Glad that you are okay MIke.
Daniel
At 9:04 PM -0400 6/29/00, datsunmike wrote:
>That's why there are courts and judges - to interpret the laws written and
>the vagaries contained in contracts. Lawyers, I am not one, are often made
>fun of because of the verboseness of their contracts and the language they
>use to couch ideas (among other things). Language is imprecise and can be
>taken different ways by different people and depending on their mood. And to
>be honest I was not in the best of moods the night I read the thread.
>
>That morning I had my life go before my eyes when a woman pushed my Miata
>into oncoming traffic simply because she didn't bother to turn her head
>before turning into the very lane and spot where I was. Another 150 feet or
>so and there would have been another Roadster for sale.
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ofarrell, Fergus <Ofarrell.Fergus@hitco.com>
>To: 'roadster.netlist' <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 8:15 PM
>Subject: Roadster Info Wanted, Again, Please
>
>
>> (sorry, this is a long one)
>>
>> Hey friends, folks, fellow roadster family, (ref. Roadster Shopping Rage)
>> We have all recently evidenced a graphic case of how the printed word can
>be
>> very powerful. The things that we say in jest, with smiles or grins or a
>> 'yah,right' look on our face can come across very differently when being
>> read. The first 'flameout' I witnessed after joining the list involved
>the
>> PO of the car I had just bought, so I sat by (yes, lurked) and saw how
>> things developed, realizing that I could easily have responded and been
>> sucked up into the madness, given an irrelevant opinion, possibly been
>> chastised as biased, but realizing (from my own personal experience) that
>> the "Send" button is powerful and irrevocable.
>>
>> The list, as we all know, is very helpful and inspiring of cameraderie
>> (sp?).
>> At times, the word 'thread' is very appropriate, as the tangents are many
>> and varied.
>> Let's not continue this un-constructive madness, as by doing so we are
>> getting in the way of some pretty constructive items and knowledge being
>> passed, and that is what this is all about. Today's Evidence: Craig's
>> article on suspension safety, Pat and Kyle's exchange about temp sender
>> wiring polarity, the list of things to do when considering valve seat
>> replacement, these are constructive and further the group as a whole.
>> While I personally can confess before the group that I found the
>cataloging
>> of what little diagram (griffin, gnome, grinch, etc) was on top of their
>> shift knob a bit tedious, after the 18th or 20th posting I was rolling
>> laughing at myself for not realizing it for what it was. I enjoy Dan
>> Neumann's occasional hour by hour postings of mechanically induced rage
>(to
>> which I can relate), followed by sadness at potentially missing Shasta,
>> followed by unsuppresed joy at his rolling stock (and beer-fetcher) being
>> back in order. (I especially relate to that "beer-fetcher" part)
>>
>> The devotion ("rabid-ity", I know, is not a word) astounds me, and I'm
>proud
>> to say has infected me.
>>
>> But in all honesty, I'd rather read about "Shiftknobs of the World" than
>> feel the collective consciousness get all spun up because someone, whether
>> new or old, has come across in a manner they didn't mean to, or in a
>manner
>> they DID intend, but is not appreciated by some/most/all (circle one).
>>
>> Let's re-run that picture of Hayden Lake, (or where ever that setting was
>> early this week) take a few deep breaths, (insert HAVE A BEVERAGE HERE for
>> whom it is appropriate) and go on.
>> We have more productive knowledge to spread, and we, in our madness, all
>> seem to have missed some thing really groundbreaking.....
>>
>> Pat Horne finished a message with
>> "Good Luck Pat ".
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> I felt a pang of confusion and concern until I read down to another
>posting
>> on the digest version of the day, which ended in
>> "Peace, Pat", and then I knew the world had not all gone awry.
>> (now Pat, having never met me, may or may not understand that I can seldom
>
>> resist inserting a humorous twist in things I write or say, and I really
>> like the spirit of adding "Peace" to the end of every message sent. So I
>> hope he smiles at this, or just mumbles "what an a#$" and reads on to
>> something constructive)
>>
>> Enough hot air outta me,
>> Fergus O'Farrell
>> 69 2000
>> in a van down by the river
>> ((completely accepting of being flamed because I put too many parentheses
>in
>> my writing))
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