forestgirl !!! I would like to apologize for the remark I made early this morning, I was way out of line. And I do Apologize, I have no excuse, I was wrong to bark at you and I am sorry.
Jack
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Well, Jack, you are the man! Apology accepted. I was hoping you'd just had a bad day or something.
Cheers, see you 'round here.
"I was hoping you'd just had a bad day or something."
Well, maybe. But you have to admit, you are the most overbearing person around here, by far. ;-)
-Steve
Amen brother!
the woodbug Dan
Apparently "no good deed goes unpunished" holds true. I've seen you resize photos and offer countless bits of help. Keep up the good work as far as I'm concerned.Jack - That was a fine move. You are a gentleman!Frosty"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
Edited 3/6/2008 8:06 am ET by Jfrostjr
Yes Forestgirl, I did have a bad day, My wife is very sick, she sleeps a lot, she was told by the Dr. back in May of 2005 that she had 3 weeks, 3 months or at the most a year to live, and thank god she is still with me, you see she is 75 and I am 77 and we have been married for over 55 years, it will be 56 in sept.
So it is not easy, I do the shopping, banking, cooking, and clean up. I do have a shop about 10 minutes away, and its a break for me to get away, but a lot of the time when I come home, and she is still in bed, it gets me down and I do get depressed.
I know its not her fault, and I also know its not you fault, but I thought I had better spell it out, so you wouldn't feel bad of me.
All the best and thanks for letting me ramble on.
Jack
Sparky,
God love you.
Will keep you in the Light.
Tom
Caring for an ill loved on is one of the hardest things we do. Wishing you the best.
Jamieforestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Hang in there Jack. I admire what you're doing. If the worst thing you do during this very difficult time is to type some overly harsh words on a forum, then you're a better man than I. We'll be praying for both of you. God bless...
Edited 3/7/2008 5:37 pm ET by Knotscott
Hey Jack,
I bid Godspeed to you and your wife.
Chris.
Top 'o the Mornin to ya Jack,
Cheers on ya man.
If ya don't wanne meet forestgirl at high noon, I'll meet ya. We can swap woodworking tales/lies, slap each other on the back, maybe a few 12 oz. curls and think o' the good times! Course I'm a bit younger than you so will ya vouch for me age?
Hope all worked out well with your woodshop fiasco a while back.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
No just all you people WAIT ONE MINUTE. I thought I was the most obnoxious person on this board? How did I lose my thrown?
Doug Meyer
Doug,
Oh you are. It's just that we can only handle one obnoxious person at a time!
So as to make you feel better, your posts are the most rediculously uninformative of anyone in Knots! There, feel better now!?
:-)
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Pussyfooting around as usual and in two minds are we Bob? Schizo. rules, OK!
Just to set the record straight, the rest of you can sound off as much as you like, but in the field of BORING I have been supreme for some time. I even cannot bear to read my own posts for fear of falling asleep. Nunc est bibendum as they say by the oasis.
what does :-) and:>) mean
Jack
Look at them very closely Sparky.. Do you see a set of eyes.. :
Do you see a nose.. - or >
Do you see a smile.. ) .... :>)
What ya don't wanna see is the parenthesis turned this way ( which gives you a frown.. :< (
Hope that helps and god bless your wife and you, Jack..
Regards...
Sarge..
Edited 3/8/2008 12:29 am ET by SARGEgrinder47
Jack, those ;-) and :>( are called emoticons. They're the cyberworld representations of the infamous smiley thing that came about...when?....in the 1970's??
If you Google emoticons, I suspect you'll find quite a few. Knots, based on Prospero software, does not have official "smiley's" they way some forums do. 'Twere they to introduce them, there'd be a vigorous revolt no doubt. View Image View Image
Lettered substitutes are such things as LOL (laugh out loud), ROFL (roll on the floor laughing), OMG (oh my God, or ohmigod as I like to spell it) There's more. Google again....internet acronyms. Some old fogies here protest against them, but they help indicate when the author is kidding or being sarcastic, prevents unnecessary kerfluffles.
There will be a test tomorrow, LOL!
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Edited 3/11/2008 12:35 am by forestgirl
Hey lady,
Why didn't you tell him about ROFLMAO? :>)
I think FWW should allow emoticons here don't you. Stirr up the old fogies a bit, Eh?
An old fogie in age but not mind,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Stirr up the old fogies a bit, Eh?Hell, I get worked up with the lady postal worker delivering my mail and I'd bet she is about 250 pounds!
