What is it with this place?

>>> in the past weeks while looking for something else, might even have
>>> moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys seen
>>> my saw blades?
>>>
>
>> No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive around
>> and look for them.
>
> Hey, if you find them can one of you drive me to the optician so I can
> get some new glasses to help me find my old ones?
>
>

I have to keep my mind on a stout chain to prevent me losing it.
Unfortunately I can't find the other end of the chain I think it was
swallowed by a polka-dot wooden duck named Ida which flew south for the
winter and then went into business selling moonbeams to penguins who need
them in the manufacture of transient saw blades, glasses, wrenches and
interdimensional key rings oops it wasn't a polka duck it was a poltergoose

There, that explains everything.

To never lose anything ever again, tie EVERYTHING to a piece of string but
keep hold of the other end and don't let a goose get hold of it and don't be
persuaded to let go for anything or anybody. Colour code every string
differently. Simple practical and effective.

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:21:47 +0000, J. Clarke wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):

> Reminds me of a scene in "City of Ember".

I can't find my copy.....

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:02:03 +0000, Swingman wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):

> <[email protected]> wrote
>> On Dec 18, 1:53 pm, Pat Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I got more caulk guns than the entire Home Depot chain.
>>
>> Me, too. And yet, I still can't find 'the good one" when I need it.
>
> I cooked my usual breakfast this morning at 6, walked by past the stove
> again at 10 and there were my fried eggs, still in the skillet looking back
> at me ... and yep, the ham was still in the microwave.
>
> Good thing is at least must have remembered to turn the stove off, bad thing
> is I don't remember doing it, only thing for certain is that I must of not
> been hungry ...
>
>

What is this "not hungry" of which you earth people speak?

I am joining this "can't find it & possible solutions" discussion late.
Here's my contribution.

My dad used to get really upset because he could never find a 9/16" wrench.
We would spend hours hunting that thing down. When I grew up and flew the
coop, I ended up at an industrial surplus place that had numerous wrenches
in a scrap bin. I fished out a goodly number of various sizes and a whole
bunch of 9/16" wrenches.

I sent the wrenches to him. He got upset at me. But years later, he thanked
me. He said he never knew how a bunch of 9/16" wrenches could come in so
handy!

As for me, I never could keep track of a measuring tape. I had to keep
buying new ones. I had several, but the just vanished all the time. Then
one day at the industrial surplus center, just love that place, they had a
sale on a big batch of tools. And on the shelf, they had a number of bright,
neon colored measuring tapes.

I bought all 14 of them. And I have bought more over the years as well. My
wife even bought me that giant battery operated meauring tape from Black and
Decker! I have several measuring tapes in my office, a couple in the living
room, one in each car and a couple in the wife's sewing room. And lots of
them in the shop as well. I am never more than a few steps from a measuring
tape.

I wish I could tell you that solved my vanishing tools problem. I still have
that malady. But as far as measuring tapes go, I am covered.

"David G. Nagel" wrote

> What I want to know is where the international orange tape measure that I
> "JUST" set down is?
>
I shared my experience with tape measures.

I have found, for me at least, that the only good solution for the vanishing
tape measure is to assemble a critical mass of tape measures. Once enough of
them is close by, they can't mess with you any more. The actual number
required varies with the individual.

(You do realize the tape measures get together and plot and scheme against
you, don't you?)

"David G. Nagel" <[email protected]> wrote in news:NGD2l.10975
[email protected]:

> What I want to know is where the international orange tape measure that
> I "JUST" set down is?
>
> Dave

If you see a 30' Craftsman, it's mine. Please ask it to return home where
it belongs.

Puckdropper
--
On Usenet, no one can hear you laugh. That's a good thing, though, as some
writers are incorrigible.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

Hopefully you got sidetracked on something really good

Mike M

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:02:03 -0600, "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote:

><[email protected]> wrote
>> On Dec 18, 1:53 pm, Pat Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I got more caulk guns than the entire Home Depot chain.
>>
>> Me, too. And yet, I still can't find 'the good one" when I need it.
>
>I cooked my usual breakfast this morning at 6, walked by past the stove
>again at 10 and there were my fried eggs, still in the skillet looking back
>at me ... and yep, the ham was still in the microwave.
>
>Good thing is at least must have remembered to turn the stove off, bad thing
>is I don't remember doing it, only thing for certain is that I must of not
>been hungry ...

