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From the mouths of a babe

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From the mouths of a babe

Mike Schwing from Maryland

>Sorry, poor pun...

Mrs. Schwingding and I were watching DIY's woodturning basics the other day. Doug was turning a goblet with a captured ring. Part of the show took a detour to a symposium, I guess it was AAW, since Alan Lacer was talking to the camera.

They were showing interesting works and talking to fellows who had turned them.

Bride says "These guys are all carbon copies of each other. They're all white, look healthy, look like they probably retired well off, and I bet none of them spend any of their waking hours with their wives, all day in their shops."

I'm thinking....uh oh, I can read between those lines, and said "so do you want your own lathe now or later?"

I of course, was immediately given the evil eye.

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Mike Rubes, Apex, NC

>Heh, heh, that was pretty funny, Mike.

I hope you both had an enjoyable day together

away from the shop!!! :)

No shop time in Apex, NC...

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John Lucas

>Mike

You can tell your wife that I'm white, reasonably healthy and I would retire today if I could live on $600 a month. As it stands I'll be 68 before I can retire. But then I will seriously look at being a full time woodturner.

You'll like this. As I was riding yesterday a guy in a car yelled "get your fat ass off the road". Well I'm 5'7" and weight 164 so obviosly he needed glasses. The other thing was this is a road with 6 foot wide shoulders and no traffic and I was right of the white line. Oh well, I still had a good ride.

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So what was her point?

Ric Erkes

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