Sorry Ken, I will try and keep the OT conversation on the same OT track.. ;-)
Dave On 6/1/2010 8:23 AM, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > Hey guys, can you try to keep this on topic? > > This topic is about the history of fly rods. :-) It is NOT about how old > a house has to be to be considered old. > > Seriously, though, if you could change the subject heading when you > change the subject, that might be useful. Also, if you could put OT is > the subject line, that might also be useful. > > Regards, > > Ken > > On 5/31/2010 8:19 PM, Dave wrote: > >> On 5/31/2010 4:20 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: >> >> >>>> The estate I bought it from was quite old - the house was 150+ years old >>>> etc. The guy was in his late 90's when he died. I've had it for >>>> 10+ years now. >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Ok, totally off topic, but you got to redefine "old estate". The house I >>> live in is about 100, and that's a young house. My parents live on a farm >>> with 350 years on its neck. And that's not old either. ;) >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Here in the new world .... in the midwest USA, old, IMO, is anything >> over 100... ;-) The house across the street from me was built in the >> 1840s and rebuilt in 1910 (since it was getting old then), it is sort of >> a house within a house. >> >> That house is considered really old around here. When my sister >> bought a house a few years ago, she insisted on a new one.. Now her >> house is 12+ years old and considered an older house by many ... (not >> me.. ) >> >> I've been to Rome where I seen the shopkeepers often hold open the doors >> with a piece of carved Roman column. Some there, would consider your >> parents farm relatively new! >> >> I was running Ubuntu 8.04 but that was pretty old (2 years! ). So I >> started using 9.10 (less than a year old). But that was getting old, >> so I loaded up a copy of 10.04. >> >> So it is all about perspective I suppose. :-) >> >> FWIW, I'm not sure they actually had fly rods 150 years ago. >> >> Dave >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
