What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've had,or seen so far ?

Manny, many thanks for that.

Dave

Not necessarily. Nominative absolute sentences are just as (un)common today as they were in the latter part of the 18th century. Yes, I researched it, around 20 years ago.

And the "because" is just one possible "in other words" for such a nominative absolute. The accurate meaning of the others would produce an awkward sentence -- which is why the nominative absolute is used from time to time in literature. You will not see it used in legal documents today because of the ambiguity.

I don't look this stuff up for fun, but if you doubt all this and want to see some parallel examples, I'll dig out my grammar books. They have some good ones.

-- Ed Huntress

Here ya go:

"My heros have always killed cowboys".

Comanche

But not enough to count anywhere but my oen heart...

Richard

OT isn't allowed on RCM. Our resident net Nazi gets upset about OT posts.

Actually, I'd love that. I saw these constructs so often in my early reading that they became ingrained; if I've missed something I wanna know.

Do the Ojibwa have any casinos?

I know the Pechangas are tossing people out of the tribe left and right - even with impeccable lineage research that goes back a few hundred years - just because they didn't vote the right way on casino related tribal elections. Cutting off casino profit participation checks, throwing them out of schools and hospitals, out of houses on tribal land, canceling health insurance...

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Bummer. You have my condolances. The folks here on rec.woodworking have decided that putting up with net nannies/control freaks is worse than the occasional off-topic thread - and one of our regulars maintains a filtering package for those who'd prefer not to see the OT threads (or the occasionally really nasty garbage posts) at all.

Normally (but obviously not always) we add "OT" to the subject to facilitate filtering, and it works fairly well. RW (the "wreck") is a fairly convivial group - and occasionally the people who've gotten to know each other here do enjoy OT side discussions. The antisocial types who pop in and object are generally held in low regard - the wreck values right answers, but not people who're all about _being_ right.

I'll gladly trim RCM from my future responses. :-)

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

German, Finn and Black Irish.

Gunner

brought to your shore. Was it

made to it over the years.

Really? I thought she had fallen though a storm drain grill and had washed out to sea?

Gunner

Yeah, they used to set fire to the Irish around here, too.

-- Ed Huntress

on 9/15/2007 5:21 AM Gunner said the following:

I have two of yours, but I don't know what Black Irish is. Mine is N Ireland Catholic. The other German.

Seems to be some question as to what it is

(1) It refers to a mixture of Irish and Spanish blood dating from the time of the Spanish Armada, when many shipwrecked Spanish sailors were washed up on the Irish coastline and wound up staying.

(2) It refers to a mixture of Irish and eastern European blood.

(3) It refers to a mixture of Irish and Italian blood from the time of the Roman Empire.

I couldnt qoute the original post but wanted to share my story.

I was helping a guy fix his cars rear leaf springs because I had a car just like it. He asked me to take some vice grips and hold the bolt that fastens the end of the leaf spring to the back end of the car while he worked on the front end of the spring. The ends have rubber bushings that slide into the spring and then a bolt. What happened is that while he was working on the front end I lost my grip and my finger got sandwiched between the spring and the housing the retainer bolt is suppose to go thru on the car body. I nearly took my index finger right off. Off the the hospital and quite a few stitches later..

You could see clearly right to the exsposed bone before the hospital visit.

Dumb me....

All newsgroup discussions are off topic by the 30th post ;-)

That's also about when the mud slinging and flaming takes over and there are only a few posters left.

Sortta like being in a bar ;-)

But still much better than the spam bots and the idiots that think cancel message is actually enabled on a public newsgroup server.

-larry / dallas

Oh yeah?

Lathe? Pants? Man, that's one LOW lathe! ;-)

Cheers! Rich

I wear my hair long, but if I'm going to be working around moving machinery, I tie it back and don't dangle it in moving parts.

And I'm very unlikely to get into an altercation with an intoxicated woman, so I'm fairly safe in that respect. ;-)

Cheers! Rich