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Is NASCAR Trying To Appeal To "Carpet Eaters"? Wait What???
Published 6/10/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
This is by far the best NASCAR video that this sight has ever laid eyes on. I have no idea who the guy is in the middle in between Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Hammond is, but listen closely to how he pronounces NASCAR driver Patrick Carpentier's (Car-pawn-tee—eh) name. Via From The Marbles... ...

HE'S A MUFF DIVER, ER, TOUGH DRIVER!
Published 6/10/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip for your impressionable young children
From The Marbles (via Awful Announcing) uncovers a video from last night's This Week in NASCAR with an announcer (who may or may not be a disinterred Chris Farley) flubbing Patrick Carpentier's last name - pronounced Car-pawn-tee-eh - as "Carper Eater". Does this mean NASCAR is more friendly to lesbians than, say, the Seattle Mariners? Well, no - he's clearly referring to a guy. NASCAR people dislike the French more than they do lesbians anyway. And who's to say he was referring to a driver at all? Maybe he's in favor of ...