[TheForge] OT blacksmith's boot dance/ eye protection, too

[Ron Swisher]

LOL ! You made my day.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Vida 
  To: mspencer at tallships.ca ; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA 
  Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:04 AM
  Subject: Re: [TheForge] blacksmith's boot dance/ eye protection, too




  Mike Spencer wrote:

  > Swearing in the workplace, while fraught with pitfalls and caveats,
  > can be good for morale and bonding.  [1]
  > 
  > Nothing said about effect on getting a hot-punch unstuck or a bolt
  > started into an inaccessible hole.

  Working with oen Dorothy Bradley at Bell, one would have come to expect 
  otherwise.  Born again, she tolerated no swearing.  Every time I let fly 
  "shit" or "fuck", the darts would stream from her eyes as if she were 
  attempting to emulate her personal vision of how the good Jesus squirted 
  blood from the eyes.  Sometimes it was funny, sometimes not so much so.

  Then one day when the lunatic Andrew Kidd took over as PM, we had 
  preciousness happen.  In his overly grasping desire to be "cool",  he at 
  one point sat back in his chair and said, "yeah, we're gonna have a lot 
  of fun, but you fuckers are going to work your asses off."  My eyes 
  clicked over to Dottie's mug with sub-nano-second swiftness.  She got a 
  look on her self-righteous mug as if someone had just shoved two 
  pineapples up her backside the hard way.  I suspect that had I been 
  smarter and more daring by passing out pistols at the door as the team 
  assembled for the meeting, she'd have shot him on the spot.  If only she 
  had.  Kidd once sat me down in his office and told me in all seriousness 
  that I was a minion of satan.  He didn't stop there, either, but 'nuff said.
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