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It's contagious, and it's official (aka Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Joy)


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Seeing the weather forecast on this site today for the Easter weekend. Friday mostly sunny, Saturday mostly cloudy, Sunday - "sprinkles". Will they be chocolate flavoured since it's Easter Sunday do you think? :)
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GSJ57 Wrote:

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> The return of Ted and Honaloochie would be cause

> for irrational joy... or maybe that should be

> rational joy...


hurrah to that!


and a new entry for 2013:


the El Pibe/Woody mutual appreciation society :))

Many years ago my friend Terry and myself ran a pine stripping/repair workshop.


A guy bought in a 1930's small crappy shelf covered in paint,and asked for it to be stripped


Terry charged him about a fiver, though the stuff from that period had a particularly stubborn primer, near impossible to get out of the corners etc.


After the first go the guy asked for it to go back into the tank. After the 3-4th go the guy pointed his bony finger to a tiny bit of paint in the back of the shelf. "not very happy that's still there"


"Really" said Terry. He then picked up the hatchet and proceed to smash the piece into kindling in front of the guy.


Still cheers me up no end, the though of that day.

  • 9 months later...

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> Many years ago my friend Terry and myself ran a

> pine stripping/repair workshop.

>

> A guy bought in a 1930's small crappy shelf

> covered in paint,and asked for it to be stripped

>

> Terry charged him about a fiver, though the stuff

> from that period had a particularly stubborn

> primer, near impossible to get out of the corners

> etc.

>

> After the first go the guy asked for it to go back

> into the tank. After the 3-4th go the guy pointed

> his bony finger to a tiny bit of paint in the back

> of the shelf. "not very happy that's still there"

>

> "Really" said Terry. He then picked up the hatchet

> and proceed to smash the piece into kindling in

> front of the guy.

>

> Still cheers me up no end, the though of that day.


I spat my coffee out laughing at this anecdote earlier this morning. Truly 'irrational' joy.

I know someone who did the same thing to an uncooperative self-assembly cupboard from IKEA. He took it back and said it was like that in the box. They gave him the money back.
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