[TheForge] Re: trade secrets

[Larry Brown]

It's one message and I wrote the whole message. I didn't realize that part 
of it was looking like a reply till after I sent it. Long day
Larry Brown


At 03:03 AM 11/27/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>hello;
>
>comments below;
>
>On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Larry Brown wrote:
>
>>
>>>Many years ago (Early 70's) I was cutting out of school and working in a 
>>>body shop, mainly sanding cars, and I used to watch this old guy who 
>>>came to do the lead work on the old classic cars. I watched him a couple 
>>>of times and he came over and yelled at me in broken Italian/English 
>>>that I was a thief  and should be thrown off the job. I told him I never 
>>>touched his stuff and I wouldn't take any of it but he kept on yelling. 
>>>The boss came out and then found someone who could understand him to 
>>>translate. He was mad because I was stealing with my eyes. I still 
>>>couldn't do what he did then if I had tried and even know with 30 yrs of 
>>>metal behind me I know I could never have stolen enough to compete with 
>>>him, even miserably. Unfortunately I got caught playing hookey and had 
>>>to go back to school and never got another chance to steal more..
>
>okay, i really have to ask; who wrote the above?
>i do not find the above message in theforge archives on mailman.qth.net.
>
>>
>>I thought wiping molten metal on the side of a car and having it be 
>>perfect in no time was amazing. I couldn't do as well with bondo
>>
>>Larry Brown
>
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