[TheForge] Coak

[jerry Frost]

Well said Mike. Let me know if I miss your message. 

Cagey attempts to avoid words with poor miss spellings and code words is FAR
more attention getting than just using the word in a proper context. Eg. I
prefer using coal coke to petroleum coke in my forge if I'm not using green
coal techniques and burning breeze.

I don't understand anyone pointing fingers at a former admin for ignoring
the constitution in the face of the current one. I dislike them all after
comparing what they said to get elected as opposed to what they did in
office, that was the first election I was of age to participate in. I've
found myself having to vote for the candidate I felt would do the least
damage in office.

And that gentlemen is as far as a political post as anyone here or there
will ever see me post.

Frosty

-----Original Message-----
From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike
Spencer
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 11:44 AM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Coak


Bruce wrote:

> I find myself cringing every time I compose a message in which I need 
> to name that well-known product of partial combustion of coal...I 
> really don't want my every email to be subject to scrutiny by the 
> authorities.

That SMACKs of paranoia, a dangerous CRACK in your mental landscape.
They're scanning all our email anyhow so yr beating a dead HORSE.
Trying to find alternative spellings for all those recreational
pharmaceutical slang words will make a HASH of your text.  Will you write
about your forge's FIREPOTTIE or the pile of JUNQUE out back?

> Of course, I wouldn't insist that anyone ELSE use this spelling, I'm 
> mainly interested whether you'd recognise the meaning.

Oh, sure.  We'uns blacksmiths are a pretty bright bunch.  When I first met a
large bunch of blacksmiths in one place -- the '76 ABANA conference -- I was
intrigued to observe that half of us had university degrees in difficult
subjects or even doctorates while the other half spoke ungrammatical
English, chewed tobacco and performed feats at the anvil indistinguishable
from magic.  So yeah, we'll know what you mean if you call it coque.

You could even go with the well-established term the Brits use and call it
breeze.

Digressing only slightly, do you have a reliable and cheap source of breeze?
AFAIK, there's no easy way for me to get it in Martitime Canada although I
did a demo in Ontario circa '84 in a shop that used it exclusively. (The
proprietor has since moved to the US so I can't chack with him now.)

Since the spooks are presumably scanning *all* email, and since fulminant
devices and the political postures of a certain Abrahamic religion  have
replace Pinko Commies as the Great Threat to Free Markets and Capitalism,
I'd be more concerned about oenophile discussion of TERROIR or of the BOMBES
of Alan Turing than about passing reference to breeze.  The DEA is sooooo
20th century but attacks  from persons of semitic complexion and 8th c.
mentality, whether digital of fulminant, are in the NSA's 21st c.
crosshairs.

FWIW,
- Mike

     This has been you frivolous, off-topic digression for the day.
     You should take any perceived or implied political position as
     satire. :-)

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