Remember this?

[static]

So i was rummaging around in the garage last night and came across one of these that belonged to my grandfather.

 

[Brewskii]

Boat anchor?

 

[Clann]

Shoe repair?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

yeah... looks like its for stretching a boot?

 

[spearko520]

antique flashlight?

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

That was the last pic I was expecting to see! Really, for some reason I was expecting to see a pic of a last. My dad had several of them.

 

[static]

Yup its a cobblers anvil. Grandpa was a man of many talents.

 

[triangulum33]

Yes - I used to watched it.

 

[lschiavo]

Yup its a cobblers anvil. Grandpa was a man of many talents.

Maybe he was a man of necessity back when shoes didn't grow in china

Disclaimer** my shoes (good old American Red Wings) were grown in china and most likely, if you check, yours were too.

 

[lschiavo]

Do you remember "made in Japan"? What ever happened to that? Or Taiwan for that matter...

Anyone remember "made in the USA"? Now that's ancient history!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Yup its a cobblers anvil. Grandpa was a man of many talents.

Nope. It's a cobbler's last. I iz pedant.

 

[JeffoC6]

 

[spearko520]

Do you remember "made in Japan"? What ever happened to that? Or Taiwan for that matter...

Anyone remember "made in the USA"? Now that's ancient history!

i have wrenches that say "made in US occupied japan"- hand me downs, i'm not that old...

 

[spearko520]

that show was the beginning of the end of western civilization.

 

[Huaco]

Do you remember "made in Japan"? What ever happened to that? Or Taiwan for that matter...

Anyone remember "made in the USA"? Now that's ancient history!

I remember when Wal-Mart PROUDLY stated that many of their things were Made In America. Then... Sam Walton died... it all went to hell in a handbag after that.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Now there's something conservatives and liberals can hold hands on and sing cumbaya. We need to start making things again.

Do you remember "made in Japan"? What ever happened to that? Or Taiwan for that matter...

Anyone remember "made in the USA"? Now that's ancient history!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Creamy, I know Cheezy already told you about the way you post quotes.......Is it too late to +1 him?

Cheezy and Creamy in the same post. That reminds me, there is interweb porn just a click away from any page on the world wide wonderwall.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Ok ok I'll try to stop. Its just too much fun to pester him with it.

 

[edmanster]

i loved the ninja robots

 

[Homercidal]

i loved the ninja robots

Let me guess...


Is that Ice Pirates??

 

[edmanster]

Let me guess...


Is that Ice Pirates??

indeed.. i used to watch it all the time in the late 80's

 

[Homercidal]

I saw it at the Drive-in in Cadillac. I really only remember the scene where the guy was being processed on a conveyor and these metal jaws pop up as if to snap down on his junk.

They didn't, actually, but it was meant to remind him that he should remember who was in charge.

I remember that was a pretty funny movie. Looks kind of cheesy now. Might have to rent that one for the kids.

 

[static]

Nope. It's a cobbler's last. I iz pedant.

I like learning new stuff.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

That was the last pic I was expecting to see! Really, for some reason I was expecting to see a pic of a last. My dad had several of them.

I like learning new stuff.

You Googled it, didn't you!

I wondered when I typed the post quoted above if anyone would understand it!

I think I love you.

Edit: my dad spent a couple of years in his youth as a shoe repairer (Not a cobbler) So he had one of those and a few variations on that theme lying around. Since he died I sometimes think back fondly on how he still used them in later years to good effect. Old skills never die.

 

[edmanster]

I saw it at the Drive-in in Cadillac. I really only remember the scene where the guy was being processed on a conveyor and these metal jaws pop up as if to snap down on his junk.

They didn't, actually, but it was meant to remind him that he should remember who was in charge.

I remember that was a pretty funny movie. Looks kind of cheesy now. Might have to rent that one for the kids.

That's right, they were being turned into unick servents..lol.. I liked the time laps part and the black dude and his big white afro

 

[static]

You Googled it, didn't you!

I wondered when I typed the post quoted above if anyone would understand it!

I think I love you.

Yes as a matter of fact i did. I didn't understand but I do now. Thanks.

In a manly, your my boy blue, kinda way right?

 

[Frankiesurf]

i loved the ninja robots

"What was that? "
"Space Herpes"

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Yes as a matter of fact i did. I didn't understand but I do now. Thanks.

In a manly, your my boy blue, kinda way right?

I've been manly for 54 years now, I'm starting to feel like i want to experiment in not bothering with sex either way!

 

[static]

Old skills never die.

I'm continually amazed at the skills that people just don't have anymore. I learned so much from my Dad and a lot of those skills were passed on to him from Grandpa and so on. I have a bunch of their old tools. Some of them i still use. I'll have to see what else i can dig up.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I'm continually amazed at the skills that people just don't have anymore.

I'm a carpenter/joiner by trade. One of the last to do a 4 year apprenticeship in England. Basically, I have the qualifications to teach the trade, but in recent years it is not worth a bag of **** these days when all you need to do to do this job is find a bag of tools on the way to the job store.

I used to be quite proud of my trade, and it has now diminished to the extent that anyone who can hold a saw (And trust me, they are not holding it correctly) is a carpenter.... These days I am surrounded by people that hold hammers and can hit things with them....Why bother any more.

This is the age of the chancer. You don't need to know what you are doing, you just need to look like you know. Nobody knows the difference, and if they did they would not care.

Yes, I am actually quite bitter about how this aspect of my life turned out. I learned a lot of really useful stuff, honed my skills, and it was all just overridden by a wave of who gives a crap. Well, this is why nothing you pay good money for never lasts suckers.

Now I feel better!!