Forum Activity for @tim-leeming

The Name Game

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Amen Mr. Arnold!!! I totally agree with your statements and am very happy you took time to post those statements here.

Prayer request for Linda Petty

-RacersReunion® OUTREACH

Thank you, Dennis, for letting us know. We'll certainly be praying. That woman fed me plenty of turkey sandwiches over the years.

WHAT A UNIQUE TREAT TO READ

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Leon, just so you don't (and to prevent further slander to my good name) I immediately directed her to Robbie Solesbee as he was in charge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT A UNIQUE TREAT TO READ

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I first met Ms. Unique Hiram at the Historic Columbia Speedway work day for the first Love Chevrolet Racers Reunion. I actually welcomed her as she walked up to the site with note pad in hand. In all honesty, I assumed she was a newspaper reporter and I was trying to get my name in the paper! I was right about her job, but I still didn't get my name in the papers. But, along with several other volunteers at the track, we got to know Ms. Hiram as she came back many times to help us with the work of getting the speedway ready. I remember standing in the old ticket office building with the gang during a rain storm one work day and listening to her story as to how she, a young lady from NEW YORK CITY, got involved in stock car racing. Quite an impressive story.

Unique participates with Team South Carolina Midlands in events when she is in the area and is a very active participant in the Racers Reunion Website. She is, indeed, a very unique individual and is an absolute pleasure to know and I'm very proud to say she is my friend. The purpose of this post is to relate to you all that Unique and written a book. "Fast Lane Poetry" is the name of the book and it contains many poetic thoughts or racing and the personalities involved. It is quite a good presentation of poetry dedicated to racing and I really enjoy reading her thoughts. For someone like me who never got past "Roses are Red, Violets are Blue", this book is especially poignant for me as it puts a different spin on my sport than the prose of motorsports writers.

The book was published by Publish America.com and I'm sure it can be ordered through that site but you may want to look Unique Hiram up right here on Racers Reunion and drop her an e-mail. Maybe she can lead you in the right direction to order the book. It is well worth adding to your collection of racing books.

Tim

updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

Sadly Don Naman Has Passed

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Ann and I join others of you expressing condolences to the Naman family. He contributed so much to the sport we all love and was probably the least recognized for those contributions, or at least it seems that way to me.

I HAD NOT EVEN NOTICED THE NEW RULES

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I am so accustomed to signing on the site, checking out new members, checking out who is on chat and then reading Forums and Blogs, that I failed to notice the "Rules of Engagement" which are now included at the top left of the main page. I am now aware of those Rules and have read each one and will, of course, abide by those rules. Having said that,let me go one further.

I am, and always have been, a person of very strong opinions. What I like, I like. What I dislike, I really dislike. There are few things that fall in the middle where I have luke warm opinions. Seems to me the "luke warm" option was even discussed in the Bible although I am not Bibical scholar enough to quote chapter and verse. Just as my unbounded enthusiasm for certain things causes me to write or speak to an extreme, so does my dislike or disgust cause me to spout off just as badly. Ann has to get on my case at least three times a newscast in the evenings because I jump on something so hard when I don't like it. I am, I like to think, overall a positive person.

In any event, I am posting this Forum in the hope that others who have failed to notice the "Rules of Engagement" will take time to read those rules. Jeff did a really good job with the Rule Book and I think it's something by which we can all abide. I have, as I am sure many of you have, been members of sites/forums/chats, etc on other venues where name-calling and bashing is common place and gets far too personal. I was once, on a Yahoo Chatroom, called names I hope my grandkids never hear.

By now, most people here know I do not like D.W or Kyle Busch. Those are my personal feelings and I will refrain from future expressions of that dislike. I also get aggrevated with the current state of NASCAR, as Jeff addressed, but I will cease the name calling and work toward a positive statement about things we can do, as a website, to get the message across to NASCAR that all we want to do is help the organization return to the glory days which we all enjoyed so much. Or, perhaps, I just don't know enough to know when it's really good.

Ok, the whole point of this post is to get those who, like me, had not read the "Rules of Engagement" to do so and govern your posts accordingly.

Tim

updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

Preachers are getting into the Racing mode these days

Stock Car Racing History

And I thought MY pastor was racing's best clergy ambassador. I'll have to speak with Joel this week.

Made in the USA

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Ann and I always try to buy Made in USA products but it takes quite a bit of looking to find them. When we do find them, we buy them.

Gilder Replaced At BJR

Vintage Oval and Road Course Racing

I do not begin to understand this!! How can Jeff be replaced?

Got an Invitation from Jeff Gordon Today

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AARP lost my membership when they came out in favor of Obamacare. Can't help it. I'm just not into that or trying to justify spending money on racecar sponsorship even though I'm sure Jeff is as good a spokesman as they can ever get. Yep, I'm outspoken, always have been and always will be. If you don't like what I say, that is YOUR problem but I always respect each and everyone's opinion even if they are so very wrong. I seriously canceled my membership with AARP immediately upon receiving their mailing to support the Obamacare bill. Even so, I continue to receive mail, at their expense of postage. Seems they manage money much like the government.