[AT] Moving on...

[John Grant]

OK Folks, Walt is gone. RIP   Check out this site, stop and think how 
fortunate we all are.


Subject: What A Beautiful Blue Planet!


PICS-EARTH FROM SPACE

The contrast between lighted Europe and black Africa succinctly tells a 
story
that maybe no other media can do as well.




http://home.att.net/~hideaway_fun/442/planet.htm



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "At" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:50 PM
Subject: [AT] Moving on...


> Quick note... Walt has been like a metal splinter in your thumb for many 
> of
> us for some time, not all that important but a minor irritation just when
> you are under pressure. His final attack on my whole life didn't really
> bother me; I don't expect everybody to like me. I was though quite annoyed
> when he attacked the character of most of this list. I have been sharing
> both serious stuff and nonsense with this group about 10 years (sometimes
> maybe too much) and don't like seeing it attacked as a group much like I
> feel about family. I may give them hell but nobody else can.   ;-)    Walt
> was always an outsider like the elephant in the living room that everybody
> tries to pretend isn't there. It seems that the splinter is no longer in 
> the
> thumbs of many of us...
> Hopefully we can now just move on and talk tractors. I don't think there 
> is
> much to be gained by hanging Walt in effigy now that he is gone. As 
> annoying
> as he could be at times and as hard as it could be to make him see that 
> his
> often expressed attitude of arrogance alienated many on the list, he was 
> not
> "all" bad. I do want to say if the messages are reread "honestly" then I
> believe anyone can see that he was not "attacked" for trying to help
> someone. I simply took him to task for blowing off about the character of
> most of the list, most my long time friends, not for trying to help 
> someone.
> I believe that in all of the years Spencer has had this list this only the
> second person he has removed... That says a lot about Spencer's patience
> with us...   :)   A lot of people didn't like Walt and there were a lot of
> people that Walt didn't like but it seems really silly to start choosing
> sides at this point now that the situation is completely over...
> Now the difference between those dang green and yellow tractors and those
> fine red ones is worth arguing over...   ;-)
>
>
> Thanks Spencer...
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> The brave may not live forever but the easily frightened may never live at
> all.
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
>
>
>
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