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Originally posted by Rob McKibbon
I'd bet $100 that the Zman is a great guy, who lives Life to the fullest, he's not a taker, but a giver. Probably around 27 - 31 years old - youngster to me/ hah ha. He is probably very grounded and good willed; a leader and a follower; a friend to many. He's probably not married, but when he does get married, he will have a happy wife and a successful family. [/quote]See? I was just mostly wrong! Score: rob: 6 todwic: 2 (I got the age, and you were wrong about marriage, which makes me right by default. (hey, when someone's as wrong as oft as I am, I have to get em where I can get em.) So we're probably both glad we didn't bet
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I'm also impressed with Wayne and his company; very impressed! And I'm also impressed with his ability to choose someone on his team, such as Zman. Afterall, a company is represented by its leaders.
I've read his posts - I'm a GREAT judge of character. So tell me Zman, am I right? <><
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While you may be a great judge of character, you can't tell ages for squat. (I'm not calling you Dirt in a dusty sense, just that's what you're older than. I mean that in the nicest possible way!)
Ok, I stand corrected, Z-man, and thank you for being big enough to accept my opology. All this angst was started with the thread where Frank B. asked for some advice, for the second time the info was in the owners manual, and Britwrench advised him that the purchase of such a manual would be beneficial. Not those exact words. Frank responded by suggesting that Brit was a recepticle for a female hygene solution. Said it pretty meanly, too. A couple of other members of the board tolk Frankie that wasn't so nice, and sometimes we have to share the sandbox with others who aren't as intellectualy tuned as others, but brit had his system well mantained and would be servicable, if a bit finicky in the low end rpm zone. Here again, I didn't read the whole post, and when I say Frank slamming brit, I lashed out (tho a lot nicer to him than I was to Z) making desparaging remarks about his geneology, mental capacity, and choice of lingo, while defending Brit capacity as a great source of 411. I didn't know Frank from adam, but seeing as he was from Philly, I made references about Italians and possible mob connections. Turned out, Frank and brit had already kissed and made up (I HOPE that's what they were doing there), and that Frankie's Grandfolk came from Scicily. Not too far from Italy, as I recall. racial slurs were handed back and forth (good naturedly, this time, wholey tongue in cheek), and some pansy whiner mama's boy got his feel bads hurt and complained, and Zman steped in, said it wouldn't be tolerated, with the name calling and such, and deleted the thread, and threated to boot me off the board. Well, I took it personaly, and wrote a very, very long post about how we should get thicker skins and how french people suck and nobody can take a joke-a-la-the Diceman anymore, and how if he was gonna throw his wieght around like that, then just go ahead and boot me, nancy boy. I wrote all of this before I realized the post was closed and the 40 min I had spent composing one of the greatest (IMHO) retort/rebuttle/slam/take this job and shove it-esque peices ever written was just pissed away. and to not be retrieved ever, and one of the most eloquent PG-13 verbal tirades of Western Civilization was lost forever. I hit the submit reply button and went to go get my wife (Traci) to show her one of my finest literical creations ever, and there was the "you can't post that crap here" error messages awaiting my return, wife a-tow.
And so, that is the real reason I've been just waiting for even half a chance to unload on Z-man. When I saw his remark to Ahmet about power, I detonated. I vented. I, sir, raved. I, raver. And after I was done, I felt silly, embarassed, and I really wanted to just delete the post and forget this ugly incident of short temperedness. (I'm Irish, it's not me fault, the lads talked me into it) Instead, I let it stand, to remind myself that tirades make for hurt feelings and dead kittens. That was a few days ago, and today, I sincerely feel bad that I said those things about Z-man, he didn't deserve them, and he is just doing his job. (my remarks about Canadians stand tho, you gotta draw the nice line somewhere, and mine starts north of America. (Canadian Customs kicked me out of Canada, I wasn't allowed there. Yes I hold gruges, nevermind that is was a good call on thier part) Again, Z-man, moderator, I say "I'm sorry", I'm just a petty short tempered man who lashes out at things that would be better brought close and bought beverages.