Flocking Around

Dating to circa 1973, when it was the Spartan School of Motorcycle Repair in Newport Beach, California, and right up until around 2003 (at least) when it had become Thomson Education Direct in Scranton, Pennsylvania, CW's longest-running advertiser encouraged us for at least 30 years to "Be the envy of your friends and neighbors as they flock around to watch you tear down and tune up all kinds of motorcycles…" Fashions changed to stay 10 years behind the times throughout that run, but the message never wavered: Make big bucks and draw hot chicks wrenching on motorcycles! Stupidly, most of us got English degrees instead.