Hey you Folks,
Where are ya all hidin? Yeah I know, I’m not from the South, but sometimes I wish I were.
There’s a bunch of us that need your words of wisdom in here. We got all kinds of questions about finishing, joinery, hand tools, you name it.
Git out of the closet and help us out and have some fun too. Let’s get some roots back in here.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
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Hello Bob:
The answers you seek can be found at the onion radio news:
Study: 8 Out Of 10 Southerners Are Currently Hunkered Down
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/66083
Regards,
Hastings
Hastings,
Us damn Yankees did it again!
That's tooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
BobJust so you know, these are southern definitions:Yankee: someone from the NE United StatesDamn Yankee: someone from the NE United States that moves to the South and stays. ;)Tom, a southerner who appreciates Yankees, damned or not."Notice that at no time do my fingers leave my hand"
Bob
I don't know if I lack qualification in the "old" department or the "curmudgeon" area. But I do post "when I feel I have something to offer". That varies with the subject.
A previous thread passed 250 on the subject of ethics of copying. I've got a couple of pics coming up this afternoon. Let me know if fits your description of "contibuting."
Frosty
"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
Careful wit the regional descriptions. You never know when some self appointed culture police will cite you for some sort of crime or the other for hurting someone little feeling. I for one, in reliance on H.L. Menchen know for a fact there is not civilization north of the Mason-Dixon line or south of the Potomac and I don't give a d*** what the culture police say. I am a licensed curmudgeon.
Nah, you've got it wrong. What you have is a heap of answers that just need sorting with the right questions. And wharever you do, do not refer to coming out of the closet!
Multifantagulistic Mufti.
Edited 9/10/2007 2:52 pm ET by mufti
Hiya Bob,
Y'all ar lookin fer som foks from the South.
Ah'm from Southern Connecticut.
Does that count?
Mel
PS
I have lived in Pensacola, Florida and Orlando, Florida, but the farthest south that I ever did live was Dothan, Alabama, which is much further south than Orlando. You can't get much farther south than Dothan. We bought our Schnauzer in Selma, Al. He barked with a drawl.
Our first baby was about to be born in Dothan. The advice we got, not that we could follow it, was not to let the baby be born during the Auburn-Alabama game, because you couldn't find a doc to deliver it.
Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
Mel,
I was searching for curmodgeons. Do they all reside in the south only?
I'm studying to become a curmudgeon so do I have to move south? Taking a private course from the only one I know. Psssstt, it's a secret. I can't divulg (sic) his name.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
P.S. If you hurry over to the Who's stealing...... you can put up #300!
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/10/2007 3:24 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Bob,
I don't fit into the curmudgeon category.
MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
Mel,
I'm not sure I will make it either. I failed my first written quiz, How to tell a wannabe curmudgeon?
Maybe I'm not cut out for this stuff.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
"I was searching for curmodgeons. Do they all reside in the south only?"
No they bloody don't. Some live on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Slainte.Richard Jones Furniture
Richard,
Now I never knew that. If you know any of them tell 'em to respond here. We're all dying to meet 'em. Or at least I am.
I failed my first quiz and I need help! Gotta another one day after tomorrow. Subject is How to calm down a curmudgeon.
Should I post a pic of the only one I've found so far?
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/10/2007 9:12 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
"Subject is How to calm down a curmudgeon"
Flattery and sycophancy sometimes works along with maintaining the general demeanour of spineless lickspittle.
Bribery and corruption is also a good first ploy. For males of the curmudgeonly type, try beer to start. Failing that, expensive wine and cheap women are always a good tactic. Or should that be the other way around? I can't ever remember. Slainte. Richard Jones Furniture
Richard,
"Failing that, expensive wine and cheap women are always a good tactic".
I have never met a cheap woman. As far as I can see, they are all born expensive and stay that way.
Perhaps you have a supply of the cheap ones? Not that I want one - the expensive ones have their compensations, you know. [List of compensations deleted by the Taunton Envy police].
Nevertheless, send pictures.
Lataxe, amateur sociologist (anyone can claim to be a sociologist).
Were you going thru Ft Rucker? Helicopter stuff?
Dan,
Helicopter school, yes, but not as a student. I was with HumRRO. We developed and tested training programs for pilots which integrated simulator and flight training. My specialty was the simulators. I started my career at Like Division of Singer, where we made the Huey simulators that I developed training programs for at Ft. Rucker. Did you go through pilot training at Ft. Rucker?MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
Fort Walters to Ft Rucker. All that Bell time to end up in an OH-6. Oh well. Dothan and Enterprise. It was really hot during the instrument phase with that hood on in 98 degree heat.
Well its a small world for sure.
dan
Dan,
It is a small world.
I remember those days fondly back at Ft.Rucker. Do you remember McLin's Kitchen, in Daleville, right outside the main gate to Ft. Rucker? Great Southern food! MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
Funny thing thinking back there were 2 worlds: the cadet world and the non-cadet world. I didn't get a pass for the first 3 months at Rucker. Life in the old WWII barracks was small. When we did get time off (bachelors) we bolted as far away as possible(most of us had no cars) given the situation.
Years later returning for the IP courses, I got to check out the local spots. Most of my free time was spent out at the shot-gun clubs shooting clay Pigeons.
After finishing school and transferring to the Air Force I got in the fast-mover business. Before I retired I returned to the helicopter business at Hurlburt Field. Made it up to Ft R a few times but we stayed very busy with Sp Ops stuff.
I was there when they brought in the very first H-60 when it was part of the UTAS program. That's dating myself a bit.
Anyway, "dat's it" as Yogi would say.
Bob
Elsewhere you posted that you were looking for Millers Falls planes. I have a MF #15 I purchased in 1953, in good shape, you are welcome to it. Newly married, I bought a variety of tools to build things in our new home. Some, I still have. This one is replaced by LNs and is looking for a home where it will be loved.
Frosty
"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
Frosty,
Yikes, I can't believe it!
You can be assured that it will be well cared for and used too. I don't know how to thank you? I'll find a way.
That is most generous.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
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