Hell, I get worked up with the lady postal worker delivering my mail and I'd bet she is about 250 pounds!
My grandfather always told his boys: "Don't let your horns obscure your vision." Good advice since their hormones usually made their choices for them.
You know, testosterone production is supposed to decrease with age. Generally, after age 60 the average man produces only enough to keep him male (barely, which is why men get softer and rounder (think boobs) as they get older). You seem to be the exception. I'd take up body building if I were you -- who knows? you may easily win the over 60 class. Actually, I don't think the over 60 class exists -- you'd be a shoe-in to win!
Edited 3/9/2008 2:25 pm ET by pzaxtl
Whoa Stud,
I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was!
">)
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Now, THAT was funny!
I have to confess that I borrowed it from a country singer - Trace Atkins I believe. Great song and brings back a few memories but I don't think it can be said much better.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Actually it was Toby Keith.
Steve: Once daily.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Once a month? Once a year?
-Steve
Bob,
Or as my friend once told it, "It takes me all night, just to do what I used to be able to do all night long!"
Ray
There will be a test tomorrow, LOL!I remembers that at my Differential Calculus class.. I flunked!
What are kerfluflles?
Harry
Following the path of least resistance makes rivers and men crooked.
A kerfluffle is a "dust-up" between or among people. Just about my favorite word, picked it up from West Wing back in the day. It fits when a group of people get all "het up" over somethin' and argue back and forth.
Pardon my typo in the other message, I mispelled the plural. I believe it's kerfluffles, though it may be kerflufles, but for sure it isn't kerflflles.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Edited 3/11/2008 12:36 am by forestgirl
Girl,
I understand that in the USA a kerfuffle is often preceded (and sometimes anteceded) by a brouhaha. What I want to know is, do the participants have to wear costumes, headdresses and such? Perhaps it is like square dancing, with attitude?
Lataxe, an anthropologist.
Lataxe,
participants have to wear costumes
Absolutely!
Actually it's a must in order to enter into a ferkuffle. forestgirl spelled it wrong again! I believe it was intentional just to throw you off. heh, heh, heh
Trees are the preferred motife for proper dress. Might I recommend the wearing of leopards tights (leopard wood) the shavings from a board could also be used as a matching headdress or if you prefer a contrasting design one might consider ebony or holly.
I think you would present a commanding precence in such attire. Perhaps a a few esoteric tools in each hand, a froe perhaps or if you're daring an adze.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
"forestgirl spelled it wrong again!" I know I'm overextended when my spelling goes to pot. Sheesh.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Hey Lady,
Congrats on the TS. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
If ya havin a problem with findin some high school football players to move it just git some o them hosses!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
There's a vinyard on the island that does all their plowing and tilling with a horse. Should give them a call. Getting it from the truck to the ground might be tricky though. ;-)forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Ah, that's easy.
Just call Samson! But, it might be cheaper to rent an engine hoist, harness hubby to the back and hang his favorite libation on a stick in front.
:>)
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
No need to rent an engine hoist, we have one! That's how we moved the pellet stove around when we got it. Stepson is a Chevy (and now Honda) mechanic, so he has many tools still at home (grown, married, got a kid, still......)forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
FG it is easy to remove the motor, one pin and a bolt and you can just let the belts hang. You can then remove the start/stop switch by removing 2 screws. If the power cable goes through the cabinet hole then it is more of a job. If you remove the motor it would reduce the weight by about 70 pounds. I always removed the motor when I moved mine.
Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans .
Thanks for the reply...or as a really good friend would have said, "Thanks for noticing." :^)
Harry
Following the path of least resistance makes rivers and men crooked.
Well my signature is my other pass time....
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AzMO
Sure I had one but the wheels fell off !
Jack
Well I must say that I am a bit disappointed that this thread moved away from the "Most overbearing person on the forum" vein without any mention of my name. I know that I haven't been around as long as... well Bob @ Kidderville, and I don't post as often as... well Bob again, but surely after two years and 600+ posts you would think I would deserve some mention. Particularly if anyone had noticed how many threads wither and die with my post being the final nail in the coffin.
Rob (feeling a little disappointed, but vowing to try harder)
Edited 3/8/2008 11:42 pm ET by Rob A.
You're really pushing the issue Rob. Things had gone nicely off-topic until you came along! You get my vote!
