Great blog posting by Roger Ebert

[PlainBrownR2]

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Thanks, guys. One of the later posters at AB said I "smoked" the uneducated commentator. I don't know if I'd go that far....

For those of the much older set, smoked in other words he knew in much better terms what he was talking about. I saw the post, you did great. Remember this is the same public that confuse the Studebaker 289 with the Ford's. Also see:

beat
win
owned
pwned(derivative of owned, a typo that caught on)

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[jnewkirk77]

There are a lot of what I call "unusual" terms that get used at AB, such as "FTW" (for the win), for example. Or "Epic Fail."

Kind of makes you wonder who's teaching English in our schools these days, doesn't it??? [:0][V]

Jacob Newkirk - Owensboro, KY

KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL! Drive a Studebaker!

[Avantidon]

If you haven't gone back innto Roger E's article and read the blog posts you are remiss. There are some breat posts in there and many from forum members.

[BobPalma]

Don is right; the blog posts are all over the place. Just about all of them are interesting in one way or another. Some are very introspective, and some of those downright worrisome. The relative emptiness expressed by some of the younger posters is troublesome; those who disdain the car in general and have their shorts in a wad about all manner of real or imagined ills credited to the automobile.

Those emotionally-bereft folks remind me of a comment made by Uncle Jerry Palma (former Studebaker salesman) maybe 45 years ago, discussing a particularily passionless person whose identify escapes me. Jerry said that person would "...likely die without having lived." I was a teen-ager at the time, but have thought of his remark often.

In another thread, I reported my emotion when first seeing that white, R2-powered 1963 Champ truck at Snider Studebaker in late 1962. Forty-five years from now I'll be long gone, but I wonder if someone who is now 17 will be posting to his hobbyist forum, his excitement of having gone to Best Buy in Winter 2008 and seeing one of only two iPod model# HCT665dEddei*hyTBs ever produced...[:0]...or will that 17-year old die without having lived the excitement of seeing something of later significant historical interest, like that R2 Champ truck, thanks to the emotionless, sterile country advocated by many of his well-meaning, but ill-advised, contemporaries? [8D]BP