MoT 2005 -- The Usurped Thread (Chat Away!)

[rfinprc]

For the New Year Fearless Leader (you know who he is) is starting an Official MoT 2005 Thread. But let's keep this conversation going just for the fun of it.

Let's get to work!

Just The Facts:

The date: June 18, 2005

We've settled on June 18 to take advantage of the tent availability at the Auto Road base. We anticipate independent catering, which will take care of the dinner crunch.

Register now to reserve your space at MOT05. This event will be limited to the first 200 cars registered. Registration form at minisontop.com.

The Town & Country Motor Inn has set aside 30 rooms for June 17th and 75 rooms for June 18th. Reserve yours now, and be sure to mention MINIs on Top to get your discounted rate.

Post #1 will be updated when there are real facts to report. In the meantime, entertain yourself with all the other pithy threads in our regional forum, or hop over to www.minisontop.com to look at pictures from '03 & '04 and dream about MOTs to come.

[DUCTTAPE]

I'm in

[bakerjc]

Quote: Originally Posted by rfinprc

Let's get to work!

Not this again.

But isn't it the rule that the one that posts the first runs the event? Isn't that how you all got stuck with Steve?

[rfinprc]

Quote: Originally Posted by bakerjc

Not this again.

But isn't it the rule that the one that posts the first runs the event? Isn't that how you all got stuck with Steve?

no no no no!

But seriously, we do need to figure out how to spread the load a bit, and at least one "non-yellow-shirt" MOTer asked me how to get on board to help out next year.

This is worth some serious discussion after we all decompress.

[jwardell]

To continue the discussion in ye ol' MOT '04 thread, I also vote to move it later, to avoid the traffic of bike week, and chance slightly warmer weather On Top.

[harveyjoseph]

I'm ready......Sign me up to help and to be there!!!!

[GBMINI]

Quote: Originally Posted by bakerjc

isn't it the rule that the one that posts the first runs the event? Isn't that how you all got stuck with Steve?

YES Richard it is!
Only the person who posted the first post can edit the signed up names into it (one day), alter the thread title to add the date etc ... Richard just volunteered himself

And we are all volunteering to assist, and take some of the load off Steve. We should let him keep hold of the purse strings though

[snid]

Oooh... in a discussion with Ricardo, I think we decided that for me to get a "yellow shirt" I need to start lobbying to become the "Lesser Potentate of Miscellaneous Percussion Instruments". Either that or work on bringing back the apostrophe controversy so that I can then step in and "resolve" it and be the "Keeper of the Apostrophe's"

Ummm... Errr... perhaps, as I'm sure has been discussed before, a real informational 2k5 thread, and a way too long, way too hard to follow, scare the newbies away banter thread.

[MaxaMini]

What's going on in here?
Just in the door Quack Quac...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

[bakerjc]

Steve, aka Cod aka imPotentate aka yadda yadda yadda is a pompous ass.

15%? What's with that? What's he using all our (well, yours, not mine) money for now? Race days at Lime Rock? NitroGlycerine tablets for under his tongue? Scion upgrades? Warm vodka baths?

OK, that stuff is out of the way pretty early. You guys get on to the bigger and better stuff.

[GadgetGav]

Oh you didn't... not already...!
How many millions of posts will this be by next year..!

[MGB Boy]

Quote: Originally Posted by snid

Oooh... in a discussion with Ricardo, I think we decided that for me to get a "yellow shirt" I need to start lobbying to become the "Lesser Potentate of Miscellaneous Percussion Instruments". Either that or work on bringing back the apostrophe controversy so that I can then step in and "resolve" it and be the "Keeper of the Apostrophe's"

Ummm... Errr... perhaps, as I'm sure has been discussed before, a real informational 2k5 thread, and a way too long, way too hard to follow, scare the newbies away banter thread.

Don't sell yourself short with this "Lesser" business, Jason. I firmly believe that, given 12 months of rigorous study of the tambourine and the guiro, you could very well merit the title of "Grand Potentate of Miscellaneous Percussion Instruments".

I agree wholeheartedly with the notion of a "wandering" thread and a "just the facts" thread. In fact, I think I whined in favor of such a thing previously. Perhaps the "just the facts" thread could be locked so only info passed through the filter of an appointed person could be posted there. I know the thread this past year had it's own unique ebb and flow which people enjoyed, which is a-okay, so let things evolve on the "wandering" thread just as they did this year, and when a fact/detail gets nailed down and becomes official, tack it onto the "just the facts" thread. Hell, you can even make 'em both sticky if you want (and that's saying something, because I'm a card-carrying charter member of the "why are there so many damn sticky threads on this website" brigade).

I also agree that a shift in date wouldn't be a bad idea, both for Mountain Road organizational reasons and for biker reasons.

The idea of having some folks in different colored shirts available as an informational resource was a fine idea this year (a tip of the fish to Mr Cod). I think that sort of thing has rapidly become necessary given how enormously this thing has blossomed/exploded. As the event has spread into such a large group, especially with a significant number as rare-to-never mini2.com users (about 30%), there are going to be a lot of people who don't know any of the "regulars" and wouldn't know who to ask if they had questions. People like having someone they can walk up to and ask "what's happening next?"

-Ricardo, Self-Appointed Grand Imperial Poobah of Design and Grand Regal Potentate of Pointless Yet Mildly Interesting Demographic Data (all the best titles in life are self-appointed)

[Windshadow]

I Will be there! if the New England house hunting goes well it will be easy... might be a touch harder if I end up living in Port Townsand WA!

[mini1ang]

Id vote for the later date! June is very busy in general. AND warmer would be NIce!! Maybe july 4th weekend!!

[rfinprc]

Two comments about dates --

One, I'm wary of getting any later in the summer than June 25 -- we really begin to tread on people's family vacation time then, and I speak from selfish motivation.

Two. I believe it was 2 years ago when we dropped my daughter off at camp in the White Mountains, and planned to follow with a ride up the Auto Road. ALas it was closed, because of freezing rain at 33 degrees at the summit. This was in August.