[quote]From http://drive.fairfax.com.au/content/20010831/news/news3.html

German Dirk Auer won't settle for a circuit of the park on his inline skates. He likes his high-speed runs blistering and buffeting – he clocked 270km/h hanging grimly off the saddle of a motorbike and aims to reach 300, to match the speed he has clocking clinging to the rear spoiler of a Porsche racer.

Auer's skates have prototype wheels developed by Dunlop to withstand the rigours and extreme temperatures.

After the run behind the Kawasaki ZX-12R at Germany's Lauritzring Eurospeedway, an ecstatic Auer said, "When we first started talking to Kawasaki we were planning about 260km/h – 270 was just a bonus!"

The rider, World Superbike ace Akira Yanagawa, was a little more realistic about the whole attempt. "I thought I was crazy, but now I've met someone crazier than me!"

Auer, the undisputed champ of top-speed inline skating, and Yanagawa are finessing their technique to reach the 300km/h mark.[/quote]

Anyone care to come up with a suitable epitaph for this guy's (rapidly approaching) headstone?

"He had it coming" is the best I have managed so far.

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He lived fast, and died hard.

He dreamed. He lived. He did.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

- Here lies a friggin' moron.

- He rode his inline skates and prototype wheels into history. And into a wall at 300 km per hour.

- Rest in pieces...

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

That's nothing.

I have a Radio Flyer wagon with wheels developed by NASA that I got up to Mach 1.03 after hooking it to some some JATO engines off a C-130. I probably could gone faster if it hadn't been for that fucking woodchuck.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

[quote]That's nothing.

I have a Radio Flyer wagon with wheels developed by NASA that I got up to Mach 1.03 after hooking it to some some JATO engines off a C-130. I probably could gone faster if it hadn't been for that fucking woodchuck.[/quote]Stud.

You've been begging for that over in the video games thread. I can't believe it took me this long.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

How about:

- I brake for impediments.

- Here's what's left of him. We're pretty sure the rest is still southbound on I-40.

- Road Rash at 160 mph. You gotta see this shit. Seriously, grab a shovel, we buried shallow.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

-Death by Misadventure-

Really, it's the only way to go! Either that or implosion!

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"I know how toast works."

"Here lies Dick Auer - six feet under, thirty feet wide, and two millimetres thick."

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[quote]url=http://www.cs.unh.edu/~sdb/rlaramee/stud/]Stud.[/url]

You've been begging for that over in the video games thread. I can't believe it took me this long.[/quote]

You damn right, bitch. I'm all about one-upping everyone.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Say, what's that preview button for, anyway?

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.