Thaddeus Weakley wrote: **********************************
Having *raised this hare* I felt compelled to find out more about the sundial of which a Google search has increased the information slightly as follows: > "Stephen Sterling, who has practices in Sunderland and Seaham, is > alleged to have performed acupuncture on a park bench and warned a > customer to "stop being a wuss" when he complained about pain caused > by the needles in his neck. > > He is also said to have fired an air pistol at a *clay* sundial and > urged the patient to do the same." Was it just soft clay or fired earthenware one wonders? It's all a bit surreal! It must be noted that park bench therapy including demolition and ballistics is not the norm in the UK. Tony Moss *********************************** > When you do your shooting, please be sure to remember to drop a couple > thousand extra dollars of tax money to your local municipality for > their replacement. Your prompt payment for the destruction of public > property may avoid you any charges and the ire of your tax-paying > neighbours.... > > --- On *Tue, 12/8/09, Carl & Barbara Sabanski /<saban...@escape.ca>/* > wrote: > > > From: Carl & Barbara Sabanski <saban...@escape.ca> > Subject: RE: Troublesome things these sundials! > To: "'Sundial'" <sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de> > Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7:21 PM > > I don't know why you all keep harpin about these shot up signs. > Every fall at huntin season my buddy and I use em to site our > rifles. So..what's the problem with this? There nice an > symetrical so you see how acurate the gun is. We like them hydro > pole insilators even better. We shoot at those for beers. So > don't complane about it unless you have tried it. > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de > [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de]*on Behalf Of *Thaddeus > Weakley > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:40 PM > *To:* Sundial; Frank Evans > *Subject:* Re: Troublesome things these sundials! > > Sounds like a lot of small-town middle America to me (when > they don't just steal the sign to sell for scrap instead). > Even if you can't read them, I suppose they're the next step > for marksmanship when moving from the broad side of a barn to > live targets.... > > --- On *Tue, 12/8/09, Frank Evans > /<frankev...@zooplankton.co.uk>/* wrote: > > > From: Frank Evans <frankev...@zooplankton.co.uk> > Subject: Re: Troublesome things these sundials! > To: "Sundial" <sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de> > Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 1:16 PM > > In this country ordinary road signs are often adorned with > graffiti. In > South Africa, not graffiti but bullet holes. > Frank 55N 1W > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
