[Rhodes22-list] Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Nobel to Bush (Political humor)

[ben]

I agree.  It was quite a good history of the list.

Al (if you're still around) -- I'm not too interested in the Rhodies 
political views either, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one.  But our 
list-mates are good about labeling political posts as such, so if I'm 
not in the mood, I don't read them.

No offense intended to those of you who enjoy the political 
discussions.  I'll quickly admit that yours tend to be more thought out 
and intelligent than those of my non-list friends, whose opinions I have 
equally little use for but can't ignore as easily. 

Ben


stan wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I break my silence to salute your brilliant piece.  And while I am at it, 
> move over Rummy and  I will join you in dragging Gore into this.
>
> ss
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Sandberg" <sanderico1 at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Nobel to Bush 
> (Political humor)
>
>
> Once upon at time in a land far, far away .......
>
>
> There was an email list called the Rhodes 22 email list. This list was
> sponsored by a company that sells boat related gear and parts, etc. The
> folks that owned Rhodes 22s joined the list and chatted back and forth
> about their boats until one day ...... Somebody brought up a topic and
> it devolved into a political discussion. Soon, the owner of the list
> (the marine parts company) appeared to tell the Rhodes 22 Owners that
> this was a “sailing related only” email list and would we please take
> our political and other off topic discussions else where. This happened
> many times and began to bother some of the R 22 owners, also known as
> Rhodies. Soon they began to discuss ways to remove themselves from the
> tyranny of the list owner and find a place where they could freely speak
> of the topics they desired and yes, posting pictures should be allowed
> too they exclaimed.
>
>
> Lo and behold ..... out of the east rose a savior, a computer guru and
> fellow Rhodes Owner named Michael Meltzer (MJM) who said, fear not, I
> can lead you away from the tyranny of the list owner and into a server
> where you will be free to speak as you wish without persecution. Shortly
> after this, the Rhodes 22 – list was born. Now the Rhodies were able to
> speak freely and even post pictures of their wonderful craft,
>
>
> Life was good, until one day ..... someone, a new comer, posted a wish
> to return to the tyranny and censorship of the former list owner .....
>
>
> The old Rhodies, remembering the persecution of the old days, wisely
> told this inexperienced new member of the topic police that they very
> much enjoyed their newfound freedom and that, he should get used to it,
> or be careful not to let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.
>
>
> And that my young sailor friend, is how the Rhodes list came to be the
> beacon of free speech, wonderful pictorials and intelligent political
> and other off topic conversations it is today.
>
>
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