Thanks and see you sometime
- Thread starter Gerry
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Huuuh??? Nope... Sorry, but we can't let you go. Not sure what tirade you refer to, but if you were the butt of it, then I'd say concider the source. You're one of us, not one of them.
hope you reconcider in the near future.
Russ
hope you reconcider in the near future.
Russ
deckofficer
Banned
Gerry,
Sure don't want you to leave as I have also enjoyed your posts. You are my current connection back to the UK, where I saw my last "proper" Cobra parked in front of Gale's Still & West Country House in Portsmouth on the southern coast. I'll say something that might get a post from you......"What is your MPG?". I am now ducking under my desk to avoid the buckshot!!! LOL
Respectfully,
Bob
Sure don't want you to leave as I have also enjoyed your posts. You are my current connection back to the UK, where I saw my last "proper" Cobra parked in front of Gale's Still & West Country House in Portsmouth on the southern coast. I'll say something that might get a post from you......"What is your MPG?". I am now ducking under my desk to avoid the buckshot!!! LOL
Respectfully,
Bob
TDitty
New Member
Gerry,
I know I am a new guy here but I have enjoyed reading your posts. I hope you will reconsider. I have more to learn from you.
cheers,
Russ
one finger john
Active Member
I, like many here, will miss you and the contributions you have made. One person does not make a forum, take a vacation and then come back refreshed. Without getting sappy, will miss your wit and wisdom.
Til we meet again, John
fordsbyjay
Active Member
Dang that just blows Gerry. Are we going to have to come visit you to see your car when it is finished now?
As far as the few buttheads, I wouldn't let it bother you. I belong to a few forums and non of them are perfect. Mike keeps the tightest ship that I have ever seen so I wouldn't leave because of one person.
As far as the few buttheads, I wouldn't let it bother you. I belong to a few forums and non of them are perfect. Mike keeps the tightest ship that I have ever seen so I wouldn't leave because of one person.
Gerry please don't let the holier than thous that have showed up here, ruin this for everyone. Just consider the source, and let it go. They have their opinions, and you know what they say about opinions. They are like hmm well belly buttons we all have them. It was starting to turn in to that site with the pork kinda name.
Gerry, sorry to see you go. They say it only takes one bad apple to spoil the batch, but the more good apples we have will dilute the bad one. Please stop by and show us the progress on your T.
:rifle: LOL
old round fart
Well-Known Member
Is it tacky to continue to use the picture of a non-bucketeer as wallpaper? Now I'll be known as "Tacky Old Round Fart"
Well Gerry, I find this action on your part to be unacceptable, understandable, but unacceptable.
You've under estimated the importance of your contributions and your value to this forum .
May I suggest you take a holiday. A few weeks shoulld do. Try your favorite beach. Have yu been to the little town where they filmed Doc Martin?
You've under estimated the importance of your contributions and your value to this forum .
May I suggest you take a holiday. A few weeks shoulld do. Try your favorite beach. Have yu been to the little town where they filmed Doc Martin?
Good grief man.. say it ain't so!
If you need a break.. fine. That's cool. But a keyboard bully ain't gonna stop me from hanging around here.
There are too many good folks and good times here to just up and leave.
And as far as car-related forums go... this one is about the best I've seen, so don't expect better.
I may not contribute much here but folks like you need to keep feeding folks like me!
If you can't ignore the idiots send them to me. I know that my keyboard can whoop their keyboard's asterisk any day! :butt:
Joe
If you need a break.. fine. That's cool. But a keyboard bully ain't gonna stop me from hanging around here.
There are too many good folks and good times here to just up and leave.
And as far as car-related forums go... this one is about the best I've seen, so don't expect better.
I may not contribute much here but folks like you need to keep feeding folks like me!
