[TheForge] slightly OT Re: Welding ball bearings

[Larry Brown]

At 11:04 AM 8/19/2011 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

Animaniacs was the last cartoon series  that I saw using anvils, even did 
the anvil chorus. Might be online



>   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.


Remember the war cartoons? I'm 52 and I remember them running them. 
Remember McHales navy? Bet the Japanese still do.....

The good stuff all gone and hidden away

L Brown




>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