Mark Ling Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 "Ignorance, stupidity, stubbornness and frustration are the only employees I have." -Matt Marti Littleblacksmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 If all you see if negatives, they cancel out any positive that you can use to get ahead. In my opinion he needs to send them at least two zip codes down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 On 7/3/2017 at 4:13 PM, littleblacksmith said: did he mean to have an "L" before "earn" to make it "learn" or does he mean "earn"? I just think learn would make more sense. Littleblacksmith Not a typo Mark, you pay in: time, effort, burns, blood, sweat and tears to earn the blacksmith's craft. You have to earn any craft you aren't born knowing how to do. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Who thinks stubbornness is a negative? It's kept me married for going on 33 years next month especially when my stepdaughter did her best to break us up right before the marriage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 3 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Who thinks stubbornness is a negative? It's kept me married for going on 33 years next month especially when my stepdaughter did her best to break us up right before the marriage! Good thing you married a stubborn woman eh Thomas? Bless em all. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 No I was the stubborn one; she was willing to allow me go after the stuff he daughter did. Me, I growled and dug in my feet and soldiered through all "our" daughter could do. I still remember years later our daughter telling her mother that she was looking for a husband that would treat her like I treated her mother. Besides which we got our revenge! Our daughter had *twins*! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 Funny things about smiths; I know a *LOT* of them that I would cheerfully hand my wallet to them with no problem, but WOULD NOT TURN MY BACK ON THEM IF THEY WE HOLDING A (WATER) HOSE! Thomas Powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 My doctor told me years ago I had to give up wine women and song... So far I've quit singing. Irondragon Forge and Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 "What I've learned so far in my less than two years of blacksmithing: The blacksmith tool that SHOULD consume every aspiring blacksmith is the lowly tong. We all spend so much thought and effort on anvils and forges. I've learned that these really don't matter. Having the right tongs (or not having them) has turned out to be the single most important factor in my learning. The new people naturally focus on forges and anvils. The experienced smiths do so as well because they already have the tongs. I feel that we don't celebrate the lowly tong enough!" -- @Lou L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 23, 2017 Author Share Posted July 23, 2017 You do not need a book to "date" the anvil. (reference to Anvils in America) Just hug it gently, maybe a little wire brush massage, and caress it's face with hot metal. Maybe a rub down with light oil when you finish. Do not be concerned if the anvil is a bit older than you are, it should still provide a lifetime of service. Glenn Treat it lovingly and listen very carefully, it will pass on to you the secrets of working metal. Irondragon It is not a *date* but a working relationship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 24, 2017 Author Share Posted July 24, 2017 Some time in the early morning hours we passed 686 posts and 60,002 views in this topic. Thank You to all that have keep this thread interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Here is another aphorism for the collection. "Life can only be understood looking backward: but must be lived forward". (anonymous). SLAG. Please see the note below for a correction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Originally from the Journals of Søren Kierkegaard: "It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Note to JHCC, Did Kierkegaard exist? SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Voltaire invented him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 JHCC, Touche. Mon ami. SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Nietzsche never believed it! (and never get on an interstate designed by Jean-Paul Sartre!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzkill Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 I'm kind of partial to Monty Python's take on philosophers in their "Bruces Philosophers Song." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gote Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 On 2017-07-24 at 5:48 PM, SLAG said: Note to JHCC, Did Kierkegaard exist? SLAG. Yup but Kant did not exist "an sich" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Herr Gote, "Yup but Kant did not exist...." Herr Gote. I must respectfully disagree. " KANT could! " Warm regards, SLAG. p.s. it is rumored on good authority that Herr Kant once espied his charming face in a mirror, so he must exist per se. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 But it's the thought that counts according to Descartes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John in Oly, WA Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Yeah, but Descartes was only thinking of himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 It does introduce contention with philosopher Popeye's famous statement "I yam what I yam & Dats what I yam!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 I believe that's "I yam what I yam and dat's All what I yam." An unpretentious sailer man though he's in to the finish. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubalcain2 Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 yams? i thought his thing was spinache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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