November 21, 2012
Luxury Lighter = Lot of Loot
I have a ZippoTM lighter but don't often use it. I couldn't find a regular lighter earlier and saw my Zippo on a table but it wouldn't light, so I then had to fill it full of fluid (and I had to look for THAT). The flint was gone, so I then had to find an extra flint. I had forgotten where I had put them (seems like forgetting is happening more often these days) but remembered I used to store extra flints under the felt pad where the lighter is filled. Sure 'nuff, there was an extra flint there.
It got me to wondering if the lighter fluid makes the flints soft when stored there; I had heard it argued both ways, so I thought I'd do a little research on it. I never did find any reasons against doing it but found several posts on forums by people saying that's where they stored extra flints.
Among the links were lighters for sale; I went to Amazon and saw some pretty good deals on lighters and thought I might put one of the less expensive ones in my shopping cart along with a few other things I had in there. At the bottom of the page there were links to external sites with lighters for sale and my jaw dropped when I saw this one:
Good grief, what would you light with that lighter? Cigarettes packed with 24K gold leaf? Pipes filled with shredded $100 bills? I know it's supposed to be a "work of art" and not used, but for that amount of money you could probably fly the Japanese artist over and have him paint one of the scenes as a mural on a wall in your house!
It got me to wondering if the lighter fluid makes the flints soft when stored there; I had heard it argued both ways, so I thought I'd do a little research on it. I never did find any reasons against doing it but found several posts on forums by people saying that's where they stored extra flints.
Among the links were lighters for sale; I went to Amazon and saw some pretty good deals on lighters and thought I might put one of the less expensive ones in my shopping cart along with a few other things I had in there. At the bottom of the page there were links to external sites with lighters for sale and my jaw dropped when I saw this one:
Good grief, what would you light with that lighter? Cigarettes packed with 24K gold leaf? Pipes filled with shredded $100 bills? I know it's supposed to be a "work of art" and not used, but for that amount of money you could probably fly the Japanese artist over and have him paint one of the scenes as a mural on a wall in your house!
November 20, 2012
fob
fob [fob]
noun
1. a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc.
2. a short chain or ribbon, usually with a medallion or similar ornament, attached to a watch and worn hanging from a pocket.
3. the medallion or ornament itself.
verb (used with object), fobbed, fob·bing.
1. Archaic . to cheat; deceive.
Verb phrase
2. fob off:
a. to cheat someone by substituting something spurious or inferior; palm off (often followed by on ): He tried to fob off an inferior brand on us.
b. to put (someone) off by deception or trickery: She fobbed us off with false promises.
My dad worked for an oil company as a pumper, taking care of oil and gas wells. His leases started playing out in the early 70's and I remember him once saying that they didn't produce enough oil "to grease a watch fob". The company he worked for sold the production to a German corporation and they thought they could coax more oil out of the half-century old wells, but after spending millions of dollars, couldn't.
So, the old company fobbed off the wells on the German one.
That's sort of what I do in here, fob off word definitions, quizzes and music videos in lieu of any interesting content.
1. a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc.
2. a short chain or ribbon, usually with a medallion or similar ornament, attached to a watch and worn hanging from a pocket.
3. the medallion or ornament itself.
verb (used with object), fobbed, fob·bing.
1. Archaic . to cheat; deceive.
Verb phrase
2. fob off:
a. to cheat someone by substituting something spurious or inferior; palm off (often followed by on ): He tried to fob off an inferior brand on us.
b. to put (someone) off by deception or trickery: She fobbed us off with false promises.
My dad worked for an oil company as a pumper, taking care of oil and gas wells. His leases started playing out in the early 70's and I remember him once saying that they didn't produce enough oil "to grease a watch fob". The company he worked for sold the production to a German corporation and they thought they could coax more oil out of the half-century old wells, but after spending millions of dollars, couldn't.
So, the old company fobbed off the wells on the German one.
That's sort of what I do in here, fob off word definitions, quizzes and music videos in lieu of any interesting content.
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