Friends,
Years ago, there was a thread which had over 6000 posts. It is an OLD thread. I havent seen a thread in recent times that gets much above 100, and very few of those. This is not to say long is good. Certainly it was different. It went on for years, and was sort of a “Knots within Knots”, and it meandered without a central topic. It was just fun. I resurrected it just so that folks who are new to Knots could see a “one of a kind.”
Have fun.
Mel
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over 6000 posts
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Mr.Bill.
I'm trying to get thru Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and now this? When am I gonna sleep.
middle of the thread.
Right under the very first post you get a choice of threaded list or flat list. Click flat list and the time sequence goes in order of post. Then choose oldest first in the next field. Next field gives you the choice of how many posts at a time you want, I go for 70 and usually that gives me all the posts in a normal thread (unless there are 6000) Once you do this set-up while logged in it should come up this way every time.)
Who is Ray Pine? Is he the guy who makes those beautiful pencil post beds at Waterford Fair?
forgot remind you to push the save settings button after you are done.
S,
Thanks for the info on how to use the new Knots. I will change the settings to the old way.
Who is Ray Pine? Joinerswork
Yup, the guy who used to be at Waterford. He stopped two years ago. Too bad.
I still go anyway, but it isn't the same any more.
Mel
Ray Pine
His brother, Bill Pine, was a woodworker too, but more in my class than Ray's. When he and Zolinda moved from town he gave me a bunch of off cuts and walnut logs for resawing that he didn't want to pack. Also boxes of hardware and electrical wire and parts. I agree that the fair has lost something, as the price has gone up & up for tickets. We never missed one for many many years, but we no longer go every year, just once in a while if we think about it.
Gotta go meet a friend to go on a hike. Talk later.
EDIT ten hours later. Best part of Waterford was to sit down by the corner store and listen to the Mill Run Band and then walk up the hill 50 feet and talk to Mr. Pine. I didn't know him but always introduced myself by asking "how are Bill and Zolinda doing" and he would give me the latest news. He inspired me to try pencil post beds. That nice Czech owner guy over at Colonial Hardwoods sold me a slab of cherry that was 18 or 20/4 by eight feet and wide enough to rip into 4 posts. I paid him $850.00 I think it was. He ripped it for me and when I got it home I found a knot that compromised at least two of the posts. I had thought I could work around it but found I couldn't. I paid for it and had him rip it for me so I owned it I thought. Waddayamean you can't return it, my wife asked. Can't and won't I said. It's the code of the woodworker, I have to deal with this guy in the future. Then I'll take it back she said and she did. He took it back, charged her something for the milling and ripping, $50. I think, and the three of us lived happily ever after. This story is getting too long, but after doing a proto in pine of a single post we decided to go with a different style for our new king sized bed. It came out great with curley quarter sawn cherry slats, with rays that I see every morning as I wake up. Never did do a pp bed.
That nice Czech owner .
Now that I think about it I'm not sure if he was Czech, but I'll bet you know who I'm talking about, Colonial down in Springfield.
Colonial owner
S,
I have met the owner of Colonial Hardwoods a number of times, but I don't know him well, and I don't know his nationality.
I'll czech on it. Ha ha ha.
Mel
SWMBO
I see on the other forum with the 6000 posts that you all are still adding to it, going for some all time posting world record. With so many posts it's time to click the field from oldest first to newest first or you are going to be scrolling down forever. Did you see my earlier post about returning that big hunk of cherry? I felt bad about that but "She Who Must Be Obeyed" was in charge.
S,
I had read your original message, but I didn't realized you added the "Edit", which contains the reference to the owner of Colonial and to the cherry slab. I went back and read it. Great story. Always listen to SWIMBO. Her rules overrule everyone else's rules. Even God's, if you want to live happily. I have the last words in all of our discussions, and they are always "Yes, Dear."
I didn't order the posts from new to old. I did go to a flat order, and I then click on the "Last" page, and get to it in an instant.
Back in the day of the long thread, folks like to come up with creative ways to get the 1000th, 2000th, etc post. Obviously those are not GREAT goals in live, but they added a bit of fun to the Knots experience at the time. I could tell before it got to 6000 that the thrill was wearing off, and it was getting too difficult to keep it going. It just died out. But while it lasted, it was fun. I met Madison2 and many other new friends via that thread, which was more of a mini bulletin board than a thread. I didn't restart it to try for 7000, but just to show some of the newbies something that they will never see again. From the response, none of them got too excited by it. Oh well.
