Goodbye Overland Rose

Goodbye Gravy Crane,
Though we barely knew you at all,

You had the grace to hold yourself,
While those around you crawled,

They crawled out of the land-fill,
desparately wanting free trash,

But most the the time,
you could only scratch your dome,

And it seems to me you battled with,
two horrible bags of wind,

Never knowing which one to rip-on,
When their posts came in,
And I would have liked to have known you
But I couldn't quite get your id,

Your posting burned out long before
Your legend ever did

The ORT love's the public trough,
and want a pool that will be big enough,

The OVCC turned you into a local superstar,
for merely demonstrating the ORT is bizarre,

Even when ORTIANS could not be true,
Oh the OverlandChatters hounded you,

But what little flavor they had to add,
Was that Gravy was only rude,

Goodbye Gravy Crane....
From the one of the 15,180 posters you know,
Who also see Mayor Con as inefectual,
Gravy you were much much more,
than OVCC's resident intellectual.

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Friends, Patriots, Countrymen,

I must be going. As most of you know, my first love is talk radio and to that world I must exclusively return. I thank you all for the memories and I am sure that we will meet again on the other side. (Or when I return with a different name in a little while.)

In closing, as I leave, let me say, this is an example I think all of us should remember. We think sometimes when things happen that don't go the right way; we think that when you don't pass the bar exam the first time We think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended. We think, as Teddy Roosevelt. said, that the light had left his life forever. Not true.

It is only a beginning, always. The young must know it; the old must know it. It must always sustain us, because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

And so I say to you on this occasion, as I leave, I leave proud of the people who have stood by me and worked for me and served this community. I want you to be proud of what you have done. I want you to continue to serve Overland, if that is your wish.

Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.