Some of you remember Dasmitty, the model from Ridgeway, CO who needed plumbing, heating, and wood stove advice and who is a motorcycle and outdoors enthusiast.
Somebody has suspicions that the model personna was just a cover to get attention and have hundreds of old geezers caravaning en masse to rescue her from her environment while – according to the rumour – she was really an old tough as leather marine gunny with droopy eyes, buck teeth, receeding hairline and a paunch. It was imagined that the old turkey was having a good laugh at our expense.
😉
She promised pictures once her art profile was finished so we could see the same card she hands out to prospective customers.
Nobody want to see it do they?
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Excellence is its own reward!
Excellence is its own reward!
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where did ya come up with the pic?
Forgot the other side of her card....here it is, I think.
She sent it to me and asked if I would post it because keeping her promises is important to her. She wanted to say thinks for all the help everyone has given her here.
Or did you mean why me and not you? LOL
She seems like a good girl. Good girls trust us old grandfather types, I guess...
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Excellence is its own reward!
Nope, just wondering if it was for real or you were having fun in photoshop :)
as for the old grandfater type comment, I got in trouble at work today cause I told the older guy I would unload cement board cause I was sure his old back wasnt up to task :) Mumbled something along lines of I could still....
Main reason I can still outwork the young bucks is that I don't spend a third of the day correcting my mistakes. Once and it's done.
well, most of the time anyways.....
Excellence is its own reward!
you been looking over my shoulder at work, how did you know...lol
I've got a handle on your age. The rest is simple surmising..
Excellence is its own reward!
lol well usually it only takes me twice to get something right, but if there werent old geezers watching over and teaching us young bucks how would we ever progress and keep up the trade :)
You could always learn the hard way, like some of us did...
But I'll pass along a couple,
Jackhammers - Let the machine do the work. Better yet - let someone else run the machine. "It doesn't fit my hand" is a good reason.
Tablesaws - Gaurds are there for a reason, to get in the way of push sticks. Disabling both at the same time will result, sooner or later, in shorter fingers that are hard to use for guitar playing.
Chop saws - Same thing about clamps and gaurds.
and what does this have to do with models?
besides the fact that it bumps the thread up the visible list tonight?
If I were a model and doing some work on my own home,
I wouldn't want bandages and scar tissue to interfere with my potential future earnings. LOL
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Excellence is its own reward!
Piffin,
Jack hammers are nice but some days its nice to swing a sledge helps to blow off steam, and since the previous two days kinda sucked today was one of those days,
Mitersaws I learned to respect the hardway after going to the ER 2 times cause I took off the tip of my thumb
Table saws, the blade guard gets in the way despite what people say but push sticks and/or feather boards are a must
Just wanted to thanks to you old foggies for teaching us the ropes and tolerating our mistakes. :)
2 time to the ER for a chop saw?
and yer new at this?
Maybe..take the hint???
Pretty simple...your hands here....the blades here......
Twice??
wow.
unsafe is as unsafe does........
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
Jeff,
The first time was when I was 14 using my uncles miter saw missing the blade gaurd and the tip of my thumb got a little to close, the second time was 2 years later when I knicked my knuckle picking up a board to fast on the blade which didnt really need an er visit but my parents made me go and get it looked at. 8 years and no other accidents to speak of so dont get the wrong idea, Im not careless...anymoe
Good, you were supplied with all the parts you need, keep it that way.
I was worried you were hustling around too much, no need, when I need to go faster I use my head. I also look smart because I know what is going on today, the next day, etc. See if you can't get more feedback on where things are going, so you can get your head around how your day will go. I would bet you would then be doing things one time, and have time to spare.
I hope you can follow that, random thoughts on the fly.
Don't give CAG too had a time. He's safety conscious, sensitive to his appearance and very efficient. Which explains the second time.
He figured it was so important a lesson that he got himself a second time to reinforce the lesson from the first. He will be sure to remember it now. At least until the lesson needs reinforcing again.
And sensitive to his appearance. With the tip of just one thumb missing he looked, off kilter, unsymmetrical. So to balance it out he had to take a bit off the one on the other side.
