[SEL] Engine ID needed.

[Tim Christoff]

Sounds like somebody needs his blankie, damn man, a preteen school girl
doesn't whine that much.

Tim Christoff
Basehor Kansas


> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Royster <mr at carolina.rr.com>
> To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Date: 6/4/2008 7:23:56 PM
> 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 ----- 
>