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Useless Trivia The world's first passenger train made its debut in England in 1825.
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Member Biographies :
Member Biography
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Virgil Maw |
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John Prichard
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I mention Virgil. Virgil Maw will soon turn eighty, a young eighty. Even with bad knees, he is more sprightly than I. Virgil retired from his very successful Air Conditioning business ten or fifteen years ago. Because of his insight and inventiveness, as related to complicated industrial air conditioning and heating problems, his company "Modernair" was sought after throughout the Southwest for its expertise. His son and other relatives now run the business. Virgil's deep thoughts are directed to Cosmology, and these are not frivolous thoughts. Virgil is well read in Cosmology and Astrophysics.
( I have taken the above from a letter recently written to my friend Larry Post)
Today (4/7/2000) A relieved Virgil ventilated all his pent up frustrations accumulated as President of the Board, which directs his communal housing establishment. There was the "Bingo Lady", a control freak who insisted on running the house Bingo Game every Friday night, even though she was in contravention of the City Charter which allows this housing establishment the right to gamble. Furthermore, she kept the "Books" and maybe some of the money. Said lady was in a very sour mood the night Edna, Virgil's wife won the Bingo Prize, when, none other than Virgil, liberated at last, was calling the Bingo Game. Then there was the "Lady Doctor" a new entrant into the community, who wearing her paranoia on her shirt, insisted that Virgil account for every expenditure of her recent escrow account. A gentle "This may be done in Florida where you come from, but it is just not done here in Corona, California." did not wash; Even Edna was dragged into a vituperative conversation, when a phone call to Virgil was answered by Edna. Then there was the "Copper Lady" Oh! but this was different; this was the reverse. The "Copper Lady Resident" was a professor of chemistry or environment or something similar at the University of Southern California. Who could be better to succor President Virgil from his problem of "Too Much Copper in the Duck Pond", as measured and declared by the local environmental agency? True enough, the "Copper Lady" came through and solved Virgil's problem in the most efficient and economical way. Virgil did have some good experiences, as president, but his intensity and compulsion to do "The Right Thing" provides us "Coffee Clatchers" with a great deal of whimsical amusement. When intense, at times like these, Virgil hesitates in mid sentence. No words, but his jaw keeps moving. Virgil blames this on the "Senior Moment" or the quick evanescent lapse of memory, but the truth is that Virgil is so intense that his brain outruns his mouth. Virgil is clear headed, humorous, loves limericks and is absolutely sure of those things that he is sure about. Such things as "The environmental protection agency is "Hogwash". " Where does this Kangaroo Rat come off? Gun control, "Let's enforce the laws we've got." "Clinton, the "Law Breaker" should be treated as anybody else". "The Dark Matter of the Universe" should equal the "Light Matter of the Universe". As a companion UEGOR, Virgil is tops. I trust that his emancipation from the presidency and the board will allow him more time for ethereal thoughts, but the rumor is that residents of the communal housing establishment are already plotting to reinstate Virgil.
One hears that a newly elected board member's wife just had a "Stroke" making it impossible for him to serve. Why not get Virgil back?,the newly elected Board asks. Members of the "Coffee Clatch", anxious for the "Virgil Vignette", are all for that, except perhaps pettifogger, John Van der Bur and Lawyer Derrill Yeager, who are occasionally called on for legal advice as support for some of Virgil's Solomonesque actions and projected actions.
~ JEP
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