[Vwdiesel] The One Horse Shay

[James Hansen]

Good plan Sandy, when the seat rails fall through and hit the freeway it 
may prove to be a bit distracting.
-j

Sandy Cameron wrote:
> I remember when I was in the one-room , 8 grade, one teacher country school,
> the teacher read the poem to us one late spring afternoon.
> 
> I thought it was a great piece of litterature, even at 9 years of age.
> 
> I have always believed that it would be possible to get close to that with
> engineering-motivated design, rather than marketing motivated.
> 
> I have tried to convert Goldie into that ideal by discarding the plastic
> crap, and useless gadjets and disgusting wiring, switches, etc..
> 
> Over 500,000km and still motoring, although I think this is the final year.
> 
> The body rust is getting bad, and Im concerned it might do a one-horse-shay
> dissolve on the freeway some day soon.
> 
> Sandy
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:59 PM 06/04/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>> Rumple Stiltskin asked what was the story of the "One Horse Shay". It was a
> poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes who lived from 1809 to 1894.The poem
> was of "The Deacon's Masterpiece" or "The Wonderful 'One-hoss Shay". I won't
> repeat the story or poem which I remembered from grade school days. I found
> that poem in a Google search. In summary, it was about a one horse shay that
> in 1755, it was built so well that it lasted 100 years to the day with out
> needing any repair. Then it all wore out at the same time fell apart into a
> heap or mound when an earthquake hit Lisbon, Portugal. As you know,
> components of cars, & other mechanical things will have a component that
> fails before other components do,  so lasting as long as the "One Hoss Shay"
> is a euphemism for something lasting a long time & then failing all at once.
> 
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