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13283. Macnas - 1/14/2005 2:55:20 PM We'll see how the weather goes, I might take the kids into town if it's too wet to go anywhere else. 13284. Magoseph - 1/14/2005 3:27:08 PM Mac, thank you for answering me--I really should not take your time answering my nonsensical morning conversation when there are more interesting topics in the other threads.
Have a very good weekend! 13285. thoughtful - 1/14/2005 3:34:02 PM apology accepted, wonks 13286. Macnas - 1/14/2005 3:53:19 PM Mago, if I lived on your road, or saw you every morning having coffee in town, I'd enjoy talking to you even more than I do in here. 13287. thoughtful - 1/14/2005 4:07:50 PM We are having wild weather here. I usually walk after breakfast but one look at the radar suggested that was not a good idea. So I walked first and got in just before it started pouring. Temp this a.m. was 54F. By this p.m. it's supposed to be snowing and down near 20F tonight.
And last night's drive home was the absolute foggiest I've ever seen it. Warm air hitting cold snow fields generated such dense fog I was luck if I could see a foot or 2 in front of the fender all the way home. Yikes! 13288. judithathome - 1/14/2005 4:27:23 PM who is attracted to a one-week course in fish skin tanning?
The artsy-fartsy crowd...they've been showing a lot of "decor" ideas using tanned fish skin. Collages, gift boxes, faux book covers. The ideas are limitless. 13289. PelleNilsson - 1/14/2005 4:30:47 PM "Codskin codpiece" was quite funny. It reminded me of James Boswell, Samuel Johnsons biographer, an oversexed young man, who after contracting the clap the first time, resolved to always use condoms which at the time (18th century) were made of sheep's intestines. However, he found the experience unsatisfactory and suffered the predictable consequences.
The fish skin thing turns out to be more mundane. I did what I should have done in the first place: I asked my wife. It turns out that fish skin is used to make wallets and purses and similar things. Eel skin is the most favoured because of its durability and pleasing appearance. 13290. judithathome - 1/14/2005 4:38:39 PM Well, over here, people are wild for wall hangings with swathes of fish hide running through them. And trinket boxes covered in it, too. 13291. thoughtful - 1/14/2005 4:57:01 PM Maybe it's all about tanning fish.
I remember when summer would hit and i'd put my shorts on for the first time, my father would look at me and say, "You're as white as a dead mackerel." So maybe they want to get fish into tanning booths...I mean who are we to judge???? 13292. PelleNilsson - 1/14/2005 5:31:51 PM But mackerels aren't white, even when dead. 13293. PsychProf - 1/14/2005 5:34:19 PM Jackson Square, Cafe Du Monde...New Orleans at its best. 13294. thoughtful - 1/14/2005 6:07:00 PM They look pretty white to me.
 13295. PelleNilsson - 1/14/2005 7:41:28 PM To me they look black and green.
 13296. Ms. No - 1/14/2005 7:57:31 PM Ah, but if the mackerel is dead in the water it will float belly up in which case all you see is the white. 13297. Ms. No - 1/14/2005 7:58:44 PM My friend's Dumbek is made with fishskin. 13298. Magoseph - 1/14/2005 8:15:55 PM Your friend Dumbek, who is he? 13299. Magoseph - 1/14/2005 8:50:45 PM If you have a sec, go see in News the baby-hippo and his friend the turtle. 13300. judithathome - 1/14/2005 8:52:45 PM I'll bet you friend drummed that little bit of info into you, heh? 13301. thoughtful - 1/14/2005 8:54:52 PM Dear Pelle, Big SMOOCH.
I take it that's a holy mackerel! 13302. thoughtful - 1/14/2005 9:18:23 PM Mags, there is a family resemblance between them, no?
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