Hblair, You sure you wanna troll?? I didn't troll them because the moderator seems like he's a nice guy, and after Rip left their group partly due to what we were saying I felt bad over that and chilled on Beemer Boards. Be careful, one of the hazards of being a troll (besides shopping for clothes in the children's section) is that you don't make many friends.
It's always my intention to entertain, and my reward is making people laugh over some of the crazy stuff we all say. I don't mind pissing people off, but I don't intend to make people feel bad about themselves. However, you asked me for tips, and I remember how badly some of those guys treated you so here goes. We'll use the Bimmer group as our example.
1) Start subtly. For instance, if someone mentions a BMW innovation like wiper blades on headlights state innocently that Tucker first did that and BMW got the idea from him.
2) After someone challanges you on this and points out that Tuckers didn't have headlight wipers agree quickly with them, but state it was a patent owned by Tucker that was bought by the BMW people after Tucker's bankruptcy.
3) Then when you're challanged on this whopper, state that you're positive on this point and that, in fact, many current BMW innovations were copied from an original Tucker.
4) By now you should have them going. Stick to your guns, continue to claim BMWs borrowed technology from Tucker and, in fact, are actually the forerunner of the modern day BMW.
5) After the howling starts then you REALLY drop a bombshell on them- Claim Tuckers were faster and handled better than the modern-day BMW sedans. They'll go nuts.
6) Then you think up a really quotable quote that is totally off the wall, inflamatory and designed to be repeated in all the angry rebuttals you'll get. Something like "Had the Germans not sabotaged Tucker and stolen his technology the modern day BMW would more closely resemble a Toyota." Then call them all Nazi apologists. I guarantee that even those who have been following your lures but haven't bitten yet will jump all over this one.
Be careful, though, because some day you may get a BMW and need some advice. I never intended to play in the MA when I first started posting here, and had I known just how cool AH is and how much fun it is to play I wouldn't have pissed off quite so many people. Now I get whacked by some of you and get taunted with private messages laughing at me.
