Quote Originally Posted by mike1011 View Post
Wait, hold on, I'm confused. It might be because I don't have an IQ of 180 but didn't you say you had "just over two pound of cro ox" and was looking for ideas to do something with it !
I was really interested to see where this experiment would end but it sounds like it already has
Don't worry I'll type slowly for those of you only in the double digits. The original purpose for buying the CrOx was to see what all the fuss was about, obviously I don't need two pounds for that. I lose focus easi... SQUIRREL!!!

Quote Originally Posted by Neil Miller View Post
Most of the Oleans barber hones (made for a bewildering number of companies bu a few companies in Oleans) were either 'cold' or 'hot' - the cold were liquid left to set up and the hot ones were baked. Earlier incarnations were indeed shellac, but thy did not hold up well. As Jimmy said, Randy is da man for this info.

Ah, Guitstik dear boy - I feel sorry for you. Only 180 IQ-wise? Such a shame.

My own is 140,140 - quite impressive, or so I am told. Mind you, I am afflicted with double vision... HAR!

Regards,
Neil
Neil, was that hot or cold pressed cement hones or just a clay/resin?

Quote Originally Posted by Razorfeld View Post
The ability to speak several languages has nothing to do with intellect, in my opinion. The are are probably millions of souls that easily command at least two. I think typical of speaking several languages are all the immigrants that came from Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. I'll take my family as an example. My father, my mother's parents and a couple of unrelated uncles. All from Eastern Europe. All spoke Russian, Polish, German, Czechoslovakian (grandfather only), Yiddish, Hebrew and English to varying degrees. I'd swear my dad's accent got worse the longer he was in America. My mother, while a hell of a lot smarter than people thought spoke only Yiddish and impeccable English. You have an ear for language or you don't.

(and by the way, my IQ, last time it was checked was 155. Thought of joining Mensa but I hate tests with a passion.)
I give the man credit, he is very intelligent but at the same time he does lack common sense at time. He is also like a big kid that plays pranks and thinks he is funny when he isn't. I am impressed with the fact that the man speaks five languages. There are not that many people that can do that but he was raised in Tunisia where there is a melting pot of languages to choose from but still only a small number of people that pick up that many dialects.