Funny Web Sites - Part 1.

I have a friend that I met on a group site. He seems like a very nice fellow and after chatting the in the group with others and posting off and on we saw that we viewed thing very much the same. I sent him my urls and he sent me his so we could look at each others websites.

I love the text and just about every single thing I have read at his site and want to post one thing from one page here. It is a hoot. This guy is a blacksmith, makes knives and swords, sells them on the internet. Cool, eh?

At his site these are the "Ye Olde Shoppe Rules"
(for a blacksmittys shop)

1. Safety First Always !!!!!

2. This shop is neither Idiot Proof or Politically correct. If you have a problem with that, perhaps you should limit your visit to the time spent reading this far.

3. Think before you act. If is sounds like a good idea, it will sound just as good 2 minutes from now. If it sounds dangerous or unsafe, it won’t get better with time.

4. It is alright to be Incredibly Stupid as long as you are the only one who knows. If you do something incredibly stupid and hurt yourself or someone else, I will tell everybody.

5. If you do something incredibly stupid and hurt me, I will notify your next of kin.

6. All metal is hot until absolutely proven otherwise. If you touch metal to see if it is hot, see #4 above.

7. Black iron is hot iron. Red iron is even hotter.

8. If you don’t know ask, if you don’t understand ask for an explanation.

9. Any tool used to handle hot iron also becomes hot. That includes the anvil after a day of hard forging.

10. Beware of the Dragon’s Breath, the almost invisible flame at the mouth of the gas forge.

11. Take the hot cut out of the anvil when you are done using it.

12. Appropriate eye protection when grinding, cutting, welding etc. is a must.

13. Wear a respirator when necessary.

14. Make a list of the things you can do without, left hand, right eye, etc. Now protect the rest.

15. Never work tired.

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I loved the rules and of course, knowing nothing about blacksmithing, I had to laugh at some of them. But, I am sure he is quite serious about the rules.

It reminds me of going over to Silver Dollar City at Branson, MO about a dozen times in my life and seeing the place grow but most of all seeing all the crafters and talented people who keep things from the past alive for us today. The backsmiths, broom makers, glass blowers, candle makers and you know, just about anything you can name.

I do want to give you Woody's site url so you can go there and enjoy the many pages of useful, funny and fun text he has at his site. I agree with almost all of what he says and will continue to go there, when I have time and need a laugh.

http://hansoncustomknives.com/index.html

If you sign his guestbook - be sure to tell him "VerbatimEB" sent you. I am jockying to get some special pricing on a couple of knives and this might put a feather in my cap for that.

Later folks,

Verb
www.buddywebworks.com