amen brother with respect to the mean-spirited nature of some of the denizens here.....i can't imagine what motivates people to rub lincoln's face off each & every penny before letting it go.....

two things come to mind right away......

1. i can remember when they used to do the cordon bleu cheeseburger with fries at the yacht club for a $1.95 i think....it  was a special thing at lunchtime during the summer......there was a line all the way to the parking lot to get those babies......you had to camp out as if trying to get tickets for the final lord of the rings movie.....

2. my one shot on the b&f committee garnered some insights as to how people viewed their golf membership.....we wereable to get some of the course figures with respect to how many plays some people were getting for their membership fee.....we figured out that some people (not a big number) were playing so much that each round cost them $.80....at that time we were trying to suggest some modest changes to raise the revenue for the amenity a little.....from the hue & cry that was raised you would have thought we stuck a pencil in the eye of each golfing governor.....things don't seem to have changed much.....

one thing for certain, when marty has taken his stand on an issue, he sticks with it.....i like that.....