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Hello Everyone

I am actually ashamed of some of my behavior on this forum.
And I wanted to make a public apology to anyone I may have offended.

And specifically to people I was quite rude to in a post about vegetable oil.

I thought it was ok to give you a hard time.
I thought this would cause a flame war in my post and make it more popular.
And bring more attention to the ideas in the post.
But doing so at your expense was wrong.

I screwed up.
And I would like to make amends.
I have learned a lesson today.

Not to use people for my own selfish reasons, no matter how justified I think I am.

My apologies to you all
Thank You
RichC

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Even though I thought you were acting stupid, as a person looking into running bio and eventually SVO, I am genuinely interested in the thread you started. It is a shame those kind of threads somehow always deteriorate into fanatacism and defensiveness (on both sides) before they really get going to anything worthwhile.

I'd be interested in revisiting the topic sometime if everyone can behave.

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I don't really read the veg oil posts Rich, so we were still good anyway.
I do however appreciate somebody who will self reflect, and then deal with the situation.
Good luck!
You could probably make it up to local folks with some of that barbecue you mentioned one time......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

For a real, serious VO talk, this forum just isn't the place

For the record, I'm not familiar with the thread that you are apologizing for and I love this forum a lot

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

It was big of you to post this. Don't lose any sleep over it, I think we're all good.

Craig

What happened? VO discussion get out of control?

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1974 240D 3.0L 4(M) - 250K -OM617.910 + 300D FW + Rajay turbo power!
1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

How dare you talk about my mother like that.


Where am I?

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1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42

No big deal......but I musta missed it as well......thanx for the apology anyhow!!

SB

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Diesels:
'85 300D, "Max, Blue Benz", 155K, 27.0 MPG
'84 190D 2.2, "Eva, Brown Benz", 142K, 40.2 MPG
'77 240D (parts car)
'67 Eicher ES 202 Tractor "Otto" (2cyl, Air Cooled, 30HP)
Gassers:
'94 Ford F-150, "Henry", 170K (300 Six) 17.5 MPG
'85 190E 2.3, 148K....Parts Car
'58 Dodge W300M Powerwagon (Flat Fenders) Less than 10 MPG

Bbq???

I've noticed quite a few Dallas folks (and met a bunch of great guys at the Diesel GTGs over the past year). I'd love to host one some time soon if I can ever get the house work caught up.... where does the time go! (OK, hanging out endlessly on the forum doesn't help)

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~shell
As of 2/2010:
2001 CLK55 0o\=*=/o0
13.6 @ 106mph
10K mi
1984 300SD
260K mi and going and going...
97 S600
46K miles
1991 Sentra SE-R (extremely dorked with)
www.se-r.net

My wife is often nice enough to point that out!
I'm very much IN for a local GTG, and I bet I don't eat as much as Dan.... Would be nice to have the Cow Town folks also.....

Back to topic, Rich, I think you can see that nobody was really sweating anything.....

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Not nearly as offensive as the guy complaining of his wife's boobs jiggling around 'cause his car doesn't idle smoothly. Oh, the humanity! Just kidding--we all asked for video evidence. I thought the cup of you know what comment was funny, but it was a flame. Good of you to apologize.

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1998 E300D, 287k, barely broken in.

we are all sometimes frustrated over something someone says. as long as we forgive each other and constructive comments continue, all will be well.

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Grey '91 350SDL 214k Dad's car
Beige '81 240D 4 Speed 254k SOLD
Blue '82 300D 225k SOLD
White '95 E300D 46k SOLD
Blue '87 190D 2.5 Turbo 315k SOLD
Brown '80 240D 4 Speed 716k SOLD
Beige '80 300D N/A 119k SOLD
Blue '85 300D Model 186k T-Boned

I'm up for a NTX gathering. Happy to offer my place.

Here's a map:

www.beanstock.org

click 'location'

Well, Rich, it's not like you called anybody a "nappy-headed ho," so no harm done.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles