I AM STILL AROUND-HOHENWALD

Hohenwald and the secret OGR facility are quiet this morning.

Last night was, however,  quite a different story.

A sudden breeze wafted through the funnel cake tent and carried over to a couple of bull elephants ,DO and DONT,who immediately made it over the fence, or should I say through the fence, and charged the funnel cake tent.Their charge was so energetic that the tent came down.  Cakes, and pachyderms were mixing around under the dark tent. Head man Rich Melvin mounted Maddox to help ,out but he could do nothing but sit and watch  as lumps moved crazily under the downed tent.There was much trumpeting and yelling.

Naturally, the Lion reps were looking to see if they could make some sort of expensive accessory reflecting the event. Finally, Melvin and Maddox managed to pull the tent off and browsed a scene of confusion. Phil Lester and the maintenance crew soon had things cleared up and the two offending pachyderms were handed over to Captain Fred Logan  for return to the preserve. An investigative team is on the spot right now. These elephant incursions have become a big problem lately.

In response Captain Logan has placed musth detectors all around the facility so advance warning is possible.The trouble with the musth issue is that elephants exude a liquid any tiime they get excited and this is hard to tell from a musth condition. Logan's men are undergoing musth  training. It's a must.

Hi Bob,

I just now got back on the forum to see that you are back and already in can't stop mode.  Welcome back, and good luck with the surgery.

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Dennis

Thank you Denis for the well wshes.

Bob C.

The Hohenwald OGR secret facility and game preserve are looking to the coming Thanks Giving holiday, with festive treats planned for all.

Ringling Brothers will bring up 10 of their pachyderms and will demonstrate the bull hook technique.( Captain Fred Logan has taken steps to insure that none of his elephants see the bull hook used on them ).

Ringling will demonstrate such techniques as hitting and pestering  their elephants continually with bull hooks. The purpose here is to demonstrate accepted elephant handling procedures used worldwide. After the demo there will be a funnel cake festival at which Captain Logan will try to dispell the knowledge on elephant treatment put forth by Ringling.

The day will end with Ringling bull hooking its elephants back to the circus.

The OGR facility is providing a complete turkey dinner for its employees. The dinner will be held in a circus tent pitched right next to the famous Gary Moreau statue which is next to the dishware and cutlery tent. It is hoped that not too many of the broken smoke units from which the Moreau statue is built will be pilfered like last year.

Meanwhile Lion was hard at work putting together an opearting accessory based on the occasion ..I have seen the prototype and it will be exciting for all circus buffs. It is a platform on which are 5 perfect miniature elephants,one in musth, along with 2 handlers bearing bull hooks. As the train passes by, the elephants go into stereotypical nervous behavior and they sway back and forth and their trunks move.Amidst all of this action ,the miniature handlers deliver blows and prods to the artificial elephants at will. Exciting action in this one. Some artificial elephant blood does get drawn, so prepare the kids for that.

Bob C.

Rich Melvin today announced the plans for a jetport at Hohenwald. It seems visiting crowds have  rivalled those for Disney World even though this is a secret facility. What happened is that the secret areas are set away from the public eye. Said Melvin: "This sort of flow demands improved transportation facilities."

The new jet port will be named :COWEN INTERNATIONAL and will be able to handle traffic of all sizes including the Boeing 747 and the A320 airbus.Flights will come in from all parts of the United States and later from Europe as well. One may bring his sick engine or other toy train item for diagnonsis and repair.

An expert staff headed by Dr. tinker will be on station.

Special non stop flights will be available for those with smoke unit problems.

Special tour tickets will be available for 5.99 each and will include admission to the new Smoke Unit House of Horrors, The Crumbling Zinc House, The Smoke Fluid House of Disappointment, and many other sites. Autographed pictures of Melvin on Maddox will be available for the nominal sum of 60.00.

My Hohenwald reports have been somewhat trunkated by order of the boss.

But, today I watched people with their trunks get off at the trunkline that serves as a means for prosthetic trunks to be delivered to Trunk Central at Hohenwald's trunk division.

It was a nice day,so many people had on trunks to come to see the trunk replacement process for those elephants with injured trunks. Some trunks have been trunkated by accident and a trunk repair and trunk replacement program must be offered. A man carrying his trunk stepped right up to the trunk rail car and helped offload trunk prostheses. There was a big trunk of prosthetic trunks in the main trunk on the trunk car.

I tried to film the trunk event, but my camera was locked in the trunk of my car. I did manage to get the trunk open and was then able to film the trunk repair and trunk replacement program at work. I pulled my car up to the trunk line which held the prosthetic trunks and took a trunk load of pictures. All told, the trunk event went well with many elephants receiving repair trunk work or more serious trunk replacement.Finally, everybody packed their trunks and the day ended successfully.

          THIS WILL BE MY LAST REPORT FOR AWHILE. SEE YOU LATER!

Bob C.

I love a Happy Ending.

Everybody Got Trunk?

Thanks very much Scott.

Bob C.

Good luck on your upcoming surgery, Bob. Please don't truncate us.

I'm looking forward to the next chapter, Bob.

Best of luck with the surgery.

Well I am still making arrangements for the surgery and am not exactly sure when it will be.

At any rate I expect more Hohenwald news at a later time.

Bob C.