TechnicusJoe Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I bet I know a couple of smiths with tired arms!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Nothing like the tintinnabulation of a nice *solid* piece of High C steel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Man, Thomas, I had to look that one up. Ring-a-ding-a-ling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I thought that Friday might be good for a little Poe-try. (As I remember it from Poe's poem about the bells bells bells!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Heck all this time I thought you were just one of those dumb 'ol blacksmiths in bib overalls. Didn't realize you were a plumb intellectual type! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
671jungle Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 12 minutes ago, Chris C said: Man, Thomas, I had to look that one up. Ring-a-ding-a-ling. Sir Thomas Powers gets the win for most terms googled by other members! I have learned much terminology and acronyms from this lot. One day I might be able to confidently mingle with some of you Curmudgeons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I actually learned "tintinnabulation" in fifth grade, when we had a teacher who taught us "Jingle Bells" in Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Some of dese here fellers know more words than a cat has hairs on it's body. Me, well........... my vocabulary is numbered more like a cat's whiskers. So Webster is my friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 What you don't use Google? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I was reading a book on Judge Isaac Parker this morning and learned that there used to be an outlaw with my given name in the area that Parker was Judge over; which happens to also be the area some of my family is from. I now wonder a bit more about my family using my middle name and not my first, "given", name...what's worse; I was once teamed up with a Dalton too....Deja Vu? Or as the famous quote puts it: "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.” I do miss my t-shirt with the "Hang Around Fort Smith" on it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Thomas did always like those Brobdingnagian words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 25 minutes ago, Irondragon ForgeClay Works said: What you don't use Google? I try not to use Bezo's subversive website any time I can keep from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I like to use it to keep them mining data and when they run across most of my searches, they scratch their heads and say wwwaaattt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 EXACTLY!!!!! Duck Duck Go doesn't mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Ah yes a Swift bon mot in reply! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 To whom are you directing that bit-o-wit, Thomas? I can't keep up with you...........much too fast for my feeble ol brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Brobdingnagian => Gulliver's Travels => Jonathan Swift => reply I'll be signing off for the weekend soon; gotta go try to sell a hand crank blower! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Have a good trip. Make some good money on the blower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 1 hour ago, ThomasPowers said: "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.” Zaphod Beeblebrox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 17 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: I thought that Friday might be good for a little Poe-try. (As I remember it from Poe's poem about the bells bells bells!) "Alarum Bells" perhaps? Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluerooster Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 On 7/31/2020 at 4:03 PM, Chris C said: Heck all this time I thought you were just one of those dumb 'ol blacksmiths in bib overalls. Didn't realize you were a plumb intellectual type! Reading Poe, I would hazard to guess, he has a bit of a twist to him, as do I. My favorite is The Cask Of Amontillado, Many times (in the past) I'd thought about that, But I've actually become friends with my exs' new hubby. (poor guy) And his name is actually Fortunado. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I like wearing bib overalls in the smithy---protective and good for air flow particularly if fairbairn-sykes! Funny how folks can fall for believing clothing indicates education. Working in a Geology Department at a University a lot of the Professors with Doctorates wander around in denim shirts and shorts and hiking boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I was just teasing, Thomas, (of course I'm sure you knew that) because Carhart Bib's are what I wear at the forge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Williams Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Clothing, or accents... It's funny -- having a southern accent and very slight speech impediment, I always manage to exceed expectations! I wasn't quite as smart as Mr. Don Williams: "But I was smarter than most and I could choose Learned to talk like the man on the six o'clock news" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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