On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:30:23 -0600, "di" wrote:

..Personal attacks? MV is the king when it comes to that. Get used to it,
..he's a quack, nut, or whatever else you can think of. He's the type of
..person with the personality that made all the other kids threw rocks at him
..on the way from school everyday,

Never happened in my life. I don't associate with boring riff-raff like mountain
bikers.

and did not grow out of it.
..
.."Terri Alvillar" wrote in message
. com...
.. "Q." LostVideos-AT-hotmail.com wrote in message
...
.. "qa2" wrote in message
.. ...
.. Who is this quack, Mike Vandeman?
..
.. That's pretty much the long and the short of it. Michael J. Vandeman is
..a
.. quack. A fruit loop, if you will.
..
.. People like him are hard to understand. Did you ever have the kind of
..kid
.. in school, who loved getting attention by being the most obnoxious
..looser he
.. could be, no matter how many times her got beat up or humiliated? Mr.
.. Vandeman is that kid, just older. The deformations of his neural
..pathways
.. are deeply set and he may never be a normal, rational human again.
..
.. On the other hand, he may be brilliant. He may just be FOR mountain
..biking.
.. Using reverse psychology to unite just about everyone with an IQ above
..room
.. temperature Celsius against him, and by the same token assuring that
..anyone
.. who is against mountain biking is laughed out of existence. By playing
..the
.. clown, he makes the anti mountain bikers seem ridiculous and pathetic,
..as he
.. himself is seen.
..
.. Alas, I don't think that's what he is. He's just a disturbed human
..being.
.. Let's just be grateful he isn't spending all his time in a cabin with a
..copy
.. of mein kampf and some pipe bombs ... although that is certainly
..possible.
..
.. C.Q.C.
..
..
.. The only way mountain bikers can criticize Mike Vandeman is by
.. personal attacks since they know his arguments about mountain bike
.. destruction are true.
.. Terri Alvillar
..

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