Re: [MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-06 Thread andrew strasfogel
Guest of honor at an ale and lobster fest... It doesn't get much better than that... On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Wonko the Sane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We flew in a http://semperparatus.com/images/hu16e_grumman_albatross.jpgfor an air show. Canadian Forces air station on Prince Edward

Re: [MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-06 Thread Rich Thomas
So are the lobsters. --R andrew strasfogel wrote: Guest of honor at an ale and lobster fest... It doesn't get much better than that... On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Wonko the Sane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We flew in a http://semperparatus.com/images/hu16e_grumman_albatross.jpgfor

Re: [MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-06 Thread Wonko the Sane
Unfortunately, the Canadians didn't do twist-off caps. Cut the crap out of my right hand -- several times, with surprisingly increased frequency with each successive Ten Penny Ale. Even worse, we had to fly home the next day. WOW -- was that really 28 years ago? On Wed, AWug 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM,

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2008-08-06 Thread Loren Faeth
You are supposed to pop off the cap with your teeth. At 07:35 PM 8/6/2008, you wrote: Unfortunately, the Canadians didn't do twist-off caps. Cut the crap out of my right hand -- several times, with surprisingly increased frequency with each successive Ten Penny Ale. Even worse, we had to fly

Re: [MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-06 Thread Wonko the Sane
I have always been way too white collar for that - even being reared in WV. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You are supposed to pop off the cap with your teeth. -- LT Don http://don.homelinux.net/~don/ apt-get update apt-get upgrade The following

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2008-08-06 Thread Mitch Haley
Wonko the Sane wrote: Unfortunately, the Canadians didn't do twist-off caps. Cut the crap out of my right hand -- several times, with surprisingly increased frequency with each successive Ten Penny Ale. I can remember, circa 1970, a very old park ranger in Ontario telling a story about those

Re: [MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-06 Thread Wonko the Sane
As I remember it (and it is fuzzy due to the time frame), the first two or three were handed to me already opened. Remember, this is not Bud Light, but Canadian Ten Penny Ale -- which has about the same potency as grain alcohol. Perhaps more lethal. Illegal in the US of A. By the time one was

Re: [MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-06 Thread Rich Thomas
What was that, some kind of initiation rite? Was banjo music playing at the time? --R Wonko the Sane wrote: I have always been way too white collar for that - even being reared in WV. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You are supposed to pop off the

[MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-05 Thread Glenn Brown
I'm having a difficult time getting this person ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) to respond via Email and am wondering if anyone on the list knows who this is and how I may contact him? TIA. G. M. Brown Brevard, NC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official

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2008-08-05 Thread Loren Faeth
donbenz was Wonko's old handle, but I don't think the Canuks would ever let him in, and the last time I checked, he was still holding down his corner of Jefferson. At 02:25 PM 8/5/2008, you wrote: I'm having a difficult time getting this person ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) to respond via Email and am

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2008-08-05 Thread Wonko the Sane
Certainly not me. Haven't been in Canada since 1980 or so. On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: donbenz was Wonko's old handle, but I don't think the Canuks would ever let him in, and the last time I checked, he was still holding down his corner of Jefferson.

Re: [MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-05 Thread Loren Faeth
Hey! They let you in back then? Good going! How did you pull that off? I suppose being a gummit employee may have helped! At 04:07 PM 8/5/2008, you wrote: Certainly not me. Haven't been in Canada since 1980 or so. On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: donbenz

Re: [MBZ] Does anyone know this person?

2008-08-05 Thread Wonko the Sane
We flew in a http://semperparatus.com/images/hu16e_grumman_albatross.jpg for an air show. Canadian Forces air station on Prince Edward Island. Ironically, I've flown in that same airframe for hundreds of hours. When it was retired, it said CGAS Cape Cod on the side. Good weekend. They were