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[MR.CLEAN]

Here's Chris Welch - the Bayview Yacht Club sailor who got to be part of Morning Light last year. Good stuff from a good kid.

[MR.CLEAN]

From the J/109 "ZigZag" - they are 12 nm off Charlevoix, 26 nm from Gray's Wind is 10.5 285 degrees, They're reaching @ 7.5 knots. That's from "Shiprech"

[CaptnPea]

? Smaller boats correcting over this year, wind from behind?

[hobot]

Relax? Wow. You're suggesting this to me? You don't know me, and I have no idea who you are. Nice recovery though.

Went right_over_your head didn't it?


If you would, please try not to use the word asscertain too much.

<jack over>

[henry the navigator]

Relax

[Miss Mackinac]

Nitemare has finished.

[SailUP]

Long time reader. After many Macs. can't be there this year ... great to monitor the race from the web. The videos and reporting from Mr. Clean are super!

Any reports on why the DNF by Wootan?

[Miss Mackinac]

Nice Pair just checked in and let us know that there is NO WIND in their location. Very slow going.

The time that it is taking Piep Piper to get here from the bridge, it is sounding like a parking lot.

Mirage just called in under bridge.

[MR.CLEAN]

There is just nothing out there as far as the eye can see. I can't even imagine how excruciating it is.

Here are some of the opening ceremony/skipper's meeting vids:

Captain of USCG Cutter Mackinac - the nanny boat for the race


Here's Loren - the dockmaster for the event. She was a bit...shall we say...emotional last year on the docks.

[MR.CLEAN]

This is a great interview...I was already a little blasted by this point, and I got to talk to the rev petey - Pete Crawford. Petey is a videographer and film producer extraordinaire, as well as a good friend and total party bro. He talks about his ride - the turboed Melges 30 Peerless owned by our sponsor Brian Torresen of Torresen Marine - and about the new TV series planned by some seriously talented film guys about sailing, starting with the Chicago Mackinac race, with cameras on four different boats.


Check it:

[Lono]

Hey Clean:
Thanks for keeping this long time race participant informed while stuck on the sidelines this year. 17 under my belt but not really missing the drift fest this year.

Is there any way to get a copy of the 45th call in and post it to give us all an idea of where some friends are out on the lake? One of the boats I'd like to know about either sank or lost its transponder yesterday sometime.

L

[MR.CLEAN]

Some more from the skipper's meeting. All this meeting stuff is kind of boring, you're warned.

PRO:

Chief Measurer Ron White (Anarchist REW and owner of the F-31 Cheekee Monkee, currently drifting around in no wind.

[MR.CLEAN]

Here's a little press release from the CYC. Read carefully.

Genuine Risk Takes Line Honors
First boats finish the 100th Running of Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

July 21, 2008 (Mackinac Island) -- Randall Pittman and crew aboard Genuine Risk, the largest boat in the over 430 boat fleet, were the first to reach Mackinac Island first thing today at 1:18 a.m. during the 100th Running of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. Peter Isler, navigator on Risk said, "It was a tactically challenging race. We had 5-6 weather models and the science just couldn't keep up with Mother Nature."

Like Isler, many sailors are reporting on the fickle winds in this 2008 race, which began Saturday. "It's hard to have a strong game plan in these conditions. Sometimes you just have to wing it and go with your gut instincts," Isler added. Fortunately the crew of Genuine Risk is packed with great instincts in sailors like Isler, Eric Doyle and James Spittle to name a few. "Since it is an Americas Cup off-year, we could finally put this great crew together of friends," owner Randall Pittman explained. "This is a great group of guys who really work well as a team

The 100th Mac was special for Pittman and crew for several reasons, but in particular the race was an opportunity for the crew to pay tribute to friend and renown sailor Mark Rudiger who passed away Thursday prior to the race. "We added a sticker on the boom that reads "RUDI." We dedicated this race to him," Pittman remarked. Rudiger was Pittman's navigator the last time Genuine Risk competed on the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac four years prior.

Genuine Risk finished with an elapsed time of 35:08:42, and just under an hour later was followed by last year’s first to finish boat Windquest, owned by Doug and Dick DeVos with an elapsed time of 35:56:44. The skippers of both boats hail from Michigan. “I live in Ann Arbor now and grew up in Holland and of course know Doug [DeVos]. I think it’s pretty great that two guys from Holland are first and second to finish.”

