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[Asp Zelazny]

Tenants running deeply, tenants living on new planets, tenants taking root in this new frontier ... man, you are creating a rental empire. Who is doing your marketing? And have you thought about the maintenance costs?

[who me]

well speaking of country's who's military are is underrated.
In Afghanistan as part of ISAF there are four member's of the um Iceland has no standing army.

four guys from Iceland.

called Crisis Response Unit (ICRU), operated by the Ministry for Foreign affairs, which is a small armed peacekeeping force, that has been deployed internationally.

oh I am sure they are not scary. Make a movie about that Hollywood.

[Golden Knight]

I can't recall a single fish that I've overed, animal species I've extinguished (though the Red Squirrels are on my list. YOU HEAR THAT SQUIRRELS! I'M ON TO YOU!), forest I've destroyed and my carbon footprint is a lot lower than yours.

I did not mean to imply you personally, or anyone else at this forum, sorry for any offense.

[Golden Knight]

Purple squirrel baffles experts

Teachers and pupils at Meoncross School in Stubbington, Hants, were amazed when they saw the creature through the window during a lesson.

Since the squirrel, now nicknamed Pete, was first seen, it has become a regular fixture at the school but no one has been able to say whether the animal has fallen into purple paint, had a run-in with some purple dye, or whether there is another explanation.
Dr Mike Edwards, an English teacher, said: "I was sitting in my classroom and looked out the window and saw it sitting on the fence. I had to do a double take.

"Since then it's been a bit of a regular at the school - everyone's seen it.

"We thought it might have been paint or something but then when you look at it up close, it's an all over coat, not in patches like you'd expect if it had been near some paint.

"Its fur actually looks purple all the way through. It's an absolute mystery."

Pupils, staff and parents have contacted vets and even e-mailed television nature expert Bill Oddie to see if an explanation could be found.
Lorraine Orridge, the school's registrar, believes Pete's coloured fur looks like a school uniform.

More Here with pictures: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... perts.html

Qray how do you feel about the Purple Squirrel?

[who me]

Ah HA!
this proves that
1 aliens exist. Alien squirrels.
or
2 the theory of evolution is true. because we all know that purple squirrels are royalty.
or
3 god has a sense of Humor and decided to make a purple squirrel because he thinks it is funny.

[Asp Zelazny]

Or ....

4 PhotoShop exists.

[who me]

that is wayyy to obvious.

[Qray]

Ah HA!
this proves that...2 the theory of evolution is true. because we all know that purple squirrels are royalty.

However, Royalty state that they receive their mandate to rule from God. Therefore, wouldn't the existence of Royal Squirrels show further proof of God and therefore weaken the argument for the Theory of Evolution?

...3 god has a sense of Humor and decided to make a purple squirrel because he thinks it is funny.

And the platypus!

[Golden Knight]

Or ....

4 PhotoShop exists.

If it was Photoshop then the English teacher would have to be lying as he said that he saw it.

"Dr Mike Edwards, an English teacher, said: "I was sitting in my classroom and looked out the window and saw it sitting on the fence. I had to do a double take."

Not to mention the Pupils and the rest of the staff ....

I suppose they all could be in on it, but I do not think so...

[Qray]

Hey, BK and Merle! They found that old shop of mine from when the Bucky Ball sent us back in time!

Historic 18th century woodshop unveiled in Massachusetts

http://www.cabinetmakerfdm.com/87942.html

Experts say this is one of the earliest-known cabinet maker’s shops in its original site.

Recently discovered during the remodel of a preschool in Duxbury, Mass., was a surprisingly intact woodworking shop from the late 18th century. The Boston Globe reports the shop, framed in original sills, joists, and pineboard walls, still has two original workbenches. One is pitted with marks from hand tools and the second is a planing bench which lacks tool scars because skilled millwork with wood planes was performed there.

“It’s likely to be the earliest known joiner and cabinetmaker’s shop on its original site,” anywhere in the United States, restoration carpenter Michael Burrey told the Globe.

