Re: Re: Don't blame Anamosa
This man is a genious. I am glad someone else can see through this guy.
--- dimes@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Ray,
>
> It is jerks like you that take the fun out of a hobby. Please drop your
> self serving bickering. All of this noise and egotistical postering between
> competing orginizations makes you small. You are in this for the money (to
> promote yourself and your seed business) Get a life. I grow for the fun of
> it, I have not gone to anyones weigh in for the past four years or posted
> here because of jerks like you. I will go to the weigh in in Illinois
> because it will be run by people that simply enjoy the sport. Greg, you may
> remember me from past weigh in's....keep up the good work and don't take
> the crap from Ray.
>
> Steve Diamond
>
>
> pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
> > Oh really? Then perhaps you can explain why we were required to fill out
> WPC
> membership forms and pay a fee to compete. While you're at it, explain why
> the
> DesPlaines site is listed as a WPC site on page 156 of Don Langevin's
> "Giant
> Pumpkins 2". Last year Chris Pesche made the decision to break away from
> the WPC.
> I now understand why.
>
> LGOURD@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Gregory,
> >
> > The Des Plaines, IL site was NOT part of the WPC last year and the WPC
> was
> > not responsible for anything to do with the event. If you paid a
> membership
> > fee to the WPC, then you really got burnt. I don't recall any grower or
> > organizer contacting me to ask if they were an official site. Never saw
> any
> > of that membership money. It wouldn't be the first time a site has said
> they
> > were part of the WPC. The Topsfield Fair was still doing that until
> 1996,
> > some 8 years after they were kicked out and who knows, for promotional
> > reasons they may still be doing it! I mean, really if you were doing it
> for
> > 8 years what would stop you now! So you see the GPC under Wiberg has
> > problems. The New England site at Topsfield hired a huge PR Firm to
> promote
> > its event. They actually left out the fact it was a WPC event for years.
> > And broke many of the rules agreed to in the site agreement. Good luck
> with
> > Wiberg & Topsfield. If the event there is not about money then I'll eat
> the
> > winning pumpkin.
> >
> > Ray Waterman
> >
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