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hdenter
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Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
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Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in Samba land. I hope all of you are able to spend some quality time with your family and friends while enjoying a delicious meal. I'm thankful for the wide variety of members here with helpful hints and humorous comments!
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0to60in6min
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Joined: November 27, 2006
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Location: OR & CA (Oregon/California)
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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DanHoug
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Joined: December 05, 2016
Posts: 4771
Location: Bemidji, MN
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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online communities are odd but real, just like families! i'm laid up with a bum foot, my wife having some brief covid booster yucks i didn't experience. very quiet, the stuff with the kids happens on Saturday, modern schedules wait not for tradition.
been reading Bob Hoover's essays while laid up.... always entertaining, mostly informative, sometimes uff ta.
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60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.
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dobryan
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Location: Brookeville, MD
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DanHoug
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Location: Bemidji, MN
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Bob was a participant in the original vanagon@lenti list run by Gerry Skerbitz. was an aircooled guy but had lots to contribute. was monitoring during Grendel's run up to Inuvik back in the day. was pretty cool to recieve the reports as he'd post them enroute. talented guy, articulate, uneducated, brilliant.
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60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.
'87 Westy & '89 Westy both 2.1 4spd
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brickster
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Joined: January 05, 2004
Posts: 512
Location: CO, USA
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| I’m very thankful for this community. I rejoined it recently after stepping away from bricks for 20 years. I started on the Vanagon Mailing List Server (@ gerry.vanagon.com) listserv (anyone still on there?). |
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DanHoug
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Location: Bemidji, MN
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| brickster wrote: |
| I’m very thankful for this community. I rejoined it recently after stepping away from bricks for 20 years. I started on the Vanagon Mailing List Server (@ gerry.vanagon.com) listserv (anyone still on there?). |
vanagon@lenti predated @gerry by a few years.... on them both.
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60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.
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dobryan
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DanHoug
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Location: Bemidji, MN
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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right. more correctly, WAS on them both. back in the day. today is SAMBA.
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60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.
'87 Westy & '89 Westy both 2.1 4spd
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dobryan
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DanHoug
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| dobryan wrote: |
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| right. more correctly, WAS on them both. back in the day. today is SAMBA. |
This format is so much better at searching for information. The old listserves were good in their day but no one searched anything it seemed. |
funny how @lenti, @gerry, and SAMBA have by and large remained civil. back in the day, Derek Drew posted an 'evolution of the listserve' which detailed the various stages of a listserve from new found wisdom to bitter condescension. the Vanagon lists have avoided this for the most part. so truly, Happy Thanksgiving!
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60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.
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4Gears4Tires
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Location: MD
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Happy thanksgiving everyone.
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bobhill8
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Thanks to you all.
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Sodo
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Location: Western WA
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:24 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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900 miles from home, just finished Txgvg dinner.
Van’s been running like a champ.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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Jake de Villiers
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Happy Turkey Day, everybody!
I too started on the Vanagon listserv a long, long time ago. I haven't signed in for ten or fifteen years but my email still gets the occasional notification when Gerry's down. Kinda nice to know its still alive. 
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sanchius 
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:33 am Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| DanHoug wrote: |
funny how @lenti, @gerry, and SAMBA have by and large remained civil. |
Good point. But, this is no accident. It requires both a good community and LOTS of continuous hard work and sometimes very difficult decisions by the admins behind the scenes.
Please know how thankful we are, TheSamba admins, for all the work you've done keeping this such a quality place over the years!
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jimf909
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:02 am Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Happy Thanksgiving, day after and every other day!
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DanHoug
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:26 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| sanchius wrote: |
| Please know how thankful we are, TheSamba admins, for all the work you've done keeping this such a quality place over the years! |
i whole-heartedly concur! Kamz and Dave do a great job keeping order in a society always on the brink of chaos. their constant vigilance, a burden unto itself, along with the decisions that must come, another burden of responsibility. very much appreciated.
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60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.
'87 Westy & '89 Westy both 2.1 4spd
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jlrftype7
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Sorry to hear about your foot, Dan… 
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