The 16-by-32 foot wood shop is on the site of the private Berrybrook School on Winter Street. The school approved to explore the outbuilding, which has been used for storage.

The president of the school’s board of directors said Berrybrook had no idea of the building’s historical value.

“We really thought nothing of it. We had used it as storage,” Christopher DeOrsay, an architect, told the globe. “We gave [Burrey] a tour. His jaw hit the floor.”

DeOrsay said since then the school has had more than a dozen experts come to see it.

The wall above the bench has shelving to hold the planes. The planing bench also reveals a groove added later to allow craftsmen to install a treadle lathe for turning wood, powered by a foot pedal.

The shop also has its original tool racks for chisels, awls, and brace (hand drill) bits, as well as a rack near the ceiling for handsaws. Holes in the wall board above the joinery bench reveal where awls were stuck to keep them close at hand.

Painted in black on a joist in the shop’s small storeroom, large digits spell out a date, “1789.” It may be a construction date, but Burrey says some construction techniques suggest an earlier date.

Sketches and hash marks on another wall shows woodworkers spent long hours at the shop. Someone painted a sketch of a man standing with his back against a wall, one knee lifted, a hand extended. Much of the outline remains, the colors dulled but visible.

“The way the benches are in relation to the windows, how the light comes in to light an area, the location of the tool racks on the walls,” all tell of how the craftsmen used the shop, Burrey said.

Gary Naylor of Hanson, a specialist in antique woodwork and tools, said the shop’s interior revealed signs of a Federalist craftsman’s workshop.

“When I saw the [foot-operated] lathe there, I knew it was a highly skilled craftsman,” Naylor told the globe. “A lot of different features in the building are untouched, intact. When I turned around and saw the opening for the fireplace, it was all coming together.”

Cuts in the wall board reveal the location and shape of the shop’s fireplace, probably removed in the 19th century in favor of a woodstove.

Garrison, who visited the shop with a team of specialists from historical organizations such as Colonial Williamsburg, told the globe that carpenters and cabinet makers were called “joiners” then. He said early American craftsmen worked with wood that came rough from the saw mill, and their first job was to plane it down to a smooth finish.

You can see which bench is the planing bench not only because it’s not scarred but also because it’s built against the wall farthest from the fireplace, Garrison told the globe. Planing produces shavings likely to become tinder for a spark from the fireplace.

Naylor said property records show that the shop belonged to a well-known housewright and joiner Luther Sampson, in the late 18th century. Genealogy research revealed that Sampson was the craftsman who founded Kents Hill School in Readville, Maine.

Born in 1760 in Duxbury, Sampson served in the Revolutionary War and bought the 60-acre Philips farm on the west side of Duxbury, home of the Berrybrook School today. His high-quality handiwork, experts say, adorns the interiors of many fine houses built in Duxbury in the late 18th century, when the town was home to prosperous sea captains and merchants.

The survey team that visited the shop with Garrison last month concluded the building was worthy of National Historic Landmark status “due to its rarity and integrity,” Garrison told the globe.

He urged preservation of the shop. “We won’t get a do-over with this building,” he said.

Preservation costs money, and supporters have applied for a $35,000 grant from Duxbury’s Community Preservation Act funds to help pay for an archeological survey of the site, some foundation repair, and to “repair deteriorating hand-hewn sills and joists to stabilize [the] structure.”

“While we have lots and lots of historical houses,” Garrison said in a recent interview, “as a woodworker’s shop it’s probably the oldest in New England” and possibly the country.

“It’s the rarest of the rare. And who knew? Found on the grounds of a preschool.”

DeOrsay said the school’s board of directors would be in favor of preserving the shop. “We’ll try to find out what the best option is.”

[Bmat]

I hope they preserve it. It sounds in really good condition for its age.

[Qray]

I hope so too. Considering the rarity of the find.

I like how they had no idea it was a historical find. “We really thought nothing of it. We had used it as storage,” Christopher DeOrsay, an architect, told the globe. As a woodworker, that would be akin to finding someone using an unknown original copy of the Deceleration of Independence as a place mat.