[R-390] Healing the Hurt

[Dave Maples]

All: Sounds like "Peabody's Improbable History".  You been messing with your
R-390 WayBack Machine too much (snicker)?

Dave Maples WB4FUR

-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Barry Hauser
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:41 AM
To: bw; R-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] Healing the Hurt


BW wrote:
> I think the negotiations ran afoul when the types of beverages were being
> haggled out. Some insisted on beer, others argued over the brands of hard
> stuff, and just about everyone bitched over imported beer.
>
>
> Barry non Hauser

I must take exception to your repeatedly misrepresenting yourself and
showing disrespect to the name "non Hauser".   Perhaps you wouldn't do so if
you were aware of the following piece of lost history:

Sometime back in the 1800's, in a remote area of the Austrian Alps, there
was a happy clan -- the Hausers. One day, there was a dispute when a beer
stein sold by Wolfgang Hauser to his cousin Siegfried allegedly cracked
spontaneously and began to leak. Wolfgang insisted that Seigfried must have
pounded his stein on the table too hard -- which was the custom when
requesting a refill.  He could not accept that one of his fine steins would
be faulty.

The dispute grew out of control, and a bloody feud ensued. One side started
calling themselves "Nicht-Hauser" (Non-Hauser, in English). They nearly
wiped each other out and so finally Wolfgang and his cousin called a truce.
Of course, they decided to drink to it.

Just before they could "tap tankards", Wolfgang's stein split open and
spewed brew all over Siegfried.  They grabbed each other by their throats,
but then Siegfried cried out "Auch du lieber!  Wolfgang! -- Das Bier ist
zehr warm ..  heiss!"  They looked at each other dumbfounded.

You see, it was their custom to drink their beer very cold -- they put the
casks in the snow or a cold stream and chilled the steins as well.  It
became instantly obvious to both of them that some Dumkopf Kellner had
poured warm beer into a frosty stein -- ages ago and now again.  Rather than
continue the bloodshed, they simply banished the Kellners (waiters/beer
servers in English) and their families off to England where they could do no
further harm.  BTW, the elder Kellner was named Wilhelm and that part of the
family changed and anglicized - or anglicised --  their family name to
"Williams" when they got to London.  (No offense, probably just a
coincidence.)

Silly story?  Well don't you dare laugh.  There was some collateral damage,
so to speak.  Read on:

In the midst of the feud, some travelling Serbs passed through and got
caught up in the crossfire.  Some were killed, but most managed to escape.
In the retelling of the tale back in Serbia, it changed and became
generalized -- and highly anti-Austrian.  This culminated in 1914, when
their descendants assassinated that Archduke, and the rest, as they say, is
history.

And all because of a few leaks 'n cracks -- and warm beer. (no offense to
listmembers of the British persuasion)

Barry (actual) Hauser
P.S. You can now safely remove tongues from cheeks.  Oh, yeah -- Sorry this
is OT, but then, again, is it?








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