tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post618198545556802482..comments2023-12-07T02:42:50.522-06:00Comments on Grit in the Gears: Just the Sort of Shop I Lovesoubriquethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-33324710741866965312009-12-16T23:20:35.251-06:002009-12-16T23:20:35.251-06:00Hiya, Soub!Hiya, Soub!Dave Renfrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04298793531156100705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-148094916419077772009-12-16T23:19:04.230-06:002009-12-16T23:19:04.230-06:00The photo reminds me of a Frank Gordon story. Fran...The photo reminds me of a Frank Gordon story. Frank was the aging diabetic from Renfrew who ran the power plant in the Sinai where I was stationed for three years. The expats had their own pub called The Globetrotters where I tended bar on Fridays, which was our Saturday. I spent nearly every other night there on the other side of the bar. One time I invited a coworker of mine to the five-O'clock club to meet a few of my friend and experience the general coolness of the five-O'clock club. Frank, looking disheveled and near-death as he always did, was the first to notice my beautiful but ditsy friend.<br /><br />"Hello!" he says (thick Scottish accent), "My name is Frank Gordon and I am very, very rich!"<br /><br />My friend babbled something.<br /><br />"I've never seen you here before. What's your name?" he asks with a flirtaciousness that somehow communicates his own awarness of how absurd his flirtaciousness must look and sound.<br /><br />She answers Lori.<br /><br />"Lori, that is a lovely name."<br /><br />"Thank you!"<br /><br />"Lori is a Scottish name, you know?"<br /><br />"Really?"<br /><br />"Yes, it means Big Truck."<br /><br />I miss Frank. He was one of a kind!Dave Renfrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04298793531156100705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-34590581337080706312009-12-09T12:52:13.367-06:002009-12-09T12:52:13.367-06:00Jim,
I think it might be the crudgins that are th...Jim, <br />I think it might be the crudgins that are the problem down those drains.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-77499881189353009952009-12-09T12:50:46.129-06:002009-12-09T12:50:46.129-06:00Gary? Um.. Yes. that's the place.Gary? Um.. Yes. that's the place.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-26122301861888704172009-12-09T08:43:59.477-06:002009-12-09T08:43:59.477-06:00after yesterday... i think i may be needing some c...after yesterday... i think i may be needing some crudgins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-45893848080217611522009-12-09T05:36:43.083-06:002009-12-09T05:36:43.083-06:00Finland?????Finland?????Gary's third pottery bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517401528128108791noreply@blogger.com