[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 91, Issue 20

[Andy Gladish]

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> *Paul, it's true- so many folks don't know essential cultural information
> such as what brand of Anvil W.E.C. used, or whether you can get a puff of
> black stuff from a bellows, but look at the bright side: It's been years
> since anyone attempted to recite that horrid "Village Smithy" poem, and
> almost as long since anyone called me a "smithy."  *

Andy G.



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> 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.
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>  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.
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> 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.
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> **paul
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