Everybody! Sign Up For NAM's M M C!
4th Gear
Joined: Feb 2004
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From: Millbrae, California- A Place In The Sun
Originally Posted by mr_edly
Thanks for the endorsement, Bboy.
I surely wouldn't want to offend any cheeky upstarts.
Mr. SCMSC, no offense intended.
I'm just poking fun at all the lurkers who derive meaning from waiting for their special #s in this "EXCLUSIVE
club".
I shouldn't poke fun at others, though. Heck, I hardly even cared what options were installed on my Mini.
I just waited (for over three years of Mini production) to get exactly the vehicle identification number I wanted.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...21311?v=glance
MMC #221, proud owner of etc etc etc
I surely wouldn't want to offend any cheeky upstarts.
Mr. SCMSC, no offense intended.
I'm just poking fun at all the lurkers who derive meaning from waiting for their special #s in this "EXCLUSIVE
club". I shouldn't poke fun at others, though. Heck, I hardly even cared what options were installed on my Mini.
I just waited (for over three years of Mini production) to get exactly the vehicle identification number I wanted.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...21311?v=glance
MMC #221, proud owner of etc etc etc
Common all you lurkers join in. Still waiting for my number......
4th Gear
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 532
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From: Millbrae, California- A Place In The Sun
Originally Posted by koolmini
420
did you notice this is the time on the clock in the owners handbook?We'll team up to get our numbers.
Common all you NAMers help us out and join in!!!
6th Gear
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 3,359
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From: New Jersey
Originally Posted by M Power
EVERYBODY! SIGN UP FOR NAM'S MMC! This isn't a real driving club, just an NAM thing that will give people who sign up MMC status. It's a fun little thing for people who frequent this forum often.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to be a bit of a scrooge here and throw in my opinion on this entire "MMC" idea. I've been periodically opening this thread, reading a few posts, shaking my head and moving onto other threads. I just have to ask the basic question...
What's the point? Seriously, I have yet to see any real reason to participate. The number is arbitrary, and it's not as though being "in" MMC has any benefit whatsover beyond putting the number into your signature. There are no newsletters, no separate meetings or gatherings, no special discounts or benefits.
If people are looking for a sense of individuality with their own unique number, well... guess what, you already have that - it's your NAM username, and it's the most unique and individual way to identify yourself here on NAM, something that will remain yours and only yours, not to be confused with anyone else.
If people are looking for bragging rights, because their number is lower than someone else's... I'm sorry, but that's just childish and honestly, quite pathetic.
I don't mean to ruin anyone else's fun (although if I'm ruining your fun, you have bigger problems - people should be responsible for their own sense of "fun"), and I'm a pretty easygoing, friendly guy (as I'm sure those here who have met me will attest), but again, I simply have to ask...
WHY?
To borrow from good fellow man (and DCMM president) Michael Babischkin (mbabischkin)'s signature, "I am not a number! I am a free man!"
Edge
P.S. No, I'm not trolling... I really am perplexed by the whole idea.
What's the point? Seriously, I have yet to see any real reason to participate. The number is arbitrary, and it's not as though being "in" MMC has any benefit whatsover beyond putting the number into your signature. There are no newsletters, no separate meetings or gatherings, no special discounts or benefits.
If people are looking for a sense of individuality with their own unique number, well... guess what, you already have that - it's your NAM username, and it's the most unique and individual way to identify yourself here on NAM, something that will remain yours and only yours, not to be confused with anyone else.
If people are looking for bragging rights, because their number is lower than someone else's... I'm sorry, but that's just childish and honestly, quite pathetic.
I don't mean to ruin anyone else's fun (although if I'm ruining your fun, you have bigger problems - people should be responsible for their own sense of "fun"), and I'm a pretty easygoing, friendly guy (as I'm sure those here who have met me will attest), but again, I simply have to ask...
WHY?
To borrow from good fellow man (and DCMM president) Michael Babischkin (mbabischkin)'s signature, "I am not a number! I am a free man!"
Edge
P.S. No, I'm not trolling... I really am perplexed by the whole idea.
did you find out about our stickers and shirts?? I want mine NOW 
Coordinator :: MINIsota Motoring Society (MMS)
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 874
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From: MPLS. MN
I did it just for fun. Why not - it's not hurting me or anyone else, it's NAM and MINI related and probably unique.
Who's to say this won't grow to something larger? To include online meetings, sharing photos, stickers, t-shirts, mailing around stuff - who knows.
Those are some of my reasons.
Who's to say this won't grow to something larger? To include online meetings, sharing photos, stickers, t-shirts, mailing around stuff - who knows.
Those are some of my reasons.
Oh, and the fact you got in REALLY early, with "bragging rights" #3, has nothing to do with it?
Note that I didn't say you WERE actually bragging, just that the number you got in with does play to that reason for it.
I saw this thread when there were still single digit numbers, but I didn't go in then either.
It just feels to me as though this is some attempt to supercede and possibly replace the NAM identity, which, I attest, is a pointless venture. If you talk about it "growing" into something more like that, then I vouch it does indeed start to compete with our NAM usernames.
Note that I didn't say you WERE actually bragging, just that the number you got in with does play to that reason for it.
I saw this thread when there were still single digit numbers, but I didn't go in then either.
It just feels to me as though this is some attempt to supercede and possibly replace the NAM identity, which, I attest, is a pointless venture. If you talk about it "growing" into something more like that, then I vouch it does indeed start to compete with our NAM usernames.
Originally Posted by SCMCS
Give that man # 233
I HEREBY RELINQUISH ANY AND ALL MMC NUMBERS!
If you want to play that game, SCMCS, then your first post in this thread should have dictated your number a long time ago. Oh, it's not available any more? Oh well, I guess you just gave yourself 233 then, since I didn't want to do this, and you clearly do want to be part of it.
So, so silly.
Coordinator :: MINIsota Motoring Society (MMS)
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 874
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From: MPLS. MN
Originally Posted by Edge
Oh, and the fact you got in REALLY early, with "bragging rights" #3, has nothing to do with it?
Originally Posted by Edge
Note that I didn't say you WERE actually bragging, just that the number you got in with does play to that reason for it.
6th Gear
Joined: May 2005
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I consider my MMC#199 to be my NAM vin... Just another way to show my pride as a mini owner and my addiction to NAM... I don't care for shirts, hats, etc just the fact that being the same is also being different.... Go find yourself a FTC (Ford Taurus Club)
-Josh
http://www.tauruscarclub.com/
http://www.taurus-club.de/
-Josh
http://www.tauruscarclub.com/
http://www.taurus-club.de/