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

[Jerry Frost]

If somebody calls you you better " come rat cheer."

NEVER report it if your off og comes apart under gravitational stress. The
paper work is a killer!

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:52 PM
Subject: [TheForge] [OT] Re: For the Rube Goldberg fans...


>
> > 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.h
tml
>
>     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/                        ^^-^^
>
> --