After great suggestions from all of you, 12 Piece Bucket has archived and categorized more than 800 of Yoda's posts into relevant threads organized into sub-forums by chapter from The Golfing Machine®.
12 Piece poured through more than 2,000 posts (including duplicates posted on three sites) to distill these nuggets during this categorization process! We all can't thank you enough!!
We hope this will be a valuable resource for all of you (and us!). Stay tuned as we continue to add to the wealth of information already in the archives. Currently the archives are comprised of posts from April of 2004 through the launching of our site in mid-January 2005. We're currently working hard to include all of Yoda's posts from "the early days" (January through March 2004). We also plan to start categorizing many of the quality posts authored right here on LynnBlakeGolf.com.
I've said this before, but it's worth mentioning again...
After great suggestions from all of you, 12 Piece Bucket has archived and categorized more than 800 of Yoda's posts into relevant threads organized into sub-forums by chapter from The Golfing Machine®.
12 Piece poured through more than 2,000 posts (including duplicates posted on three sites) to distill these nuggets during this categorization process! We all can't thank you enough!!
(thanks again, Bucket! )
I'll never forget the moment when Randy Sparks, a.k.a. as golfingrandy on this and www.chuckevansgolf.com, presented me with the first three months of my posts. It was April 2004 over dinner with our wives and Chuck Evans in Destin, Florida. The posts were beautifully arranged by subject in a fully-tabbed, three-inch thick binder he dubbed "Da Book." What a gift. Thank you, my friend.
I had done my best to share the wisdom of Homer Kelley and was proud of the work. And when Randy showed me the end result of my day-by-day-by-day effort, I knew that something had to be done to preserve the information that, inspired by the questions of my fellow Forum members, I had spent hundreds of hours putting down. It was a legacy born of my personal experience with Homer, a privilege enjoyed by only a few, and one that I was uniquely positioned to share.
Over the next 18 months, hundreds more posts followed. When we established LynnBlakeGolf.com last year, we put everything in one place and then added search capability. But the demand was there for more. Our readers asked for better organization and deserved it.
What to do?
Last month, in a telephone conversation following his whirlwind tour to Atlanta, Bucket casually asked me if there was anything he could do to help the site.
I told him, "Thanks, Colonel, but you're already doing enough with your 'Dusted and Fried' column."
"No, seriously", said he, "I want to help."
"Well, there is this nagging problem of the archives. We need an organized 'library' of some kind. I have no idea what to do or how to organize it. Maybe you could get some guys on the site, divide up the work and help me solve this problem."
"Leave it to me. I'll get it done, and I'll learn a lot."
Three weeks later is now.
And now it is done.
I still can't believe it.
Thanks, Rich. In the words of the caddy to Bobby Jones at St. Andrews:
The pleasure was mine. If y'all want to make the Book come to life . . . check out the archives. I pretty much read every post. I tried to put them in the Chapters as I saw fit . . . so please pardon me if I goofed some up. But I can tell you one very late night the Little Yaller Book stood right up and smacked me right on the mouth and said "I'm The Golfing Machine . . . B#TcH!!! It's a celebration!!!!!"
Thanks to Collard Boy for adding the water to the Koolaid! When I by chanced stumbled across Chuck's site and read the first posts on the TGM site, I was like "This is the Ric Flair of The Golfing Machine!" 17 time World Heavy Weight Champ.
Thanks to you fearless leader . . . for all the posts, quotes, analysis, explanation, and love for the Machine.
AND . . . for those of you reading another site...Can't teach? Please. Y'all can take a ride on . . . SPACE MOUTAIN!!!
To be The Man . . .
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Last edited by 12 piece bucket : 05-11-2006 at 11:57 PM.
Ric Flair of the Golfing Machine! You are too much! You know in Road Trip some kid learned philosophy by getting each of the major philosophers compared to WWF wrestlers. Guess who Socrates was compared to? You might be surprised! Someone needs to archive your posts into redneck trivia, Boy George jokes, Nekkid Pudding Wrasling, Southern food, Dalton McCrary 40 in. square zone comments, etc. Hmmmmm, maybe that could be my contribution!
It's North of the former Soviet Union. Don't even consult a map, you won't find it! I should have considered that you have to beat the man, to be the man, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! One of my good friends has seen Ric Flair in person more than a few times!
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