[V8] Internet cowards

[Scott Justusson]

 As always Roger, I too have enjoyed years of fine prose and stories, yours have aged well with time...   I claim well shared stories are much better than my daily routine fixing of dead Audis.  And to dispel your exaggerated vision below, I'm am only 6ft 2", albeit many underestimate my over-200lb frame by at least 20lbs (Ingo missed the guess by 25lbs only a month ago), and I indeed actively practice in martial arts.  Lucky for me, my presence with a beer in hand and humor in mind, deters most folks from any garbage-can engagements you reference so creatively (do tell of your btdt:).  That said, we have both been around too long to let any tax day mis-steps in a virtual keyboard drive to really affect true automotive passion.  Many are here for technical help, I'm here for mostly to read the stories that come from creating Quattro experiences.  My best hope is there is room for every purpose on a list that shares the rare and almost immunized: v8q mental illness (tm - PJ).

Anyone that wants to join me creating such an experience, and enjoy a week's worth of stories, only need to sign up for the Steamboat Ice Driving Experience, which will take place for the 19th-year, the last week of January 2013.   I'm the fool in a quattro, sharing high performance drives and even better laughs, with those that attend.  Many have claimed it's the most fun you can have in a quattro with your pants on.  

Or, if competition is your thing, you can find me at many rallycrosss and autocrosses.  There, I'm pretty quiet until after all timed runs, because in competition 'mode' I'm not really that friendly.  Add a pitcher of beer afterwords though, and I can get a full table of quattro nuts LFAO -- just last month did so telling a story about Ingo, myself and a Papyrus v8 that invaded Las Vegas years ago.  If it weren't for the coimbra list back in the late 90's, I never would have met the lad, and we have shared more quattro stories in that 15years, than anyone can take away in the next 15.  When these stories can create tear laden laughter, that reality eclipses all virtual missteps.

Cheers

Scott J
Eventmaster 1999-present
Steamboat Winter Ice Driving Experience
National Director of Driver Education and Safety
USAudiclub
92 v8 Auto 4.2 ABT Chipped
91 v8 Auto 3.6

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger M. Woodbury <rmwoodbury at fairpoint.net>
To: V8 <V8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 18, 2012 6:07 am
Subject: [V8] Internet cowards


Superdave said: “I'm looking for a V8 dialog, sometimes I'm  looking for help, 
or share my Audi V8 experiences or Passion.  So let's get back to V8 dialog and 
less opinions.”

Well, exactly, or almost.  Tom, you may have been in a pissy mood, but your post 
was way over the top and unnecessary.  I read it, and have read virtually every 
post from you, Scott, and a whole lot of other listers here for a long time now.  
In fact I have been reading posts on this list for more years than on ANY 
Porsche list that exists and it was the Porsche lists that got me started doing 
this at all.  (Too many Porsche guys are assholes.).

I think the one line that should not be crossed on this list or any other social 
networking or information networking site is the personal one with diverse and 
irrelevant rhetoric designed only to wound another lister.  

It’s pointless after all, and something else:  the Internet is a great medium 
for meeting new people and an unbeatable way to do research and to learn about 
things of interest, the vital as well as the trivial.  It is also a great smoke 
screen.  It is possible to say something to another person on the Internet that 
one would never imagine saying face to face.  Tom’s post was over the top and 
would never have been said that way face to face. Such Internet combat is mere 
cowardice and unworthy of Tom or anyone else I have met on this list or most 
others I have subscribed to.  In person such utterances could be highly 
dangerous. Probably Tom doesn’t know if Scott is a six foot five inch heap of 
muscled mastery of five black belts in oriental martial arts that no one in the 
western world can pronounce.  Tom’s post, were it made in person might have 
resulted in him being put upside down into a garbage can and kicked 
unceremoniously a long way down a long hill.

Let’s not go the way of those Porsche vroom-vroom wannabes who freely sling 
barbs in their semi-literate grumbles sounding like so many ignorant little 
pubescent thugs on a forth rate junior high school play ground.  

>From what I have heard and read here and elsewhere, it appears Audi’s V8 Quattro 
is slowly but steadily gaining ground as a cult car.  That and ten cents will 
get you about one sip of Dunkin’ and it won’t run the car OR the country. But it 
is neat to drive an interesting car that at least some people appreciate, and 
perhaps, a whole lot of others can’t identify.  Especially when that car can run 
so well, and do so well in all kinds of weather.  This list imparts a lot of 
information from a lot of people who have a wide variety of information about 
the car, and it is all for free...or mostly so.  Let’s not sully the value of 
the list by spasms of Internet cowardice.  

Whether Tom was right or wrong, I have no idea.  But I do know Tom doesn’t want 
his mailbox to be flooded with white envelopes containing epitheted bumper 
stickers for his car.  For that matter, I doubt that Tom would want his maibox 
flooded with rainbow envelopes either.

Roger