What is it with this place?

[MikeWhy]

I broke my last coping saw blade about 2 months ago, and finally got around to ordering replacements. They showed up a little after Thanksgiving, but by then, I had already misplaced the saw. Yesterday, the saw popped up, still minus its blade of course, in (of all places) the saws and blades drawer. So where do you suppose the package of replacement blades are? I know I saw them a few times in the past weeks while looking for something else, might even have moved them aside to make space for something. Any of you guys seen my saw blades?

[LD]

No, but if you help me find the keys to my truck we can drive around and look for them.

[J. Clarke]

Hey, if you find them can one of you drive me to the optician so I can get some new glasses to help me find my old ones?

[Gerald Ross]

They're with my shop flashlight, which has been AWOL since last spring. My metric allen wrench set disappeared for several months so I bought a new set. The next day the old ones appeared under the seat of my scooter. A miracle. Now have two sets to lose.

[Sonny]

This time of year, isn't that called the eggnog effect?

Sonny

[J. Clarke]

Nahh, it's a brief transition to an alternate universe. One time I went to get a stamp. I knew they were in the center console to the car, which was a rectangular box with no nooks or crannies. Opened it up and there were no stamps there. The next day I checked it in daylight. Still no stamps. Got a new roll of stamps next time I went to the post office, went to toss them into the center console and by golly _now_ there was a roll of stamps in there.

[mac davis]

Probably went to the same place that one sock of each pair goes, into a black hole.. Most likely, your blades are is said black hole, having coffee with my pack of a dozen 12" sanding disks.. Been looking for them off and on for a year with no luck, and there aren't a lot of places that you can put a 14" x 14" package that requires a flat surface in my shop that isn't highly visible.. I've decided that it's time to locate them, though.. I'll order another dozen, and the old ones will show up the day after the new ones get here..

mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

[jo4hn]

They're not lost. Look in the shoebox marked "recipes" in the flour bin. happy to be of service, jo4hn

[basilisk]

If you see them, tell them to send my hacksaw frames back home.

basilisk

[Bored Borg]

I have to keep my mind on a stout chain to prevent me losing it. Unfortunately I can't find the other end of the chain I think it was swallowed by a polka-dot wooden duck named Ida which flew south for the winter and then went into business selling moonbeams to penguins who need them in the manufacture of transient saw blades, glasses, wrenches and interdimensional key rings oops it wasn't a polka duck it was a poltergoose

There, that explains everything.

To never lose anything ever again, tie EVERYTHING to a piece of string but keep hold of the other end and don't let a goose get hold of it and don't be persuaded to let go for anything or anybody. Colour code every string differently. Simple practical and effective.

[Lew Hodgett]

For years handed out small screwdrivers with a magnet in one end.

Would caution the person receiving the screwdriver that it had a set of invisible legs which the screwdriver used to run away and hide when you weren't looking.

My bet is those blades came equipped with a set of those invisible legs.

Lew

[J. Clarke]

Reminds me of a scene in "City of Ember".

[Highland Pairos]

Look on top of your head.

[Highland Pairos]

We used to love those ad screwdrivers. We'd get em by the handful and then just mangle them for whatever we needed, grind em, bend em, shape em. Do whatever, it didn't matter they where free and plentiful. We should have a contest for the most creative use of one of those things. Now I'm not in that type of business anymore and now I have no ad screwdrivers. :-(

SteveP.

[Robatoy]

Scientists have established that all lost socks, saw-blades, air-line luggage etc have created Saturn's rings.

[J. Clarke]

Thanks, I found the box of screw extractors I had left on the garage roof.

[Bored Borg]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:21:47 +0000, J. Clarke wrote (in article ):

I can't find my copy.....

[Dan Jefferson]

Dan

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[MikeWhy]

Yup. Same here, but I did find some clues. Anyway, not to worry. Speaking of the doghouse, though, when I asked if there was anything special She wanted for Xmas, She said, "A jigsaw." Is that a trap, or what? So I went out of my way and got Her some spare blades as stocking stuffers, too. (The need for coping saw blades becomes less urgent in less than week now.)

[Pat Barber]