5 cool points to you if you can tell me what movie I stole that from.
Published on August 25, 2005 By Spc Nobody Special In Humor
and to be fair, the end of the line is modified.

So I didn't get the job today, so I can't go melty melty melt to relax, because my new furnace lid ain't dry yet. So I post articles about weird hobbies instead of politics and get no comments, no worries! I just played with my furnace and tried something a little different.

I've been planning to modify a brake drum to use as a forge. My propane burner for my foundry furnace is in set screws, so it comes right out. Now my old furnace lid traps too much exhaust, and that puts the fire right out, but it burns groovy with the lid off. In fact, I can turn it up so high I get blast furnace like effects.

I don't have the proper tools to smith with yet, but just to play around tonight, I stuck a piston rod I'd broken most of the aluminum off the end of into the fire with the top off the furnace, and cranked it up. It went from cold metal to yellow hot in less than five minutes. Wow!!!!

That's something like 1900 degrees! The little aluminum that was left wasn't even directly in the fire, and even without a lid on, melted and slagged right off. I pulled out the piston rod (hard hard steel mind you) and with nothing more than a pair of vice grips, and a plain old carpenters hammer was able to leave marks in the steel, and bend it over maybe 30 degrees.

Usually, you can hammer on one all day, and you're lucky to leave a mark, much less bend one. I use them sometimes as a surface to hammer aluminum against and break it down into smaller pieces. And that molten aluminum? Usually about 30 minutes or so with charcoal. 5 minutes!!!! Sweet.

Now I've just gotta get me an anvil. Does anybody have a number for Yakko Warner?

Comments
on Aug 25, 2005
Don't know the movie, your post went over my head. Sorry to hear about the job, I was really excited for you, and now I'm bummed for you but optimistic that something better is waiting. And I'm drinking a Fanta.

And...umm...here's five points for you.
on Aug 26, 2005
And I'm drinking a Fanta.


Fanta, fanta....Fanta Fanta!!!! Oy, now I've got that song in my head. Stupid movie commercials.

Does anyone else know how that Bod body spray stuff has survived so long with such craptastic commercials at the movies?

Nevermind, I feel a blog a comin'
on Aug 26, 2005
"Life's a piece of Sh*t, when yo ulook at it. Life's a laugh and death's a joke you see."

BIGGUS DICKUS says "Welease Bwian!"


IG
on Aug 26, 2005
Life's a piece of Sh*t, when yo ulook at it. Life's a laugh and death's a joke you see."BIGGUS DICKUS says "Welease Bwian!"


Oh........so close, thank you for playing. You're on the right track though, it is monte python! And incidentally, my favorite bit in Brian was always the latin grammar part with john cleese.
on Aug 26, 2005
Meaning of Life?

I didn't see it.

IG
on Aug 26, 2005
Meaning of Life? I didn't see it.


Keeeerect!!!!! Ding ding ding ding!!!!! Five cool points to Info Geek, less two for causing my heart attack on discovering that you haven't seen the film. The quotation is from just before a long song at the end of the foolish organ donor scene.

Seriously, this is too funny a movie to miss. You've got to see it. Unless you'd rather be MARCHING, UP AND DOWN THE SQUARE????!!!!!!!!!
on Aug 26, 2005
Black Smithing sounds like a fun (yet very physical) hobby. I hope you have fun with it! Sorry you didn't get the job!

Whenever life get you down, Vet Nobody Special,
And life after the Army seems hard or tough.
And civilians are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff!


Just - re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side,
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick,
but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide.
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point,
we go round every 200 million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whizz,
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.

~ The Galaxy Song... Lyrics taken from My copy of "The Fairly Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustraded MONTY PYTHON Song Book ;~D
on Aug 26, 2005
~ The Galaxy Song... Lyrics taken from My copy of "The Fairly Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustraded MONTY PYTHON Song Book ;~D


Bingo, extra 10 cool points to parated, however 5 geek points awarded for actually owning the book. (It'd been ten if he was able to recite the whole thing from memory...........not that I can do that with Monte Python, no really......I'm cool.........damn.)