Well OK, this is aviation related, though. A few months ago I was on a commercial flight and found myself seated beside a former Whitehouse staffer. She had been more than one full term in her position, and upon completing her duties, several years ago upon change of administrations, had promptly moved OUT of the USA. (Interesting testimony in that.)
Anyway, as we were somewhere over Oklahoma, she gazed out the window and, as much to herself as to me, murmured, "What DO those people do down there?" I was a bit dumbfounded. "What do?!!" "Those people do?!!" I gotta say, I could not compose a vaguely appropriate answer. But, that little airborne comment sure told me a bunch about what our "leaders" do not know. No wonder they think everybody between the coasts must be "white trash" and "rednecks" and "spawn of slavers." They cannot imagine what we (the mere "producers") do. I busted out laughing. She found this quite offensive. So, like Kevin says, somebody will always get offended. But, we note that the most offended folks are usually the ones who most deserve to be offended. Dave Winters -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kgassert Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Re:.. you got to see this!!! - STOP NOW, PLEASE! The problem I see is that it never stays respectful. This one case is too typical. Someone post a joke and before long someone get offended and calls all of us in the fly over part of the country raciest hicks. So it is best to leave it out of the forum. Kevin1 --- In ercoupe-tech@ <mailto:ercoupe-tech%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com, "Ed Burkhead" <e...@...> wrote: > > Jerry Eichenberger wrote: > > > Some people enjoy a little political jousting now and ten, > > > and I, for what it's worth, am one of them. > > > > > > We have a site very much like this one dedicated to the > > > type of motorcycle I own. I've made some really good > > > friends on it thru our political barbing back and forth. As > > > long as it's done with respect and mutual friendship, I see > > > nothing wrong with it at all. > > > > > > Jerry, > > > > I can agree that a respectful discussion of such issues can be worthwhile > and enjoyable. **I** enjoy such discussions (and I really wanted to dive > into the one that prompted this, but . . .). > > > > We have many people who want and need the technical Coupe-related and > aviation safety related information we have here. But, they don't have the > time or inclination to dig through such discussions to just read what they > want - especially when thread drift kicks in. (For example, two other > forums I monitor now have 254 and 235 unread messages in their respective > in-basket folders, waiting for me to sort out the stuff I want from the > chaff.) > > > > So, at the request of members we separated the forum into two parts. > > > > At the repeated request of many members, ercoupe-tech is only for Coupe > tech, flying safety, flying regulatory, accidents, Coupe-related and some > other obituaries and similar stuff with very few exceptions. > > > > On the other hand, ercoupe-flyin is for the other stuff we might talk about > at fly-ins. Yet, even there, we won't allow rancorous discussions, name > calling, insulting statements, etc. > > > > Though it's not quite appropriate here, the A-340 accident pictures and an > appropriate description could be a learning experience even for us lowly > Coupe fliers. The accompanying political innuendo started, as you saw, > problems. > > > > So, here on -tech, let's keep it on topic. > > > > On both forums, let's keep it respectful. > > > > Ed > > (all-around mean, nasty moderator-in-chief) >
