Hermes tool kit *LINK*

Re: Hermes tool kit

Nemo Tools

>I'm not sure what the absolute fantods are or if I could recognize 'em if I saw 'em. However, I've been hoping to meet a girl that went gaga over a Stanley no. 5. Unfortunately, no luck.

OT: Fantods

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>A state of extreme nervousness or restlessness.

Many Americans will know this word, though it�s rare in other parts of the English-speaking world. It seems one can�t have just the one fantod�they always arrive in multiples. Modern writers may speak of somebody having a case of the fantods, or hyperbolically the flaming fantods or the swiveling fantods, descriptions of somebody in a state of extreme nervous hysteria or unreasonable excitement (as in the Atlanta Journal in March 1999: �He is beside himself, in flaming fantods, screeching histrionics in the direst of foreboding and doom�).

The word is known in America from the nineteenth century: the first recorded user was Charles Briggs in his two-volume book The Adventures of Harry Franco in 1839: �You have got strong symptoms of the fantods; your skin is so tight you can�t shut your eyes without opening your mouth�. It was a favourite of Mark Twain, as here in Huckleberry Finn: �These was all nice pictures, I reckon, but I didn�t somehow seem to take to them, because if ever I was down a little they always give me the fan-tods�.

Re: OT: Fantods

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Thanks, Don. That's a word I don't remember having ever encountered. In fact, I assumed it was a typo when I saw it in the post. There are some pieces of music, in my Songs to Speed By collection that do that to me. I can imagine that the way some people here are affected by some tools or some pieces of wood could be described thusly.