Subject: Re: castaway humor (fwd) In response to Matt's comment. :o)

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 02:39:07 -0400

Matt..

You're right. The castaway story has little to do with the topic of
blacksmithing, except for one factor..

A blacksmith divides his time into five equal parts..

1.  Sleeping

2.  Drinking

3a.  Sex and eating  (younger guys),
3b.  Eating and sex  (older guys) or
3c   Just plain eating (really old farts)

4.  Working at the forge

5.  Telling stories

Not necessarily in that order. (And as they get older the eating part
overwhelms the sex part.)  Notice that an equal time is spent telling stories
as working.  Just about every blacksmith that I know keeps pretty much to
that schedule.  

Now wouldn't it fit that any blacksmithing group would be doing about the
same?  Since we can't eat, sleep, drink, work at the forge or have sex on the
IN that just leaves telling stories.  When you really get down to it, every
zap here is just a story.. only the topics change.

Maybe we should use a codes in the subject line:

for serious stuff       :-|
problems               :-(
answers                 :-)              
and stories             :o)

Keep smiling..

Kent  :o)