Miata Mailing List: June 1995, Message #77
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   From: a.mccombs3@genie.geis.com
Subject: Reverse Midas touch
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:52:51 -0400

There has been this thing going on RE: basketball, and team jinxes, on the
net.  It's not my thing, but it reminds me to tell you why the Indy 500
lineup was not the way you thought it would be.  I didn't think about this
until later, but here's why Penske didn't make the race, and why this was
the first race in a third of a century without an Unser in it.  The below
listed events and their chronology are all true.  I leave it to you to make
what you will of the cause and effect (if any).
 
You see, a couple of our local Miata club members (Chesapeake Area Miatas -
CAM) was kind enough to host a Sunday, Memorial Day weekend gathering at his
& her place (thanks again, Mike & Jan!).  This was an "et what you brung"
thing, with the club supplying beverages (I assume - it was free, so I drank
it, whatever the case).  Anyway, wife Anne and I decided a couple weeks
earlier (about the time of the first weekend of Indy qualifying) to make up
an appropriate dish of some sort.  We have a CARA (Championship Auto Racing
Auxiliary) cookbook, with recipes from various well known and not so well
known auto racing personalities and their families.  What could be more
appropriate than to cook up a pot of Mom Unser's Albuquerque chili?
 
What can I say?  Geez, I'm awful sorry, Al, Emmo, & Roger --  And BTW:
Whose recipe do you want me to use next year?
 
                                                --Jack M. & KANSEI--