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Old 12-29-2009   #1
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Just be nice...

With New Years coming soon, maybe it's a good time to think about improving OURSELVES (self-mod's?) a little bit for "better performance".

Here's an interesting write up on some basic, but perhaps forgotten, rules of civility.

I think it's worth a read, especially considering the negative developments in today's society, where much of these rules and concepts have been seemingly reversed.

George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior @ Foundations Magazine

Maybe we could pick out a "Top Ten" to strictly adhere to in the future?

[My "top ten" - 6, 22, 44, 49, 56, 68, 86, 87, 89, 109.]

I know I will.

Ride Safe (and Civil!),

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Re: Just be nice...

Now I realize this is going to sound incredibly weird, but I'll bet that the founding fathers would have made one intense motorcycle riding group.
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Now I realize this is going to sound incredibly weird, but I'll bet that the founding fathers would have made one intense motorcycle riding group.
Sounds interesting...

First off, lose the white wigs, and tights!

Seriously, these guys were real "Rebels", not a poser in the group.

Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson I see as great and inventive tinkerers and modders on thier rides.

George might be "leader of the pack", and John Hancock a bit of a show-off.

Adams would have been hen-pecked by the wife (did you see the HBO series?), but would ride anyway.

Paul Revere wasn't necessarily a "founding father", but with his silversmith skills, he would come in handy!

P.S. - If you read the modern summarisations in the far right column, in blue, the selections make more sense.

Also, as you read through, note how many of these individual points are reversed, and then used in films targeted at very young and pre-adolescent age kids in movies today. Low-brow repetitive crap for cheap laughs. Fart... burp... oops, I got hit in the nads, excessive self indulgence, and so on.

Me? I always felt that the talking (and dressed like modern homo-sapien) chimpanzee genre films were the most humorous, but yet intellectually stimulating.

Ride Safe!

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