Call the North Carolina Department of Transportation RIGHT FUCKING NOW

[taterguy]

Thanks to the budget crisis they're threatening to jack the rates up on Hatteras-Ocracoke Tunnel Passes.

I have a Constitutional Right to visit Blackbeard's old stomping ground as cheaply as possible.

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[struggle4progress]

1. I can't even stomach cherry coke. How could anybody drink okra coke?

[taterguy]

2. Okracoke: It's an Indian word meaning 'really cool small island to get away from everything'

Until those nimrods at NC DOT make it prohibitively expensive for anyone to get there.

[struggle4progress]

4. I never use the tunnel. I always just build a plane at Kitty Hawk and fly over

[taterguy]

7. How do you get to Kitty Hawk? It too is on an island

Well, a peninsula, but it's called Bodie Island.

[Arugula Latte]

23. Original Okra Coke was good, but they ruined it when they came out with New Okra Coke.

What a classic corporate PR blunder that was.

[hunter]

3. Blackbeard used a boat.

Have you no friends with boats?

[struggle4progress]

5. But his boat sank. Boats do that sometimes. Tunnels don't sink

[taterguy]

6. Ever sail a boat through the Diamond Shoals off Hatteras?

It's called the Graveyard of the Atlantic for a reason.

[MrCoffee]

8. You should dig your own tunnel, just to spite the bastards

That'll teach them.

[taterguy]

9. If I'm lucky I get to spend one week a year in that area

Who's gonna keep an eye on my tunnel the other 51 weeks a year?

[MrCoffee]

22. Set up a toll booth...charge a buck less than the state for taterguy's Tunnelpalooza

You'll make a friggin fortune

[nolabear]

10. You poor thing. And I'm right with you.

The right to inhabit the Outer Banks at least once a year is holy.

[taterguy]

13. Good thing everyone doesn't exercise their right to inhabit the Outer Banks

If they did it would be too damn crowded

[madinmaryland]

11. Lighten up, Francis, Asher Heimermann is waiting for you on conference call. Call him

RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

[taterguy]

12. Your concern about my transportation conundrum is noted

Dumbass

[madinmaryland]

15. Bicycles are normally free through toll booths. Check with LynneSin, Francis!

[taterguy]

16. Ever try to ride a bike across the Bonner Bridge on the other end of Hatteras?

You're one strong gust of wind away from being fish food or road kill.

I've actually seen people do it.

I thought to myself: Those folks are fucking nuts.

[madinmaryland]

17. I have no idea where Boehner Bay is nor do I have any intention of riding

a bicycle over a bridge named after Boehner.

Safety reasons, of course.

[taterguy]

18. The Bonner Bridge goes over Oregon Inlet

Which surprisingly enough is nowhere near Oregon.

It's just north of New Inlet, which is no longer an inlet.

And the inlets are really outlets, that is, they let water from the sounds flow into the ocean.

[madinmaryland]

19. Did Random Thoughts hijack your account?

:wtf:

[taterguy]

20. Did Captain Dumbass hijack your account?

[LynneSin]

21. FUCK YOU A_HOLE

:pals:

[mwdem]

14. I've been away from there so long

I didn't know there was a tunnel! I so love the Outer Banks!!

[bikebloke]

24. I didn't know about the tunnel either.

We always drove down from the north. I think there was a long bridge we crossed. Have they bulldozed those annoying sand dunes that blocked the sunsets?

[taterguy]

25. There is no tunnel. That's the joke

For chrissakes, don't you remember my thread where I asked if a mechanic was ripping me off for charging $400 to replace a radiator on a 74 VW Beetle?

Why do I even bother posting here if people forget my best bits.