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Every year they race Dragon Boats on our lake. I would like to put together a team to build and race one of thee boats. The goal is to win of course, but... ...then be disqualified for cheating, forcing new rules to be written which our team will then find loop holes in and win again the next
year only to be disqualified, until we win again the next year only to once again be disqualified, etc. etc.
-Year one:
The sleeves retract from the blades of our paddles to reveal battery operated propellers and we blast across the finish line.
Disqualified.
-Year two:
The boat looks entirely normal as we carry it to the water. The race starts and every boat leaves us behind as our cleverly designed hull transforms itself underwater to deploy two hydrofoil wings allowing our team to rocket past the competition and win.
Disqualified.
-Year three:
Our canvas wrapped hull causes so much drag that the other boats leave us behind... until we activate the CO2 canisters which blasts through cunningly placed outlets wrapping the entirety of our hull turning it into dry ice. The sublimation raises out boat from the water like a hovercraft and we leave the other competitors in our vapour trail wake.
Disqualified.
-Year four...
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Wait... you guys race dragon boats? Has the Cultural Review And Enforcement Council of your town approved this? Might be triggering to dragon-centric cultures. [+] |
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If your property is near a lake this would totally be a great money-maker to sponsor with enough pomp, hype, and media attention. Go for it. |
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Our lake is the last Miami in Canada. Currently I live in unincorporated Christina lake BC Canada... previously Cascade city in 1890. |
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Our, world's only, wooden dam/electrical generation station owned by Westinghouse had Nikola Tesla install an AC motor to it and lit up Greenwood, which is about 45 minutes from here as I drive, and killed Edison's DC monopoly and this whole region got fragged... which is the only reason I own a chunk of it. |
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Everything here seems designed to suppress tourism. |
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We have some of the best groomed snowmobile runs on the planet. SH! That's 'our' playground.
This lake just beat Osoyoos for the warmest lake in Canada. SHH! It is not disclosed.
There is a geothermal vent at its base which sometimes geysers and bubbles in the winter. Ever other body of water with geothermal vents had unique forms of life to be studied. SSSHHH! Don't you want ten horse power boats?
The lake was much lower in the past and there are supposedly caves with pictographs in them you can only get to with a cave-diving ticket, which would be an international draw. SSSSHHH!!! |
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If I don't miss my bet old Edison set families up to ensure it remained fragged after his death. I can hear him in my head. "Hundred years after my death that upstart Serbian bastard!"
It's been longer than that now and things have begun to gentrify as I knew they would. |
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I might even be able to get past the, kick out the riff-raff stage.
Wish me luck... or not. Your call. |
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Yes, we've heard that story. |
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So much digression, so little time. |
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We've got a hydroelectric dam here too, and we're also riff-raff. So, good luck from us. |
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Please elaborate. Year four has so far eluded me. |
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