Hi All,

In order to understand your angst, perhaps this website would help:
         http://www.pub.umich.edu/garg/issues/dec1999/dec00p09.html

You might not want to open until Friday.....

Ric

At 05:06 PM 3/6/2003 -0800, Mark Belanger wrote:
>You know, all this angst kicked out by the Episode Dumb: Attack of the
>Flames, has made me realize that there is some serious hostility and
>balkanization going on in the Vanagon list.  We have Tiicos vs.
>Everyone, RoadHaus vs. Sanity, Matthew Pollard vs. capitilization and of
>course the biggy, the water people vs. the air heads.  If we don't
>address it, we're going to wind up with a situation like in the, uh,
>Balkans.
>
>In short, I propose a war.  A knock down, drag out, camshaft to the head
>war.  I volunteer to be Supremo Generalissimo von Wasserboxen
>representing the water people.  I expect the air heads will be lead by
>Sgt. Stan and his Howlin' Airmandos.  The winner will claim rightful
>ownership of the list and, as the victor, be able to rewrite history
>with such truths as "Sure my air-cooled is warm at night" or "Yep, my
>2.1 sure is reliable."
>
>Who's with me?!  We will overwhelm them with our superior cooling power!
>  We will be able to just slightly pull ahead of them climbing hills!
>Our feet will be just slightly warmer!  We will save precious energy
>using our power locks and windows!  To battle!!!
>
>
>-MB
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>Mark Belanger - belanger@fluid.com