Well kaleb how about 50.00parts credit for okie benz for each of the committee members? Then we might do a cardboard cutout of you & your favorite benz. We are the founders & our memory is different from yours. That said we'd love to have you here. On Sep 15, 2013 10:31 PM, "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> wrote:
> They should have flown us both in. Back in the old days, the list > founders and high officials were always flown in. Of course they have to > start promoting it months in advance, make a big deal about how we will be > there, then they would have easily had over 100 people show up from all > over the country. Hell, I may have to resurrect the okieQ and fly you in > for the event. > > > On 9/15/2013 9:28 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: > >> i'm as shocked as you are. you'd think for all my support of new >> englanders as "ok" they'd have sent for me! >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net >> >wrote: >> >> What the heck? Nobody sent me a plane ticket to fly up there, and you >>> did >>> not at least have a life size standup cardboard likeness of me there? >>> Geez. >>> >>> >>> On 9/15/2013 9:09 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: >>> >>> Well its over and done (well it was over and done yesterday but I'm only >>>> now recovered enough to post... >>>> >>>> I counted 9 cars including a turbo OM616 powered Chevy van. Buncha >>>> people >>>> (more than 9 :) ) and a record number of dogs. >>>> >>>> The secret food was my nearly famous dutch oven bbq, this year with >>>> sausage (both sweet and hot) pork and chicken dry rubbed and then cooked >>>> for 3 hours. Strangely nobody got a picture of that, you can get an idea >>>> from this: >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?****v=GUshllIVSUY<https://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=GUshllIVSUY> >>>> <https://www.**youtube.com/watch?v=**GUshllIVSUY<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUshllIVSUY>>except >>>> I did 2 pots, one for spicy and one for non. We also had burgers, >>>> chowda, clamcakes, a world of fruit, veggies and pie for the finish. >>>> >>>> I got the opportunity to drive John's Astro van (not a bad ride, it'd be >>>> better if he turned up the IP to support the turbo and move the >>>> shifter), >>>> Steve's immaculate '85 300D and Dimitri's 280SL. Parts were swapped, >>>> chowda >>>> was consumed. >>>> >>>> Check it out: >>>> http://s843.photobucket.com/****user/curtludwig/library/**<http://s843.photobucket.com/**user/curtludwig/library/**> >>>> ChowdaQ%20VI%202013?sort=3&****page=1<http://s843.** >>>> photobucket.com/user/**curtludwig/library/ChowdaQ%** >>>> 20VI%202013?sort=3&page=1<http://s843.photobucket.com/user/curtludwig/library/ChowdaQ%20VI%202013?sort=3&page=1> >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -Curt >>>> ______________________________****_________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com/****archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/> >>>> <http://www.okiebenz.**com/archive/ <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/>> >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/****mailman/listinfo/mercedes_****okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com> >>>> <http://mail.**okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/**mercedes_okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>> ______________________________****_________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives >>> http://www.okiebenz.com/****archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/> >>> <http://www.okiebenz.**com/archive/ <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/>> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/****mailman/listinfo/mercedes_****okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com> >>> <http://mail.**okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/**mercedes_okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>> > >>> >>> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives > http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com