And efficient. Who else do you know that can get the benefits of hours of both psychotherapy and cosmetic surgery, do both in a few seconds with a chop saw and do it all while working on a customers project. Multitasking at its best.
I salute you CAG. Follow the example. Feel the wisdom. Live the dream.
Takes me three times to learn what he got in two. Must be the drugs.
"And efficient. Who else do you know that can get the benefits of hours of both psychotherapy and cosmetic surgery, do both in a few seconds with a chop saw and do it all while working on a customers project. Multitasking at its best."
Should a read the post a little closer :) was 14 an 16 when these accidents occured, no customer, just me butchering some wood for fun.
Crushed I am. I find an example that I think I can look up to and once again the shine comes off. Tell me it just ain't so. Heroes are so hard to find. Where will the youth of today look?
Next thing your going to say is that you took the meat of the same thumb the second time. Will disappointments never cease.
The only thing left to do is to curl up with a half-gallon of Cherry Garcia, generic vodka and the Seven Corners catalog. Dark times we live in. The flame of hope burns low and flickers.
ok I got ask you pulling my leg or just being plain sarcastic?
Multitasking.
Just having a little fun and bumping the thread. All in good fun.
Probably time to quit bumping it. Noone cares about Smitty anyways, it looks like. And it's been a busy saturday..
Excellence is its own reward!
P>> "No one cares about Smitty anyways, it looks like."
I think you are wrong, and while she is a major doll, I think she scores more points by keeping her word by getting a pic here.
I am very impressed that the crowd didn't fly off the handle because she is so attractive, and my hat is off to the crowd, (and I don't take my hat off lightly). In a way the lack of comments shows a certain amount or respect to her.
I also admire the fact that Smitty thought passing the photo thru you would keep it real, I suspect there is a lot going on in that pretty head. One more time, (and don't think this will happen again anytime soon), my hat is off to S.
Speaking of hats Pif, stop wearing that thing, it is a collectors item, ;-)
She certainly does have more than one brain cell!
Way more!
I've got a few hats like that. The classic collctors one doesn't see much UV light though. It is the Lifer's Millenium edition.
I've got a special FHB Hat that I just learned is a collector's special now though. Andy said they don't make it anymore. I got it from a friend who paddled out here. ;)
I wear it for special occasions..
Excellence is its own reward!
Did you like the way she did it or did you just enjoy reading it ? What you had in common with her excluded.
Tim Mooney
Edited 1/19/2003 11:57:38 PM ET by Tim Mooney
Tim, Ahab here, Like the way who did what?.
Excellence is its own reward!
Come on piffin, ahab seems like a fair nickname,
You live on island near the ocean, you mind as well be the captain here at BT and ...in trying to find a nice/ non-offensive way to say your older..... :)
came up with it, Mature
Edited 1/20/2003 6:07:05 PM ET by CAG
I've got no problem with Ahab.
He and I are both a little obsessive.
but wouldn't you worry about me taking the ship down with me when I sight that white whale?.
Excellence is its own reward!
Obsession is good when it comes to perfection :)
As for the going down with the ship no it shows commitment another admirable quality
I have a question.
About this going down with the ship thing. I can understand why it's noble if, say, I'm the captain, and we're inevitably going down, and it's me and a bunch of my crew and we can't be saved. But what if it's just me left? Do I still have to go down with my ship? I mean, it's just me then. Isn't it kinda stupid to go down with a chunk of metal if there's a reasonable possibility that I might make it? Is THAT noble? I mean, I know my Daddy would smack me if I did that. "Come quickly! I am tasting the stars!"-who and about what?
In that case no you dont have to go down with the ship cause nobody would ever know. Kind a silly to be honorable if nobody will ever know about it, who would tell the story:) At that point being noble becomes stupidy :)
Now have some fun wit me grammer :)
but what I refered to was the ship going down with me (Ahab)
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Excellence is its own reward!
Well piffin,
Your the captain you decide if you go down with it or not :) personally Id say to hell with it and jump on the first life boat and let the others fend for themshelves :) I aint much for honor if it involves me dying in the process
You mean grammAr, right? hee hee"Come quickly! I am tasting the stars!"-who and about what?
