[TheForge] power and accidents

Wed Jan 23 18:38:29 EST 2013

GOOD thought Bruce! Next summer maybe.

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce ." <freemab222 at gmail.com>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] power and accidents

> 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
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
>>
>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:53 AM
>>
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] power and accidents
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>> TheForge mailing list
>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge
>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>>> Post: mailto:TheForge at mailman.qth.net
>>>
>>> TheForge mail list group photo site is
>>> http://www.photoworks.com
>>> Login: blacksmithblacksmith at hotmail.com
>>> Password: anvil
>>>
>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> No virus found in this message.
>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>>> Version: 2013.0.2890 / Virus Database: 2639/6041 - Release Date: 
>>> 01/18/13
>>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> TheForge mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:TheForge at mailman.qth.net
>>
>> TheForge mail list group photo site is
>> http://www.photoworks.com
>> Login: blacksmithblacksmith at hotmail.com
>> Password: anvil
>>
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
>
>
> -- 
> Bruce
> NJ
> ______________________________________________________________
> TheForge mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:TheForge at mailman.qth.net
>
> TheForge mail list group photo site is
> http://www.photoworks.com
> Login: blacksmithblacksmith at hotmail.com
> Password: anvil
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
>
> -----
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 2013.0.2890 / Virus Database: 2639/6052 - Release Date: 01/23/13
> 