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Category Archives: Sports
Shit-canned: Remembering the Preakness Toilet Races
“You can’t kill stupid; you can only attempt to contain it. Like on a very large infield.” – (Source: “The Quotable Tom Warner Omnibus.”) “In 2009, the first year without B.Y.O.B., attendance plummeted to 77,850 from 2008’s 112,222…” (Source: Maryland … Continue reading
Posted in 2000s, Baltimorons, Beer, Festivals, Pranks, Sports
Tagged freakness, port-a-potty races, preakness, running of the urinals, toilet run
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Counting down the Sweet 16 in Maryland horse racing history
By Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun (May 18, 2013) The anticipation of Saturday’s Preakness Stakes set us thinking: Who are the greatest Maryland thoroughbreds of all time — the horses who were bred, born, owned or trained here? To that end, … Continue reading
Posted in Horseracing, Sports
Tagged horse racing, maryland thoroughbreds, preakness
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Remembering Atomic TV’s answer to the Preakness
The Atomic TV Classic Pimlico Race Course June 16, 2001 Anticipation of today’s 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course made us think back to the biggest thoroughbred race in the history of Baltimore public access television. … Continue reading
Posted in Atomic TV, Horseracing, Pranks, Sports, Uncategorized, Urban Legends
Tagged atomic tv, atomic tv classic, pimlico race course
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Jim Palmer… Lookin’ Good! (1983)
Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer’s 1983 Tegrin Shampoo Commercial:
