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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99
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To: BryanB who wrote (1059)7/30/1999 11:23:00 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (2) of 2340
 
Once upon a time i could have bought an Edsel or a Pontiac or a Caddy even, any of those tarted-up finny showboat creations that sucked barrels of gas through those big motors till the body rotted out and the doors fell off about two and a half years later.

But i didn't - I bought a Volkswagen [and invested the other two-thirds of the money]. It worked great, i kept it even after getting a pickup years later. Cheap to buy, cheap to run, excellent traction, quality German engineering - it outlasted several of my friends' Detroit finned monsters, and got me from Point A to Point B and back very well indeed.

And best of all - it was plug ugly. I really liked that. There was no compromise made from its basic function, that of transportation.

This principle could be applied to financial discussion websites, imho.
And has been ..... until Go2net came along.

Please reconsider. Don't kill our Volkswagen.
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