Last one wins

[LOsborne]

  I don't think that is funny in any way.  If someone would do that to me. I would give a right hand hook to the left side of their nose and move it over about an inch and see it they thought that was funny. 

I see. You would do this after you scraped yourself off the floor and stopped howling?

[The Troll]

I see. You would do this after you scraped yourself off the floor and stopped howling?

  You never seen me really mad.  Have you ever been sucker punched and knock to your knees and and could hardly see with blood in your eyes.  Well, I have, and I got back up and kicked the shit out of the guy.  After I took his head and smashed into the brick wall at the union hall, I left before the police came.  It's amazing what a little Adrenalin will do. 

  Talking about stupid pratical jokes.  We had a welding booth.  The booth had a three sheet metal walls.  If you need something welded you would take the part to the booth and have the welder weld it.

  While you waited for the work to be done, there was a bench along the wall and you could set down on it and lean you head back on the wall.

  Well, we had a guy do just that, but some stupid S.O.B. slipped up and hit the wall very hard with what we think was a hammer.  That blow cold cocked the millwright, knocking unconscience and a skull fracture.

  Lucky for the asshole, no one seen him.  Big John the Millwright would have killed him and if I had seen him, I would have reported him to security, the safetyman and probably the plant manager and a wittness in court.

[Palehorse]

 

[The Troll]

  Palehorse, I want to tell you about one more stupid pratical joke.  I was standing outside with a machine repairman, Ray Lightfoot who has since passed.  His father was a full blooded Indian.  I can't remember the tribe.  But he looked a lot like the Indian on TV that had the tear in his eye.  One fine man and one very strong man and he had red hair.  A Indian with red hair.  I never asked him if his mother had red hair.

  Like I said we had just stepped out of heat treat after working on one of the furnaces.  When someone on the roof threw a 5 gallon bucket of water with silver paint and oil in it.  It hit Ray full force and splashng me.  The force of the water knocked him down.  He got up and I have never seen such pure hate in Ray's eyes.  He started running for the ladder to the roof.  I grab his arm and told him he wasting his time.  Just wait and maybe you will get him later.  I really think Ray could have killed the person who threw the water, paint and oil.  As you can see, I do not like pratical jokes of this nature.

[Palehorse]

Well, when you are stuck around a bunch of people for 8 - 12 months straight, 24 hours a day, it is amazing what they will do for  humor. . .

[me]

And I still win.....   

[Palehorse]

No. . . you don't. . .

[me]

Oh yes I do..... 

[The Troll]

Oh yes I do..... 

  I know that trying to get the prize out of your hands, would be like take the gun out of the cold dead hands of an America Rifle Association member.  Take this ,  I win.

[me]

I don't think so...... 

[The Troll]

I don't think so...... 

  OH, NO YOU DON'T.

                                          "ME" Troll 

[Palehorse]

 

[Henry Hawk]

No human being could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute as this (The LAST ONE). Coming from a profession I have served so long, and a people I have loved so well, it fills me with an emotion I cannot express. But being the winner is not intended primarily to honor a personality, but to symbolize a great moral code — the code of conduct and chivalry of those who guard this beloved ZONE. That is the meaning of this honor. For all zone members and for all time, it is an expression of the ethics of the American zone poster. That I should be integrated in this way with so noble an ideal arouses a sense of pride and yet of humility which will be with me always.

Thank you!!!

[The Troll]

  Palehorse, third cube right, snoozing and loozing.  I win.    The Troll

[Henry Hawk]

Again, I say....

No human being could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute as this (The LAST ONE). Coming from a profession I have served so long, and a people I have loved so well, it fills me with an emotion I cannot express. But being the winner is not intended primarily to honor a personality, but to symbolize a great moral code — the code of conduct and chivalry of those who guard this beloved ZONE. That is the meaning of this honor. For all zone members and for all time, it is an expression of the ethics of the American zone poster. That I should be integrated in this way with so noble an ideal arouses a sense of pride and yet of humility which will be with me always.

Thank you!!!