OBRA: OBRA Chat: My nominee for bonehead writer

Mathew Hill

2003-07-23

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Or we can all get of our soapbox, pull our heads out of our arses, realize

that this writer writes everything with tongue placed firmly in cheek (a

glance at ESPN.com once in awhile will testify to this), and go on with our

lives. I fail to understand why everyone gets so worked up over something

so trivial. It's not like he was advocating running over cyclists. He

expressed his opinion that cycling is not a sport. Big deal. He has an

opinion. Now move along.











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                      evanmackenzie@aol

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                      07/22/2003 09:46         Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] My nominee for bonehead writer

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We can all send these bozos letters telling them about how great cycling

is, and how stupid and close-minded they are for writing their silly

columns without knowing anything about cycling at all. I think it gets them

off to get a bunch of whiny letters from the people they probably meant to

offend in the first place.

But better than that, we can write to them and tell them that we have

written to their advertisers, and recommended that they stop advertising

with people who write such drivel. I dropped an email to both REI and

Cycling Adventures and encouraged them to stop advertising with the site

that carries the "Betting Fool." We all know the media responds to its

advertisers more than it responds to the public.

Hit them where it hurts.

Evan

"We fear the cold and the things we do not understand. But most of all we

fear the doings of the heedless ones among ourselves."

......AN INUIT SHAMAN, quoted by an early Arctic explorer (As published in

William H. Calvin's, "The River that Flows Uphill", 1986)

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Roger Joys

2003-07-22

Every tour we see a lot of the same...

My thought is that if he thinks anyone with a cool bike can be a pro

racer, we should send him a bike and say "OK Show me"

But I've grown weary of the annual tour de imbeciles that seems to get

scheduled in conjunction with the tour de France.

-r

-----Original Message-----

From: Lisa Winchester [mailto:Bikerch-@hotmail.com]

Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:47 PM

To: ob-@topica.com

Subject: [OBRA Chat] My nominee for bonehead writer

"Fool" is the proper term for this guy.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/07/22/

fool227.DTL

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2003-07-22

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We can all send these bozos letters telling them about how great cycling is,

and how stupid and close-minded they are for writing their silly columns

without knowing anything about cycling at all. I think it gets them off to get a

bunch of whiny letters from the people they probably meant to offend in the

first place.

But better than that, we can write to them and tell them that we have written

to their advertisers, and recommended that they stop advertising with people

who write such drivel. I dropped an email to both REI and Cycling Adventures

and encouraged them to stop advertising with the site that carries the "Betting

Fool." We all know the media responds to its advertisers more than it

responds to the public.

Hit them where it hurts.

Evan

"We fear the cold and the things we do not understand. But most of all we

fear the doings of the heedless ones among ourselves."

......AN INUIT SHAMAN, quoted by an early Arctic explorer (As published in

William H. Calvin's, "The River that Flows Uphill", 1986)

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<HTML>We can all send these bozos letters telling them about how great cycling is, and how stupid and close-minded they are for writing their silly columns without knowing anything about cycling at all. I think it gets them off to get a bunch of whiny letters from the people they probably meant to offend in the first place. 

 

But better than that, we can write to them and tell them that we have written to their advertisers, and recommended that they stop advertising with people who write such drivel. I dropped an email to both REI and Cycling Adventures and encouraged them to stop advertising with the site that carries the "Betting Fool." We all know the media responds to its advertisers more than it responds to the public. 

 

Hit them where it hurts. 

 

Evan 

 

"We fear the cold and the things we do not understand. But most of all we fear the doings of the heedless ones among ourselves." 

......AN INUIT SHAMAN, quoted by an early Arctic explorer (As published in William H. Calvin's, "The River that Flows Uphill", 1986) 

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Lisa Winchester

2003-07-22

"Fool" is the proper term for this guy.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/07/22/fool227.DTL

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