If you can't ignore the idiots send them to me. I know that my keyboard can whoop their keyboard's asterisk any day! :butt:
Joe
Mike
Well-Known Member
I hate to see you leave, Gerry. I really do. But we all have to do what we have to do. My position all along has been made clear. I don't force anyone to visit here, register here or participate here and I do not hold anyone here against their will.
I hope you'll be comfortable with stopping back by, at some point in the future.
The situation that brewed up in the other thread was ugly. I wish it hadn't happened, but the fact remains it did happen. I can't put toothpaste back in the tube any more than the next guy and it seems my ex snatched up the magic wand as she was hopping on her broom to fly out of here. So there is no un-doing what has been done. All I can do is make my position clear to the individual that stepped out of line. I feel I did just that. Maybe that wasn't a tough enough stance for some people. If not, so be it. But hanging the threat of leaving the forum over my head is akin to being held hostage myself. And I'm not playing that game, no way, no how.
Another position I've always made clear is the fact I am not going to set myself up for failure by trying to make everyone happy, all of the time. It's a recipe for disaster.
In the nearly 30 years I've been online, I've haunted, moderated, owned, built, crashed, rebuilt and admin'ed more foums that most people will ever join. I learned, very early on, the InterWebz are somewhat predictable. No matter what you try to accomplish on a site, there is one constant. People come and people go. Some people come back again, whilst some are gone forever. It happens. If an admin gets derailed by it, the community runs the risk of collapsing. If the admin keeps plugging, the community continues to move forward.
To make everything crystal-clear, if everyone left today and never returned, I would shut the site down tomorrow and join you. The site exists by the skin of its teeth. Some months it pays for itself and some months it doesn't. I am most certainly not getting rich by operating it. I imagine when it comes right down to it, I would miss this place a lot less than anyone else. There are days when it is little more than a burr under my saddle. And those are the good days.
For those who feel it's best to leave, I wish you blue skies, smooth roads and safe driving. I hope our paths will cross again.
For those who choose to remain, we're going to keep plugging. For as long as it makes any good sense, that is.
I hope you'll be comfortable with stopping back by, at some point in the future.
The situation that brewed up in the other thread was ugly. I wish it hadn't happened, but the fact remains it did happen. I can't put toothpaste back in the tube any more than the next guy and it seems my ex snatched up the magic wand as she was hopping on her broom to fly out of here. So there is no un-doing what has been done. All I can do is make my position clear to the individual that stepped out of line. I feel I did just that. Maybe that wasn't a tough enough stance for some people. If not, so be it. But hanging the threat of leaving the forum over my head is akin to being held hostage myself. And I'm not playing that game, no way, no how.
Another position I've always made clear is the fact I am not going to set myself up for failure by trying to make everyone happy, all of the time. It's a recipe for disaster.
In the nearly 30 years I've been online, I've haunted, moderated, owned, built, crashed, rebuilt and admin'ed more foums that most people will ever join. I learned, very early on, the InterWebz are somewhat predictable. No matter what you try to accomplish on a site, there is one constant. People come and people go. Some people come back again, whilst some are gone forever. It happens. If an admin gets derailed by it, the community runs the risk of collapsing. If the admin keeps plugging, the community continues to move forward.
To make everything crystal-clear, if everyone left today and never returned, I would shut the site down tomorrow and join you. The site exists by the skin of its teeth. Some months it pays for itself and some months it doesn't. I am most certainly not getting rich by operating it. I imagine when it comes right down to it, I would miss this place a lot less than anyone else. There are days when it is little more than a burr under my saddle. And those are the good days.
For those who feel it's best to leave, I wish you blue skies, smooth roads and safe driving. I hope our paths will cross again.
For those who choose to remain, we're going to keep plugging. For as long as it makes any good sense, that is.
Gerry
Well-Known Member
Mike
So be it. No threats intended, I hope I left in a dignified and respectful manner... my choice.
Thanks for your help, tolerance and friendship
No reply needed
Gerry
fordsbyjay
Active Member
Wow this thread is just like the last episode of the Sopranos, it sucks.
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