[TheForge] A small project, questions from a new hammer.

[Jan S]

Philip.....I like your stile......!!!!
sending requested inform soon
J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phlip" <phlip@99main.com>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] A small project, questions from a new hammer.


> Adam skrev:
>
> > I always wondered if "knuckle height"  was just a euphemism for "crotch
> > height"  being as many smiths like to grip the work between their legs
> when > they need both hands.   It's wonder more smiths don't sing in boys
> choir.
>
> Yeah. Another reason I'm glad I'm female is the lack of those dangly bits
> you gentlemen are so proud of. And, as sensitive as they are, I'm
> perpetually amazed you don't protect them more. In horseshoeing school,
one
> of the instructors nearly lost those dangly bits when he was going to show
> me how it was done with a horse which had just jerked its foot from
between
> my legs, giving me a nasty finger laceration from the horseshoe nail I had
> just pounded in but hadn't clinched yet. He grabbed the horse's foot, put
it
> between his legs to clinch over, and the horse did the same thing to him,
> only he wasn't wearing his chaps, and it ripped out the crotch of his
jeans,
> including his underwear.
>
> My ex, too, used to think it was sexy for him to make me breakfast on
Sunday
> morning, while he was nude. He didn't understand why I kept asking him to
> put on an apron, or why, after that nervous breakdown, I was no longer in
> the mood. Would have been fine, if he were setting up toast and cereal and
> fruit, or something, but he always wanted to make bacon and eggs....No, he
> wasn't a smith ;-)
>
> And, what REALLY amuses me, is how protective many men get about a woman's
> breasts. Yes, they're a bit sensitive, but nothing like what you guys deal
> with. Hit me there as hard as you like, and you may knock me on my can and
> anger me, but I won't be curled up in a foetal position trying to vomit my
> toenails out. Took women in the SCA a long time to be allowed to fight
with
> the guys for that reason, and they still try to make us observe special
> chest armor rules.
>
> Phlip, who used to sing bass lines in a boy's choir because none of their
> voices had changed yet....
>
>
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