The moral to the story is "if you try to please everybody, you just end up
losing your ass!"
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 20:57:01 -0400 Steve Ellington <n4lq@iglou.com> wrote:
I don't get it. Does this mean that Bill was supposed to throw his rig in
the river?
Steve Ellington N4LQ.
----- Original Message -----
From: "aluscre" <aluscre@neo.rr.com>
To: "Bill Taylor(W4WBT)" <w4wbt@fmci.net>
Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] (FS) Jupiter forsale
>
>
> The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
>
>
> A Man and his son were once going with their Donkey to market.
> As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them
> and said: "You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?"
>
> So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their
> way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: "See
> that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides."
>
> So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself.
> But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom
> said to the other: "Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little
> son trudge along."
>
> Well, the Man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his
> Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to
> the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The
> Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said:
> "Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey
> with you and your hulking son?"
>
> The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They
> thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied
> the donkey's feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to
> their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met
> them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one
> of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end
> of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and
> his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.
>
> "That will teach you," said an old man who had followed them:
>
> "Please all, and you will please none."
>
>
>
> Bill Taylor(W4WBT) wrote:
>
> > I was just trying to please everyone and all I got was about 20 nasty
> > emails. So I tell you what I am going to do. Since I said I would take
> > any reasonable offer over 700. I am going to say NOW that the first
> > person who gets an email to me after 6PM can have the unit WITH a
> > matching TenTec speaker for $775 Delivered. I can't be any more fair
> > that this. I can see what any kind of controversies really stirs up
> > those who want to be mean to someone. BTW, the message below is not
> > one of the mean ones, just the last one I got.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> The spirit of ham radio is to help people.I think you have lost that
> >> trying
> >> to sell your unit that way.A simple price would have been proper.I
> >> for one
> >> would like to have it,but not at auction.
> >>
> >> bob
> >
> >
> >
>
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