[TheForge] Re: Anvil Wanted

[Dan Tull]

Or just clean living................naw, that's not it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Anvil Wanted


> 
>>> ...a 200 pound anvil with a reasonable price.
>>
>>  Isnt that an oxymoron?
> 
> Another drive-by gloat: [who was it said that?]
> 
> About 1981, dropped in to an antique shop down in the village.  Oh,
> look!  A big anvil in great if not quite pristine condition and a
> little farrier's anvil with a big chunk out of the face.
> 
>    How much for the big one?
> 
>    Dollar a pound.   And that must weigh a hundred pounds, don't it?
> 
>    Yeah, I should think so.
> 
>    So, a hundred bucks.
> 
>    [mutter mumble] Guess I'll take it.
> 
> 
> So I go off home, get $100 and the truck, return to antique shop, pay
> money.  And we commence to carry the big one out to the truck.
> 
>    [Grunt, wheeze] This weighs more than a hunnert pounds don't it?
> 
>    Ayah, sure feels like it.
> 
> Nice 305# Peter Wright I've used even since.  Never saw another deal like
> that before or since.  So it's not an oxymoron, just what the
> statistics guys call an "outlier".  Probably had something to do with
> the phase of the moon.
> 
> - Mike
> 
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> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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