Yep I tri too misspelled as most wordes me can also two make mass mistake :)
damn that was hard to come up and remain somewhat readable
Women and children get first shot at the lifeboats, so you're covered, Captain or not...
Jen 8)
"Women and children get first shot at the lifeboats, so you're covered, Captain or not... "
How come women got to hold on to these things when they went equal? Because they were smart enough to know they were going for ADVANTAGE. Equality was never on their mind , they just sold that to MEN. :)
Tim Mooney
Edited 1/21/2003 10:45:24 AM ET by Tim Mooney
Now we are getting into the meat of the issue. Amazing things we learn here on Breaktime.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
The other...proper application of risk.
This is more an answer to Piffin , but yes my analogy to the meat of the issue ;
A young model moves from circumstances that were not becomming to a lady to a different part of the world that is hard on her and she appears to be a damsel in distress. She is also interrested in motorcycles. This is where her brains come to play that she uses all the tools beknown to women to capture mens attention. For these reasons , it was questioned whether she might be a gunnery sergent . In other words , were the men had ? Whether she was a Playboy center fold , or a sergent still says a great deal to her skill to get advantage to a whole group of men by herself.
I had told her in a post that I wrote ;" We would have helped you with out the
" story". " end of quote .
But using the story she managed to captivate her audience. In my mind she was victorious in her intentions. That brings us to the point what her intentions were at the time. 1. did she need help as a damsel in distress? or 2. did she want the help and use her persuasion to get the help and also have some fun?
At any rate she is charged with using her brain and holding a group of men at large single handed. Therefore , she gained ADVANTAGE!!!! :)
tImOoNey
>...using her brain...
I thought she was a blond?
Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
The other...proper application of risk.
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Im not touching that ! But of course you could elaborate on it if you would like ?
Tim Mooney
Even though I think being a firefighter would be an interesting, worthwhile occupation, I realize as a 5'3" shrimp, that carrying a 6', 220 lb unconscious person down a ladder is not for me.
Equality can only take you so far..
As for Smitty manipulating the guys around here...I didn't get the impression from her first posts that she was batting her eyes and saying "poor little me". She probably gave out more info than was necessary or advisable, and did use the magic words "Single, model w/tools and motorcycles" but then the guys took it from there.
I've had guys pull my strings,...didn't know better at the time...but you can only be manipulated if you let it happen. Those kind of people are poison...
Jen ;)
I don't think that Tim meant that she was being manipulative. I think that he meant that she was using her tools well. (He is free to jump in my koolaid with both feet, if I am incorrect.)
I don't think she was being manipulative. She was not flirty. She was only slightly coy. But what she did say, was indeed crafted to draw the sort of responses she got.
When you want to cut just one, very small piece of trim, you know not to get out the tablesaw, or even drag out the chop saw. Just use a small pullsaw and maybe a coping saw. You know your tools. You know how best to use those tools. (I daresay, you know about more than a few of the same tools Smitty does as well. LOL)
Smitty knows her tools, and uses them well. This being printed communication, it is obvious that her looks are not her only tools. Just like anyone else, if she lost her tools, or didn't know how to use them correctly, she would not make it far in her chosen profession.
She was just using her tools.
And I think I just found a new meaning for the term "tool Junkie".
; )
Quittin' Time
ROAR! That is a HOOT!!! Tool junkie. Just tell me is she for REAL? If she is then more power to her. She is for sure a pretty lady and seems to have the brains to boot. I tell you what I just hate girls like her ;-) Who knows maybe one day she will pop in her and say hello to us.Tamara
Can't you people see me fluttering my eyelashes and tossing back strands of my hair when I'm giving someone, say Pete, a good lecture?
You mean you can't SEE that stuff?"Come quickly! I am tasting the stars!"-who and about what?
yes, it could be clearly seen in your posts. Not speaking of what we each saw and felt in your posts made the gestures seem much more intimate.
But now the words have been written for all to see, another illusion gone, where will our next dream come from?
searching....
