Next sj.com Gathering -- Little Rock!

[Fenian_Bastard]

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/man-finds-237-carat-diamond-in-park/20070102111809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

I love this. It's like pick your own apples.

 

[Idaho]

I want no part of Bill Clinton's Blood Diamond cottage industry.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

A quick check of Mapquest reveals Little Rock is 125 miles from that park. If you stayed in Hot Springs, you'd be a little closer and could visit Oaklawn Park for springtime thoroughbred racing.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Horse racing AND diamonds?
Almost enough to get me to go to Arkansas.


Will Ponch be there?

 

[ink-stained wretch]

Bring lots of sun screen, bug repellent and anti-venom.

Good Q in Murfeesboro but the area is DRY. Good Q in Hot Springs and Oaklawn is one of the two better tracks to watch the ponies in the country. Race season used to rock back in the '70s.

All-in-all, not a bad idea for the spring.

 

[Football_Bat]

486 diamonds found this year. Wow.

Speaking of Bill Clinton, a group tour of the presidential library is a must. Followed by a pint or three at the Flying Saucer.

 

[pallister]

Don't miss the nightlife in North Little Rock.

 

[spup1122]

There's a piano bar in the River Market that is fantastically fun.

 

[pallister]

Toad Suck Park is only a half-hour away.

 

[Yawn]

I want no part of Bill Clinton's Blood Diamond cottage industry.

Holy ****! That would be the centerpiece of such a get-together. Would there be a place for meditation for Fenian and the gang?

 

[User 1019]

Mrs. TBF and I took a trip to Hot Springs via Little Rock last spring. We had a blast. Took in the WJC library, the Flying Saucer and some other crap at the river development.

Got off the interstate and took a backroad from there to Hot Springs, where we stayed at a little B&B and got a couple of massages at the Buckstaff. Spent a day at Oaklawn (our first time at a track), and had a blast.

Great long weekend trip.

PS: McClard's Barbecue sucked.

 

[pallister]

Take a day trip to Pine Bluff.

 

[spup1122]

Yeah and go home in a coffin.

 

[JayFarrar]

Take a day trip to Pine Bluff.

If the bullets don't kill you, the smell will.

 

[Bubbler]

My wife was watching some Rachael Ray show on Food Network tonight and she visited Little Rock. She went to the Clinton library, where there is a full-scale replication of the oval office.

She said something like, "You can pretend to do what President Clinton did -- order up some french fries, look a pictures of Hillary and Chelsea ... "

Among other things.

 

[Football_Bat]

Also, I think the new minor-league ballpark is open or will be in 2007 in NLR.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

"Star of Thelma" ... Classic.

 

[boots]

I have done Little Rock. I may pass.

 

[Football_Bat]

Hopefully I'm not talking out of school, but what is the status of the 2007 summer outing?

 

[goalmouth]

The only active U.S. diamond mine is in Ark.