[SEL] New Years crankup ??

[Reg Ingold]

Bugger you Mike! Another keyboard stuffed!!
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: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] New Years crankup ??


> Now wait a minute, I think you guys are too hard on Arnie.  I like to 
> think
> of him as my benchmark of "slackness."  Just the other day it occurred to 
> me
> that I have had a very original 1.5hp Novo sitting on my workbench for
> several years and the last time I saw it run was when my brother Steve
> leaned into the spark plug as he was trying to crank it and it lit him up 
> so
> good he danced around the shop cussing up a storm.  Then I'll be darned if
> he didn't lean into it again on the nest round and I thought he was
> reenacting the scene from "The Green Mile" where they lit up the prisoner 
> in
> the electric chair.  I still see him dancing and shouting to this day. 
> Ahh,
> memories.  Oh, back to Arnie.  So anyway, last Fri I put it all back
> together, took it outside and ran it for the New Years day crank up in
> Arnie's honor.  After all, if I can have something in pieces for years and
> still beat, "The Yank Returns" or the restoration of the "Fero Compressor"
> or the "Lorenz Registry",  then I at least am "not as slack as Arnie."
> Isn't that the universal cry of engine men and women everywhere?  Every 
> Sat
> morning all over the world we as a group are putting things together and
> making them run, and in the back of our minds you are repressing yelling
> out, "by Ned, at least I am not as slack as Arnie."  Once again cementing
> the common bond we all share, that no matter how bad it gets, when we run
> out of money, injure yourself on a cord or cordless drill, or you just put
> it off a bit, you always have the luxury of saying, "at least I'm not as
> slack as Arnie."  Well gentlemen and ladies, I don't take that luxury
> lightly or for granted.  So here's to you Arnie, a toast to the Potentate 
> of
> Procrastinators, the Emperor of Excuses.  You my friend, make us all look
> just a little bit better and I for one say thank you, oh Sultan of
> Slackness!!!!
>
> MR
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Skinner" <rob at rustyiron.com>
> To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEL] New Years crankup ??
>
>
>> On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Arnie Fero wrote:
>>>
>>> Arnie Fero
>>> Pittsburgh, PA
>>> Keeper of the Secret Lorenz & Benz Engine Registry
>>
>> Plan A:  OS X comes with iWeb, a fairly capable web page editor.
>> Plan B:  Bevmo accepts online orders and can ship Pimms to the UK.
>> Plan C:  Sell your Lorenz and start a Briggs & Stratton registry.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> P.S.
>> You seem to be getting slow in your old age.
>> Youthful Arnie never would have poked his head
>> up long enough to allow for such a clean shot.
>>
>>
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