I tried to create a thought provoking post to this discussion.
When I reflect on your posts that I’ve read in this forum I think Inspiration describes it best for me.
So I will keep this simple. I miss your inspiration.
I don’t think I’m alone.
Fond Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
P.S. I goofed. When I thought of this post I meant to addresss it to Lataxe, not realizing it defaults to ALL. I perhaps mistakenly thought the title was self expnanatory. My apologies. Getting on in years it might be a mild case of Somes-Timers!
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
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What did I miss? What discussion do you mean?
Cadiddlehopper
I think he is talking about the absence of Lataxe from the forum.Hopefully he is not sick-maybe he is on vacation or tending his harem.Philip Marcou
I also hope that all is well with Lataxe. Until I see a post to the contrary, I will gladly assume that he is taking a break from Knots to read, write, build, travel, love his wife and family and enjoy life. JL
I sent him an e-mail about a week ago inquiring if he was ok. I have not heard back. Sure hope he's alright.------------------------------------
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."---------------Samuel P. Huntington
He is not "good" at replying to e mails (being an ex computer boffin).Philip Marcou
My reason for posting this is that I'm concerned as phillip said. No, you didn't miss anything, I don't think.
It seems to me here in Knots that we all care and want to help each other. I haven't seen any posts from the eloquent Lataxe and wanted to make sure that he's OK.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Cadiddlehopper,
Sir phillip is correct. I apologize for not being more specific. I am concerned about Lataxe and hope all is well. I also sent him email several weeks ago and have not heard back.
In my mind there seems to be a fellowship in here
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Thanxx!!Cadiddlehopper
I agree! I also miss his finely tuned British wit! I also sent him a few personal e-mails with no reply. I too hope he is Ok. Lataxe, if your out there, please let us know if your OK or not!
I have tried the phone, no one is home. Being a Lancs man it may be that he and his are away spending money without let or hinderance as is the wont of folk from those parts.
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My folks were from the Old Country and would from time to time ham it up with similar language. Your post brought a smile to my face. Thanks for the memory.Greg
Ham it up good sir? I have never aspired to the ways of the thespian, but speak in simple terms, untrammelled by guile and posture, disdaining garrulous gratuitous garnish, but seeking expression clear of confusion through brevity.
For my next message, press 2.
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Thanks for checking. Yes, perhaps he and his are on holiday! We will look forward to his return on this knots forum. In the mean time, you'll just have to fill in for him. I was always somewhat endeared by the English accent and manner of speech when I was there in the Midlands, and just as much now with yours' and Lataxes' English phrase. We Americans have so butchered your beautiful British way of speaking.
Danny
Thank you for the kind remarks. I now am up to size thirteen in shoes, so may feel the pinch.
I fear you do yourself and your countrymen a disservice in likening our languages. In my view American, whilst once akin to English, is now a disparate tongue full of vitality and innovative expression. Things go wrong when Americans attempt engish as she is spoken,evidenced by the sad fractured locution of members of the Bush family.
David from Nottingham. No, I did not know Robin.
mufti,
I met the sheriff (or former sheriff) of Nottingham a few years ago, maybe he was the head constable. His first name was Paul, don't recall last name, friend of a friend.
Ray
Surely, and in all fairness, you do not judge American English by what you hear from GWB?
J
By no means, when I have heard him speak I usually have been left with the impression that he is living proof of the adage that any born American may become president notwithstanding a compl
While hoping that Lataxe is on holiday, or in someother way far from communications, and hoping that he may someday again rejoin our fellowship, I am responding to an alternate fiber of this thread, to wit: English.
First, you might blame the French. Had it not been for the French, we (United States) might speak English today. Or as someone modified it, we might be paying Prince Charles' salary. Secondly, I have read articles over the years that offer a differing opinion of the purity of the English language. This URL sums it nicely: http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test3materials/AmericanDialects.htm
Bob
"We are simple souls who, if tempted to be insulting, would turn aside from such ill found thoughts and just let matters rest." --Mufti
Wherever he is, I wonder if he brought the Marcous with him...
For all of you worried about Lataxe, here is an e-mail I recieved this morning.
Don, Ah ha! I have not yet chopped me own arm off with a new-fangled chisel or plane (despite ineptitude). It's only a busy schedule of tasks keeping me away from Knots, and from the computer in general, at the moment. I hope to return at the end of April, with tales of the handmade Greene & Greene desk, plus lots of sharp pins with which to prick the idealogical bubbles of the handtool fetishists. (I yam a naughty boy). Was it you wot wrote in FWW sometime ago that there is no time in commercial cabinet making for messing with handtools? So true - it is a pleasure(of sorts) for a leisurely amateur such as moi to acquire the handtool skills but, Gawd, how long everything takes! I am heading for a dialectical conjoiningof woodrat and plane. :-) Lataxe (David) PS Galgate and the North West of England are looking wonderful at the moment - Spring has sprung and the grass has riz, along with various saps.
It would appear he took the Marcou with him!------------------------------------
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."---------------Samuel P. Huntington
I'm sure we were all concerned that he had tried the LV magnetic toolbelt from another thread and was stuck to the side of a passing train or somesuch...the marcou and any ferrous tool in his shop firmly with him.
LATAXE LIVES!
Great news. Apparently he has a life outside of Knots.
I didn't know this was possible.
MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
kind of selfish of the old boy to disappear. i mean what are we supposed to do for online entertainment in his absence? i blame the handtools...
Don,
Thanks for the post.
