Joined: 18 Dec 2015 Gender: Male Posts: 12,030 Location: New England
28 May 2018, 12:26 am
Raleigh wrote:
Put my head under that hammer, pls. I'm going cray cray Bae Bae.
"And I suppose thou can'st smoothe almost any seams and dents; never mind how hard the metal, blacksmith?"
"Aye, Sir, I think I can; all seams and dents but one."
"Look ye here, then," cried Ahab, passionately advancing, and leaning with both hands on Perth's shoulders; "look ye here — here — can ye smoothe out a seam like this, blacksmith", sweeping one hand across his ribbed brows; "if thou could'st, blacksmith, glad enough would I lay my head upon thy anvil, and feel thy heaviest hammer between my eyes. Answer! Can'st thou smoothe this seam?"
"Oh! that is the one, Sir! Said I not all seams and dents but one?"
"Aye, blacksmith, it is the one; aye, man, it is unsmoothable; for though thou only see'st it here in my flesh, it has worked down into the bone of my skull."
Joined: 7 Jul 2014 Age: 126 Gender: Non-binary Posts: 34,629 Location: Out of my mind
28 May 2018, 12:47 am
I used to buy lots of stockings at the second hand shop. For straining paint, of course. And for putting over your gumboots so the snakes and toads don't take up residence.