[TheForge] [OT] Re: For the Rube Goldberg fans...

[Kevin D]

Hey Mike,

With that VW/MS ring you made, did you leave it wood coal/annealed? or
harden it any?

Kevin

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  -[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
  -Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:52 PM
  -To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
  -Subject: [TheForge] [OT] Re: For the Rube Goldberg fans...
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  -
  -> Obviously the product of long cold winter nights, as down here near
  -> the Mason-Dixon line (where it was 70*F yesterday), we look out our
  -> winders ;)
  -
  -Well, here it was 34F, 2" of slush and black t'ick o' fog. [1]  Who wants
  -to look outen the winder?
  -
  -But then, somewhere down there, seems to me I recall, you wire yer hat
  -on yer hayid and connect yer lahtbubs to wahr.  'Course it's not
  -usually *too* confusing but it did take me a while to figure it out
  -when a USAF colonel retired to NS told me with a straight face that he
  -owned stock in Guffoal.
  -
  -
  -- Mike
  -
  -[1] What you don't want it to be when you're a mile out into the bay
  -    in a dory.  Pronounced locally more or less as one word:
  -    blacktickafog or just blacktick.  Not to be confused with "Offog",
  -    q.v.:
  -
  -http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/russell
/russell1.html

    which is also the source of my favorite phrase to explain the
    disappearance of something, the disappearance of which someone
    can't or doesn't want to explain: "It came apart under gravitational
    stress."

--
Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
                                                           /V\
mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^

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