By Jules, October 20, 2009 @ 2:48 pm

  Where’d you get the picture of the 1940s sausagefest? I don’t want to know what’s going through that pianist’s mind.
• By pressdog, October 20, 2009 @ 2:54 pm

  The reauthorized Pagoda is proof positive of the rampant substance abuse going on within IndyCar leadership.
• By Mike in Edmonton, October 20, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

  There are many more reasons to think substance abuse is rampant as well. Just look at any of the forums lately.
• By Larry Phelps, October 20, 2009 @ 3:18 pm

  Fantastic! I was getting worried that the $40 budget IndyCar gave us for the Chicago race was gonna dry up. This year though I think we dedicate half the money to corn liquor instead of Nyquil and decidedly cheap “entertainment”. See you in the cornfields in 2010 Roy.
• By dylan, October 20, 2009 @ 3:58 pm

  Oh good, where else would I go for irrevent Indycar stuff.
• By BP, October 20, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

  Well, I’m glad I stockpiled that absinthe on my trip to Australia. Should come in handy, I would imagine.
• By Coz, October 20, 2009 @ 4:11 pm

  I think that’s my Uncle Frank in the second row behind the sax player.
• By Carrie, October 20, 2009 @ 4:18 pm

  I will get drunk and flash someone in the Pagoda’s honor this weekend.
• By jason mcveigh, October 20, 2009 @ 4:19 pm

  Awesome news. Where else can angry open wheel fans with too much free time (myself included) go to to take shots at other types of racing and try and think of ridiculous comments to the even more rediculous posts on here. Long live the pagoda!
• By Roy Hobbson, October 20, 2009 @ 4:25 pm

  A party’s not a REAL party until my butchers get here. Just you wait. Because when they — HOLY SHIT THEY’RE HERE!!! UP IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER!!! RIGHT ON!!!!

  [rocks a bitchin' air guitar solo]
• By George Phillips (Oilpressure), October 20, 2009 @ 4:50 pm

  Isn’t that Arnold Schwarzenegger standing to the left of the saxophone player?
• By David C. (@djcraske), October 20, 2009 @ 6:03 pm

  Oooo … they either are on a boat, or they have ice cream (see upper left-hand corner background).
• By cappy, October 20, 2009 @ 6:27 pm

  +1 Jules. The pianist looks like how I imagine “The Gimp” looks without his hooded mask.
• By cappy, October 20, 2009 @ 6:30 pm

  Oh, and I’m withholding judgment on the Pagoda’s return until I’m assured that Lindycar is on board.
• By Brian McKay, October 20, 2009 @ 7:52 pm

  Bra-vo.
  Only five months until Saint Petersburg… what can The Silent Pagoda pontificate on in the off-season?
• By DZ, October 21, 2009 @ 9:16 am

  Wait, I thought Lindy WAS in. Didn’t she say something about drinks and flashing? (what?) OOHHhhh…right, Carrie. I often cornfuse the only two women on this board. Come to think of it, have we ever seen Carrie and Lindy in the same place at the same time? Hmmmm…

  Anyway, *raises glass*…

  Here’s to the cars, the stars, the speed and the tracks. To the owners and drivers and fans with big racks.
  To the vendors, the lenders, and merchandise hacks.
  and, most of all ROY, who makes me piss in me slacks!

  Let’s get cookie to broil us up that meat, eh fellers? *slugs down his Rob Roy*
• By DZ, October 21, 2009 @ 10:02 am

  Autumn brings closure
  Engines go dormant, silent…
  Pagoda is not!
• By bickelmom, October 21, 2009 @ 2:06 pm

  Hey DZ I know my name is confusing, but I’m a woman too! *sobs quietly in the corner clutching her ‘official Pagoda reader’ iron-on badge*
• By P Daddy, October 21, 2009 @ 2:22 pm

  Congratulations, I think! That means you have to keep paying semi-attention to all things IndyCar. Good and bad I guess.

  P.s.- where’s the article on the other big news today, #21 is about ready to return to eating his prey?

  What a glorious day!!! SP & Bob return!!!
• By DZ, October 21, 2009 @ 9:22 pm

  AHHH! bickelmom, I knew as soon as I posted that I had missed other women. Please accept my sincere apology for neglecting to include you in the rare category that is female Indycar fandom. Also apologies to any other women who I may have not mentioned.

  You take that badge and you affix it to some sort of clothing item and wear it proudly, bickelmom, for you are truly one of a very few women in this forum and you should be commended for your… well, bravery if not outright tolerance of the goons here (yours truly included).
• By Brian McKay, October 21, 2009 @ 11:38 pm

  I often think that bickelmom is hilarious — and sometimes bickeldad.
• By bickelmom, October 22, 2009 @ 6:15 am

  Thank you gentlemen (or goons, or both)! : ) Someday I’ll make sashes for you all.
• By bickeldad, October 22, 2009 @ 6:53 am

  Thanks Brian. Bickelmom feeds off of compliments. Now I get to hear about this for a month. Now if you excuse me, I need to jam a Q-Tip in my ear!
• By Roy Hobbson, October 22, 2009 @ 8:10 am

  I often think that bickelmom is hilarious — and sometimes bickeldad.

  I’ve found bickeldaughter’s comments, however, to be listless & uncreative. Even for a preschooler. STEP UP YOUR GAME, BICKELDAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!!
• By Bickel Dad, October 22, 2009 @ 9:00 am

  Be careful Roy. I told Bickeltoddler what you wrote and he threw a Danica (that is Bickel for fit) and threw his Ed Carpenter toy car at his brother.
• By Jeff L., October 22, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

  Isn’t Greg Bickel the Nascar guy that does meth and Bickelmom the drunk old lady that outed him then got arrested on his lawn?
• By Rob, October 22, 2009 @ 1:57 pm

  Another year? WooHoo! Bacon for everbody! Why Bacon? Why not?
• By DZ, October 27, 2009 @ 1:27 pm

  This has to be the post with the most bickelreferences in the history of the bickelpagoda.

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