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Barry E
Talk about coy!
You shared your picture with the wavy black tresses with the girls over at CT but not around the guys here.
Wow, Have you got brains! The guys are already falling over your literary talents. If they could really see that Irish twink in your eye...
I don't look for Smitty to appear here but she might...
I see her as one who came around the berst construction site in the world for help when she needed it and managed to keep her promises to those who helped her but not as a regular participant in all the goings on. She's definitely not the manipulative type.
Now, as she fades into the mythical background of L'Engle Land somewhere in the bowels of the Tauntonian Castle, I wonder how long before someone makes the claim that she's just another one of Piffins contrived pseudonyms...
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Excellence is its own reward!
That would be auburn, Piff, Dark Auburn, number 5RB, moving in the distinct direction of mere dark brown.
"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."-????
Edited 1/22/2003 4:09:21 PM ET by Theodora
So Pif, are you telling us that our beloved Theo is a babe?
Can you transfer her pic to this forum?
If you do, please do so quick before she deletes it.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
The other...proper application of risk.
I wouldn't invade her privacy. She has chosen to remain in the dark, whispering and tantalising us with her magic words and sybil siren song.
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Excellence is its own reward!
I did a little searchin and found a pic of smitty from a few years ago.
TDo not try this at home!
I am a trained professional!
"She's definitely not the manipulative type."
I never said that . Actually it could be quite a compliment if she would want to be a salesperson. Its part of the tools Luka was talking about . My wife employs 13 of them . [all women selling to men ] Women are better selling real estate than men . The tools working again .
Tim Mooney
I didn't say you said...
I know. When I had the store, I hired a woman who could talk your ears off. She knew where she was going with it, too. She sold sixty some wood stoves in her first two months, twelve to the same guy!.
Excellence is its own reward!
So thats where you picked up your wood stove experience !
So why dont you give us a lecture on what stove is best ? What ever comes to mind . I know there is no way you had that store and not get to the bottom of things .
Tim Mooney
When I openned the store, there were about fifty or so manufacturers of wood stoves in this whole country. Eighteen montyhs later, there werre six hundred or so. After three years, 24% interest rates, and a warm winter, there were about sixty left. That was what - over twenty years ago now! I haven't kept up with the industry so my knowledge now is limited. Catalytics were just coming on when I was getting down off that horse.
Personally, I like the Vermont Casting line of stoves. Even back then, they were one of the ones that everybody else compared themselves to. I also like to have an ash drawrer
This whole discussion has now come full circle. When Smitty first logged in to BT, it was to find help with her heating problems in the mountains of Colorado where I sold and installed stoves. Then a thread about Smitty comes back to the subject of heating with wood!.
Excellence is its own reward!
This might be a long post . Ramblin Tim .
I was really expecting you to reply in" the best darn wood stove out there " . But you didnt , so I corner you here . LOL. I remember you and I have responded in the past to such posts. We also were involved in the one you mentioned Im sure you remember.
I have had a "thing " with wood burners most of my life. Some people sports , cars bikes , etc. For me wood burning has been one of my greatest interrests. It was a man thing to learn in my parts and I got interrested. Then I got the fever . Anyway;
I found an old man in a small town that had a stove shop that was in a half a$$ hardware store . It was an old store where you could buy tending tools , water buckets , and stoves , parts , plus he did repair. I started buying Warm Mornings and rebuilding them. He could order upgade doors for some models with glass inserts. Long story short I started selling and trading with this found knowledge of this store being able to be a parts house. The old man died and so did my business. Since then I have pacified my itch by reading, but its been a while since Ive done any of that . I feel like Im in old school now , but I would love to catch up.
I ended with coverters going out and the S flow with the ignition grid taking over at least in my mind .
The American made Cawley Lemay 600 was the best stove I ever saw operate. It had the S flow and the ignition grid . Cooking top with lids . Definately a very antuigue looking stove that was beutiful with the picture of a deer and a turkey in the woods. It didnt have an ash pan but it didnt really need it as it was a complete combustion stove . It was narrow and long with a ash tray build on the front with a spout that emptied into a coal bucket . [ Which was at the correct higth ]It sit up on legs so you could fire it bending over. Fault was no glass door. For that reason Im sure its obsolete.
