[Bruce Noland]

Ed,

Sometimes we are on the opposite sides of a discussion and it looks like we are again.

I had the pleasure of meeting Dave Layer at Orlando this year and he is nothing short of a straight up guy. We were pitted next to each other and I found him to be a very reasonable intellegent man so no point in beating on him.

Now I'm a different story. I'll have to tell you that I have never begged for any thing in my life and I certainly won't beg for help from a bunch of con men running an organization that I'm paying money. They have been schuk'n and jive'n us on HP issues for years and none of them will ever give a straight answer to a straight question. For instance I have asked Imbrogno and everybody I can think of at nhra to give me a straight answer about all the unpublished changes to the ahfs. Did you notice that Len failed to answer that question once again? I have stacks of emails and letters that I have written to these folks with little or no responses. Certainly never a straight answer! And I'm damn tired of playing Mr. Nice Guy with a bunch of people who are getting over on us. Yea sure you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar but we are dealing with teflon coated flies!