Re: As Lyle Lovett says...

[Don MacQueen <dmac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I apologize for multiple posts; I'm catching up...

paige wrote:
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>We should actually be very grateful to BMW.  Tthe new bike is so 
>ugly I think Our beautiful older bikes just became a lot more 
>valuable.

I hadn't thought of that!

>Are we making too much of the appearence?  Since any vehicle sits 
>stationary about 99% of its useful like, I think the appearence is 
>probably The most important consideration.  After all, all those 
>wonderful collectors bikes that are so coveted aren't being 
>collected because they are mechanical wonders...  If that was the 
>case old triumphs and nortons would all be on the trash heap, and we 
>wouldn't even remember what they looked like.

>Did you pick you wife by how well she could pull a plow or how She 
>made you feel when you looked at her?

I like how you think.
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