[TheForge] Re: What's the science here?

[Tod Estes]

My Grandad taught me that trick he said he used to keep kids at a distance with
it.
Quoting Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca>:

>
> When I moved into my first big shop -- a 30x90 former general store --
> in the seaside village of Port Medway, all the old geezers in town
> were overjoyed.  They all recalled hanging out in the old marine
> blacksmith shops as kids in 1910.  So of course they started hanging
> out in mine.  Since I had failed to provide old car seats, orange
> crates or the like for them to sit on, and since old legs and backs
> get tired just standing around (as I can now, 30 years later, readily
> confirm), they had to find something to lean on.  By 'n bye, there
> were two of them, each with one foot up on the anvil stump, leaning on
> their knees.
>
> So I got a piece of 1/2x2 up to a real good welding heat, spat n the
> anvil, said "Mind the sparks" and wailed on it with a 5# hammer.  Of
> course there was a very gratifying bang and lots of hot crap flying
> around.  When I looked up, all the old guys were over in the far
> corners, checking their pant cuffs for smolders.  And that put an end
> to the hanging-out problem without having to be cranky and tell them
> to buzz off.
>
>
> FWIW,
> - Mike
>
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> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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Tod Estes

People do not care about how much you know
until they know about how much you care.