[Vwdiesel] The One Horse Shay

[Tony and Lillie]

Funny you say that. I had one come into work about two months ago, in 
exactly that condition. The rear of the seat was about 2" below the level of 
the fronts. It does make for nice air conditioning in the springtime, 
however ;-)

Tony Hoffman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Hansen" <jhsg at sasktel.net>
To: "Sandy Cameron" <scameron at storm.ca>
Cc: <vwdiesel at audifans.com>; "William J Toensing" <toensing at wildblue.net>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] The One Horse Shay


> 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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