hey watch it My HHCC's will get you. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 10:18 PM Subject: Re: Sharp things (was Re: Biscuit cutter) >At 05:47 PM 3/19/99 -0500, you wrote: >>Ron... >> >>Point 1: I momentarily confused Norm Abrams with the guy that cuts down a >>tree with a scythe, then, using his feet for a vise, turns said tree into a >>rocking chair using only a pocket knife. > >* BUZZZZZZZ! Wrong! Thank you for playing. That would be the Roy Underhill >creature, who buys Band-Aids by the case and uses his sour mash for wound >disinfectant (visible evidence to the contrary). He's good to watch when you >need to feel good about having gotten through the day with all your fingers. >Like when you have had a day so hideous that that's the only possibility of >consolation you have left. Ya know? By the way, that would be an antique >#214 Barlow pocketknife with the cheater bar and hammer striking platform on >the handle (shudder). Besides, feet are used for installing S&S lyres. > > >>Personally, I'm not interested in >>anything that doesn't have a wall socket, batteries, or fossil fuels >>nearby. > >* Uh oh, this sounds like a line voltage diesel coming on. > > >>I finally realized you are talking about the guy that either buys >>Titebond by the tanker-load, or has an endorsement agreement with Franklin. >>Apparently he hasn't heard of dry-wall screws. > >* He owns a biscuit joiner. He has no use for such pedestrian hardware. (Be >green, be VERY green (ha!)) > > >>Point 2. Why do I get the feeling that "Mr. Caster Cup" will be introducing >>a new spring line of Dixie Cup dispensers -- in contrasting hardwoods, no >>doubt. 8-} > >* Baja Mason-Dixon Distributors Inc. Live Oak and Spanish moss products for >livin' the Gentry life. Y'all come on down. Season tickets and snake bite >remedy available by prior arrangement... also snakes. > > >>Decisions decisions, >>Jim Gone to whup up some yum-yum biscuits and [either] milk or red-eye Harvey >>(aka Jim glad we have 911 service Harvey) > >* Aw heck, now I'm thirsty too. > > >>Jim Harvey, RPT > > >OK, so the List watch "topic cops" and "bandwidth watchdogs" are going to >get me if I don't have anything technical here, so I'll offer the >observation that the Chickering repair that started all this (there HAD to >be a Jim or two of some sort behind this) might also benefit from a few of >those sheetrock screws that Norm is too bisquitized to use, strategically >placed through the inner rim, and into the outer to better hold the whole >mess together. Like I said, I like mechanical fasteners. They prove someone >was there who cared. > >Best, > Ron >
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