[SEL] Engine ID needed.

[R & M Ingold]

Mike, I bow to your superior wordsmithing!
Reg & Marg Ingold.
Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Royster" <mr at carolina.rr.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Engine ID needed.


> 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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