Trickle or Nixon? Pick your Dick in this round of quotation trivia | HEY, WILLIE!
HEY, WILLIE!
Thanks for another entertaining notes column (Sunday, July 16), which helped to brighten an otherwise dreary Sunday morning.
An esoteric blend of Nielsen ratings, Jimmy V, the disgraced Richard Nixon and the profound insights of Kenny Schrader and Dick Trickle more than compensated for the day's lack of sunshine.
I was a firefighter in another life, and whenever one of the guys would whine about getting hurt, our captain would drag us out to the apparatus room, point to our individual protective equipment and, just like Dick Trickle said about racing, he'd tell us, “You should've known something was gonna happen when you put all that stuff on.”
DONNIE
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HEY, DONNIE!
In Jim Valvano’s memorable speech, he said, “any day you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.”
To borrow a bit: Any column that includes quotes from Dick Trickle and Dick Nixon, that’s a full column.
Oh, why not a little “Which Dick” trivia. Just two questions (until I think of others at a later time) …
1. Which Dick — Trickle or Nixon — said the following: “It’s a great wall”?
A. Dick Trickle at Talladega.
B. Dick Nixon in China.
2. Which Dick — Trickle or Nixon — said this: “It’s like flying a fighter jet in a gymnasium”?
A. Dick Trickle at Bristol.
B. Dick Nixon aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga?
Answers below, if I don’t forget.
HEY, WILLIE!
Your C-note was well spent on Monday’s NASCAR race. We’ll call you “Willie the Greek.”
LEGS
HEY, LEGS!
The weekly “NASCAR on a C-note” odds column has been a test of patience and perseverance, not to mention its strain on what’s left of discretionary spending.
But every now and then …
Nailed ’em both at New Hampshire — the $50 prop bet (Suarez beat Almirola) and the $50 on Martin Truex to win.
All hypothetical, of course, since such games of chance remain illegal at Bushwood, sir.
HEY, WILLIE!
I enjoy your articles. I have a question.
Do you think Harrison Burton advanced too quickly to the Cup series, and did his dad Jeff have any influence?
DARRYL
HEY, DARRYL!
Maybe.
And probably.
Meanwhile, is there another name out there with a bigger variety of spellings than Darryl/Daryl/Darrell/Darryll/Darrel/Darel?
HEY, WILLIE!
I see pictures of snappers all year long, and a bunch of them look red to me. Then you tell us fishermen are only able to bring them in two days a year.
I think there’s an explanation out there somewhere, because I don’t think they would post pictures of themselves breaking laws. Help me out, Kenny.
LEONARD
HEY, LENNY!
There’s red snapper, and then there’s Red Snapper.
When you see a picture of a bunch of snapper tacked to a board or sprawled out on a dock, the reddish ones are probably either vermillion or silk snapper.
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The vermillion, like the red, has an eyeball redder than Uncle Ed’s after a long night at the pool hall. It’s much smaller than the average red, still tastes good, and it’s open-season all year long. Each offshore angler can keep five a day, while all the red snapper caught have to be gently returned to the deep — with any luck, while the sharks are distracted.
Meanwhile, I believe we have one more week of snapper chatter in store for this week’s critically acclaimed fishing roundup — tune in and tell your friends!
Oh yeah, in case you really need the Dick Trivia answers: 1. B, 2. A. Congrats!
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
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