It is really getting very crowded out here in the virtual world of the internet.  Do they still call it the virtual world?  I do not know, I have a very hard time keeping up with the latest terms and additions to our language and the what is new and cool.  Speaking of cool I was very glad to see that cool still means what it did back in the 60's and 70's when I was using it in almost every sentence.  But I am getting a little off the track.  I have been asked a lot lately, "Why do you call your blog the Real Hawg Blawg?"  Well the old saying is that the best ideas are stolen or borrowed and that is the case in point.  I have had Roguehawg.com up and on the internet since 1997 providing a service for others, like myself that own and ride Hawgs because it is at the core of our very being,not a hobby, not an investment but a requirement for life that is rooted somewhere deep in our DNA.  Have you ever watched a small boy 2 or 3 years old playing with a toy motorcycle and suppling his own soundtrack of what that toy, if it was the real motorcycle, would sound like?  Have you ever watched the eyes of a boy or girl when they see a motorcycle parked in a lot or in a showroom.  Their eyes open wide with wonder, they become hypnotized by the coolest thing this side of heaven, a motorcycle and they _have_ to touch it.  Have you ever asked yourself how do they know how magical it is to be on a motorcycle.  But I am wandering off the trail again, any way I started my website in 1997 about a year before I started to work for the local official HD Motor Company Store.  I was very new to website building but with the tremendous support and help from my lovely bride, Lori, we got my website up and running and back in those early days we set up different pages for different sections at Roguehawg.com, there was Hawg Pen which was the front page and gave everybody a idea what was going on with my website.  Our mission statement was and still is to provide a great place to sell those old parts you do not need anymore to other enthusiasts who do and to be stand up and honest and do what we say we are going to do at all costs. It is all too rare today to find people and more importantly businesses that will do exactly that and be true to their word but here in the Hawg Pen and at Roguehawg.com we will be true to our mission statement.  The other sections on the Hawg Pen were the Hawg Parts section where the parts and later motor cycles were being sold, Hawg links where you could get your website link posted if your website contents complemented our purpose.  The decision to use the word Hawg was a deliberate one because we did not want our website to be confused with the Harley Owners Group, H.O.G., which is owned nationally by the Harley-Davidson Motor Company and locally by the franchised HD company store.  In fact we have a disclaimer at the bottom of all of our pages just to make sure our visitors would not be confused.  We are not endorsed by the Motor Company, we are just huge enthusiasts of the product especially the antique ones.  We set a precedent on our website in 1997 using the word Hawg in prefix of all of our sections, but back in 1997 we had not heard of a blog.  If you would have asked me what a blog was back in 1997 I would have guessed a swamp filled with logs or a really wet tree log or an expression first used on the Seinfeld show.  You know Blog, blog, blog or was that blah, blah, blah?  But I digress again, as the years marched on the blog was invented so that people could put their 2 cents in on and about any subject so we at roguehawg.com saw the value in this option and added it to our website but the local HD Motor Company store decided that not only did they want to offer their own blog feature but they wanted to call theirs the Hawg Blog for the very same reasons that I mentioned before.  They did not want to associate their blog with H.O.G..  Does that sound right to you?  The dealership owns a H.O.G. chapter but does not want to associate their blog with H.O.G.?  So the dealership decided to name their blog, Hawg Blog.  I guess I came up with a good idea if, in fact, imitation is the highest form of flattery.  So please friends, do not be fooled by imitations get the real thing here at THE REAL HAWG BLAWG.
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