Demolition Derby Quotes

• I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

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  Brock Yates

  Running   Eight   Race  

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• We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

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  Hugh Sidey

  Wrestling   Creating   Presidential  

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• Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

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  Daniel S. Greenberg

  New York   Car   Entering  

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• I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.

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  John Waters

  Sex   Race   Differences  

  "An Evening With John Waters On Hitchhiking And Middle America". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, kuow.org. June 24, 2014.

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• It is a human demolition derby!

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  Jim Ross

  Wwe   Demolition   Humans  

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