"Mark & Juanita" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Lee Michaels wrote:
>
>>
>> "David G. Nagel" wrote
>>
>>> What I want to know is where the international orange tape measure that
>>> I
>>> "JUST" set down is?
>>>
>> I shared my experience with tape measures.
>>
>> I have found, for me at least, that the only good solution for the
>> vanishing tape measure is to assemble a critical mass of tape measures.
>> Once enough of them is close by, they can't mess with you any more. The
>> actual number required varies with the individual.
>>
>> (You do realize the tape measures get together and plot and scheme
>> against
>> you, don't you?)
>
> Too bad they don't reproduce.

Asexual reproduction. We're a necessary part of the cycle, a classic
symbiotic relationship, unequal and assymetrical. When we can no longer
stand their absence, we gather some more. (We're apparently the parasitic
half.)

I forget the author, but a few years back there was
a major complaint about being able to find a pencil
while in the shop.

The author solved his problem by buying a whole box of
#2 pencils and standing in his shop door and just started
throwing the pencils in a 180 degree arc as far as he could.

Of course, two days latter, he couldn't find a pencil.

"J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Highland Pairos wrote:
>> "J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> LD wrote:
>>>> "MikeWhy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally
>>>>> got
>>>>> around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
>>>>> Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw.
>>>>> Yesterday, the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in
>>>>> (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So where do you
>>>>> suppose
>>>>> the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few
>>>>> times
>>>>> in the past weeks while looking for something else, might even
>>>>> have
>>>>> moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys
>>>>> seen
>>>>> my saw blades?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive
>>>> around
>>>> and look for them.
>>>
>>> Hey, if you find them can one of you drive me to the optician so I
>>> can get some new glasses to help me find my old ones?
>>
>>
>> Look on top of your head.
>
> Thanks, I found the box of screw extractors I had left on the garage
> roof.
>
> -- Their with the new tool bag I just had to have and I put away so I
> would know where it was? Only 61 and it's happening!

Dan
>

I got more caulk guns than the entire Home Depot chain.

MikeWhy wrote:
> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got
> around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
> Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday,
> the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in (of all places)
> the saws and blades drawer. So where do you suppose the package of
> replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few times in the past weeks
> while looking for something else, might even have moved them aside to
> make space for something. Any of you guys seen my saw blades?
>
>

We used to love those ad screwdrivers. We'd get em by the handful and then
just mangle them for whatever we needed, grind em, bend em, shape em. Do
whatever, it didn't matter they where free and plentiful. We should have a
contest for the most creative use of one of those things. Now I'm not in
that type of business anymore and now I have no ad screwdrivers. :-(

SteveP.

"Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> MikeWhy wrote:
>
>>So where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are?
>
> For years handed out small screwdrivers with a magnet in one end.
>
> Would caution the person receiving the screwdriver that it had a set of
> invisible legs which the screwdriver used to run away and hide when you
> weren't looking.
>
> My bet is those blades came equipped with a set of those invisible legs.
>
> Lew
>
>
>

On Dec 18, 1:18=A0pm, skeez <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:06 -0600, "MikeWhy"
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got aro=
und
> >to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, bu=
t by
> >then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up, sti=
ll
> >minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer=
. So
> >where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw
> >them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else, mig=
ht
> >even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys =
seen
> >my saw blades?
>
> No but if you throw the saw away the blades will turn up soon after
>
> skeez

But if you don't throw it away, the blades won't turn up. Or you need
to buy new blades, but then the saw will disappear again. Dilemmas!

This time of year, isn't that called the eggnog effect?

Sonny

On Dec 18, 1:53=A0pm, Pat Barber <[email protected]> wrote:

> I got more caulk guns than the entire Home Depot chain.