I would like to find "the"stove now , but what I see advertized , a fire tender didnt design like the Cawley Lemay 600.
Great fire tenders should design stoves as builders should design houses that love them.
Tim Mooney
"I wonder how long before someone makes the claim that she's just another one of Piffins contrived pseudonyms... "
Actually, I figure that you and Larry were in cahoots and did all this. Smitty is really Larry, and the pics were of his DW or something......(-:If you don't care where you are, you're not lost.
You may be on to something as I have noticed an attachment between Piffin and Smitty.
Tim Mooney
LOL
Around here, when somebody comes up with something that outlandish, we ask if he's been smokin' his breakfast.
;).
Excellence is its own reward!
"Actually, I figure that you and Larry were in cahoots and did all this. Smitty is really Larry, and the pics were of his DW or something......(-:"
What would you do without the Larry's of this world to kick around?
Edited 1/24/2003 12:30:16 PM ET by Larry
No problem, just in a kinda bad mood figured you were just kidding :) take it easy
bad mood?
what'sa matta....
U hurt yer self again?
Ahh.......ha....ha!!
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
Jeff,
Never hurt yourself before? :) come on everyone has a horror story of two, Im just glad the two trips to ER were when I was younger knock on wood
Buddy on a trip to Costa Rica went in to visit a woodworking shop in a community. Speaking only English he wanted to relay to the workers there that he worked with wood also. So he went over to a saw and pointed to it then held up his hand that had a missing digit from years before. He told me the whole crowd of a dozen or so guys all smiled and held up there hands showing their missing digits, some missing multiples.
Be safe.
A RoarHalf of good living is staying out of bad situations.
The other...proper application of risk.
ROAR!
They don't have an OSHA down that way to give 'em dope slaps every now and then.
I remember watching some travel documentary about carftsmen south of the border. It showed a segment with a wood carving family. The way they started shaping a piece of wood down was with this homemade kind of gobbler. It was a motor form a refridgerator or washing machine or somnething weak like that coupled with a drive belt to a tablesaw balde on an armature spinning freely with no table, gaurds, or guides. The dude just grabbed a chunk of firewood block and held it up to the blade, turning it around slowly and letting the shavings and splinters fly.
Naturally, I was having a coniption fit, waiting to see the flesh fly - he had scars all over his hands. If made my digits hurt just to watch!.
Excellence is its own reward!
There's a joke in here somewhere...about cutting off part of a finger while using a hand saw...
I'm betting that the pictures are of your significant other, and she's in on the joke...
Jen 8P
Edited 1/19/2003 3:20:37 PM ET by Jencar
Honest to God! Smitty sent me the card she uses to advertise as a model. She's down in Las Vegas now, pursuing work and renting out the Ridgeway house.
This is a picture of my significant others ( daughter and wife) with Ridgeway someplace in the mists of the background, by coincidence.
And another shot with my wife and I together. She was still growing her hair back from the chemotherapy..
Excellence is its own reward!
Your wife looks like a very sweet person...and your daughter could be a model! I think your fan rating is going up with the guys around here, Smitty or no...
You know what they say about couples starting to look alike? The two of you have almost identical smiles, except for the face shrubbery.
Take care, Jen
What? Me? Smile?
You must be seeing a reflection of hers!
Thanks for the compliment. I emailed you - don't know if I remembered to sign it - titled - daughter and Smitty
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Excellence is its own reward!
Edited 1/19/2003 6:26:24 PM ET by piffin
hahahaha
Tim Mooney
See ? I TOLD ya them old sgt's could come up with the BEST pictures.
; )
Quittin' Time
Poor disfigured creature.
( your logo here) Turtleneck
So when is the Smittyfest? hehehe
As cute a she is I'm a happily married man...........
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
I think Piffin gets a new nickname...Greybeard.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
The other...proper application of risk.
Well he lives on island, maybe we should start calling Captian Ahab.
ARRRRRRRR!
TDo not try this at home!
I am a trained professional!