DanvillRob Posted January 24, 2011 Posted January 24, 2011 I actually don't mind the F-Hole...but the headstock...man...you could shovel snow with it.
Deacon Blue Posted January 24, 2011 Posted January 24, 2011 I wouldn't know whether to play it or park it beside my snow blower! That is one ugly headstock.
vincentw Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 . Yeah, that headstock sux. But you gotta make room for that awesome logo!
TommyK Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 Just a fancy hand hold. Next thing you know they'll have wheels on the butt end and an extension handle above the headstock so you can pull it behind you.
DanvillRob Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 Next thing you know they'll have wheels on the butt end and an extension handle above the headstock so you can pull it behind you. You say that like it's a bad thing!
TommyK Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 You say that like it's a bad thing! In some respects I think it is. Too often I see, seemingly perfectly healthy, young adults dragging their belongings behind them like they are towing a Radio Flyer wagon. They are pulling a parcel, rumbling across the expansion cracks, that is not nearly as big as a brief case. When did we, as a society, become so weak? I can understand BIG suit cases, but a ruck sack sized parcel? Hoist upon your own petard my young padawans! Either put it in a back pack or pick it up and carry it like an adult! I have a duffel bag which I purchased used. It has two wheels and an extendable pull handle. It is not nearly big enough to warrant a hand truck to move, so I removed the extendable handle and reduced the weight of the empty duffel by more than half.
DanvillRob Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 I can understand BIG suit cases, but a ruck sack sized parcel? Hoist upon your own petard my young padawans! Either put it in a back pack or pick it up and carry it like an adult! Funny saying...."Hoist by your own petard"..... a Shakespeare saying, (from Hamlet). Petard were small grenades used to open gates, etc. (interesting that Petard comes from "Peter", which means f@rt in French! And to be hoist by your own is to be blown up by your own bomb, (or taken down by your own scheme). By the way.... I don't carry anything I can roll......(but them, I'm old).
TommyK Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 Funny saying...."Hoist by your own petard"..... a Shakespeare saying, (from Hamlet). Petard were small grenades used to open gates, etc. (interesting that Petard comes from "Peter", which means f@rt in French! And to be hoist by your own is to be blown up by your own bomb, (or taken down by your own scheme). By the way.... I don't carry anything I can roll......(but them, I'm old). It is my understanding that hoisting upon one's own petard is to take responsibility for ones own actions and belongings, as opposed to having someone else hoist (or carry) your petard, and therefore handing off the risk. Ooops.. pardon my Peter, sauerkraut last night you know.
DanvillRob Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 It is my understanding that hoisting upon one's own petard is to take responsibility for ones own actions and belongings, as opposed to having someone else hoist (or carry) your petard, and therefore handing off the risk. Ooops.. pardon my Peter, sauerkraut last night you know. That would be a good guess...but it would be wrong. Here is the meaning of the saying, "If a petard were to detonate prematurely due to a faulty or short slow match, the engineer would be lifted or "hoist" by the explosion." Here is how Shakespeare used it: There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd, They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet.
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