It’s Knot Easy

It’s Knot Easy

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Get it? It’s a joke. A pun. Knot easy is a pun. A pun is just like a joke, only not funny. Knot funny, if you will.

Do you know who never used puns? Men who gnu how to tie knots. I mean, knew how to tie knots. Sailors who did more than enter regattas. Painters, carpenters, and window washers who needed to set up rigging for planks when hanging off the side of tall structures. Believe you me, if your life depended on the quality of your knots, you’d learn more than the “tie your shoes” knot.

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Like Karaoke for Auto Racing

Like Karaoke for Auto Racing

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So, there’s this racetrack in Germany. The Nurburgring Nordshleife, AKA The Ring. It’s a full 13-mile circuit. It twists and turns its way around a little town called, you guessed it, Nurburg. The course was designed to be a test track and racing circuit. It got to be world famous. They used to have Formula 1 races there, until Niki Lauda’s Ferrari left the track and burst into flames in 1976. Not good. They built a new, safer track nearby, and started racing on that.

So, what do you do with a used, 13-mile race track? Well, it’s still used occasionally as a test track, and there’s smaller scale racing there, but on weekends and other slow times, they simply open up the track and call it a road. No speed limits. Anyone can drive on it, and everyone does. Like knuckleheads, mostly. That’s where we come in.

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