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Potential Republican Crack-Up

Posted on 07/31/2005 1:19:25 PM PDT by KMB

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To: NicknamedBob
[Nods knowingly] I think that sums it up quite nicely. So, to this you may relate.
"And quite at the end, when I used to fear to call, thinking the blinds would be drawn, Renoir was at his best. Once when he squirmed with pain, and the brush dropped from his hand, I cried to him: 'Why torture yourself? You have done so much, Master! You may well be satisfied.' He turned to me, and the smile spread from his riotous eyes over his face: 'The pain passes, Matisse; but the beauty remains. I'm quite happy, and I shall not die till I have completed my masterwork. Yesterday I thought it was finished, that I could not put on another brush-stroke to better it, but la nuit (and he made a grimace of remembered pain) porte conseil (the night brings wisdom); and now I see that three or four days' more work on it will give it a deeper touch. I shan't die till I've given my best.' And he laughed delightedly and went on with his work; the attendant had to lift or lower the picture every little while at his request, as he could only paint just in front of his hand. I've always felt," Matisse continued, with tears in his voice, "that recorded time holds no nobler story, no more heroic, no more magnificent achievement than that of Renoir; dying in agony, yet determined to put all the loveliness of desire and all the beauty of nature, all the sweet joy of living into one deathless scene as a possession of men for ever, a blessing without alloy - "
HENRY MATISSE,  as quoted in Contemporary Portraits. Fourth Series.

5,281 posted on 08/23/2005 1:07:25 PM PDT by HKMk23 ('Re you gonna eat that?)
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To: EsmeraldaA

Hi, Girl!

How are things with you today?


5,282 posted on 08/23/2005 1:09:50 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Can I have your beets?)
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To: Monkey Face

LOL!!


5,283 posted on 08/23/2005 1:10:57 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity || Iran Azadi)
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To: Monkey Face

LOL!!


5,284 posted on 08/23/2005 1:11:48 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity || Iran Azadi)
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To: Monkey Face; Darksheare; King Prout; All
Just wanted you all to know - our resident pain in the butt 'churchillbuff' just got banned!

Seems she told all of us 'Islam haters' to shut up if we support the Iraq Constitution. It got ugly fast!

I've been waiting to nail that b*#ch for a long time.

Drinks are on me!


5,285 posted on 08/23/2005 1:13:21 PM PDT by airborne
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To: Monkey Face
Well, the day is quite horrid.

It's been raining ALL day...ARRGGGHHHH
5,286 posted on 08/23/2005 1:13:55 PM PDT by EsmeraldaA
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To: NicknamedBob

the problem is that each of the pieces must be tapered,

there is a belly piece, four to six "core" pieces perpendicular to the belly piece, and then a back piece paralell to the belly

the core pieces taper towards the ends in both the X and Y axes.

believe me, if I could get away with using a bending template, I'd use it.

I understand the rough theory of how the Japanese do it (criss-cross cording and a boatload of individually malleted shims) but I don't have any practical experience doing it.


5,287 posted on 08/23/2005 1:16:55 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: EsmeraldaA; All; yall

thunderboomer overhead here now.

shutting down, all y'all


5,288 posted on 08/23/2005 1:17:42 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: airborne

WOO-HOO!!!

No bettah fo' HER a$$!!!


5,289 posted on 08/23/2005 1:19:10 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Can I have your beets?)
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To: airborne

hrmn... the name rings a bell... a cracked one...


5,290 posted on 08/23/2005 1:19:17 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: EsmeraldaA

Rain, here, too...you in Azarona? :o|


5,291 posted on 08/23/2005 1:20:01 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Can I have your beets?)
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To: Monkey Face
Sunny with a few puffy white clouds. A light breeze with a temperature of 78.

It's a beautriful day in Central PA!

Forcast calls for more of the same throughout the week.

8^)

5,292 posted on 08/23/2005 1:23:31 PM PDT by airborne
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To: Monkey Face
HEY, I did the *Which character are you* test in your bio page

Guess what?? I'm Yoda.....LMAO! Yeah right (like I'm sooo wise)
5,293 posted on 08/23/2005 1:26:08 PM PDT by EsmeraldaA
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To: HKMk23
John Keats. 1795–1821 
   
635. When I have Fears that I may cease to be 
   
WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be   
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,   
Before high pilèd books, in charact'ry,   
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And feel that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think, Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

5,294 posted on 08/23/2005 1:26:47 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)
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To: airborne; sionnsar

This rain is supposed to be "monsoonal" but it acts more like the stuff sionnsar gets. Steady drizzle, and the temp may not even get above 75.


5,295 posted on 08/23/2005 1:29:16 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Can I have your beets?)
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To: EsmeraldaA

LOL!
I was Yoda the second time I took it, so I just left Elrond on my page! Musta had something to do with my mood...;o]


5,296 posted on 08/23/2005 1:32:21 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Can I have your beets?)
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To: NicknamedBob

Cool! Thanks!


5,297 posted on 08/23/2005 1:34:12 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Can I have your beets?)
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To: Laura Earl
And here's my ship!


5,298 posted on 08/23/2005 1:36:56 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Guns kill and cause crime? Dang, mine must be malfunctioning....)
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To: King Prout
I understand the rough theory of how the Japanese do it (criss-cross cording and a boatload of individually malleted shims) but I don't have any practical experience doing it.

You're gonna need a wood steamer as well, I would think...
5,299 posted on 08/23/2005 1:37:55 PM PDT by Dawsonville_Doc (Moving to NC as fast as I can...)
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To: NicknamedBob

One additional item to note:

Offset the outer radius of your clamping jig to take into account the desired thickness of the finished workpiece so the curve faces of the jig will apply even pressure to the clamped work over its entire length, ensuring maximum contact between the layers of the lamination.


5,300 posted on 08/23/2005 1:44:04 PM PDT by HKMk23 ('Re you gonna eat that?)
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