(...feeling any better now?!) ;-)
Thanks Rob, I needed a good laugh and you gave it to me. It does seem odd when a thread ends after one posts a message. Kinda gives ya the feeling of did I fart and chase everyone out of the room or something???
Chris.
"Particularly if anyone had noticed how many threads wither and die with my post being the final nail in the coffin." ROFL!!!!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Forest.. All I know if you get on my case.. I back off! :>(
what does :-) and:>) mean :>( means we are unhappy?
what does :-) and:>) mean I have a bigger nose?
Will,
You think you have a big nose- :?)>
I have a goatee too
Ray
Doug,
You ask, "How did I lose my thrown"? The answer is that you are not obnoxious at all, in fact, but rather: quite 'armless.
Lataxe, a widemouth frog iron.
Lataxe, me duck,
"lost thrown...'armless."
By Jove...rather humorous, that. wot, wot
I might laugh out loud, were I not practicing a stiff upper lip. As it were, bit of a sticky wicket.
Pip,pip,
Ray
Ray,
If your wicket is sticky one suspects that you have been doing something to make not just your lip stiff (indeed, the stiff lip may well have been trembling just a bit). I suspect that you may have got a taste for them wickeds riding that great vibrating thang you call "Indian". Just a mode of transport? Ha! It's a boy's toy, in more ways than one perhaps.
In all events, you are allowed a hearty guffaw in public as, unlike we over-socialised Ypeans, you are Free and not confined by mere decorum, outmoded manners or a desire to conform with the dictates of an intransigent and gimlet-eyed vicar (or his even fiercer wife). Indeed, in some parts of your Great Nation is is considered de rigeur to do as you like on all possible ocassions, something of a paradox but, in any case, a privilege that I may only enjoy in the privacy of my shed - and even then the lights must be doused.
Conformity to locally-dominant certainies. It has it's good side and it's bad.
Lataxe, enthroned on his pontificating chair.
Lataxe,
Yes, it is a well-known fact that the motorcycle is but a projection (literal and figurative) of what the rider would have others think is there, when it alas, is not. The size of the machine may be a reflection on those of us who have more of a lack, real or perceived, to make up for.
My gentle poking of fun is simply the back-handed gesture of admiration for a degree of civilisation to which we Yanks can never aspire.
Brits may have that polished veneer of class and culture, but, I hear, are a bit like the teas of which they are so fond--one never knows how strong they are, til they are in hot water...
Ray
Take care Ray, we tend not to use veneer, those qualities run all the way through. What you think you see is what you get. In the nicest possible way of course.
Slightly miffed mufti. Well not really because we know you mean well.
Mufti,
Well I am definitely veneered. Not only are there the layers of mixed up mongrel genes:
http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=37729.1993
I am also a cultural onion:
http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=33163.18
Lataxe, knocked together from bits of this and lumps of that.
I do so wish I had kept tabs on my wise words, well any of the rubbish I have left lying around here. I have to reap the reward by repeating myself in ways other than digestinary! (A new word happen).
I had a old Harley that I got WWII surplus (Side shifter).. LONG AGO I thing about $300.00! It was like a fine woman to me! I loved it... Untill I went throught a plate glass store window!I'd still love to 'RIDE' but... O'h the memories!
Well, WillGeorge !!!! Tell us about some of them, I for one would like to hear some of them. Could you tells more about going through the window, how in the devil did you manage that pray tell.
Jack
Could you tells more about going through the window, how in the devil did you manage that pray tell.Hard to remember the exact details now because it was so long ago..
As I remember.. I was 'riding' really cool teen! AND then a car cut me off! I ended up on a side walk.. You know a place where people walk! THERE WERE PEOPLE! So I layed it over so I would not hit them. I ended up through the local grocery store plate glass window. I remember a BIG slab of glass that was just by my neck and some old lady in the store yelling.. Where is my Purse?..It was so long ago.. (1959? Just before I went into the Army) I only broke a wrist.. Still hurts if I move it the wrong way!
Brits may have that polished veneer of class and culture??I was raised by a BRITT nanny.. She was the BEST! BUT..polished veneer of class and culture.. HARDLY!I LOVED HER ALOT!
Doug
And to add what Bob said, you can't spell for $hit, either.......so how can anyone take you seriously enough to be angry with you!!
Relax, it's just my meds kicking in!
:>)
Jeff
Sounds like we need a poll to settle this issue once and for all! :D
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