[SEL] SEL Digest, Vol 70, Issue 5

[Steve Webre]

Hey Arnie!! 

How much more can you take?  :)

-Steve- 



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From: mr at carolina.rr.com
To: sel at lists.stationary-engine.com
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:04:03 -0500
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.
>