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Still cruising the Michigan International Speedway and its lights show. Let's look in.

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Here's a nice set of castle towers that I believe you do drive through, nervously.


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Sorry the picture is so blurry and unfocused but I was getting a non-flash picture of some entry gate for the speedway proper, which was itself unlit, so it's kind of amazing anything turned out at all.


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Here we're coming up on another tunnel and you can see the sort of waterfall of colors effect it had going on at the moment.


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Getting closer. The color changes were animated so the tunnels never stayed quite the same.


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I assume this was blue and yellow to appease the University of Michigan fans a while.


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Finally back to some real proper Christmas stuff: a legless teddy bear in a helicopter, like you expect. I have no explanation for the floating unlit question mark bubble above the tail rotor.


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All right, the bear in a helicopter may be confusing but how about the elf in a hot air balloon? That's Christmas, right?


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And now, Channel 7 presents today's Million-Dollar Matinee!


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Your Million-Dollar Matinee today: The Dinosaurs' Christmas That Almost Wasn't.


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Not enough for you? How about enjoying this sea serpent with the twitchy tail? You can see the outline of the other position lit by the tail spade there.


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Who doesn't like an elf on the back of a brontosaurus?


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Apparently the brontosaurus, because the elf is either hiding or has already been eaten! Live and learn.


Trivia: The word ``mill'' was, in Middle English, frequently spelled ``milne'', reflecting its origins in the Latin ``molina''; a dialect variant ``miln'' preserves the spelling. Source: Webster's Dictionary of Word Origins, Editor Frederick C Mish. Rather the way that ``kiln'' has an etymological reason for having the 'n' there, but the word is often pronounced ``kill''.

Currently Reading: Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells, Harold McGee.

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