Yawn.....
Spoken like a true old coozer with a gigantic chip on his shoulder.....
I suppose you walked barefoot to school thru a snow covered minefield as
well?
Macka
-----Original Message-----
From: Faure, Marin <Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com>
To: 'Land Rover Mail Group' <LRO@works.team.net>
Cc: 'andy@bobstar.demon.co.uk' <andy@bobstar.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tuesday, 10 April 2001 05:02
Subject: LRO: Re: The Land-Rover Bodied Bastard
>Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:33:10 +0100
>From: Andy Smith <andy@bobstar.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: LRO: Re: Re: The Land-Rover Bodied Bastard
>
>>Just a thought and if somebody else has said I apologies now.
>Did Marin hate himself when he was young ?, those years must of been
>Tortuous for him..................
>
>No, I was too busy riding horses, working on ranches, riding around
>the California and Colorado mountains in the summer in Jeeps (with Chevy
V-8
>engines, no less), sailing, deep-sea fishing, learning how to fly, and
doing about a zillion
>other things. I didn't have a television until I was 16, so I actually had
>to DO interesting stuff to entertain myself. One of the things I love
about
>both television and the internet is that as more and more people remain in
>their homes experiencing life on a screen, there are less and less people
>crowding up the real world. So I'm sorry to disappoint, but no, I didn't
>hate myself when I was young. I had a great time, same as I am now. My
>lack of interest in today's youth in not due to my own experiences, but to
>my observations that today's youth for the most part are not worth wasting
>time on. At least not my time. There are exceptions, but they seem to be
>few and far between. But my opinions are not the result of having a bad
time
>as a kid. In fact, I feel sorry for most of today's youth because they
seem
>to have no direction and no opportunities to do the kinds of things I was
able
>to do when I was a kid. I make a fair amount of money, have a boat, a
plane,
>and can pretty much travel anywhere in the world whenever I want. I
attribute
>those benefits in large part to the experiences I had as a kid. Hauling
logs
>out of the woods with a Caterpillar tractor when you're 14 teaches you
something
>you don't get in front of a TV screen. You can say that hauling logs out
of the
>woods isn't a skill today's kids are going to need, but I'm not talking
about the
>skill itself, but the values- discipline, responsibility, and
self-reliance- you gain
>from doing things like that.
>___________________________
>C. Marin Faure
> (original owner)
> 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
> 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
> Seattle
>
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