LSelz@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/24/99 6:16:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jeremy@jmemee.demon.co.uk writes:
>
> << LSelz@aol.com writes
> >
> >OH MY GOD!!!
> >
> >I thought Morgans were supposed to be fun!!!! Little tin-and-plywood
> sports
> >roadsters to run around in and meet people in and fix in your garage and
> love
> >and caress and maybe beat them up on a racetrack and make friends over.
>
> So did I and the car most definitely is! I'm not sure about the crack
> about tin and plywood though, I claim steel, aluminium and ash,
> (although I'll concede the GRP wings aren't the noble material they
> ought to be).
>
> IMHO the MSCC has lost the plot. Some of the volunteer directors of the
> MSCC, i.e. those who have power over the joint club funds decided for a
> lark to ignore the needs of the members, treat them like mushrooms and
> sack illegally the old Treasurer and the Registrar. This little exercise
> has cost about US$48,000, which the Directors won't be paying. As the
> club is a 'not for profit', you can guess who will be.
>
> >This sounds like impeachment hearings in the Senate, or a multiple murder
> >trial where some gangster killed a union boss or something.
>
> Please have a look at the ManxMog web site and read the Tribunal
> judgement and the subsequent postings.
>
> http://homepages.enterprise.net/kluff/manxmog/trib.html
>
> For one person, it has been her hobby, life and livelihood. Not senate
> hearings or a murder trial, sorry.
> >
> >Sure you got the right board????
> 'fraid so.
> --
> Jeremy Edwards >>
>
> Jeremy -
>
> I don't really mean to downplay an event which has apparently had a big
> personal effect on someone who put a lot of themselves into something and
> then got hurt.....BUT....
>
> I guess it's just human nature. A couple of years ago I was sitting in a
> cafeteria booth at work and heard three guys in the next booth talking. They
> had just formed a local chapter of a bass-fishing club. (For those of you
> not familiar with this phenomenon, tournament bass-fishing is a Big Deal
> among a lot of people). But they weren't talking about fishing, they were
> talking about who would be president and that Jimbo and Bubba had formed a
> coalition to oust Billy-Bob as tournament director, and how many votes they
> could pull together among them to gain control of the fishing club. And I
> thought, Good gosh, there are only 12 people in this club, and it's supposed
> to be about fishing! Relaxing, laid back, you-against-the-fish kind of thing
> (at least, that's the way I fish). But it was rife with politics and
> intrigue and dark plots already, and hadn't been organized for a month yet.
>
> Oh well. We like events and gatherings and newsletters, and to have those
> you have to have an organization, and to have an organization you have to
> have people and control, and then the trouble commences......Don't let my
> reactionary opinions slow down the flow of Morgan news to the board....a
> "delete" only takes about a second or two, so I don't begrudge it...
>
> Lannis
Amen brother amen!!
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