<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><HEAD><TITLE>RE: Better yet! (was Duluth tool Bag)</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <STYLE> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </STYLE> <STYLE> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </STYLE> <STYLE>  </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3199" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US vLink=#0000ff link=#0000ff> <DIV> <DIV>I apologize for straying off topic, but if you don't have the bandwidth for a little levity, you know where the delete-key is.  I don't know about Frog Lick, Succotach, Tree Stump, or Armadillo Flats, but for any who are interested there really is a Toad Suck, AR.  You know, just down the road from Possum Grape. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Legend has it that there was a tavern on the banks of the river.  They catered to dry and thirsty travelers, in their covered-wagons, waiting on the banks of the river for the fairy to return and transport them across the river.  One particularly thirsty travel killed a beer so fast that the bartender responded with, "You sucked that down like a toad," hence the name, Toad Suck.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Another legend has it that an American veteran, trying to find his old Army buddy, sent a letter addressed to his friend in Hot Dog, AR.  He wasn't quite sure of the town's name, but he thought it was Hot Dog, no street address, no zip code.  The US postal service actually delivered the letter to his buddy, in Wiener, AR.  I suppose their search was narrowed by the fact that there was no Frankfurter, AR. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Frank Emerson</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pianotuner@embarqmail.com href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianoguru@earthlink.net href="mailto:pianoguru@earthlink.net">pianoguru@earthlink.net</A>;<A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 10/13/2007 5:51:53 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Better yet! (was Duluth tool Bag)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV> <P align=left>You're kidding! I though I was being silly with North Frog Lick ..... but Toad Suck???<BR><BR>But really, isn't North Frog Lick just a few miles west of South Succotash and a little east of Tree Stump? I think it's actually near the border and, technically, a suburb of Armadillo Flats, Texas.<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR><BR></P> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Frank Emerson" <PIANOGURU@EARTHLINK.NET></PIANOGURU@EARTHLINK.NET><BR>To: "pianotuner@embarqmail.com, "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG></PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 10/13/2007 4:11:07 PM<BR>Subject: RE: Better yet! (was Duluth tool Bag)<BR><BR> <DIV> <P align=left>>*These pallets are full-size industrial (<FONT face=Arial><FONT face="Times New Roman">40 x 48 x 5 inches)</FONT></FONT>, and are hand-crafted from the finest crudely-cut Ozark mountain oak > logs available (at any given moment) by Henry "Bat Face" Boggins, Rte 5, Box 31, North Frog Lick, Arkansas, USA. Henry >learned his craft making Baldwin soundboards in their glory days (June 3 and 8, 1972)<BR><BR>I'm afraid there is no such place as North Frog Lick, Arkansas; however, there is a Toad Suck, Arkansas, just west of the old Baldwin plant in Conway, AR.  Perhaps this is where you meant?</P> <DIV>Frank Emerson,</DIV> <DIV>former Baldwin employee, but just a little later than the stated "glory days."</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>