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The Coffee Shop / Thought for the day....
« on: July 13, 2010, 10:43:14 pm »
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1592
The Coffee Shop / Penguins!
« on: July 13, 2010, 05:15:16 pm »Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica?
Where do they go ?
Wonder no more ! ! !
It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which lives an
extremely ordered and complex life.
The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as well
as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its offspring
throughout its life.
If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the family
and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using their
vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the dead bird
to be rolled into and buried.
The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and sing:
"Freeze a jolly good fellow"
"Freeze a jolly good fellow."
"Then they kick him in the ice hole."
You really didn't believe that I knew anything about penguins, did you!
1593
The Coffee Shop / "Painting the Church".....
« on: July 13, 2010, 05:09:07 pm »Painting the Church
There was a Scottish painter named Smokey Macgregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.
As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings..
Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job.
So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine..
Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.
Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty,
so he got down on his knees and cried:
"Oh, Oh, forgive me; what should I do?"
And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke..
(you're going to love this)
"Repaint! Repaint!
And thin no more!"
1594
The Coffee Shop / History Lesson...the 1500's!
« on: July 12, 2010, 12:25:38 pm »
Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water
temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to
be.
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee
in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery.......if
you had to do this to survive you were "&*^^ Poor"
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford
to buy a pot...........they "didn't have a pot to pee in" and were the
lowest of the low.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed
a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess
up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung
over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into
existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.
Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would
get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on
floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more
thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping
outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh
hold.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that
always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things
to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They
would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold
overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in
it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge
hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It
was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They
would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and
chew the fat.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years
or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of
the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the
upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would
sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the
family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they
would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the
bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these
coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the
inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they
would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the
coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would
have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift..) to
listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was
considered a dead ringer...
And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !
So . . . get out there and educate someone! ~~~ Share these facts with
a friend like I just did! ! !
Next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water
temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to
be.
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee
in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery.......if
you had to do this to survive you were "&*^^ Poor"
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford
to buy a pot...........they "didn't have a pot to pee in" and were the
lowest of the low.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed
a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess
up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung
over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into
existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.
Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would
get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on
floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more
thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping
outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh
hold.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that
always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things
to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They
would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold
overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in
it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge
hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It
was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They
would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and
chew the fat.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content
caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years
or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of
the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the
upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would
sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the
family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they
would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the
bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these
coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the
inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they
would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the
coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would
have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift..) to
listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was
considered a dead ringer...
And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !
So . . . get out there and educate someone! ~~~ Share these facts with
a friend like I just did! ! !
1595
The Coffee Shop / Some things to ponder!
« on: July 12, 2010, 12:23:46 pm »
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank
while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then, after that trauma, we were
put to sleep on our tummies
in baby cribs covered
with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets,
and, when we rode our bikes,
we had baseball caps,
not helmets, on our heads.
As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes..
Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren't overweight.
WHY?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
--And, we were OKAY..
We would spend hours building
our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride them down the hill,
only to find out we forgot the brakes.. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were
no video games, no 150 channels on cable,
no video movies or DVDs,
no surround-sound or CDs,
no cell phones,
no personal computers,
no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS
and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut,
broke bones and teeth,
and there were no lawsuits
from those accidents..
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.
We ate worms, and mud pies
made from dirt, and
the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and
-although we were told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts
and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn
to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers,
problem solvers, and inventors ever.
The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas..
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
If YOU are one of those born
between 1925-1970, CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
~~~~~~~
The quote of the month
by
Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us......pass this on.
1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank
while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then, after that trauma, we were
put to sleep on our tummies
in baby cribs covered
with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets,
and, when we rode our bikes,
we had baseball caps,
not helmets, on our heads.
As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes..
Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren't overweight.
WHY?
Because we were always outside playing...that's why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
--And, we were OKAY..
We would spend hours building
our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride them down the hill,
only to find out we forgot the brakes.. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were
no video games, no 150 channels on cable,
no video movies or DVDs,
no surround-sound or CDs,
no cell phones,
no personal computers,
no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS
and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut,
broke bones and teeth,
and there were no lawsuits
from those accidents..
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.
We ate worms, and mud pies
made from dirt, and
the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and
-although we were told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts
and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn
to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers,
problem solvers, and inventors ever.
The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas..
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
If YOU are one of those born
between 1925-1970, CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
~~~~~~~
The quote of the month
by
Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us......pass this on.
1596
The Coffee Shop / Maxine is at it again!
« on: July 12, 2010, 12:21:19 pm »
I was in the restaurant yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to pass gas. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my gas with the beat of the music..
After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my coffee, and noticed that everybody was staring at me....
Then I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod.
~~~GrayBeard~~~
After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my coffee, and noticed that everybody was staring at me....
Then I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod.
~~~GrayBeard~~~
1597
The Coffee Shop / Happy Birthday!
« on: July 12, 2010, 10:13:59 am »
"campasano" tells me he is 79 today!
Happy Birthday to you ! ! !
~~~GrayBeard~~~
Happy Birthday to you ! ! !
~~~GrayBeard~~~
1598
The Coffee Shop / Spain Wins!!!
