And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Now, if only you could get the dumbbells at Vaughan to orient the handle wood in their hatchets like they do in their hammers, instead of selling them with the grain going sideways, or at crazy angles, thus prone to early failure and breakage, they'd actually be craftsmen, instead of just middling hack toolmakers.
This is why "Made In USA" is a punchline more often than a mark of approval.
Made in my hometown, Illinois state basketball champs 1952 - Hebron, IL
ReplyDeleteI was a 7-year-old kid in Springfield. We listened to the tournament at the Armory on the radio.
DeleteAlways a thrill to hear a smalltown high school beat out the Chicago and Peoria boys.
I don't know if I could have swung that hammer all day even when I was young.
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Paul L. Quandt
Now, if only you could get the dumbbells at Vaughan to orient the handle wood in their hatchets like they do in their hammers, instead of selling them with the grain going sideways, or at crazy angles, thus prone to early failure and breakage, they'd actually be craftsmen, instead of just middling hack toolmakers.
ReplyDeleteThis is why "Made In USA" is a punchline more often than a mark of approval.
-Aesop
My framing hammer is a22 oz. Husky. Because "framing" involves 2 x 4s, or 2 x 6s, and 16 penny nails.
ReplyDeletenothing beats an Estwing.
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