[SEL] Engine ID needed.

[Mike Royster]

Oh how the full belly no longer requires a meal.  Where is thine hunger from 
which I saved thee?  Gone, forgotten,  just like good deeds of old.  My 
brother plies you with a few drinks, a few cheap drops of demon rum and 
devils brew and I have done nothing for you?  Would you rather have a six 
pack of swill or someone to hear your plea and respond to what you really 
need, the quest for iron.  When you lay crying in your lawn chair at 
Portland years ago, lamenting the fact you can't find a "precious Fero air 
compressor" was it my brother's ear your cry fell upon?  Was it Steve that 
placed the ad for the compressor, made it his mission to find it, retrieved 
it at great personal peril and expense?  Was it Steve that made the trip, 
battled nudity and poison ivy and wild dogs?  Was it Steve that coupled it 
to a working motor and tank from the BRUNNER compressor factory, so that it 
had a chance to breathe again and come to life as functional old iron?  I 
don't think so.

And was it Steve that undertook at great personal expense and effort, to put 
together the first ever "Sleeping Engine Men of the SEL Calendar" and made 
you a star?  And was it STEVE that just last year at Portland, when no one 
else would drink that gosh awful swill lime beer you bought, step up to the 
plate and rid your cooler of that vile product?  I don't think so.

I see it clearly now.  The veil of ignorance has been lifted from me and I 
see clearly now, like a man freed from a dark room.  You are one of those 
"what have you done for me lately" fellows.  It saddens me to see the 
blackness fill your heart.  I don't know why it shocks me so,  I read the 
articles on "How to Tell an Engineer" and I know there is no soul in that 
black void heart, or rather mechanical pump, that beats within your chest.

Sadly,

Mike (the good) cloistered oyster Royster
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <fero_ah at city-net.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Engine ID needed.


> Hi Steve,
>
> Whatever you do DON'T bring that new glass (and especially the contents) 
> to
> Coolspring cos I ain't gonna be there!!  Can you bring it to Baraboo or
> Portland instead?
>
> See ya,  Arnie
>
> PS - Maybe I was too hasty in agreeing with that scalliwag brother of 
> yours.  It
> sounds like you are the GOOD Cloistered Oyster.  I don't recall MIKE ever
> bringing me good things to drink.  8-))
>
> Quoting Steve Royster <steve_royster at hotmail.com>:
>
>> Looks like Bill Bird and I will be at coolspring wednesday late for the 
>> rest
>> of the week. Need space for truck and trailer. Since I have destroyed my
>> brothers rotator cuffs , I'll be picking up a load of engines for him 
>> again
>> this year( didn't I do this last year as well?)  Was his rotator cuff
>> destroyed last year too? I didn't even get the McVickers running until 
>> this
>> spring!  I've been had again by the Bad Cloistered Oyster.    OK, Maybe 
>> Jake
>> won't let him on the show grounds!   Keep working out Arnie, I'm bringing 
>> you
>> a new glass and something to put in it!  Steve, the good brother.
>
>
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