Cool NASCAR poster

I'm totaly confused here, already. Tongue

When I read the title of this thread, Cool NASCAR poster,..... my ego, .....or it mighta been my Id, figured it must be all about me, being a "cool NASCAR poster" and all. And sometimes I wanna talk about me. Roll Eyes

Imagine my surprise? Tongue

I suppose if it's a thread about me I'm lookin' to read, I'm gonna have to write it myself. However, with the count-down to the new NASCAR season still lingering in the eighty-some odd days remaining, I reckon there's still a possibility there's a ghost writer out here somewhere who'll put pen to paper or hieroglyphics to monitor screen, before the off-season is over. So I'll wait a tad longer in hopes I can avoid the task of throwing some words together in some kind of order that makes sense. Words do that when the right writer assembles them properly and the reader reads 'em the way they were written.
Amazing how that works!
My first grade teacher was correct waaayyy back in the day. How do y'all figure she knew?" Readin' and writin'", she told me, will open doors and broaden your horizon. Words will take you to far away places and bring y'all back again and again. You'll be informed and you'll learn. You'll laugh at some and cry about others. While others will make you angry, in the drop of a hat, that can change to emotions of joy and satisfaction. And it's possible for all that to happen on the same page.

You'll use writin' and readin' to meet many others who use written words to illustrate their points and you'll reply in a like manner. Thoughts expressed by others will cause you to stop and think about them, and it's quite likely your thoughts transformed into words will do the same to others as they do to you. Time spent this way will fly so fast you'll wonder where time went. Words can also be timeless, never changing and remaining the same, or, words can change many times and still remain the same.

Writin' will jog your memory but can also help you forget. Words can be saved when necessary, and read or re-read at a later, more convienient time without them changing. They'll be waiting to be read even if it takes a long while. And they will remain the same without changing until you're ready to read them.

Alway remember what time has taught us about words. The PEN is mightier than the Sword. Written words, just as their close reletives the spoken words, can cut to the quick and leave y'all bleedin', and they can just as easily leave y'all laughin'.

There will be written words that you'll hear and you'll hear words that will getcha writin'. Written words can leave y'all speechless. Written words can be heard, seen, and felt by the readers and sometimes several readers will experience different emotions after they've read the same words. There will even be times when words read a second time will cause an entirely different and opposite emotional reaction. Often unpredicted or expected.

Written words can be read silently or out loud so many can hear them too. When a writer is in a hurry, they can include a picture. A picture is worth a thousand words they say. But, sometimes you say it best when you say nothing at all. Or at least, very little.
ALWAYS REMEMBER, words have meaning. The best writers may not be the best speakers and it can be the other way around just as easily. The best writers have one thing in common, knowing that words DO have meaning, they make sure they're aware of just what each word they write means so they can express exactly what they want to say, ---- be it simple or complex, ---- drawn out or quick and right to the point.

Written words can be very handy for the reader too. Had the writer been there in person and spoken the written words, the listener would need to keep up with the story as it unfolds before their very ears. Pay attention!
If y'all miss any of those spoken written words they could be lost and gone ---- forever. However, one of the beautiful things about the written words is that the reader can "pause" reading farther into the story and go back to re-read portions as many times as they want to. The written words remain the same everytime ---- unless the writer has chosen to rearrange them, ---- whick is the right of a writer to do if they see fit to make their thoughts easier to understand, or, to change the complexion of the message. As with the spoken words, written words can be arranged and rearranged to say the same thing in many different ways. And it's not uncommon for the written words to be more accurate than their spoken counterparts.

Another way to get the most from and best of communication is to read along as the written words are spoken. Especially if it's the author of those written words putting audio to their works. And for total and complete enjoyment, try listening to the written words when they're set to music and sung out loud. Such a beautiful noise!

Unless it's just before race time when some clown rips the National Anthem to shreads in front of two hundred thousand live captive listeners.
There oughta be a (written) law to put an end to that practice. And it needs to be enforced.
Good GOLLY!
What the heck were they thinking?

