mikesc Posted January 3, 2018 Report Posted January 3, 2018 (edited) Mjolnir, OK..I read your post there re the mysterious albino cetacean, and..as i can hear you champing at the bit from here ( the sound is coming in on the westerly storms were are getting ATM )..I rang Mr Fred Moreau ( I was going to ring him next week ) ..I had to leave him a message on his answering machine as he is "unavailable at the moment" ( his says it in French as do mine )..But ( and here is the good part to keep you going ) his answer machine does have his voice saying his name..so..step one accomplished..:) I left a message explaining briefly who I was and that there was interest in his clamp in an English"speaking ( we say "Anglophone"..pronounced just as you would think it would be ; ) forum and that I'd like to be able to talk with him and if possible meet him , if he is OK to be visited I suggested that I visit him next week, I'll call him back again later this evening ( it is currently just before 17.00 hrs here ) around 19.00 hrs..If I can't get him today, I'll repeat the calls tomorrow maybe at a different time ( morning, and lunchtime )..Just as soon as I get some concrete news, I'll post it in this thread.. As Jake says, don't you dare burn your clamps.. I'm copying and pasting ( and will print out to take with me , if he is OK for a visit ) any questions that any one has. I know that he reads and writes English very well , so I don't expect that I'll have much ( if any translation to do ), but as I actually spend far more time working , speaking, reading and writing French than I do English, any conversation will probably be a mixture of the languages anyway..Much as I noticed when I was in the USA ( many times ) was / is ? the case in areas that have a large Spanish speaking population..You tend to think and express yourself in a mixture of all the languages that you speak, and some things ( like a lot of humour ) just doesn't translate well anyway, because all the background of the culture is needed to make the humour ( or whatever ) "work" a 100%..except of course in silent movies.. :-) Edited January 3, 2018 by mikesc Quote "Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )
Mjolnir Posted January 3, 2018 Author Report Posted January 3, 2018 6 hours ago, Jake907 said: Dude I will kick your a** if you burn your old ones.... by ether, I meant to send them away. LOL! your at the top of a very short list Jake Quote He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. Douglas Adams
Members Jake907 Posted January 4, 2018 Members Report Posted January 4, 2018 6 hours ago, Mjolnir said: by ether, I meant to send them away. LOL! your at the top of a very short list Jake I'm used to my wife, she will re-work a project until it is perfect in every way and if she can't get it as perfect as she wants it, then it gets cut up into scraps or something (she usually gets it though). Just don't throw them away or anything, thinking that no body will want them if they aren't perfect. Quote -Jake North Country Leather and Wool
Members MaxMizur Posted July 18, 2018 Members Report Posted July 18, 2018 Does anyone here know how to get Fred's clamps? the site seems to be gone entirely! Quote
Members thefanninator Posted July 19, 2018 Members Report Posted July 19, 2018 20 hours ago, MaxMizur said: Does anyone here know how to get Fred's clamps? the site seems to be gone entirely! He retired due to health reasons. It's been 1 1/2 -2 years since I emailed with him. Quote http://www.instagram.com/fannintexas/
Members grail Posted August 9, 2019 Members Report Posted August 9, 2019 Fred is not making them anymore due to poor health. Quote
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