Re: Hogania (was gunzel?)

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

David Langley wrote in message <3741656B.13F968D8@ancc.com.au>...
>Derick Wuen wrote:
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>> After some days at this we were finally belting home through the
gathering
>> darkness somewhere north of Seymour. At that point my fellow lounge-car
>> occupants and I were engaged in constructing an accelerometer which was
>> designed to test the vertical and horizontal components of the
oscillations
>> of the lounge car. The accelerometer was being constructed from available
>> materials, viz MT VB cans. A copious supply of VB had been taken on
board,
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>A copious supply of VB is 1. 2 would be 1 too many and in fact I have heard
it
>argued that 2 would be 3 too many.
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>> but most of them were full at this stage.
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>And that is the situation that should have remained until Central/Terminal.
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>> After rendering every assistance I
>> could to converting the fulls to MT's,

> Now I commend your volunteer attitude to this worthwhile project - but
> VB!!!!!!!!!!
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>> And if you aren't careful, I'll tell you about the combination
>> airconditioner - drinks cooler we built in a TAM compartment from
available
>> materials whilst on tour on a very hot day....
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> As long as it's not VB.
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> DEL

I offer the following six-pack of excuses, some of which may be true, and
some hard to swallow......

1. In 1973 I was but a callow youth with ill-formed tastes. Now I am older.

2. We were in Victoria, and thus wanted to experience the full Victorian
experience.

3. The lounge car was coded BV. VB in a BV seemed the right thing to do.

4. The nearest bottle shop could only supply VB in the quantitites demanded
at the price we were willing to pay.

5. The phrase "MT VB" sounds neater and looks neater in print than "empty
nameyourpoison".

6. I was fibbing. Only 707 of the 3820 MT's in the accelerometer as
ultimately configured were VB MT's.

Cheers