Many times I think, "COME-ON Flyover! Make loud noise and drown this singer out!

I think those pilots who do the flyover are fortunate that THEY don't have to hear what's goin' on down here on the ground. I swear!
I'd be willing to slide down razor blades into alcohol to trade places with them up there in the wild blue yonder.

But, I digress.
HEY!
Blame that on my teachers!!

It was all of them who didn't spend enough time on digression prevention.

Or maybe they did and I was absent that day.
Oh well, all in all I figure they all did a pretty good job of filling my mind with something other than mush or garbage. Garbage in ---- garbage out. It's not a bad idea to refresh the mind every so often so stuff up there doesn't go stale. Take inventory of what's stored up there on a regular basis to be sure it's always fresh and hasn't reached it's expiration date yet.
Some materials are time sensitive while some others are timeLESS. And sometimes, the song remains the same.

AfterShock's AfterThought:

Wouldn't it be totally cool to have a last name like "Said"?

OH!
And one last thing,...............................
what ever became of Dick & Jane and their little sister Sally?
Don't read much about them any more.
I figure they were the inspiration for what are now Soap Operas.

*****(I sure wish I knew how to write with an accent. I'd love to be able to write like Ward Burton talks.
Yes I would!)*****

This has only been one of many off-season fillers to come.
See?
Writing can even help us get through withdrawls.
Hail!
Thousands of years from now when our writings of today are rediscovered and read by whomever is around then, I bet they're gonna wonder just
HOW BAD HAVE THEY GOT IT?!

We'll be studied in attempts to understand the life and times of NASCARITES prior to the arrival of the C.O.T..
As our rantings are read, how will the reader's mind's eye imagine us?
Perhaps hairy with low brows and long arms dragging the ground?
For sure, I seriously doubt they'll ever be able to imagine pink speedos and a slightly faded purple cape.
Might not even have super heros out there in the future.
Maybe more like THE INCREDIBLES. Retired.
And living somewhere in Florida. BUT!
NOwhere near Brian of France.

He won't be too hard to locate in the future though.
Just follow the downed palm trees and wrecked parked cars he leaves in his wake. Shocked

Ya reckon? Wink

For those readers who are concerned about my off-season writings,......don't worry and fret not.
I guarantee it'll get worse before it gets any better.
That's my prediction anyway. And,...........
I'm stickin' to it.

At least until y'all vote me off the island.
Or fine me for being detrimental to Stock Car Racing.
Which ever come first. Or last.

I'll never change. I'll alway be EXACTLY the same,................
only, different.

Gosh! I think I just thunk a thought! Shocked

Nobody has ever actuall SEEN me. Which might be a good thing but,...............
that means every reader has a different image of me in their mind's eye.
Doesn't seem like any big deal ---- on the surface but,.............
how would y'all describe me to a stranger?
What are the odds y'all would have the same image of me in your mind's eye? Undecided

Man! I see the potential for there being a LOT of confused strangers somewhere down the line ----- back in the future.

If THAT don't give me a point to ponder,
what WILL?!

I gotta go sit a spell and try to figure this all out.
Hmmmmmmmm.

This could take awhile!
I better bring a lunch.
And hurry!
Ain't but eighty-some-odd days left to sort all this out.

Just one of many drawbacks to being a deep thinker.
And it's definitely gettin' deeper and deeper in here now. I think.
Do me a favor folks?

Hold all excrementation until I can get a firm grip on it all and get to the top of this important matter and put it all behind me.
I was hoping to get ahead of it all, but it appears I got a little behind.
Is there anybody out there who can imagine THAT?! Me, a super hero with a little behind? Or maybe a little me with a super behind?
Well, let me put that another way. How many out there have ALREADY imagined me that way?
You know, in your mind's eye?
Do you wear perscription glasses? Or just reading glasses only when reading (me)?

Just the facts folks. Just the facts.

A L R I G H T !!!
WHO said THAT??
Well, I never!! Shocked

Take me one day at a time people.
Too much of a good thing all at once will make y'all crazy.
Just ask me.
I know. Roll Eyes