British engineers and feuding Southerners have something in common. Both are vacant from the headlines of the news today. The British contingent had to call off their attempt at breaking the steam-powered land speed record on Monday due to high winds. Meanwhile back at the ranch, Lisa Mayfield may still be pissed about that darned cat.
By now the stiff upper lips of the British “steam team” have to be quivering. The last thing we read seemed to indicate that the team was nearly out of time and would have to abandon this attempt at setting the record if they were delayed any more and that was a story published on Sunday. Maybe the Stanley Brothers hooked the big guy in the sky up with a steamer and he’s doing them some favors.
Lots of us have probably been at the races and either been crewing on or driving a car that was not acting happily and was throwing all the signs out of being a petulant pain in the rear. Ignoring those signs usually leads to a bent up car or wrecked equipment.
The gods of speed get annoyed when you test them but they get downright pissed when you start ignoring their hints to give it up for the time being. If the record is not set by the end of today we think tea and crumpets will be replaced with tea and valium.
In other news, Lisa Mayfield is still a train wreck.
Here’s a photo of the rube goldberg machine steam car.
