Sunday, May 02, 2010

Seed Racing, Dragster Style

Despite all of the riots and drunken hooliganism* stemming from our last foray into the seedier side of gambling - Seed Racing - we've decided to try it again. This time we're getting into Top Fuel Dragster Seed Racing where instead of many seed types competing against each other, you've only got two. Let's meet our contestants.

In the 3 rows of cups with the white Lego pieces, we have Zinnias. In the 4 rows of cups (1 in the foreground, 3 in the far pan) we have Snapdragons.

Here are the details. The seeds are growing in peat cups filled with Seed Starting Jiffy Mix**. We live in Tierrasanta, a suburb of San Diego. Here's the Wunderground page for that zip code. We'll be keeping them moist each day, but we will not be placing a greenhouse lid over the cups. May the best flower win!

How you can get involved? Start by placing your bets in the poll below. We'll be updating the status of the race regularly***. Feel free to use the comments to talk trash to your opponents as well.


Which Top Fuel Dragster Seed Racing Team Will Be Ready To Plant First?
The Snapdragons
The Zinnias
  
Free polls from Pollhost.com

To get you in the mood, we're including one of our favorite drag racing music videos, one the Beach Boys actually wrote about Seed Racing****.


* - We were recently acquitted of all liability due to the previous riots. Those stairs were rickety and there was no way we could have predicted the collapse of that building. If people are going to drink 8 jello shots and then get into massive brawls on a suspension footbridge between skyscrapers, we can't be held accountable.

** - See? I told you it was Top Fuel Dragster Seed Racing! This could be explosive!

*** - As regularly as our doctor's orders will allow. We've been warned about excessive excitement.

**** - The first version of the lyrics was all about sunflowers vs. sweetpeas, but due to record label concerns about possible civil unrest, they were changed to cars.

2 comments:

Niall Mor said...

How will you be monitoring the contestants for potential doping? Aren't additives like Miracle-Gro strictly prohibited? After all, we have to preserve the integrity of the sport.

K T Cat said...

Niall, since these are top fuel dragsters, this is the Unlimited class. There are no rules about doping, though we will be keeping a Geiger counter going to make sure no one tries to create irradiated, mutant flowers.