The honor is almost unbearable!
The American motorcycle association has been trying to get me to join since the 1970s and I’ll bet that over the years they have sent me at least 100 different membership packages.
Well now they have sent me their 100th anniversary package, including this terribly valuable and collectible 100th anniversary temporary ID card.
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They also sent an envelope containing an envelope and a letter and a flyer and a folder and an ID card glued to another card and these silver stickers. At today’s prices it must cost them about four dollars apiece to mail these out.
I figure they’ve spent about $200 to recruit me over the years, and I will never join, because I am not a 99%er. But none of that is very interesting. Here is the part that interested me the most. Look at the logo on that ID card. Notice anything strange?
OK, here I’ve made it easy. This is one of the silver stickers that they send you. What the devil is that thing?
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That’s the emblem of the least successful motorcycle engine of all time. The Wankel rotary!
Then inside they put this swirly thing that reminds me of the three running legs at the Isle of Mann motorcycle races.
But if you read it in the direction of the swirl it says MAA. You have to read it backwards (Counter clockwise) from the top in order for it to say AMA.
So maybe they just did all that to give people something to talk about? Well it worked. But I’m still not signing up or sending them a single sheckel.