If imhotep and tradesman can hold off until week of the 22 ; sooth sayer and fellow tradesman Py will sally the coast of the cape and take no prisoners; .....full consultations over any mahogany will however require oiling the hinge . Py -----Original Message----- From: BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> To: BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sat, Jul 6, 2013 2:00 am Subject: BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS Digest - 5 Jul 2013 to 6 Jul 2013 (#2013-5) There is 1 message totaling 66 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. ss vs. brass in the Vineyard -- **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 06:57:00 -0400 From: John Leeke <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ss vs. brass in the Vineyard >>I put in the mahogany ....to avoid maintenance for the next forty years.<< Tableau: The forlorn tradesman is on his knee holding a stick of wood that is half sound and half rotten, as the Sun beats down on his brow, the tradesman is sweating blood and worried sick. The boss, semi-god Imhotep, stands tall above the tradesman, raises his hand to shade the Sun from the tradesman's brow, and is about to speak... Imhotep entones, "No magic in word mahogany." End of Day Stories: There may be wood called "mahogany" that is more durable than other woods, but in the last two years I have seen four cases of mahogany used for porch parts in the 1970s and 80s, that has rotted out. In two of the cases I put the wood in there myself. In all cases the mahogany was sopping wet. There were other pieces of the same mahogany that were dry and sound. The wet rotten wood was in the shade, the dry sound wood was in the sun. Moral of Stories: The old rule does still apply: Keep it Dry. Analysis: Keep: keep on keeping on (with the ongoing maintenance). Dry: as in "not wet." Extremes of the situation: Leeke didn't keep his wood dry and it lasted 33 years. Tut kept his wood dry and it lasted 3300 years. New Rule (with incentive): Keep it Dry, get 100 times the durability. Chain of Authority: Aton > Tut > Imhotep > Leeke Dreams in the Night: Tradesman wakes before dawn...cuts down the tree that shades the porch...Sun rises and warms the tradesman as he makes porch parts from the tree...but the Sun glints in his eye blinding him as struggles to fit the part into porch...a tall stranger comes by to watch his work and stands so his shoulders shade the sun from his eye...the part fits perfectly...the stranger becomes a friend...the friend offers the tradesman a lucrative project on the other side of town. Reality: Wife speaks, "Get out there and fix that porch, or you'll be sleeping on it!" -- **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> ------------------------------ End of BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS Digest - 5 Jul 2013 to 6 Jul 2013 (#2013-5) ********************************************************************** -- **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>