> On 7 Jun 2023, at 01:01, Don Schwartz  wrote:
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> And I thought I was bad for washing oil stones in the dishwasher.
> 
> Don


What? You too?  

I missed the bit about ‘Only water stones’ when I tried it.  

Richard

But I have John’s families approval to incorporate his story into one of my own.
The pub has changed hands, and some. at least, of the eventual ending of the
stories has come true, as the genial host has left, but the Tale lives on..






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> On 2023-06-06 4:43 p.m., Dragon List wrote:
>> sometime back in the dawn's age of the list, brother alan perreault managed
to, uh, misuse one of his wife's fine tablecloths.  unfortunately i cannot find
the story, but it's canon lore, alongside (among others) the late john lederer's
steam tractor.
>> 
>> bill
>> felton, ca
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>> On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 2:23 PM Don Schwartz  wrote:
>> 
>>    Whazzat?
>> 
>>    Don
>> 
>>    On 2023-06-06 2:33 p.m., Bill Kasper wrote:
>>    > you can be sure they are using fine linens to clean up the tools
>>    at the end
>>    > of the day.
>>    >
>>    > On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 11:02 AM scottg  wrote:
>>    >
>>    >> I am glad to hear the work is going.
>>    >>      I hope someone is filming and talking to the actual crew
>>    who is
>>    >> doing the work.
>>    >>     I want to see tools in detail. I want to know who made the
>>    tools.
>>    >> I want the company of working men and women!
>>    >>
>>    >>     First it was every "daddy's money" computer geek getting
>>    all the
>>    >> attention in a long TV special.
>>    >>    Now its talking heads describing how much pressure they are
>>    putting
>>    >> the  working crew under to satisfy a politicians
>>    schedule,................
>>    >>
>>    >>    and one guy with an ax for 4 seconds.
>>    >>
>>    >>    It might as well be National Geographic
>>    >> (and the servants were 6 minutes late I could have died)
>>    >>      yours scott
>>    >>
>>    >> --
>>    >> *******************************
>>    >>      Scott Grandstaff
>>    >>      Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
>>    >> scottg@s...
>>    >> http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/
>>    >> http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html
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>>    --     “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of
>>    reason,
>>    and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is
>>    like
>>    administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an
>>    atheist
>>    by scripture.” ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
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> “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and
whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering
medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” ―
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
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