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Konaborne · Nov 5, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=a201ibyoiAs&NR=1

Namyo · Nov 5, 2012

m3bassman said: ↑

HOLE

LEE

SHIT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihQeZpwqpE
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bout had a heart attack watching that!

ShaLor · Nov 5, 2012

Konaborne said: ↑

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Am I missing something? Isn't a "Concours D'Elegance" a Cadillac?

oZmonKey · Nov 5, 2012

First H2 I've seen that looks proportionally correct. (I played with stompers when I was a kid)

Spoonman · Nov 5, 2012

Too bad it's an H2...suburban

Spoonman · Nov 5, 2012

It's possible to stall an automatic. Rolling backward in drive etc.

Nathan · Nov 5, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204349404578098803097975398.html

No Way to Tiptoe Around It: This Drink Can Be Hard to Swallow
In the Yukon, Home of a New Gold Rush, 'Sourtoe' Cocktail Endures; The Lip Test
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By RYAN SAGER

DAWSON CITY, Yukon Territory—"You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow. But the lips have gotta touch the toe."

So goes the regular incantation here in the Downtown Hotel's Sourdough Saloon, in the heart of Dawson City—itself the heart of the Klondike's new gold rush.

Robert Service, the bard of the Yukon, wrote that "There are strange things done in the midnight sun/By the men who moil for gold." Few are stranger than the saga of the Sourtoe Cocktail. Garnished with a preserved human toe, this digital drink is administered nightly to crowds of tourists, trappers and miners.

Many are chasing down Dawson's new gold rush, which has seen roughly 50,000 new claims staked in the region in the past two fiscal years, up from just a couple thousand claims per year previously.

This city of 1,800 now swells to roughly 4,000 during the summer since gold prices spiked. And the Sourtoe—a local attraction that has gained notice and travel-guide mentions over the past 39 years—is drawing a new generation of those eager to prove themselves true Yukoners (or, in local parlance, "sourdoughs") by downing the tawdry tipple.

The idea was born in 1973, when riverboat captain Dick "River Rat" Stevenson found a severed big toe preserved in a pickle jar in a cabin outside of town. Capt. Dick, as he is known, says he came up with the original rules for the drink over the course of a drunken evening with friends: take a beer glass full of champagne, drop in the toe, tip the glass back…and the toe must touch the lips. In September 1973, eight people participated in the first attempt; nearly four decades later, the Sourtoe Cocktail Club has an estimated 100,000-plus members.

You can now "do" the Sourtoe with any beverage (Yukon Jack whisky liqueur preferred). It costs $5. There is a ceremony performed by the night's "toe captain," a logbook to sign and a certificate of membership awarded.

While it may sound unsanitary, the toes are pickled for months in medical alcohol and then packed in dry salts. "There is no issue with the toe," says Patricia Living, communications director for Yukon Health and Social Services. "The risk of freezing on the way to the bar or being attacked by a pack of wolves would be higher."

"I think the aesthetics are more worrisome than the health aspect," said Stephen S. Morse, professor of clinical epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. "I doubt there's much that anyone would catch from it."

"The Sourtoe would be shut down most anywhere else," says Capt. Dick, now 82 and retired to the Yukon's capital city, Whitehorse. He says the toe is his proudest accomplishment—that and organizing a nude beauty contest on an island in the Yukon River. He recently shipped a toe-shaped urn up to Dawson City, so his ashes can someday sit in the Sourdough Saloon. "It's hard to become famous," Capt. Dick says. "It's much easier to become infamous."

And if people come looking for anything (other than gold) in Dawson City—center of the 1896 Klondike rush, just south of the Arctic Circle and roughly 300 miles from nowhere—it is a little bit of infamy.

"This is the coolest thing I've ever done," said Levi Wiebe, 23, of Coaldale, Alberta, after downing the Sourtoe Cocktail on a recent night.

"I got it in my mouth a little," said a chilled Caleigh Miller, 30, of Whitehorse.

"It's a bit gross looking," said Chris Quickfall, 19, of Prince George, British Columbia, who heard about the toe from a hitchhiker and decided to do it for his birthday. "It tastes like plastic."

There are, of course, those who can't be persuaded to partake. "Heck no, I want to live until I'm 90," said Carolyn Wingard, 64, a retired soldier from St. Augustine, Fla. "But I'll tell people I did."