Have fun.
Mel
Swen,
Bro and ZL are doing well. They are building a house on top of a mtn. I don't remember your face, but if you still wear that ABC news windbreaker, I believe I'd recognise you;-)
I miss seeing my old friends at the Waterford Fair, but after 30 yrs of loading and unloading furniture, craft shows have stopped being a lot of fun; and after I got a stent, having fun took more of a front seat in my life.
A 20/4 lumber plank is like a box of chock-lits. You never know what you got til you bite into it.
Cheers,
Ray
S,
What did you do for ABC?
Mel
For 30 years at ABC I was an editor and sometimes editor/producer for Ted Koppel and Nightline. I started out editing the Hostage Watch that Roone vowed would stay on the air 'till the hostages came home. When that dragged on for 444 more days we slowly evolved into Nightline and got back 1/2 hour for the network from the locals. I stayed with NTL till I retired. Unlike print, in TV an editor is the one who actually cuts the sound and pictures and voice overs into a finished package. Just like a film editor handles the film and sound tracks. It is not just editing words, though that is a part of it. I started in broadcasting in 1957 (radio) and became a film editor in 1964. Worked all three networks here in DC...Cronkite, Chanselor, Today show, GMA, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Brinkley, World News Tonight, Barbra Walters at both NBC and ABC, I even put in nine years at Metro Media CH5 before it became Fox, where Maurey Povich was a little snot-nosed-kid sportscaster, before he became a big snot nosed kid... but that is another story. After retirement my only contact with tv has been as a judge for DINFOS. When I had a real job at least I could go in to work and take a break form yard work and such, sit with my feet up, take a nap. Now I don't even get holidays off.
Thanks..
Mel.. That post was great... Good ideas and much nonsense... I think I learned more about people from all the nonsense..
WG,
there is much more nonsense than sense in this world.
Might as well make the most of it.
The nice thing about the Internet is that you can't see the expression of the person you are listening to. You have no idea whether they have any idea of what they are talking about. They might be a heart surgeon or a cereal killer. :-)
Mel
The nice thing about the Internet is that you can't see the expression of the person you are listening to. You have no idea whether they have any idea of what they are talking about. They might be a heart surgeon or a cereal killer. :-)
I sure hope the cereal killer... He/she never kills off Rasin-Brand... I love it as much a Corn pops!
I 'think' I understood.. If somebodfy kills me.. I maybe would be upset but at the same time closer to my wife that died long ago... I will only come to her IF she still loves/likes me...
I am not afraid of death (I think) untill the last moment that I may want to get out of here...
We all pass on.. I only hope that I will be by God and my wife.. I'd bet that I huged my wife before God... I think God would understand...
WillGeorge
"I am not afraid of death (I think)"
I have found that in many cases, those who are afraid of death are afraid that they have never really lived. I have come close to death, at last count, about 15 times. Except for one or two times it was fast and violent and over quickley... the whine of the slug and then the bang and the realization that that was no mosquito flying past my head... the wild lines-over spin of a May West canopy and the action-without-thought deployment of the reserve parachute... the rocks dislodged by other climbers high on the wall above slamming into you like the asteroid belt in the first Star Wars. A couple of times I have had time to "savor" the situation. Once, high up on O'dell's Gulley in Huntington Ravine, at night, with a broken crampon and a partner who had too little experience in ice climbing or mountaineering, the winds picked up to 90 MPH gusts, and the temp was 30 to 40 below with wind chill. Not unusual for Mt. Washington, but we were getting cold and tired and I was choping steps for my right cramponless foot. Winddrift avalanches were coming down the face and we were getting desperate. The story of our escape would take pages but the funny thing is that my reaction to this came weeks after it happened. Sitting in a bar alone, having supper and thinking about the mountain, I started crying in my beer, overcome with a depression-like sadness.
As for cereal killers, be careful what you wish for. As a kid I would have rooted for the killer if he was stalking oatmeal. Now as a certified old codger it is my favorite winter breakfast. And lay off my new bud Mel. He was being funny I think. Also I am a certified bad speller.
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