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From: jeq@lachman.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: DoD Confessional
Message-ID: <1993Apr21.184259.25540@i88.isc.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 18:42:59 GMT
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In article <1993Apr21.053721.551@bnr.ca> MBEAVING@BNR.CA writes:
>I can't help myself.
>I've tried to be rational, 
>to look the other way,
>but everytime it happens, 
>its uncontrollable.
>
>I hate pre'80s motorcycles.

Hah.  Newbie bait.  Everyone knows the first motorcycle
wasn't built until 1893 - there _were_ no pre-'80's motorcycles!

>At first I thought it was a phase.  I though I would
>get used to them.  It didn't happen.  I tried gazing
>at CB750s and 900 customs, but each time I sadistically
>pictured them being hurled off of large precipice
>(I also picture a swarm of german tourists cheering and
>taking holiday snaps, but I can't figure that part out).

You've been watching too much Northern Exposure.

>What am I to do?  Everytime I read a .sig containing 
>some spoked wheel wonder, I shudder and feel pity that
>the poor soul has suffered enough.

Why?  Because our wheels are repairable?

> I imagine the owner
>scrapping out his (or her) living in a discarded Maytag
>refridgerator box, tucked in next to their CX500.

Humph.  Obviously, more bait.  Everyone knows you don't discard
Maytag boxes.  Even after they've become uninhabitable, they're
make a great poor boy's mechanic's creeper.

CX500?  Whazzat?

>I'm hoping for some deliverance.

Okay.  Let's hear you squeal like a pig.

> I had in the past loathed
>the Milwaukee machine, but I can actually begin to understand
>some of the preaching.  There must be hope. 

Beware fanatical preaching, lest the residents of Waco, Texas set up
a huge salad bar in your honor...
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist        jeq@lachman.com       Lachman Technology, Incorporated
DoD #094, KotPP, KotCF '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep"                 Naperville, IL
 __       There's nothing quite like the pitter-patter of little feet,
 \/                   followed by the words "Daddy!  Yay!"