Me, too. And yet, I still can't find 'the good one" when I need it.

Robert

MikeWhy wrote:
> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got around
> to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, but by
> then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up, still
> minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So
> where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw
> them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else, might
> even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys seen
> my saw blades?
>
>
They're with my shop flashlight, which has been AWOL since last
spring. My metric allen wrench set disappeared for several months so I
bought a new set. The next day the old ones appeared under the seat of
my scooter. A miracle. Now have two sets to lose.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

A millennium is like a centennial,
only it has more legs.

On Dec 18, 2:53=A0pm, Pat Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got more caulk guns than the entire Home Depot chain.
>

I have at least 6 basin wrenches, at least 10 caulking guns, NO idea
how many crescent wrenches, and...somewhere, between this shop and my
house..about 500 pencils.... although I can't see one from where I'm
sitting.

Robatoy wrote:
> On Dec 18, 9:31 am, mac davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:06 -0600, "MikeWhy" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got around
>>> to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, but by
>>> then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up, still
>>> minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So
>>> where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw
>>> them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else, might
>>> even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys seen
>>> my saw blades?
>> Probably went to the same place that one sock of each pair goes, into a black
>> hole..
>> Most likely, your blades are is said black hole, having coffee with my pack of a
>> dozen 12" sanding disks..
>> Been looking for them off and on for a year with no luck, and there aren't a lot
>> of places that you can put a 14" x 14" package that requires a flat surface in
>> my shop that isn't highly visible..
>> I've decided that it's time to locate them, though..
>> I'll order another dozen, and the old ones will show up the day after the new
>> ones get here..
>>
>> mac
>>
>> Please remove splinters before emailing
>
> Scientists have established that all lost socks, saw-blades, air-line
> luggage etc have created Saturn's rings.

I don't know about that but I do know that sox become hangers some time
during the rinse cycle.

On Dec 18, 11:58=A0pm, "Tom G" <[email protected]> wrote:
> =A0A hard man to be friends with as you could never tell if he
> was putting you on or telling a truth.
>
> Tom G.

Those kind of guys make the best friends.

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:06 -0600, "MikeWhy"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got around
>to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, but by
>then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up, still
>minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So
>where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw
>them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else, might
>even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys seen
>my saw blades?
>


No but if you throw the saw away the blades will turn up soon after


skeez

"mac davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:06 -0600, "MikeWhy" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got
>>around
>>to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, but
>>by
>>then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up, still
>>minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer.
>>So
>>where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw
>>them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else, might
>>even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys
>>seen
>>my saw blades?
>>
> Probably went to the same place that one sock of each pair goes, into a
> black
> hole..
> mac
>
A friend of mine, over a period of weeks would steal a sock out of the
washing machine or dryer when his wife was doing laundry. She would line
them up on the back of the washer, waiting for the mate to show up. Then,
he put the whole bunch in the washing machine. She couldn't figure out
where they had been. He also told his new co-workers that his wife was a
native indian and that after marriage it had taken some time to get her to
use the stove instead of cooking everything over a fire in the back yard.
She couldn't figure out why everyone looked strangely at her at her first
company party. A hard man to be friends with as you could never tell if he
was putting you on or telling a truth.

Tom G.

Lee Michaels wrote:

>
> "David G. Nagel" wrote
>
>> What I want to know is where the international orange tape measure that I
>> "JUST" set down is?
>>
> I shared my experience with tape measures.
>
> I have found, for me at least, that the only good solution for the
> vanishing tape measure is to assemble a critical mass of tape measures.
> Once enough of them is close by, they can't mess with you any more. The
> actual number required varies with the individual.
>
> (You do realize the tape measures get together and plot and scheme against
> you, don't you?)

Too bad they don't reproduce.


--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough

Lew Hodgett wrote:
> MikeWhy wrote:
>
>> So where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are?
>
> For years handed out small screwdrivers with a magnet in one end.
>
> Would caution the person receiving the screwdriver that it had a set
> of invisible legs which the screwdriver used to run away and hide when
> you weren't looking.
>
> My bet is those blades came equipped with a set of those invisible
> legs.
>
> Lew
>
>
>
What I want to know is where the international orange tape measure that
I "JUST" set down is?

Dave

"MikeWhy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got around
>to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, but
>by then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up,
>still minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades
>drawer. So where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I
>know I saw them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something
>else, might even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of
>you guys seen my saw blades?
>
>


No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive around and
look for them.

<[email protected]> wrote
> On Dec 18, 1:53 pm, Pat Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I got more caulk guns than the entire Home Depot chain.
>
> Me, too. And yet, I still can't find 'the good one" when I need it.

I cooked my usual breakfast this morning at 6, walked by past the stove
again at 10 and there were my fried eggs, still in the skillet looking back
at me ... and yep, the ham was still in the microwave.

Good thing is at least must have remembered to turn the stove off, bad thing
is I don't remember doing it, only thing for certain is that I must of not
been hungry ...

--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 10/22/08
KarlC@ (the obvious)

There is one of those in Dayton that I go to every time I go back to visit
my parents.

They sell everything under the sun.



"Lee Michaels" <leemichaels*nadaspam*@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I am joining this "can't find it & possible solutions" discussion late.
>Here's my contribution.
>
> My dad used to get really upset because he could never find a 9/16"
> wrench. We would spend hours hunting that thing down. When I grew up and
> flew the coop, I ended up at an industrial surplus place that had numerous
> wrenches in a scrap bin. I fished out a goodly number of various sizes
> and a whole bunch of 9/16" wrenches.
>
> I sent the wrenches to him. He got upset at me. But years later, he
> thanked me. He said he never knew how a bunch of 9/16" wrenches could come
> in so handy!
>
> As for me, I never could keep track of a measuring tape. I had to keep
> buying new ones. I had several, but the just vanished all the time. Then
> one day at the industrial surplus center, just love that place, they had a
> sale on a big batch of tools. And on the shelf, they had a number of
> bright, neon colored measuring tapes.
>
> I bought all 14 of them. And I have bought more over the years as well.
> My wife even bought me that giant battery operated meauring tape from
> Black and Decker! I have several measuring tapes in my office, a couple in
> the living room, one in each car and a couple in the wife's sewing room.
> And lots of them in the shop as well. I am never more than a few steps
> from a measuring tape.
>
> I wish I could tell you that solved my vanishing tools problem. I still
> have that malady. But as far as measuring tapes go, I am covered.
>
>
>
>

MikeWhy wrote:

>So where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are?

For years handed out small screwdrivers with a magnet in one end.

Would caution the person receiving the screwdriver that it had a set
of invisible legs which the screwdriver used to run away and hide when
you weren't looking.

My bet is those blades came equipped with a set of those invisible
legs.

Lew

"Bored Borg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:21:47 +0000, J. Clarke wrote
> (in article <[email protected]>):
>
>> Reminds me of a scene in "City of Ember".
>
> I can't find my copy.....

Yup. Same here, but I did find some clues. Anyway, not to worry. Speaking of
the doghouse, though, when I asked if there was anything special She wanted
for Xmas, She said, "A jigsaw." Is that a trap, or what? So I went out of my
way and got Her some spare blades as stocking stuffers, too. (The need for
coping saw blades becomes less urgent in less than week now.)

On Dec 18, 9:31=A0am, mac davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:06 -0600, "MikeWhy" <[email protected]> =
wrote:
> >I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got aro=
und
> >to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, bu=
t by
> >then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up, sti=
ll
> >minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer=
. So
> >where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw
> >them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else, mig=
ht
> >even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys =
seen
> >my saw blades?
>
> Probably went to the same place that one sock of each pair goes, into a b=
lack
> hole..
> Most likely, your blades are is said black hole, having coffee with my pa=
ck of a
> dozen 12" sanding disks..
> Been looking for them off and on for a year with no luck, and there aren'=
t a lot
> of places that you can put a 14" x 14" package that requires a flat surfa=
ce in
> my shop that isn't highly visible..
> I've decided that it's time to locate them, though..
> I'll order another dozen, and the old ones will show up the day after the=
new
> ones get here..
>
> mac
>
> Please remove splinters before emailing

Scientists have established that all lost socks, saw-blades, air-line
luggage etc have created Saturn's rings.

