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jo4hn

25/06/2005 2:58 AM

All hail to the great and mighty Norm!

OK, the subject may have been over the top a bit, but now that I have
your attention... The most recent issue of Popular Woodworking has a
couple of good articles on Abram, one of which debunks myths about him.
They even coined a term for his followers: Normites. Gawrsh.
sigh,
jo4hn


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in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 5:27 PM



LRod wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:52:30 -0500, "Greg O" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> An the magazine DEFINITELY DID NOT coin the phrase/term
> >> NORMITE, been used here on the newgroups for years
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I think you missed the sarcasm!
>
> Where's that damn sarcasm key on my keyboard!!????!?

It's usually just below and to the right of the 'any' key.

--

FF

bR

[email protected] (Robert Bonomi)

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 3:50 AM

In article <[email protected]>,
stoutman <.@.> wrote:
>"jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> OK, the subject may have been over the top a bit, but now that I have your
>> attention... The most recent issue of Popular Woodworking has a couple of
>> good articles on Abram, one of which debunks myths about him. They even
>> coined a term for his followers: Normites. Gawrsh.
>> sigh,
>> jo4hn
>
>There are myths about him?

Occathionally, yeth.

Most of the Normite groupies are mythers, however.




Thorry about that. <grin>

GO

"Greg O"

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 8:52 AM


"John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> An the magazine DEFINITELY DID NOT coin the phrase/term
> NORMITE, been used here on the newgroups for years
>
> John
>
>

I think you missed the sarcasm!
Greg

GO

"Greg O"

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 1:40 PM


"LRod" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:52:30 -0500, "Greg O" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> An the magazine DEFINITELY DID NOT coin the phrase/term
>>> NORMITE, been used here on the newgroups for years
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I think you missed the sarcasm!
>
> Where's that damn sarcasm key on my keyboard!!????!?
>
> --
> LRod
>
>

Just press Ctrl, Alt, and delete, twice!
Greg

bR

[email protected] (Robert Bonomi)

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

26/06/2005 2:30 AM

In article <[email protected]>,
charlie b <[email protected]> wrote:
>Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
>> >
>> >There are myths about him?
>>
>> Occathionally, yeth.
>>
>> Most of the Normite groupies are mythters, however.
>>
>> Thorry about that. <grin>
>
>I thought myths were unmarried female moths.

That mytheth the point.

cb

charlie b

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 8:30 AM

Robert Bonomi wrote:

> >
> >There are myths about him?
>
> Occathionally, yeth.
>
> Most of the Normite groupies are mythers, however.
>
> Thorry about that. <grin>

I thought myths were unmarried female moths.

charlie b

jj

jo4hn

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 1:57 PM

John wrote:
> An the magazine DEFINITELY DID NOT coin the phrase/term
> NORMITE, been used here on the newgroups for years
>
> John

;-)

s@

"stoutman" <.@.>

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 3:11 AM

There are myths about him?


"jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> OK, the subject may have been over the top a bit, but now that I have your
> attention... The most recent issue of Popular Woodworking has a couple of
> good articles on Abram, one of which debunks myths about him. They even
> coined a term for his followers: Normites. Gawrsh.
> sigh,
> jo4hn

Ds

Dan

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

26/06/2005 4:09 AM

On Fri 24 Jun 2005 09:58:47p, jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> The most recent issue of Popular Woodworking has a
> couple of good articles on Abram, one of which debunks myths about him.


I got that issue today. I haven't finished the Adirondack chair article
but I liked the mythbusting one. Except for all the myths I didn't know
about

I did find out that he and I attended UMass Amherst at the same time for at
least one semester, maybe two. I think I bumped into him once.

BS

Brian Siano

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

27/06/2005 12:26 PM

stoutman wrote:
> There are myths about him?

I'm fond of the one where Norm built a mahogany armoire with nothing
more than six pounds of balsawood and a rusty douzouki.


>
>
> "jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>OK, the subject may have been over the top a bit, but now that I have your
>>attention... The most recent issue of Popular Woodworking has a couple of
>>good articles on Abram, one of which debunks myths about him. They even
>>coined a term for his followers: Normites. Gawrsh.
>>sigh,
>>jo4hn
>
>
>

Rd

Robatoy

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 7:00 PM

In article <[email protected]>,
jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, the subject may have been over the top a bit, but now that I have
> your attention... The most recent issue of Popular Woodworking has a
> couple of good articles on Abram, one of which debunks myths about him.
> They even coined a term for his followers: Normites. Gawrsh.
> sigh,
> jo4hn

I had not seen Norm since he was Vila's side-kick.
This morning, I was spending some time with my mother, as they had
rushed my 84-year old father to the hospital the day before with heart
problems...and she is an avid PBS watcher. Norm was upholstering an
ottoman. The most gawdawful fabric... it probably came from the Great
Hall where Ashcroft had a few nude statues covered up with draperies
because he didn't want boobs to show up on TV behind him.
Now the $8000.00 US worth of draperies have been taken down and next
think I know, Norm is upholstering an ottoman.
Coinkidink? I think not!

Cc

"CW"

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

26/06/2005 1:02 AM

Norm has a notoriously bad taste in color. He actually admitted one time
that the color he was painting the piece for the show was different from the
prototype because the crew thought his first choice so ugly.

"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > OK, the subject may have been over the top a bit, but now that I have
> > your attention... The most recent issue of Popular Woodworking has a
> > couple of good articles on Abram, one of which debunks myths about him.
> > They even coined a term for his followers: Normites. Gawrsh.
> > sigh,
> > jo4hn
>
> I had not seen Norm since he was Vila's side-kick.
> This morning, I was spending some time with my mother, as they had
> rushed my 84-year old father to the hospital the day before with heart
> problems...and she is an avid PBS watcher. Norm was upholstering an
> ottoman. The most gawdawful fabric... it probably came from the Great
> Hall where Ashcroft had a few nude statues covered up with draperies
> because he didn't want boobs to show up on TV behind him.
> Now the $8000.00 US worth of draperies have been taken down and next
> think I know, Norm is upholstering an ottoman.
> Coinkidink? I think not!

DD

David

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

27/06/2005 9:42 AM

That's IMPOSSIBLE...




everyone knows that Norm also used a 1/2 lb of brads to hold it all
together until the glue dried.


Dave

Brian Siano wrote:

> I'm fond of the one where Norm built a mahogany armoire with nothing
> more than six pounds of balsawood and a rusty douzouki.
>
>

Ld

LRod

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 5:24 PM

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:52:30 -0500, "Greg O" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>"John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> An the magazine DEFINITELY DID NOT coin the phrase/term
>> NORMITE, been used here on the newgroups for years
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
>I think you missed the sarcasm!

Where's that damn sarcasm key on my keyboard!!????!?

--
LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net

Proud participant of rec.woodworking since February, 1997

Jj

John

in reply to jo4hn on 25/06/2005 2:58 AM

25/06/2005 1:31 AM

An the magazine DEFINITELY DID NOT coin the phrase/term
NORMITE, been used here on the newgroups for years

John

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:50:03 -0000, [email protected]
(Robert Bonomi) wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
>stoutman <.@.> wrote:
>>"jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> OK, the subject may have been over the top a bit, but now that I have your
>>> attention... The most recent issue of Popular Woodworking has a couple of
>>> good articles on Abram, one of which debunks myths about him. They even
>>> coined a term for his followers: Normites. Gawrsh.
>>> sigh,
>>> jo4hn
>>
>>There are myths about him?
>
>Occathionally, yeth.
>
>Most of the Normite groupies are mythers, however.
>
>
>
>
>Thorry about that. <grin>


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