Comments on: Visiting Stonekettle Station http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/ You can't have everything. Where would you put it? Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:44:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: John the Scientist http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2258 John the Scientist Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:13:06 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2258 Until, that is, some Yankee or Californicator indulges in it. Then all of a sudden I'm Appalachian to the core... Until, that is, some Yankee or Californicator indulges in it. Then all of a sudden I’m Appalachian to the core…

]]> By: John the Scientist http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2257 John the Scientist Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:12:27 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2257 Michelle, you've never irked me, it's just that I consider WV-bashing to be a less of an avocation than a second vocation. ;-) Michelle, you’ve never irked me, it’s just that I consider WV-bashing to be a less of an avocation than a second vocation. ;-)

]]> By: Jim Wright http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2249 Jim Wright Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:37:53 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2249 Well, I am an oldest child... And far from making us, uh <i>partners</i> cranky, it amused the hell out of us. Great picture. Well, I am an oldest child…

And far from making us, uh partners cranky, it amused the hell out of us. Great picture.

]]> By: Jeri http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2248 Jeri Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:00:43 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2248 Jim - and Shawn, if you're reading over his shoulder - if this makes you cranky I'd be glad to retract. Teasing is only fun when it's, well, fun. We'll have to take Shawn to a baseball game, he can field foul balls! Matt, you'll have to write captions. Well, wait a minute, you probably already do professionally. LOL Jim, sounds like you're being treated like an oldest child. It's so unfair isn't it? Jim – and Shawn, if you’re reading over his shoulder – if this makes you cranky I’d be glad to retract. Teasing is only fun when it’s, well, fun.

We’ll have to take Shawn to a baseball game, he can field foul balls!

Matt, you’ll have to write captions. Well, wait a minute, you probably already do professionally. LOL

Jim, sounds like you’re being treated like an oldest child. It’s so unfair isn’t it?

]]> By: Jim Wright http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2247 Jim Wright Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:55:18 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2247 Well, I'm a little quicker reflex wise, and I've had tactical combat training - but you don't have to start a chisel first, so I'm guessing Shawn will be the victor. Plus if I actually did manage to maim him, I'd get no end of grief from my wife. If he maims me, well my wife will tell me that I should have behaved myself and it's all my own dammed fault anyway. There's no winning here. Well, I’m a little quicker reflex wise, and I’ve had tactical combat training – but you don’t have to start a chisel first, so I’m guessing Shawn will be the victor. Plus if I actually did manage to maim him, I’d get no end of grief from my wife. If he maims me, well my wife will tell me that I should have behaved myself and it’s all my own dammed fault anyway. There’s no winning here.

]]> By: mattw http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2246 mattw Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:16:56 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2246 Chainsaw vs. Giant-Fisted Chisel. Who will be the victor? Chainsaw vs. Giant-Fisted Chisel. Who will be the victor?

]]> By: Jim Wright http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2245 Jim Wright Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:13:09 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2245 One more thing. Examining the photo, I want to direct your attention to Shawn's freakishly large paws. Like catcher's mitts they are. We had to have special work gloves made for him, by a local tent manufacturer.... One more thing.

Examining the photo, I want to direct your attention to Shawn’s freakishly large paws. Like catcher’s mitts they are. We had to have special work gloves made for him, by a local tent manufacturer….

]]> By: Jim Wright http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2244 Jim Wright Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:54 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2244 I knew telling Jeri about the whole partners bit would come back to haunt me :) -------------------- See it's like this: Shawn and I have known each other for a long time. We met in Navy technical school 25 years ago. You know how it is, far from home, lonely, too much beer ...er, uh, I mean, we became instant friends and have remained so ever since. We were roommates in Spain two decades ago. There isn't much I wouldn't do for the guy, and he once flew all the way from Japan, two weeks of hitching rides on military transports, to be at my wedding in Florida. I returned the favor years later and was the quest speaker at his retirement. We work together in the shop and ended up being business partners after we got out of the Navy. So when we're talking to customers I occasionally mention that we've been partners for many years. Then...inevitably...we get <i>that</i> look, and upon occasion a comment such as "Well, you guys make such a <i>nice</i> couple..." This kills me, absolutely kills me. I usually can't stop laughing. And I rarely make any effort whatsoever to correct the commenter, just because I find it so dammed funny. Shawn on the other hand is not amused. At all. And it was great to have Jeri stop by. She also has some pretty funny stories and she's welcome anytime. Next time, though, I'm going to fix her dinner - and I would have yesterday, if I had been thinking about it. I knew telling Jeri about the whole partners bit would come back to haunt me :)

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See it’s like this:

Shawn and I have known each other for a long time. We met in Navy technical school 25 years ago. You know how it is, far from home, lonely, too much beer …er, uh, I mean, we became instant friends and have remained so ever since. We were roommates in Spain two decades ago. There isn’t much I wouldn’t do for the guy, and he once flew all the way from Japan, two weeks of hitching rides on military transports, to be at my wedding in Florida. I returned the favor years later and was the quest speaker at his retirement.

We work together in the shop and ended up being business partners after we got out of the Navy. So when we’re talking to customers I occasionally mention that we’ve been partners for many years. Then…inevitably…we get that look, and upon occasion a comment such as “Well, you guys make such a nice couple…” This kills me, absolutely kills me. I usually can’t stop laughing. And I rarely make any effort whatsoever to correct the commenter, just because I find it so dammed funny.

Shawn on the other hand is not amused. At all.

And it was great to have Jeri stop by. She also has some pretty funny stories and she’s welcome anytime. Next time, though, I’m going to fix her dinner – and I would have yesterday, if I had been thinking about it.

]]> By: Jeri http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2243 Jeri Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:27:10 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2243 Janiece, you could always volunteer to be assigned to a project for my employer-who-shall-not-be-named. Then you'd have multiple viral projects - and an excuse to travel up to AK. :) John, too funny. Michelle, I wasn't actually planning this post when we took the picture - it just came to me on the way home. It is a fun pic though! Vince, I'm not sure if <i>partners</i> use power tools to work out their differences, but I could be wrong. ;) Janiece, you could always volunteer to be assigned to a project for my employer-who-shall-not-be-named. Then you’d have multiple viral projects – and an excuse to travel up to AK. :)

John, too funny.

Michelle, I wasn’t actually planning this post when we took the picture – it just came to me on the way home. It is a fun pic though!

Vince, I’m not sure if partners use power tools to work out their differences, but I could be wrong. ;)

]]> By: Vince http://smugpuppies.com/2008/08/27/visiting-stonekettle-station/comment-page-1/#comment-2242 Vince Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:18:08 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1043#comment-2242 You mean, they're not <em>partners</em> partners? Funny, I thought the picture proved just the opposite. I mean, isn't that how manly men partners act when they're pissed at each other? You mean, they’re not partners partners? Funny, I thought the picture proved just the opposite. I mean, isn’t that how manly men partners act when they’re pissed at each other?

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