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From: "Tracy Hallock" <thallock@austin.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:08:12 -0600
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George,

Naw, it's just funny.

Merry Christmas,
Tracy.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:27 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays


> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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