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[RonPrice]

RETIREMENT APRIL 1999

I retired from full-time employment as a teacher-lecturer in April 1999. Wayne Gretsky retired in the same month and in the same year. Nicknamed The Great One, Gretzky was called "the greatest player of all time" in Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the NHL. He is generally regarded as the best player in the history of the NHL and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players and coaches. Upon his retirement on April 18, 1999, he held forty regular-season records, fifteen playoff records and six All-Star records. He is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season—a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 15 NHL seasons, 13 of them consecutive. Gretzky's #99 has been retired by all teams in the National Hockey League. He is one of only two athletes to have earned this honour from a major professional sport, the other being Major League Baseball's Jackie Robinson, who wore uniform #42.

On his retirement Gretsky was immediately inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, being the last player to have the waiting period waived. He became Executive Director for the Canadian national men's hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the team won a gold medal. In 2000 he became part owner of the Phoenix Coyotes and in 2006 he became their head coach. -Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 12 August 2009.

I was nowhere near Canada, Wayne,
when you performed those amazing
feats of hockey prowess. I was all
over Australia in your famous years
skating yourself into hockey’s hall
of fame. I lived in your hometown,
in Brantford, when you were six &
when you joined the WHA in ’78 I
was in Ballarat about as close as I
ever got to being a professionally
academic-type before my bipolar
disorder struck again but, Wayne....

I had some very good years while
you were making it very, very big
in a world I played in, too, back in
‘57 to ’62 in those cold Canadian
winters, but I could never skate
well--that was my downfall.....I
turned pro far, far differently than
you, went professional in a new...
world Faith1 that was very slowly
taking the globe by storm, yes.....
quite unobtrusively...and I went to
Australia the year old Gordie Howe
retired, 1971.....wasn’t it, didn’t he?

They don’t know you Downunder,
Wayne.....it’s all cricket and footy
here and kangaroos and the heat...
Wayne!! It’s far too hot for ice-
hockey. I’m sorry I was not there
to watch you. My days had Frank
Mahovlich, Dave Keon, Bobby Orr
and Mr. Hockey, old Gordie Howe...

1 The Bahá'í Faith

Ron Price
12 August 2009

Am having trouble with links.-Ron

[monogodo]

RonPrice, on 20 June 2010 - 08:11 AM, said:

Am having trouble with links.-Ron

You're not allowed to post links until you have reached a minimum number of posts.

Welcome to the Forums, by the way.

[mango]

I can't believe you're welcoming a spammer.

See:

Spam

Or alternately, spamalamadingdong

Edited by mango, 22 June 2010 - 12:29 AM.

[monogodo]

mango, on 22 June 2010 - 12:26 AM, said:

I can't believe you're welcoming a spammer.

See:

Spam

Or alternately, spamalamadingdong

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, since he didn't actually post links.

But yeah, I did suspect he was spamming, or attempting to.

[RonPrice]

RonPrice, on 20 June 2010 - 08:11 AM, said:

RETIREMENT APRIL 1999

I retired from full-time employment as a teacher-lecturer in April 1999. Wayne Gretsky retired in the same month and in the same year. Nicknamed The Great One, Gretzky was called "the greatest player of all time" in Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the NHL. He is generally regarded as the best player in the history of the NHL and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players and coaches. Upon his retirement on April 18, 1999, he held forty regular-season records, fifteen playoff records and six All-Star records. He is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season—a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 15 NHL seasons, 13 of them consecutive. Gretzky's #99 has been retired by all teams in the National Hockey League. He is one of only two athletes to have earned this honour from a major professional sport, the other being Major League Baseball's Jackie Robinson, who wore uniform #42.

On his retirement Gretsky was immediately inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, being the last player to have the waiting period waived. He became Executive Director for the Canadian national men's hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the team won a gold medal. In 2000 he became part owner of the Phoenix Coyotes and in 2006 he became their head coach. -Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 12 August 2009.

I was nowhere near Canada, Wayne,
when you performed those amazing
feats of hockey prowess. I was all
over Australia in your famous years
skating yourself into hockey’s hall
of fame. I lived in your hometown,
in Brantford, when you were six &
when you joined the WHA in ’78 I
was in Ballarat about as close as I
ever got to being a professionally
academic-type before my bipolar
disorder struck again but, Wayne....

I had some very good years while
you were making it very, very big
in a world I played in, too, back in
‘57 to ’62 in those cold Canadian
winters, but I could never skate
well--that was my downfall.....I
turned pro far, far differently than
you, went professional in a new...
world Faith1 that was very slowly
taking the globe by storm, yes.....
quite unobtrusively...and I went to
Australia the year old Gordie Howe
retired, 1971.....wasn’t it, didn’t he?

They don’t know you Downunder,
Wayne.....it’s all cricket and footy
here and kangaroos and the heat...
Wayne!! It’s far too hot for ice-
hockey. I’m sorry I was not there
to watch you. My days had Frank
Mahovlich, Dave Keon, Bobby Orr
and Mr. Hockey, old Gordie Howe...

1 The Bahá'í Faith

Ron Price
12 August 2009

Am having trouble with links.-Ron

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Since you folks are concerned about spamming, I wrote the following 'think-piece' about the subject. I was a teacher for 35 years and wrorried about plagiarism and now the concern seems to have become spamming and not plagiarism-Ron in Tasmania
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A NEW PRODUCT HITS THE MARKET

The original term spam was coined in 1937 by the Hormel corporation as a name for its Spam luncheon meat: a canned, precooked, spiced meat product. The transition from meat product to internet term had a stop with the comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus. In 1970 that BBC comedy show aired a sketch that featured a cafe that had a menu which featured items like: "egg, bacon, and spam; egg, bacon, sausage, and spam; spam, bacon, sausage, and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon, and spam; and finally, lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy, and a fried egg on top and spam." To make matters sillier in Monty Python style, the cafe was filled with Vikings who periodically break out into song praising spam: "spam, spam, spam, spam: lovely spam, wonderful spam."

While the Hormel corporation was holding a competition to find a new name for their product, the North American Bahá’í community was formulating the details of its first teaching Plan in May 1937. This formulation took place just eight weeks before the introduction of Spam onto the market. As of 2003 the Baha’i Faith had spread to over 200 countries and territories with the largest number of adherents in India, Iran and the USA. As of 2003, Spam was sold in 41 countries worldwide. The largest consumers of Spam were in the United States, the UK and South Korea.

Computer people adopted the term Spam from the Python sketch to mean, to include, the commercialization of the internet, the unwanted commercial messages that come in the form of electronic junk mail or junk postings as well as posts at Internet sites that: (a) nobody really wants to read/asks for and/or ( are basically some form of plagiarism. These have become the primary meanings, among other meanings, of spam on the internet.-Ron Price with thanks to “A History of the Term Spam,” internet.com, 24 July 2008.

Yes, there was a new name, allright—
little did they know—and there was
no need to hold a competition for its
name---for as Isaiah foretold His name
long ago--His name shall be called:
Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

One could say, if one wanted, but not many
would have wanted and not many did put it
this way, that this new Product was finally
becoming commercialized but at a very low
level of evangelism. Indeed, there was no
aggressive proselytising here, just the slow
evolution of small groups all over the planet
and a Movement with many, many meanings for
the pluralistic society with which it was
engaged all the years of my earthly life.

Ron Price
25 July 2008
Updated for: Misfitopia