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Title: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Andrew on December 12, 2011, 11:43:57 pm
As far as I know it started in Boston in 2000, but I didn't know it had spread to Chicago, Toronto even Budapest??  And people even come from all over the world to the Boston one.

It raises funds for charity wherever it happens, which usually the most frigid climes, and brings out thousands of cameras and tons of real holiday cheer.

Here are pictures from the 2011 one which happened Saturday in the Back Bay here, beginning and ending at the Lir Tavern.  It was in the thirties and there was a keen wind!  The people who participated were amazing in so many different ways!

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/youbetjack/IMG_3334.jpg)

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/youbetjack/IMG_3335.jpg)

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Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Andrew on December 12, 2011, 11:52:13 pm
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/youbetjack/IMG_3365.jpg)

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Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Andrew on December 12, 2011, 11:59:56 pm
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/youbetjack/IMG_3426.jpg)

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Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Andrew on December 13, 2011, 12:12:45 am
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/youbetjack/IMG_3590.jpg)

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(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/youbetjack/IMG_3626.jpg)

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(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/youbetjack/IMG_3636.jpg)

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/youbetjack/IMG_3637.jpg)

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Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Andrew on December 13, 2011, 12:15:05 am
...And that was some of the highlights (I think I took a few hundred   ;D )...
Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on December 13, 2011, 02:37:57 am

    That was awesome Andrew.  Looks like everyone had a blast.  I wish I could have seen it in person.  I know the streets in Boston can be like a wind tunnel.  I bet those people needed a lot
of (spirit' ?s) to keep from freezing their you knows off.
Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Kelda on December 13, 2011, 07:22:26 am
Wow, they are brave in the cold weather!
Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Sophia on December 13, 2011, 12:24:06 pm
Thank you Andrew!

You MADE my day!

 :-*
Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Sophia on December 13, 2011, 12:40:14 pm
Never been a big fan of Speedos....but this, this is just amazing!  ;D

And lets say Christmas package has just given me another meaning
Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Meryl on December 13, 2011, 12:59:31 pm


(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/yikes.gif)   (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/frozen.gif)   (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/yikes.gif)

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/Santaonskates.gif)

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Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Monika on December 13, 2011, 01:18:13 pm
This was great fun to watch. Thanks Andrew!
Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Sason on December 13, 2011, 02:37:41 pm
What can I say - there are so many ways to express your looniness these days....   ::) ::)


Loved the pics, Andrew! They seem to have had great (and cold) fun!
Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on December 13, 2011, 06:52:28 pm
Quote from: Andrew on December 13, 2011, 12:15:05 am
...And that was some of the highlights (I think I took a few hundred   ;D )...

Hmmm. I wonder why?  ???

 ;D

I love a fit man in a red Speedo. ...  ::)
Title: Re: Santa Speedo 2011
Post by: milomorris on December 23, 2011, 04:11:40 pm
Quote from: Andrew on December 12, 2011, 11:43:57 pm
It raises funds for charity wherever it happens, which usually the most frigid climes, and brings out thousands of cameras and tons of real holiday cheer.

,,,and plenty of shrinkage, to be sure.