LD wrote:
> "MikeWhy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally
>> got
>> around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
>> Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw.
>> Yesterday, the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in
>> (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So where do you suppose
>> the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few
>> times
>> in the past weeks while looking for something else, might even have
>> moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys seen
>> my saw blades?
>>
>>
>
>
> No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive around
> and look for them.

Hey, if you find them can one of you drive me to the optician so I can
get some new glasses to help me find my old ones?

--
--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

Sonny wrote:
> This time of year, isn't that called the eggnog effect?

Nahh, it's a brief transition to an alternate universe. One time I
went to get a stamp. I knew they were in the center console to the
car, which was a rectangular box with no nooks or crannies. Opened it
up and there were no stamps there. The next day I checked it in
daylight. Still no stamps. Got a new roll of stamps next time I went
to the post office, went to toss them into the center console and by
golly _now_ there was a roll of stamps in there.

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"Gerald Ross" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> MikeWhy wrote:
>> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got
>> around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
>> Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday,
>> the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in (of all places)
>> the saws and blades drawer. So where do you suppose the package of
>> replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few times in the past weeks
>> while looking for something else, might even have moved them aside to
>> make space for something. Any of you guys seen my saw blades?
>>
>>
> They're with my shop flashlight, which has been AWOL since last spring. My
> metric allen wrench set disappeared for several months so I bought a new
> set. The next day the old ones appeared under the seat of my scooter. A
> miracle. Now have two sets to lose.
>
If you see them, tell them to send my hacksaw frames back home.

basilisk

Bored Borg wrote:
>>>> in the past weeks while looking for something else, might even
>>>> have
>>>> moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys
>>>> seen
>>>> my saw blades?
>>>>
>>
>>> No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive
>>> around
>>> and look for them.
>>
>> Hey, if you find them can one of you drive me to the optician so I
>> can get some new glasses to help me find my old ones?
>>
>>
>
> I have to keep my mind on a stout chain to prevent me losing it.
> Unfortunately I can't find the other end of the chain I think it was
> swallowed by a polka-dot wooden duck named Ida which flew south for
> the winter and then went into business selling moonbeams to penguins
> who need them in the manufacture of transient saw blades, glasses,
> wrenches and interdimensional key rings oops it wasn't a polka duck
> it was a poltergoose
>
> There, that explains everything.
>
> To never lose anything ever again, tie EVERYTHING to a piece of
> string but keep hold of the other end and don't let a goose get hold
> of it and don't be persuaded to let go for anything or anybody.
> Colour code every string differently. Simple practical and
> effective.

Reminds me of a scene in "City of Ember".

--
--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

Highland Pairos wrote:
> "J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> LD wrote:
>>> "MikeWhy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally
>>>> got
>>>> around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
>>>> Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw.
>>>> Yesterday, the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in
>>>> (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So where do you
>>>> suppose
>>>> the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few
>>>> times
>>>> in the past weeks while looking for something else, might even
>>>> have
>>>> moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys
>>>> seen
>>>> my saw blades?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive
>>> around
>>> and look for them.
>>
>> Hey, if you find them can one of you drive me to the optician so I
>> can get some new glasses to help me find my old ones?
>
>
> Look on top of your head.

Thanks, I found the box of screw extractors I had left on the garage
roof.

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[email protected] wrote:
> On Dec 18, 1:53 pm, Pat Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I got more caulk guns than the entire Home Depot chain.
>
> Me, too. And yet, I still can't find 'the good one" when I need
> it.

Hell, I can't find the _bad_ one when I need it. I thought it was
just me.