I was about to offer an extra #78 to him but have since learned that I'm ambidextrous (sp?) I can make two rabbets at the same time! Now if I can convince phillip to make a left-handed #78 I'll be in business.
Nicker's on the wrong side for the lefty.......
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
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Where there are two rabbits, there are soon more...
Ah yes, and hopefully rebates as well!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Thanks for the info on American English dialect. Interesting , but also slightly boring. At least I'm sure that Lataxe will be glad that he was so missed!
brown,
Boring? Why, that was as interestin' as a fancy lady in a room full o' mice.
Ray
Great hat! Why are you hiding behind the machinery? Could you possibly fill in the Jolly Biscuiteer?
In preparation for his return I'm exercising my jaws muscles. I expect there will be volumes of laughter.
Ray provides laughter that wakes the dogs, wilst Lataxe has often caused me to awaken the neighborhood!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Alas, I am less loquacious than Lataxe (in the nicest sense), and too fat to stand in Ray's shadow. Or do I mean dwarfed in his presence? I will let you decide.
For a time I used the morticer from my Lurem combination as a stand alone unit with a router on a plate behind. It now is reunited for bigger things.
T'ats a topee (pith helmet) from Indian army days, me pappy served pre WW2 tho' thisun worrent hiss'n. Far too small.
I thought I was the only one here with a machine made by Lurem. Have you needed any replacement parts and if so, where did you get them?
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
Sorry, it has not given any trouble, but then it gets hobby use only. A three phase 260 N made in 1983, it came to me from the closure of a hospital facility. I bought knives and remodelled the fence attachment.
Lurem still exist, see http://www.lurem.fr/, although they are now a part of Metabo, just like Elektra-Beckum. Sorry, but I don't know what sort of spares support there is. Certain Lurem machines are also sold under the Record Power label, in the UK at least.
Nice to hear that Lataxe is a "Lanky" (Lancashire man). I wonder if he's also a clog wearer or pie eater.
Long live flat caps, ferrets and mushy peas!
Scrit
I've not heard from you before. As you may have guessed this discussion is about our fondness for the Jolly Biscuiteer!
Please explain I wonder if he's also a clog wearer or pie eater.
Long live flat caps, ferrets and mushy peas!
Sounds like this could be most interesting, not to mention entertaining as was your post!
Clog wearer and ferrets I understand, but the rest in bold escapes me. But then again being of the other English..............
Regards,
P.S. If I didn't have fat fingers I wouldn't have had to edit this post so many times. Perhaps the bubbly from my most recent plane aquisition may have something to do with it!
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
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Well I'm yet another Limey who lurks around here, although I do post from time to time. Like Lataxe I'm a Lancastrian (i.e. a "Lanky" or from Lancashire). The reference to being a "clog wearer or pie eater" is another reference to Lancashire, in particular the towns of Wigan and Burnley are noted for their prodigious consumption of meat an' tater (potato and meat) pies. Wigan was a relatively poor mining, cotton and engineering town until after WWII and where people wore traditional Lancashire-pattern clogs rather than boots or shoes much later than many parts of Lancashire (I still do in the workshop, much warmer on concrete floors in the winter). These days clog wearers tend to be traditionalists trying to keep a dying tradition alive, and on Saturday I'll be going to see the "Britannia Coconutters", a clog dancing troupe, dance the bounds in Bacup (they have their own web site - go take a look at why we in Lancashire say "there's nowt so queer as folk!")
The "flat caps, ferrets and mushy peas!" is something you may be unaware of - the North-South divide in England. We always used to say that southerners were over-paid softies, they used to make jokes about Northerners wearing flat caps (like golfers wear, but generally tweedy and good for keeping the rain off your head), the keeping of ferrets as pets (which a few people still do) and our love of mushy peas (marrowfat peas soaked for 24 hours then boiled to a semi-glutenous green mass and served with chips or fish and chips and lashings of malt vinegar)
I'd love to see Lataxe's take on those objects
Scrit
Scrit,
Very enlightening, can't wait to hear more. Hopefully the Jolly Biscuiteer will add to your post on his return. Have any more?
On the mushy peas side of things I make a dish I learned from my grandmother called Salmon pea wiggle. It's made with a white sauce heated in a saucepan, add a generous helping of salmon chunks and bring to a slight boil. Add cooked green peas, simmer till hot, then serve over crackers or toast points.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Your Salmon pea wiggle sounds like S.O.S. with a seafood twist. Who said Yankee ingenuity was dead?Andy
Andy,
My wiggle has a bit of fine wine added to peak the palllet, (ingredient intentionally left out so as to protect the recipe, Moms request). A dash of garlic (my addition) with a light sprinkle of ground pepper on top.
Sets it apart from SOS! No, we don't cater but would be more than happy to have you over for brunch. Just make sure to include all the other Knotheads!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Scrit,
Ever been to, or heard of, a "ferret legging?"
I read about this once. Where a couple of guys (alcohol likely involved) capture some wild ferrets, stick them down their pants and then cinch their belts. The first one to release the ferrets is the loser...
Zolton
T'was poacher practice t'carry ferrets down trews. Cleg in the long running "last of the summer wine" TV program kept ferrets. Needle teeth hence the expression, "he's needling me", usually said with the eyes and legs crossed.
Men going to public toilets in those days kept their eyes on their own business, there was no accounting for what might be poking out beside you!
Edited 4/6/2007 1:54 pm ET by mufti
And Ferret P smells so good too ! ;-)Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
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