« on: July 11, 2010, 05:08:55 pm »
Sorry my Dutch friends...
I rooted as hard as I could!
~~~GB~~~
I rooted as hard as I could!
~~~GB~~~
1599
The Coffee Shop / PROPOSAL.....
« on: July 10, 2010, 10:12:15 pm »
I would like to start a "Bucket List" for all the members to participate in!!!
Everybody remembers the movie, right? Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman...
Anyway a "Bucket List" is a listing of the things you absolutely, totally want to do before you go to that Great Scroll Saw Shop in the Universe, or wherever the heck it is....
Think hard and long because I think we should limit it to ONE item per member to keep it fresh and interesting. And if you post, POST your own item, don't just say, "Yea, I want to do that too!"
Think of the ONE thing you just fervently hope you get to do before you pass on and then post it here.
As soon as someone starts us off i will add "Bucket List" to the title of the Thread or they can do it...whoever goes first, and it will not be me.
If most of you are game this could be very interesting.....
Let's see what kind of interesting items we come up with.
Everybody in?
No Restrictions other than "Family Friendly" and no worse than <PG-13>!
~~~GreyBeard~~~
Everybody remembers the movie, right? Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman...
Anyway a "Bucket List" is a listing of the things you absolutely, totally want to do before you go to that Great Scroll Saw Shop in the Universe, or wherever the heck it is....
Think hard and long because I think we should limit it to ONE item per member to keep it fresh and interesting. And if you post, POST your own item, don't just say, "Yea, I want to do that too!"
Think of the ONE thing you just fervently hope you get to do before you pass on and then post it here.
As soon as someone starts us off i will add "Bucket List" to the title of the Thread or they can do it...whoever goes first, and it will not be me.
If most of you are game this could be very interesting.....
Let's see what kind of interesting items we come up with.
Everybody in?
No Restrictions other than "Family Friendly" and no worse than <PG-13>!
~~~GreyBeard~~~
1600
The Coffee Shop / Grampa going to the Doctor....<PG>
« on: July 10, 2010, 09:00:29 pm »
An old man in his mid-eighties struggles to get up from the couch then
starts putting on his coat.
His wife, seeing the unexpected behaviour, asks, 'Where are you going?'
He replies, 'I'm going to the doctor.'
She says, 'Why, are you sick?'
He says, 'Nope, I'm going to get me some of that there Viagra stuff.'
Immediately the wife starts working and positioning herself to get out of
her rocker and begins to put on her coat.
He says, 'Where the heck are you going'?
She answers, 'I'm going to the doctor, too.'
He says, 'Why, what do you need?'
She says, "If you're going to start using that rusty old thing, I'm
getting a Tetanus shot."
starts putting on his coat.
His wife, seeing the unexpected behaviour, asks, 'Where are you going?'
He replies, 'I'm going to the doctor.'
She says, 'Why, are you sick?'
He says, 'Nope, I'm going to get me some of that there Viagra stuff.'
Immediately the wife starts working and positioning herself to get out of
her rocker and begins to put on her coat.
He says, 'Where the heck are you going'?
She answers, 'I'm going to the doctor, too.'
He says, 'Why, what do you need?'
She says, "If you're going to start using that rusty old thing, I'm
getting a Tetanus shot."
1601
The Coffee Shop / Noticing .....
« on: July 10, 2010, 08:48:00 pm »
More of our 'friends' are adding their 'real' pictures.
I like it!
Maybe next week I will update mine...fresh haircut and new teeth and all!
~~~GrayBeard~~~
I like it!
Maybe next week I will update mine...fresh haircut and new teeth and all!
~~~GrayBeard~~~
1602
General Scroll Saw Talk / GrayBeard's shop...
« on: July 10, 2010, 02:15:34 pm »
Before and After setting up views!
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1603
General Scroll Saw Talk / Saturday Morning Craig's List POST!!!
« on: July 10, 2010, 08:55:35 am »
St. Louis, MO...
I have a beautiful Hegner 18" scroll saw for sale. It is Serial # 414912, Model Multimax 18. I have enjoyed working with this machine, however, now I can no longer do the work. I would like to see this go to a good home. Price is negotiable. --- Just remember that this is the Cadillac of Scroll Saws!!!
If you are interested, please call me at 1-618-234-6993 or contact me by e-mail at leeruth@juno.com. Ask for Ruth, please.
Anybody have any interest or thoughts?
~~~GrayBeard~~~
I have a beautiful Hegner 18" scroll saw for sale. It is Serial # 414912, Model Multimax 18. I have enjoyed working with this machine, however, now I can no longer do the work. I would like to see this go to a good home. Price is negotiable. --- Just remember that this is the Cadillac of Scroll Saws!!!
If you are interested, please call me at 1-618-234-6993 or contact me by e-mail at leeruth@juno.com. Ask for Ruth, please.
Anybody have any interest or thoughts?
~~~GrayBeard~~~
1604
Ask Steve a question. / Question, Steve!
« on: July 09, 2010, 09:39:32 pm »
Have you given any thought to an additional section that could handle the computer questions?
"Computer Corner" or some such....
~~~GrayBeard~~~
"Computer Corner" or some such....
~~~GrayBeard~~~