"We've had people throwing up, we've had people gagging on their drinks," says Dick Van Nostrand, manager at the Downtown Hotel. Real trouble, however, is when someone gets overenthusiastic. "You never know when some fool is going to do something stupid," Mr. Van Nostrand says. "And then we'll be without a toe."

Indeed, many toes have been lost. The original toe touched roughly 725 pairs of lips before it was swallowed in the summer of 1980 by a placer miner. A replacement toe was swallowed in 1983. Other toes have been damaged by overzealous patrons.

Despite the toes' propensity to walk away, donors keep stepping forward. After the first toe was swallowed, a woman in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, sent in a middle toe she had had amputated years earlier due to an inoperable corn. One toe was donated by a trapper who had lost it to frostbite. Another came by way of lawn mower accident.

Steve White, 42, a chain-link fence installer in Whitehorse, got his pinkie toe amputated in January 2000 after developing hammertoe—and, having heard the story of the Sourtoe, asked the doctor to save it.

Mr. White didn't get around to donating until April 2002. "The call came out from Dawson, they had no toes going into the season," Mr. White recalls. Before that, he had had it in a jar in his freezer. "My wife wasn't very happy with me," he says.

Mr. White sent the toe up to Dawson City and later drove up to "do the toe" for the first time—with his own toe. "I always tell people I left a little piece of me in Dawson," he says.

Next September will mark the 40th anniversary of the Sourtoe. In addition to donating his ashes, Capt. Dick wants to have a wax figurine made of himself, which would wear his captain's gear and preside over the toe in perpetuity.

Still, he is worried about the future. "At this point, you can't get away with this stuff," he says. "Things are really going to hell…It's still a frontier, but not like it was."
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Doc4216 · Nov 5, 2012

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Who needs a car when you can hike to 14,259....

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Awesome pic!!! Semper P!!!!

KodiakToyTRD · Nov 5, 2012

Damn Navy, always gettin it on with the hogs.

Utard · Nov 5, 2012

acdronin said: ↑

What pisses me off is inattentive drivers who put us at risk because of their behavior.
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What? Fapping at hot chicks?

28ØØ3 · Nov 5, 2012

this will give your butthole a heart attack:
http://youtu.be/oFkw5JFOmHk

Utard · Nov 5, 2012

KenLyns said: ↑

Of course, being Japan, they made a live-action version:

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If I was a little kid that would make me afraid of snatch.

Utard · Nov 5, 2012

Saskquatch11 said: ↑

IMO, if you choose to not wear a helmet the hospital should be able to refuse treatment.
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A hospital should never ever refuse treatment. But I say if you where retarded and did something retarded then the insurance could refuse to pay for said stupidness.

Utard · Nov 5, 2012

Larry said: ↑

Darwin...

or God.

your choice
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Well thats easy. DARWIN cause there is no god.

Redfox1 · Nov 5, 2012

28ØØ3;5946679 said:

this will give your butthole a heart attack:
http://youtu.be/oFkw5JFOmHk
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wtf at 4:21 cant really figure out what happened to that one car, looks like half of it went flying off into the median.

Also those pedestrians are retards, except for the first guy

Utard · Nov 5, 2012

Larry said: ↑

and you may be respectful as a smoker...most are not.

and no matter how respectful one may think he/she is...there is no way I'm eating outdoors at a resturaunt while smokers are lighting up.

then...there is the "gauntlet" at the door us non smokers must traverse.
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Reminds me about 10 or so years ago I was in a restaurant in New Jersey. The lady in the next booth inside had a fork in one hand and a cigarette in the other hand. And no shit she would take a bite of food then a drag on the cig. She did that through the whole meal. And that was when I was a smoker my self. Glad I gave up that nasty habit.

DEEVON911 · Nov 5, 2012

28ØØ3;5946679 said:

this will give your butthole a heart attack:
http://youtu.be/oFkw5JFOmHk
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28ØØ3 · Nov 5, 2012

m3bassman said: ↑

i take it at 4:25 that wasnt red paint?
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holy fucksticks, i just noticed that.....it was probably a deer

Utard · Nov 5, 2012

OZ-T said: ↑

Crazy

So much steering input needed , the driver must be totally worn out after that
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All the adrenaline running through him would make most people lock up and freeze.

BrokenTusk · Nov 5, 2012

Utard said: ↑

All the adrenaline running through him would make most people lock up and freeze.
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Everyone reacts to stress differently. Some would freeze, some would be more fluid in their reactions.

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