Attention Paul Cook

[Judd]

Paul please call me at Sam Goins house or my Cell at 402-432-6818. I would like to talk to you about 6x6's.
Thanks
Judd

[Paul Cook]

Because it is a new year and I am filled with the joy of the holidays, I want to avoid being rude by including all my Forum friends and share the business between Judd and me.

Some background... Mark Davis (Mark in NJ) was here with a business associate for Christmas dinner, a tour of my POWER WAGONs, and stayed here Christmas night. John Giedel and Shirl came by and were here part of two days looking at my trucks. John helped me move my W300M into the Museum so it would be inside until I start working on it. Several hours ago, Pat O'Bryan (Pat and Wanda's) was here with Lloyd Bluntzer and his family. Lloyd came to buy my W500. All in all, it's been a very POWER WAGON holiday.

More background... It's a sunny day and 75 degrees. I just finished a snack sitting on our new patio furniture on the patio of our new house. I'm wearing my usual Texas dress of shorts and a "tee" shirt.

I come in to the computer with the intention of having some more happy POWER WAGON moments. Judd wants me to call him. Okay, Judd has been a nice part of our Texas POWER WAGON activities and I look forward to talking with him. So what do I get? Judd is having a great time visiting with Sam Goins. It goes without saying that includes Noel and John Foster and their families.

Then Judd tells me he's looking for a WC-63 bed. I tell him I have one good bed, but three 6x6's to use it on. Then he mentions that he drove within a few miles of my house this past week but did not stop to see my new Museum - or me. I can take him snubbing me, but not the Museum.

After admitting this snub, he asks one more time if I would consider selling the WC-63 bed. I told him I might do a "Judd" and sell the bed for a whole lot. But the more I thought about the snub, I decided I'd cut this straight, rust-free bed up in pieces before I'd sell it to someone who would travel all the way to our pleasant climate and then SNUB me.

Judd! Face south and smell the acetylene cutting its way through 60 year old steel and OD paint.

Oh, yes... Happy New Year, Judd and everyone else.

[Russ Erickson]

Popped 3 buttons off my shirt and ripped the seat of my jeans laughing. Way to go Paul.

[Cheyenne Dave]

Russ...did you do all that damage just from reading about Judd, or did you enjoy Christmas too much?

[Dutchman]

Hi
I am Dutch and am missing the clue because I don't know what snubbing is.
Enlighten me!
Greetings, Olaf

[Paul Cook]

Happy New Year! By the way, you celebrated 2004 before we did.

To "snub" is to ignore someone in an obvious "face-to-face" opportunity. It's when you see someone that you do not want to talk to and you walk past without speaking or acting like you saw that person, even though that person would have seen you. It's the fact that the other person was sure to have seen you that makes it a "snub".

In Judd's case, he had driven about a thousand miles from Nebraska to Texas to visit friends and to conduct some business. While doing this, he drove within 30 miles of me but did not make the short side trip to visit. While I did not see him go past without visiting, he told me.

Because we are friends, I expanded this into an issue to make a joke with him. And there's no better joke that to create a picture in his mind of me taking a torch and cutting up a nice WC-63 bed that he would like to have.

Much of humor involves taking a situation and reversing it to make it an issue - particularly if you are dealing with something that someone wants. I see this humor used in advertising. We have whole television shows of humorous foreign commercials and I think the basic nature of humor is universal. It's just that some terms or expressions don't translate well.

I have enjoyed the photos you have posted. Keep them coming.

In case Judd is reading this... Maybe I'm joking, and maybe I'm not. Maybe I have a torch in my hand and maybe I don't. Maybe I'm standing next to the WC-63 bed and maybe I'm not.

[MoparNorm]

Paul,
It is so hard to teach those sod buster's proper manners! ha!ha!
PS,
Thanks for the WC-53 bedsides, at least the small, small pieces were easy to ship!
MN

[Russ Erickson]

Well Dave, to answer your question on how much I ate during Christmas, I had to order a Thigh Master and Mac from Texas is sending me some hand-me-downs (ha ha). Hope all's well in frigid Cheyenne. We're about snowed in for the winter here.

[Cheyenne Dave]

Yikes! Sounds like a serious feed at your place!

We've been getting a little snow here...-5 outside here now. We're a long way from "snowed in". Had to go out to Harriman on Friday to gather up some concrete block. Sunny in town, snowing like crazy at Harriman ( about 1500' higher). It was nice having 2 1/2 tons of traction weight in the back coming back to town...of course there was no snow yet in town.

I hear Vail Pass got 6' of avalanch dumped on I-70 yesterday...only closed them down for 3 hours...wouldn't you love to have some of their toys?!