[SOC] Old Boomer

[Charles Harpole]

A true story....  If u drive a few miles south of
Carbondale, IL to the correct railroad track crossing
you will see an official IL road side historical marker
cast in metal.  
It tells, in very funny way I can not duplicate,
about Old Boomer, the dog who loved trains.
Boomer was especially remembered, said the
marker, because he had run alongside a train
on that spot and seeing a hotbox on the wheels,
Boomer had pee-ed on the hotbox and cooled it.
However, Old Boomer did not notice that as he
was running full speed and peeing, that he was
coming up on a stone overpass.  This overpass
had close tolerances between the side of the
train and the stone wall of the supports of the
overpass.  Old Boomer, sadly, crashed into the
wall, snapping his neck in three places.  He saved
the train and gave his life doing so.
It is important that we remember our sacrificing heros
this way, I am so glad to see such a marker on the 
side of an Illinois highway.

Charles Harpole
k4vud at hotmail.com   




> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:25:40 -0500
> From: walter.k5est at gmail.com
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [SOC] Butch the rooster
> 
> Butch the Rooster
> 
> John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several
> hundred young layers (hens), called pullets and eight or ten roosters, whose
> job was to fertilize the eggs.
> 
> The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into
> the soup pot and was replaced.
> 
> That took an awful lot of his time so he bought a set of tiny bells
> and attached them to his roosters.
> 
> Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance,
> which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an
> efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.
> 
> 
> The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, a very fine specimen he
> was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch's bell
> hadn't rung.
> 
> John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets,
> bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run
> for cover.
> 
> But to Farmer John's amazement, Butch had his bell in his beak, so it
> couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to
> the next one.
> 
> John was so proud of Butch, he entered him in the county fair and
> Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.
> 
> The result...The judges not only awarded Butch the "No Bell Piece
> Prize" but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.
> 
> Clearly Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a
> politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted
> awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the
> populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention?
> 
> 
> ....de....K5EST
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