From Ralph

[AgingYoung]

I could be treasurer.

[ken_behrendt]

It's interesting that someone suggested a 12 step program for people addicted to the Besslerwheel.com Discussion Board. At a real 12 step program once, I suggested coming up with a support group for people addicted to support groups! It produced a lot of laughter! I think there is even a group called "Fundamentalists Anonymous" for people who had OD'ed on religion!

Actually, Discussion Boards like this give someone something to do on the web aside from buying products and visiting webpages loaded with opinions and information of various levels of credibility/quality.

Maybe the problem is that we are not so much addicted to this board as we are addicted to trying to come up with a solution, any solution, to the problem of constructing a working OU/PM device. We've been told all of our lives that it is possible and has been done many times through the ages. Even today, every few months someone surfaces and claims to have such a device spinning merrily away in their shop.

Yet, as the slow decades pass by, we never seem to have one of these marvelous devices for our own inspection and use. They are always tantalyzingly out of reach. So, we decide that we have to do it ourselves if we hope to have such a device in our rapidly dwindling lifetime. Plans are made, sketches drawn, and constructions made. But, still no wheel...

We come here hoping to pick up some clue, however slight, that might lead us to that discovery we hunger for. After all, Bessler most assuredly did build such a device. Of that there seems to be no doubt.

But, alas, when we read his work, we discover that it is of a vague and elusive nature. It contains no clear descriptions or sketches. We are only left with an uncomfortable inner feeling of disappointment...

Of course, if Bessler's work had been more exact, then someone else would have replicated his devices long ago and we would not have to engage in our personal quests now.

So, the quest must continue. Keep coming back to this board, keep reading, keep studying everything you can about the subject, and keep trying. Remember at all times that the secret of Bessler's wheels is "simple" yet very novel...


ken

[rlortie]

Ken,

The forum for procrastinators has once again been postponed until farther notice.

Ralph

[rlortie]

It was entertainment night at the senior center and the Amazing
Claude was topping the bill. People came from miles around to see
the famed hypnotist do his stuff.

As Claude went to the front of the meeting room, He announced,
"Unlike most hypnotists who invite two or three people up here to be put into a trance, I Intend to hypnotize each and every member of the audience."

The excitement was almost electric as Claude Withdrew a beautiful
antique pocket watch from his coat. "I want you each to keep your
eye on this antique watch. It's a very special watch. It's been in
my family for six generations."

He began to swing the watch gently back and forth while quietly
chanting, "Watch the watch, watch the watch, watch the watch." The
crowd became mesmerized as the watch swayed back and forth, light
gleaming off its polished surface. Hundreds of pairs of eyes followed the swaying watch, until, suddenly, it slipped from the hypnotist's fingers and fell to the floor, breaking into a hundred pieces. ........"CRAP!" said the Hypnotist...

It took three days to clean up the senior center.

[rlortie]

Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

[rlortie]

EVER ONCE IN AWHILE SOMETHING COMES ALONG!

The dead donkey:

A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old
farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.

The next day, the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, son, but I have some
bad news. The donkey died."

Kenny replied, "Well, then, just give me my money back."

The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."

Kenny said, "Okay, then, at least give me the donkey."

The farmer said, "What ya gonna do with him?"

Kenny said, "I'm going to raffle him off."

The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"

Kenny replied, "Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he is
dead."

A month later, the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, "What happened
with that dead donkey?"

Kenny said, "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece
and made a profit of $898."

The farmer asked, "Didn't anyone complain?"

Kenny replied, "Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back."

Kenny grew up and eventually became the chairman of Enron.

[ken_behrendt]

Ralph wrote:

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

Amen...


ken

[AgingYoung]

Stupendiously great minds discuss the idea of the average plans of needle (yep) small minded despots. There's good reason for considering such ideas. One that comes to my mind is to keep my head on my shoulders.

Gene