[sailor]

Anyone know if they extended the ferry schedule?

[MR.CLEAN]

I also had to post this introductory speech from a US Sailing official - it could be Jim Capron, I don't really know. He started out his comments by saying "People are always asking what US Sailing does with its money..." or something like that. I don't really need to make any other comments - listen to the vid.

[Miss Mackinac]

Pied Piper has finally finished.

[MR.CLEAN]

Anyone know if they extended the ferry schedule?

As far as I know, 9 PM is still the last one.

Spoke to Windquest crew and a couple of watchers on the island who all agreed that no one saw lights on Genuine Risk until their motor was fired up. That doesn't mean they weren't using them, but you gotta wonder.

[MR.CLEAN]

Windancer just called in one second ago - they are at the bridge. There are maybe 10 boats in the harbor right now.

[MR.CLEAN]

Here are parts one and two of one of the most boring weather briefings I've ever had the misfortune of attending. Dude's slides didn't work and the forecast was a total crapshoot anyway. Anyway, here they are - see if they were right.

[oldweezer]

Mr Clean,
As someone who has done Macs in the past and is ALWAYS interested, I gotta thank you for your efforts to get the news out on the event. You have done more than the CYC (or for that matter BYC) has ever done to keep people informed.
GREAT JOB and THANK YOU!!!!
O.W.

[MR.CLEAN]

From Bob Hughes on Heartbreaker:

Caught back up [to the other Farr 40s], all three back together duking it out down the straits - light air, and anyone's race.

[MR.CLEAN]

Mr Clean,
As someone who has done Macs in the past and is ALWAYS interested, I gotta thank you for your efforts to get the news out on the event. You have done more than the CYC (or for that matter BYC) has ever done to keep people informed.
GREAT JOB and THANK YOU!!!!
O.W.

I just shared your message with the four of us who are gathered on this fourth floor hotel room deck, and they all say thanks - and any gratitude that's owed should really go to Torresen Marine for footing the bill and getting us up here to do our thing.

Since L_Z is still imploded, we'll get you all the finishes as they happen. Merlin (is that the old ragtime) just called in at the bridge.

[MR.CLEAN]

Just heard Vegas and the Gougeons call in from the bridge - Adagio is coming in!

[oldweezer]

I just shared your message with the four of us who are gathered on this fourth floor hotel room deck, and they all say thanks - and any gratitude that's owed should really go to Torresen Marine for footing the bill and getting us up here to do our thing.

Since L_Z is still imploded, we'll get you all the finishes as they happen. Merlin (is that the old ragtime) just called in at the bridge.

I didn't mean to slight anyone, obviously it is a great team effort. I will try to spend some money with Torresen's as my way of thanks to them!
Thanks to ALL involved!

[MR.CLEAN]

I am definitely going to be shooting from up here later. I can see right down every girl's top.

[sailor]

http://www.mackinacb.../bridge-cam-20/

you can see a couple boats from the bridge webcam

[MR.CLEAN]

I didn't mean to slight anyone, obviously it is a great team effort. I will try to spend some money with Torresen's as my way of thanks to them!
Thanks to ALL involved!

No worries bro, we appreciate it a lot. We're watching Merlin beat in here, wind is from the ENE at around 4 knots. She is having a hell of a hard time of it.

[oldweezer]

Nothing like 4 kts of wind and relentless ferry wake to complete your Mac effort.

[coreymon]

Just heard Vegas and the Gougeons call in from the bridge - Adagio is coming in!

fuck! where is the Pair they should be close?!

[MR.CLEAN]

Check out merlin at the line to take the finish!

http://www.chicagoma...om/2008/webcam/

fuck! where is the Pair they should be close?!

Geff just said "struggling to keep moving the slightest bit."

[SailorRose]

Geff just said "struggling to keep moving the slightest bit."

I'm sure he never thought they would still be out there after 48 hours... Go get 'em Geff!

[MR.CLEAN]

Heartbreaker just called in at the bridge - as did Thirsty Tiger...go the HB!

I have a feeling things are going to get a little busy very soon, especially if the finish pages aren't up and running - you'll have to get it here, bitches.

Twister just called in at the bridge too.

[MR.CLEAN]

And NICE PAIR finally calls in! Gamera too! Holy crap - Matt may win this goddamned thing AGAIN!!! Unbelievable. I need to see the bridge right now.

[Marie Laveau]

And NICE PAIR finally calls in! Gamera too! Holy crap - Matt may win this goddamned thing AGAIN!!! Unbelievable. I need to see the bridge right now.

GO GAMERA!!!

[MR.CLEAN]

And Natalie J called in too. This is going to get very exciting - I'm gonna run down to get some video I think.

[MR.CLEAN]

Details just finished.

[coreymon]

And NICE PAIR finally calls in! Gamera too! Holy crap - Matt may win this goddamned thing AGAIN!!! Unbelievable. I need to see the bridge right now.

sweet! go Pair go!

and fuck if you would know the year i did the Chi-Mac on Gamera was like the only year Matt and Z haven't won damn they are fast!

[Miss Mackinac]

We just heard from Wild Horses, Scout, Pocoroca, Inferno & Copernicus.

All have passed under the bridge.

[Miss Mackinac]

Just finished: Runaway & Pinball Wizard

Under the bridge: Convexity, Caliente, Abandoned Assets & Pendragon

[Miss Mackinac]

Lets see if I can keep this straight:
Finishes Adagio, Merlin? & Lei Loe

Under the bridge:
Flash Gordon, Gaucho, Gravatis, Hot Lips, Twister, Seamonkey & Thirsty Tiger.
Not necessarily in that order!!

Stay tuned.

[SailorRose]

Just received report from Slow Ed who drove over the bridge about 15 minutes ago. Lots of boats everywhere and all looked like they were struggling to make headway as the breeze was patchy.

[Miss Mackinac]

Just received report from Slow Ed who drove over the bridge about 15 minutes ago. Lots of boats everywhere and all looked like they were struggling to make headway as the breeze was patchy.

Lotsa boats - lotsa reports - lotsa typing!!

Bridge Call: Chewbacca

Finishers: Lucrecia, Lucky, Chance & Goblin

[Miss Mackinac]

Bridge Calls: Tyrant & Rampage

Finishes: Promo, Talisman, Main Street, Thirsty Tiger, Wild Horses, Twister, Natalie J & Heartbreaker

Keep checking the webcams at http://www.chicagoma...om/2008/webcam/
Remember to keep refreshing the image to keep up to date.

[Miss Mackinac]

Bridge Call Kokomo

Finishes: Copernicus & Gamera (approx 4:10 CDT)

Nice Pair has finished!

[Miss Mackinac]

A couple of other finishes between Heartbreaker & Copernicus

Add in Convexity, Pocoroca & Flash Gordon 5

[coreymon]

Bridge Call Kokomo

Finishes: Copernicus & Gamera (approx 4:10 CDT)

Nice Pair has finished!

since thier shit is down CYC should have the URL to this thread right underneath "page is down for maintenace" . thanks for the info!

[Marie Laveau]

Am I understanding that GAMERA has beaten AASSETS and the MONKEE boat-for-boat?!

BTW, thanks, y'all

[chaosmaster]

I am definitely going to be shooting from up here later. I can see right down every girl's top.

PICS!!! or you're full of shit

[Miss Mackinac]

Bridge Calls during the last 10 minutes:
Renegade, Eagles Wings, Sufficient Reason, Skye, Eagle, Fine Line, Saturn & Power Tripp

Finishers:
Gaucho, Hot Lips & Caliente

[Miss Mackinac]

Check the cams - We Have Boats!!

We have red boats, we have white boats, blue boats, black boats & even grey boats!!

Bridge Calls: Big Country & Solution

Finishes: Lei Loe & Gravatias

[Sabre38girl]

Check the cams - We Have Boats!!

We have red boats, we have white boats, blue boats, black boats & even grey boats!!

Bridge Calls: Big Country & Solution

Finishes: Lei Loe & Gravatias

The webcams are awesome. I posted the address on the iboat discussion board. Thanks!!!

[Miss Mackinac]

The webcams are awesome. I posted the address on the iboat discussion board. Thanks!!!

Thank you!!

Bridge Calls: Safir III, Pterodactly & Hot Water

Finishes: Chewbacca, Cheeky Monkey & Abandoned Assets

Looks like we may have a momentary lull before the next wave.

