Very well put.
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: Viv James TraX Interconnect (Pty.) Ltd
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: [mg-tabc] Itsaseasytodoitrightastodoitwrong
> In the good old days of the last century, one of my pleasures on
> this list was to be able to do a bit of stirring to make thing more
> interesting and to get my friends going.
>
> I stopped doing it because certain individuals who claim to be
> superior TABC experts and who have to continually boast about
> driving their cars regularly, started to take offence. Most of us use
> our cars plenty but we don't brag. This is what we have them for.
>
> These self same individuals are now trying to take the mickey out
> of others who are asking what many of us consider to be
> interesting and useful questions, simple and mildly irrelevant
> though they may be. Their humour is snide and lacks subtlety
>
> If am about to paint my engine block and accessories, as I did 3
> weeks ago, I might as well paint them the "correct" colour. It's no
> more difficult than painting them the wrong colour. I might even
> decide to paint them some other colour but at least I have had the
> choice. Maybe I'm strange but if it's possible to establish these
> things, why should we not not do this without Geoff's requirement
> of going to war? Of course, Mr Badger's well used TC, if it can still
> be recognized as such because of his well advertised scant regard
> for detail, is probably so full of road dirt that we can't see the nipple
> pink scuttle, orange fan blades and flames down the sides. By the
> way, what colour should the fan blades be?
>
> Its the details and the people that make this whole thing fun. Why
> else would anyone drive an engineering monstrosity like a TC? We
> are simple folk. Lets stay this way!
>
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