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"Tom G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "mac davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:06 -0600, "MikeWhy" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got
>>>around
>>>to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, but
>>>by
>>>then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up,
>>>still
>>>minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer.
>>>So
>>>where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw
>>>them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else,
>>>might
>>>even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys
>>>seen
>>>my saw blades?
>>>
>> Probably went to the same place that one sock of each pair goes, into a
>> black
>> hole..
>> mac
>>
> A friend of mine, over a period of weeks would steal a sock out of the
> washing machine or dryer when his wife was doing laundry. She would line
> them up on the back of the washer, waiting for the mate to show up. Then,
> he put the whole bunch in the washing machine. She couldn't figure out
> where they had been. He also told his new co-workers that his wife was a
> native indian and that after marriage it had taken some time to get her to
> use the stove instead of cooking everything over a fire in the back yard.
> She couldn't figure out why everyone looked strangely at her at her first
> company party. A hard man to be friends with as you could never tell if
> he was putting you on or telling a truth.
>
> Tom G.
>
Until the time that me and my wife got married, she had
never cooked on anything but a wood stove.
Paw-in-law is 90 and still doing so.
Wood stoves have the very nice feature of cutting themselves off
if you leave them unattended, gas is not so forgiving.
There is still a lot of food being burned beyond recognition.

basilisk

LD
well done
I'm still laughing
"LD" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "MikeWhy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got
>>around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
>>Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the
>>saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the
>>saws and blades drawer. So where do you suppose the package of replacement
>>blades are? I know I saw them a few times in the past weeks while looking
>>for something else, might even have moved them aside to make space for
>>something. Any of you guys seen my saw blades?
>>
>>
>
>
> No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive around and
> look for them.

"J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> LD wrote:
>> "MikeWhy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally
>>> got
>>> around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
>>> Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw.
>>> Yesterday, the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in
>>> (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So where do you suppose
>>> the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few
>>> times
>>> in the past weeks while looking for something else, might even have
>>> moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys seen
>>> my saw blades?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive around
>> and look for them.
>
> Hey, if you find them can one of you drive me to the optician so I can
> get some new glasses to help me find my old ones?


Look on top of your head.



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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:06 -0600, "MikeWhy" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got around
>to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, but by
>then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up, still
>minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So
>where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw
>them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else, might
>even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys seen
>my saw blades?
>
Probably went to the same place that one sock of each pair goes, into a black
hole..
Most likely, your blades are is said black hole, having coffee with my pack of a
dozen 12" sanding disks..
Been looking for them off and on for a year with no luck, and there aren't a lot
of places that you can put a 14" x 14" package that requires a flat surface in
my shop that isn't highly visible..
I've decided that it's time to locate them, though..
I'll order another dozen, and the old ones will show up the day after the new
ones get here..


mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

J. Clarke wrote:

> Sonny wrote:
>> This time of year, isn't that called the eggnog effect?
>
> Nahh, it's a brief transition to an alternate universe. One time I
> went to get a stamp. I knew they were in the center console to the
> car, which was a rectangular box with no nooks or crannies. Opened it
> up and there were no stamps there. The next day I checked it in
> daylight. Still no stamps. Got a new roll of stamps next time I went
> to the post office, went to toss them into the center console and by
> golly _now_ there was a roll of stamps in there.
>

... and they were laughing hysterically at you, weren't they? I know the
stuff I find after buying its replacement does that to me.

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MikeWhy wrote:
> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got
> around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
> Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday,
> the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in (of all places)
> the saws and blades drawer. So where do you suppose the package of
> replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few times in the past weeks
> while looking for something else, might even have moved them aside to
> make space for something. Any of you guys seen my saw blades?
>
>
They're not lost. Look in the shoebox marked "recipes" in the flour bin.
happy to be of service,
jo4hn

MikeWhy wrote:

> I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got
> around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after
> Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday,
> the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in (of all places)
> the saws and blades drawer. So where do you suppose the package of
> replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few times in the past weeks
> while looking for something else, might even have moved them aside to
> make space for something. Any of you guys seen my saw blades?
>
>

The first place I look when I can't locate one of my tools is at my
neighbor's house.

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Buffalo, NY - USA
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