[JestemAmerykanka]

Finished: Scout

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[Miss Mackinac]

Bridge call ins: Zoom, Zingara, Edge, Peerless, Janine, Mosquito, Corinthia & Perseverance

Finishes: SeaGoon & Kokomo

[MR.CLEAN]

Report from Luiz - it's some bad news, and I feel for him.

"About ten this morning, there were attacks on 8 or 10 big servers around the country that have been hacked with an "SQL injection" - the hackers have added garbage HTML to the site that prevent the pages from loading."

It's a serious problem, and Luiz is working his ass off right now to restore his previous database, and he's going to help get the information to you all in the mean time. Stand by for some initial results.

[Miss Mackinac]

Bridge calls: Nemisis, Chippewa, Janine

The finishes start coming in!!
Fineline, Renegade, Solution, Saturn, Eagle, Power Tripp, Spiritwalker, Big Country & Sufficient Reason. Followed by Eagles Wing & Skye

[Miss Mackinac]

Just in from Greys Reef. The Beneteau 40.7 Can-Can reports they are through Grey's Reef in a long procession of boat in 9kts of breeze.

[GreatLakes]

Just in from Greys Reef. The Beneteau 40.7 Can-Can reports they are through Grey's Reef in a long procession of boat in 9kts of breeze.

Mr. Clean / KT and many others! Awesome, Awesome work....amazing coverage and your efforts haven't gone unnoticed!

[coreymon]

i don't know anything about americap. so here is my question knowing a boats americap rating, distance of the race, and finish time is it possible to calculte the boats corrected time? or do you need to know the super secret VPP? i like math. bring it please any guru in the crowd.

[MR.CLEAN]

SIt tight kiddies - we will have accurate corrected times for you in just a minute or three.

[MR.CLEAN]

Here is the beginning of our search for boats yesterday, when we scoured the michigan coast for any sign of a maxi boat through perilous forests.

[henry the navigator]

The formula for calculating ORR Corrected Time = (A x elapsed time) - (B x distance) or go for the smart scratch sheet on the CYC page third menu item under boats.

[sailor570]

i don't know anything about americap. so here is my question knowing a boats americap rating, distance of the race, and finish time is it possible to calculte the boats corrected time? or do you need to know the super secret VPP? i like math. bring it please any guru in the crowd.

According to the earlier video of Ron White, they are doing time on time.
Multiply elapsed by rating should do it.

You can also still d/l the "SMART Scratch Sheet" from the CYC website.

[MR.CLEAN]

Heartbreaker wins the Farr 40s!!!!

(still only sixth or so in the class...)

Saturn takes fourth in Section 2.

Gamera will win the overall Multihull division, and first in Multi 2. Nice Pair with the double - taking their class. Go the Geff!

[MR.CLEAN]

Here's more of our search yesterday, when we finally found some of the 70s.



This one's good too - stupid pet tricks. My dog apparently thinks it's fun to attack the whitewater on waves. Of course when we got back in the car he threw up all over the back seat.

[coreymon]

Heartbreaker wins the Farr 40s!!!!

(still only sixth or so in the class...)

Saturn takes fourth in Section 2.

Gamera will win the overall Multihull division, and first in Multi 2. Nice Pair with the double - taking their class. Go the Geff!

dude thanks for the report.

NICE JOB NICE PAIR!

NICE JOB GAMERA!

[MR.CLEAN]

Multihull finishes as of now...sorry for the formatting.


USA 28 Gamera Matt Scharl Monday - 16:11:01 49:51:01 51:01:36 Multihull 2 1
USA 333 Nice Pair Bruce Geffen Monday - 16:12:22 49:42:22 52:37:08 Multihull 1 2
USA 27030Lei Loe H.L. 'Loe' Enloe Monday - 15:41:07 49:11:07 53:22:15 Multihull 1 3
USA 3 Caliente Michael Steck Monday - 16:27:04 49:57:04 53:24:09 Multihull 1 4
C 276 Abandoned Assets Jim van Fleet Monday - 16:50:11 50:20:11 54:37:12 Multihull 1 5
E 5 Adagio Meade Gougeon Monday - 15:38:54 49:08:54 54:42:07 Multihull 1 6
USA 82946 Lucretia Fred Ball Monday - 15:48:43 49:18:43 54:53:03 Multihull 1 7
USA 24 Cheekee Monkee Ron White Monday - 16:47:13 50:17:13 55:40:57 Multihull 1 8
USA 018 Earth Voyager Ray, Ryan and Todd Howe Monday - 04:17:15 37:47:15 64:07:44 Multihull 1 9
USA 40101 Convexity Donald Wilson Monday - 16:06:14 49:36:14 93:43:35 Multihull 1 10
CAN 316 Panecea John Curtis Retired Retired Retired Multihull 2

