[Spridgets] Grand Poona

[Deikis, John G]

I am a "non-member" of a similarly unstructured affinity group called
the "Not a VW Club" around Ann Arbor. We are dedicating to proving old
air-cooled VWs can run on ice cream.
JohnD


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill L [mailto:pythias at pacifier.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:55 PM
To: Jim Johnson
Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Grand Poobah

Hello Jim,


and it is YOUR vision that we support in calling for you to take the
title... only one who did NOT want it would be deserving!..

you didn't think that we would actually DO anything BECAUSE of a
steeenkin' title... .. NO.. we wish only to bring honor to your
vision.

>     I am honored, but hasten to point out that "PooBah" is an
inherited title
>and cannot be conferred by election!

>More on this later, but my vision for the Sprite - Midget Club USA will
be a
>lot less formal. All members will be known as "Presidents" with your
local
>chapter being the cockpit of your Spridget. Seriously, many clubs end
up
>with ego and personality troubles due to some hierarchy of "PooBahs"
and I'd
>very much like to avoid that. I envision a very loose organization
>communicating via internet where everyone has an equal voice, no one
has a
>title, there are no dues, and there are no required meetings.  The Holy
>Sprite project, the BusterCluster, and other OSHIT and SOS projects are
>cases in point.  We didn't need no stinkin' PooBah to make them
happen...
>somebody stepped up and we all pitched in to make it happen!

>Cheers!!

--
Best regards,
 Bill L.                           mailto:pythias at pacifier.com

 '66 Sprite MKIII HAN8L49403   "the red thing"

   480. The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle won.