Way to go, bro! I knew you could do it. See ya in Topekee and, yes,
I'll have the Community coffee!!!
John (Old Fartz & TLS #37) Lieberman
JD_Kemp@notes.ymp.gov wrote:
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> I returned from a bit of a "Road Trip" last night, checked my phone messages,
> and heard Miss Chris Moore's recorded message that I'd won the 99 DTN contest.
> GREAT way to come home, lemme tell ya! I have Waaaaayy too many "Thank
>You's"
> due to people for posting to the list, but I have to name a few... Bear with
> me!
>
> Thanks to Katie, who started it all. I thought it was a jolly good one,
>laughed
> my arse off reading her postings, and I'll be darned, it WORKED!!! Katie,
>your
> written words, I think, set the tone for the whole contest, and suited me to a
> "T" (That'd be a "T Series" MG!). Thanks to NAP for printing my mass of
> scribblings along the way. Thank you, Kelly family.
>
> Mike B and the TLS gang, who recognized a "kindred spirit" and took me under
> their (duct taped, slightly tattered) wing. I don't know why I never got into
> TLS before this, definitely "my bad." (Hey, like THAT's a new thing!?!?!)
> Thanks to all of you.
>
> To JK, Chris, Karl, Carl, Bill, and the ENTIRE Dixie Region Gang. Ya'll are
> family, always will be. Thank you. Can't wait to SEE YOU, Jackson!!! (Think
> we can keep the ol' girl running for TWO DAYS?) Miss Chris, thanks for your
> "special efforts" in turning out votes. Thanks to Betsy and "Big" Dick, in
> Atlanta, for your support, too. Love you all... I mean, Love YA'LL!
>
> Thanks to the LV Region, all my new friends in the desert. Tom, thanks for
>the
> scandalous web page. That'll teach ME to make jokes with the web-meister,
>won't
> it? And thanks to guys like Gene and Rick, for making me part of the group.
>
> (This is starting to sound like an Academy award speech, isn't it???? Now, if
> only it was some starlet with big.... uh, Blue Eyes making the speech... Oh
> well, just a few more things...)
>
> THANK YOU to TEAM.NET, for choosing to send Lucretia to Nationals!!! To my
>two
> competitors, Mssrs. Meissner and Moon, congratulations on being nominated, and
> you guys are GREAT, it was fun "campaigning" against ya'll. I hope both of
>you
> get nominated and chosen in the next few years. You deserve it, guys, honest.
> I think we should some day try out Paul Cz's suggestion we share a Scotch.
> (I'll have a beer, thank you, but you get the idea.)
>
> **Last, but FOR SURE not least, thanks to all the British Dogs, who have kept
>me
> going for a lot of years.**
>
> Hey, I gotta get to work now. I thank all of you again. If I left out
>anybody
> I should have named, blame it on it being early out here, and at my age I have
> trouble remembering MY name some days. (What was I saying?? Oh, yeah...)
>Come
> by and visit at Topeka, I look forward to meeting all my friends at Team.Net.
> NOW, I'll get back to being my usual anything-but-serious self! Onwards and
> sidewards, chaps!
>
> JD Kemp &
> "Lucretia MacEvil" #13 MGB (currently awating arrival of a new starter!)
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