[MR.CLEAN]

Our search for Genuine Risk last night. Can you say "Wild Goose Chase?"

[MR.CLEAN]

Natalie J takes Section 1 - again!

Rampage in second,
Fine Line in third.

[Mr. Squirrel]

Any news on some of the Section 4 boats? I see Power Tripp is in. Has Mrs. Jones or Relentless finished yet?

MS

[MR.CLEAN]

Interesting that the three super sportboats - the Melges 30 Nemesis, the 32 Saturn, and the turbo 30 Peerless, are all in tied next to each other (peerless has the biggest rig easily)...so where the hell is the most powered up 30 of them all?

[MR.CLEAN]

If you've never been to the Straits of Mackinac, here is a little guided tour.

Any news on some of the Section 4 boats? I see Power Tripp is in. Has Mrs. Jones or Relentless finished yet?

MS

At the moment, Power Tripp is in third overall. They finished a little while ago.

[Mr. Squirrel]

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Hey get to work fixing your shit!!

Sorry to hear of your troubles Luiz. They need to pass a law allowing Castration for hackers

MS

[Marie Laveau]

Multihull finishes as of now...

Thanks for your time and effort!

CONGRATS GAMERA!

Have you seen BIG STORM by any chance?

[MR.CLEAN]

L_Z has been very helpful to us, we're almost finished getting the current (provisional) results up in a form you can read them in. I'm sure Luiz will let us know when the CYC is back up.

[Miss Mackinac]

Always working to get you the info - stay tuned for more.

To see preliminary GL/70's results click here.

[MR.CLEAN]

Thanks for your time and effort!

CONGRATS GAMERA!

Have you seen BIG STORM by any chance?

Nothing from them MT - we'll let you know.

[MR.CLEAN]

Bounder just called in from the bridge, and finally the Cone of Silence!

[MR.CLEAN]

And here's what it looks like when you're entering a harbor and only the fastest boats are here. You small boat Mack sailors will never have seen this before:

[akaGP]

Interesting that the three super sportboats - the Melges 30 Nemesis, the 32 Saturn, and the turbo 30 Peerless, are all in tied next to each other (peerless has the biggest rig easily)...so where the hell is the most powered up 30 of them all?

Does anyone know the original and/or previous name of Melges 30- PEERLES - USA110 ?

[MR.CLEAN]

Dave Culver, Genuine Risk Boat Captain, talks about his race and line honors win, as well as the program's problems in the past, and the future of the boat.

[MR.CLEAN]

A somewhat inebriated Andy Pekoe talks about 25 knots under the bridge, and a whole lot of not 25 knots.

[MR.CLEAN]

Does anyone know the original and/r previous name of Melges 30- PEERLES - USA110 ?

Merlin was her last name - she was in Cali.

[L Z]

Guys,

Here's the deal... at about 10:30am this morning the Mac SQL DB got hacked and some garbage HTML code added to it that is preventing us from running the site live. This happened at various servers around the country and many SQL DBs... unfortunately that also includes my Yacht Scoring... Yes! My business! Fortunately I have a back up copy of that one and it is in the process of being restored while I have spent the day trying to also modify the code to close any possible doors. My server guys are doing the same at their end.

Back to the CYC Mack... Fortunately I had a copy of the DB from a few days ago so I also spent the day recreating the site locally so we can at least run results locally. We have it up and running here and we will now re-verify any rating changes since my last copy was created to make sure they are all accurate. Unfortunately that doesn't do you guys much good as you don't have live access to it. The CYC Mac site host shut down the DB until they can figure out how it happened as a few other of their DBs also got SQL injected... So the site is down until they can figure it out.

While this is all happening, my system was feeding direct finish times to the iBoatTracking guys so that function is still working. You can check the latest finishes (but no corrected times) at their site under the Leader Board. They get the feed immediately as we enter the finishes in our system locally.

As soon as the CYC site comes back up, we will re-enter the data in the live site. The most important things here right now is that we can generate and produce results for the event. Even though it is not running live.

Now you get a feel for what is going on and how my day has been going so far with maybe 2 hours of sleep last night.

Please understand that this is not CYC's fault nor mine... and if I could find the SOB hacker, I'd be giving a real good treatment of their own Chinese punishments (make you list here...)

Well, Clean will keep you posted as we enter them as I've give him a back door to access so he can keep you up to date on the results.

In the mean time, I've got to go back to work on fixing this hacking mess... Can't apologize enough for it........ you guys that know me know how much I hate late results!!! over 10 years in the biz and I have NEVER had this happen!

Keep checking here for Clean's updates and the iBoatTracking for the finishes.

LZ

p.s. castration wouldn't be slow and painful enough!

[henry the navigator]

p.s. castration wouldn't be slow and painful enough!

LZ, then your doing wrong!

[Sailing Junkie]

LZ, you're the best. Hang in there.

Who's watching the line? From the last posted positions, the first Ben 36.7s should be just about across the line.

[SailorRose]

Right on, SJ! LZ, your local chicks are rooting for you and a quick recovery.

[Sailing Junkie]

Right on, SJ! LZ, your local chicks are rooting for you and a quick recovery.

Yes, us local chicks always stand behind LZ!

Rose, I'm going nuts here. What the hell happened to our boys on the Titanic??

[MR.CLEAN]

An Anarchist and the Sailing Master of the Merchant Marine Academy talks about his ride up on Genuine Risk, and the future of the GR and Defiance (the old Bella Mente) with the MMA in King's Point. This is a great guy, and he answers questions in a great way.

[SailorRose]

Yes, us local chicks always stand behind LZ!

Rose, I'm going nuts here. What the hell happened to our boys on the Titanic??

Well, we know they didn't sink because the transponder is reporting that they are moving northward. I'm thinking that going to the MI shore (all the way in) wasn't the best idea.

[podrick]

Bounder just called in from the bridge, and finally the Cone of Silence!

Go the Cone, I have also been following the Sec 4 boats, the Mumm 36's and Sydney 38's. Are the getting close to a finish?

[Sailing Junkie]

Well, we know they didn't sink because the transponder is reporting that they are moving northward. I'm thinking that going to the MI shore (all the way in) wasn't the best idea.

Michael's on board - he ALWAYS goes to the beach. Swear's it'll work every year - for how many decades now?

[SailorRose]

Well, we know they didn't sink because the transponder is reporting that they are moving northward. I'm thinking that going to the MI shore (all the way in) wasn't the best idea.

Of course two years ago, we went up the middle and spent 24 hours playing black jack on deck without having to hold the cards.

[MR.CLEAN]

Just so you guys know - I've gotten PMs now from New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, Italy, and a ton from the US and Canada thanking us for our coverage. I want to thank you guys for being a part of it. No shitifights, a lot of helpful info, and great interest from everyone. Thanks a million times.

[SailorRose]

Michael's on board - he ALWAYS goes to the beach. Swear's it'll work every year - for how many decades now?

Yes, I've heard the speech.

[MR.CLEAN]

Whoever said something about the 36.7s finishing - I don't think so. I'd be surprised if they're anywhere near here yet. Probably midnight or so.

Cone is almost in.

This will make you laugh - I guarantee it. See for yourself.

[MR.CLEAN]

Morning dockside, just a few boats in, my lovely wife and a smokin' MILF watching the calm day.

[Sailing Junkie]

The leader board just updated and shows Karma finished. Looks like Grizzly should take second. Clean, are you watching the line still or are you somewhere else now?

[MR.CLEAN]

I'm going down to the dock to get some more videos now, and at least one vodka. Cone of Silence just finished.

[SailorRose]

Whoever said something about the 36.7s finishing - I don't think so. I'd be surprised if they're anywhere near here yet. Probably midnight or so.

Cone is almost in.

This will make you laugh - I guarantee it. See for yourself.

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Hilarious! Where do you find this stuff?

(Be sure to put on some sunscreen tomorrow...)