Received-SPF: pass
 receiver=logan.com; client-ip=211.29.132.186; envelope-from=lendich@optusnet.com.au
Message-ID: <55BEDCDD3E4649229899A6022080FD1C@george>
From: "George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
References: <list-3395892@logan.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:27:14 +1000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	format=flowed;
	charset="UTF-8";
	reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Ernest,
I couldn't help but feel there was a moral to this story, relating Aviation.
My understanding is:-
You might take a chance ( through misplaced bravado) one day and 
'pull-it-off' ; try it again on another day, and it might be a whole 
different story.
George ( down under)

> Ernest,
> I think that story captures the true meaning of the holidays.  As I was 
> reading, I think a tear fell....from laughing!!
>
> Happy Holidays to all here on the forum.
>
> Bryan Winbery
>
>
> --- On Wed, 12/24/08, Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
>> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
>> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 2:58 PM
>> Ed Anderson wrote:
>> >
>> > Before my grandchildren descend on this household
>> later today I just
>> > want to take the opportunity, while I have it, to wish
>> all my “Rotary”
>> > friends a Great Holiday. I truly enjoy our
>> “conversations”. Though
>> > there are a number of you I have not personally met
>> – yet, I think
>> > truly kindred spirits indeed are those who undertake
>> this endeavor.
>> >
>> I would like to wish everyone the merriest of Christmases,
>> and to that
>> end I would like to pass along this heat-warming internet
>> story that was
>> recently passed on to me. May you always land heads-up and
>> wheels down.
>>
>>
>> In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after
>> graduating from
>> Northwestern University.
>>
>> On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull
>> elephant
>> standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant
>> seemed distressed,
>> so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one
>> knee,
>> inspected the elephant’s foot, and found a large piece of
>> wood deeply
>> embedded in it.
>>
>> As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the
>> wood out with
>> his knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its
>> foot. The
>> elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious
>> look on its
>> face, stared at him for several tense moments.
>>
>> Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being
>> trampled.
>> Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and
>> walked away. Peter
>> never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
>>
>> Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago
>> Zoo with his
>> teenage son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one
>> of the
>> creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and
>> his son,
>> Cameron, were standing. The large bull elephant stared at
>> Peter lifted
>> its front foot off the ground and then put it down. The
>> elephant did
>> that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while
>> staring at the man.
>>
>> Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help
>> wondering if
>> this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage,
>> climbed over
>> the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked
>> right up to
>> the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant
>> trumpeted again,
>> wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him
>> against the
>> railing, killing him instantly.
>>
>> Probably wasn't the same elephant.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Homepage:  http://www.flyrotary.com/
>> Archive and UnSub:
>> http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html
>
> --
> Homepage:  http://www.flyrotary.com/
> Archive and UnSub: 
> http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html
>