Date:         Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:35:35 -0600
Reply-To:     Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Pre BZ Shelf
Comments: To: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <484B15EB.20305@gmail.com>
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& now you all know why I am asking Mr. Squirrel to be my running mate
in the upcoming national sweepstakes to CHANGE the way vanagonauts
store their crap in their westies.

YMMV, but your shelf will not.

Mr. BZ- suspended my shelf but not my campaign to produce more



On Jun 7, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Mike Elliott wrote:

> SOUND OF ACOUSTIC GUITAR BEING SOFTLY PLAYED. IMAGE OF SUNRISE OVER
> MOUNTAIN MEADOW.
>
> VOICE OF WILFORD BRIMLEY:
>
> Y'know, way back before Tom Buese became famous for his wildly-
> successful
> BZ Shelf and was working out of the back of an old outhouse, he sent a
> drawing of his earliest shelf design to me. Crayon on a flattened-out
> supermarket paper bag, as I recall.
>
> Well, I built a shelf from that drawing and installed it, and it
> worked so
> fine that I haven't looked back since. But after we move to Bend,
> Oregon,
> Tom is sending one of his factory ones to me. I'll pull my home-made
> one
> out and put up the genuine article. I was thinking of tossing my old
> one
> or recycling it but -- you in the back there: pay attention now,
> this is
> where it gets interesting -- it occurs to me that I am in possession
> of
> the ONLY BZ Shelf which predates his soulless machine-built ones,
> the only
> one which was not built by Tom hisself.
>
> Is it merely an ersatz BZ? A cheap knockoff? A shoddy copy??? Well,
> sure
> -- all that and more! But I prefer to think that what I have here is a
> unique Pre-BZ Shelf.
>
> Own a piece of history. Replete with the splinters and Sharpie marks
> that
> clearly show the hand (and foot) of my craftsmanship, this is a more
> than
> a piece of furniture, this is a real one-of-a-kind piece of crap.
>
> Operators are standing by.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott