Dear John,
Thanks for the chuckle.
Now if we could just add a few more baguettes and escargot (in butter, of course) to the menu, along with a nice Bordeaux... :-)
Jon Spangler enjoying his English and Scottish genetic heritage as well as his tast for French and Swiss bikes in Alameda, CA USA
On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:50 AM, <classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org>
<classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org> wrote:
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:59:08 -0600
> From: John Hurley <JHurley@jdabrams.com>
> Subject: [CR] Dumping on Dawes
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Cc: John D Proch <johnprochss@yahoo.com>
> Message-ID: <249DDD9704676C49AE6169AE3D2D9F4ECDB977@Exchange-SVR>
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> John D. Proch wrote:
> YOU PEOPLE ARE ABOUT DAWES "ING" THIS POOR CR site to death, don't you
> think???
> Talk about dwelling!
>
> I believe I was first to reply to the original post by David Kulcinski
> last Thursday. Not that I really knew much about the Dawes brand, but
> no one else had responded after several hours, at least not on-
> list, and
> I was a little disappointed. I thought people were either too
> proud or
> indifferent to bother with this less glamorous brand, or perhaps felt
> timid about jumping in before the water warmed up a little. I
> wondered
> if some few people were quietly chatting off list, "flying under the
> radar", and thereby depriving me, at least, of the pleasure of a more
> eccentric topic. It turns out I was wrong, happily.
>
> Perhaps it was the combination of winter weather and slow news
> days, but
> the cork was finally drawn and a rich flood of conversation poured
> out.
> If I can be indulged for using too many metaphors, I will say that a
> good helping of English roast beef has been a welcome change from the
> usual diet of garlic and tomato paste.
>
> John Hurley
> Austin, Texas, USA
>
>
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