[TheForge] power and accidents

[Bruce .]

Jerry,
You'll just have to gather up all the local girls and get them to
contribute their bras on the spot.  That oughta warm things up!

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> I bet Andy, we have oil burners, wood burners and a propane burning forge
> and rangetop but we just don't get enough draft cards and bras to warm much
> of anything. whew!
>
> Jer
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>
>> Good grief... I bet Friday nights at the Fels residence must be a real
>> hoot... :)
>>
>> On 1/16/2013 11:55 AM, Bruce . wrote:...Extremists...
>>>
>>>
>>> Draft-card burners...
>>>
>>> Bra burners...
>>
>>
>>
>> Extremists?  Really?
>>
>>> PETA is a very short-sighted organization.  "Ethical treatment" of
>>> animals I support.
>>
>>
>> As do I.  I even subscribe to the notion of "animal rights" in some
>> limited measure.  No problem with beating an abuser with an iron bar (ob.
>> smithing content).  None.  Don't even have a problem shooting one of the
>> varmints in extreme cases, but there is a very delicate line there, the
>> crossing of which starts to rub against the possibly sad and harsh realities
>> of life as carnivores.  I might beat a guy abusing his dog but I will never
>> interfere with a man's choice of food-stuffs, though I find the thought of
>> eating kitties truly revolting.
>>
>>> Much of what has been done to lab animals is indefensible.
>>
>>
>> I completely agree with you on this.  Loathe as I am to ban anything, I
>> could live with this one.  It is criminal.
>>
>>> However, PETA's insistence
>>> that we all should be vegans is a bit much.  Vegetarians have the odd
>>> concept that all those lovely sheep and cows and pigs and chickens
>>> will go into retirement when we stop eating them.  In fact, they'll go
>>> extinct!
>>
>>
>> They are pig-ignorant.  "Lets break in and release all the animals so they
>> will live happily in nature..."  Jesus in a taxicab... have they no brains
>> of which to speak?
>>>
>>>
>>> So, again, Greenpeace is a few loud people who call attention to such
>>> things as Japanese "research" on whales.  I guess the Japanese are
>>> researching which whales taste best!  I don't have much sympathy for
>>> whalers and wouldn't be real upset if Greenpeace sent THEM down the
>>> Marianas trench.
>>
>>
>> That cuts both ways.
>>
>> I would not work on one of those vessels to begin with, but if I had to I
>> would not go without arms.  Greenpeace shows up and gets within 50 yard and
>> I would start putting them down hard, no questions asked, until they begged
>> off.  There are right ways and not so right ones and Greenpeace goes off the
>> rails with their stupidity.  I admire that they act, but their choices are
>> questionable at the very best.
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Bruce
NJ