[TheForge] slightly OT Re: Welding ball bearings

Jerry Frost akfrosty at mtaonline.net
Fri Aug 19 19:11:44 EDT 2011


Do you remember Heckle and Jeckle taking meat cleavers to each other's 
limbs? Not only blood but skin, meat and bone on both halves of the chop.

Oh for the good old days. <sigh>

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul N" <crosspein at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 5:04 PM
Subject: [TheForge] slightly OT Re: Welding ball bearings


> yeah, when was the last time you saw an anvil dropped on someone in a
> cartoon? Kids these days don't even know what they are.
>
>  When some of us (ahem) where kids, cartoons also would commonly
> include scenes like blowing soot into a character's face from a small
> bellows.
>
> I do some demos in a shop with a large wood and leather bellows and on a
> few occasions, I've mentioned that our bellows are a bigger version of
> those seen in cartoons. I even a lot of the parents are unfamiliar with
> such a device. Too many city folk.
>
> **paul
>
>
> On 8/19/11 10:45 AM, xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
>> On 8/19/2011 8:52 AM, Ron Childers wrote:
>>> BTW, Kim, who the hell is "Taz" and if he is dead, why would he care?
>>> And who is trying to bury him? I guess I missed that history lesson.
>> Tasmanian Devil, Taz from looney tunes.   Don't know how you missed that
>> --- Geez, will we ever know all the harm inflicted by the deficiencies
>> of our  American education system and liberal leadership?   It started
>> with a loosening grasp on the classics, now it extends to classic
>> cartoons.... alas.  What next?  Will we all forget GaGa's muffin too?
>>
>> Charles
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