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Metalstorm
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 08:58 pm: | 
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I got my copy two days ago.
I started reading it last night before bed.
I read the whole darn thing from cover to cover. Very addicting.
Thank you Court.
Thank you Dave. |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 09:08 pm: |
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>>>I agree Meredith is hot!
She's my bud and one heck of a nice gal. Last year I had some old high school friends in town. They went to see the show on Friday and were surprised, when they arrived, to see Chicago playing Saturday in the Park and Ms. M and I dancing.
There are a couple other nice gals Carolyn Gusoff (fellow Columbia alum) and Erika Tarantal. . New York is a mecca for news folks.
One of the news anchors used to ride with me in The Guggenheim Riding Club
Fun place! |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 09:13 pm: |
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>>>Would it be anything like the "Tiffany" wardrobe malfunction for the old Buell web site?
I saved the photos and still have them somewhere. That was wild. It turned out to be much "spicier" in that one of the web guys and one of the HD gals were apparently fairly . . . er, close and had done some photography that was "hidden" on the server and got accidently linked.
Er . . . we won't be telling that story.
There are . . a couple, the best is the one "you can shut it off, it ain't going anywhere" tale that Dave alluded to. That has to wait a bit or someone will be convicted and jailed in arrears. |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 01:16 am: |
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Well, my un-signed copy arrived while I was in the hospital learning how to walk again. Once I get back to work, there'll be at least one Buell dealer with a copy on a table for folks to read. Of course, that'll be sometime next year I suspect...but if I can walk 4 weeks after breaking both legs and having both filled with titanium, hopefully I can beat their estimates of 6-8 months. I'm BORED, LOL!
I've said it before, though. Excellent book, from a couple of great guys. Can't wait for version 2.0 - but try and make it a little longer? Like many, it took me one sitting to devour it. Hell, even my *wife* liked reading it, especially after meeting so many of the main characters at Homecoming.
Thank you, Gentlemen. |
Bcordb3
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 08:59 am: |
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DD is BUSH POETRY the same as a BS story or a sea story? |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 09:09 am: |
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Clancy Of The Overflow
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just `on spec', addressed as follows, `Clancy, of The Overflow'.
And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)
'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
`Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'
In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
Gone a-droving `down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;
As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.
And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.
I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all
And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
Of the tramways and the 'buses making hurry down the street,
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.
And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.
And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,
Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,
While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal --
But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of `The Overflow'. |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 09:51 am: |
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Good to hear from you Ratbuell! |
Bcordb3
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 12:15 pm: |
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DD, Thank you, loved the story, sort of like Cowboy poetry. I am glad I asked.
Ratbuell, Good to hear that you getting better. hope to see more of your posts. |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 01:33 pm: |
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Thanks everyone. If I could just get this GDMF oxycoton out of my system and stop the DT's, I could get on with important stuff like trying to *walk* again...
Gonna have some catching up to do though. I'm gonna be waaaay out of date pretty quickly, LOL. Better stick to the tuber section, I guess <shrug>. |
Lemonchili_x1
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 09:35 am: |
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Court/Dave,
It arrived yesterday from Whitehorse, wish I'd asked for express international! I haven't read much so far, trying to savour it, but I keep picking it up and reading bits. For me one of the things it really illuminates is how Buell is a company that is "Different In Every Sense" - the kind of place I'd like to work.
Thank you both for writing this book . I'm looking forward to see what Buell has in the next 25 years of "installments", and part II of the book.
DD - Have the builders been yet? Nice work .
cheers,
chili |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 10:16 am: |
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No builders - but I took it over to Kiwi Rider offices and dined out on it. 5 course meal. |
Lemonchili_x1
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 05:09 pm: |
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No builders - but I took it over to Kiwi Rider offices and dined out on it. 5 course meal.
Hehehe, excellent . |
Blake
| | Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 07:44 pm: |
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A great book, no doubt. I bought two. |
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