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Bakelite can sure be used for a lot of different things, something that I did not realize until now.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 28, 2012 at 9:25 AM
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Hard to be a sprite and not be able to transport around so well,,,but glad they succeed anyway, one step at a time. I am very fond of bluebells. 
posted by
mariss9
on March 28, 2012 at 6:58 AM
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Adnohr, I had just finished my accounts, of course not be a perfectionist like yourself. I have found that cutting eight in half makes two zeros. Please do not encourage all these little rascals I even had parrot in jeans it hopped straight through the window and wanted to know about cowboys. 
posted by
C_C_T
on March 28, 2012 at 6:52 AM
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Jay Goodness I hope you are right, at the moment I am having a job to climb up the stairs. I was silly really I decided to dig the garden over rather than the use the machine it is a lovely little bit machinery I will post a picture of it one day for you to see. I don't know whether to try the first cut of the grass tomorrow, I shall have to go steady. Hope you're all right and sweets or serving their purpose.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 28, 2012 at 6:44 AM
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Love your imagination, CCT. It's great fun, and your kind of writing makes it even more so! Please do write more about Chumpet, and Violet, and Granny Green-Bottom...and just more about this world you have created for us!
posted by
adnohr
on March 28, 2012 at 4:14 AM
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CCT I am afraid that one day you will go out on one of your story gathering walks and never come back and it will all be blamed on Chumpet. These are great stories, keep them coming.
posted by
UtahJay
on March 28, 2012 at 12:02 AM
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Re: Sprites, trolls and gnomes oh my, lol!
Ray it was an early form of plastic, I was just thinking if this had been 40 years ago I could have said it there was little boy sitting outside the factory, and of course little Chumpet had to be different from Pinocchio all those old guys have stolen have stolen our ideas.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 27, 2012 at 11:17 PM
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SAm sorry I was a bit of a misery, I had a touch of migrain. I have been two days trying to get figures to add up and then it was a loss. I took a chance yesterday I filled all my tanks and tubs with tap water, I am on the meter so I have to pay for it, but after 31st of March we will not be allowed to use a hose. It would be just my luck if it rained all the weekend
posted by
C_C_T
on March 27, 2012 at 11:12 PM
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Re: Sometimes if you go junque shopping in thrift stores and
Pat I expect your dad was glad to eat the waffles as he listened to the radio. I seem to remember everyone was glued to the news. I used to get bundles of strips of Bakelite was thrown away from a nearby factory, I was always finding a use for it, but I did not like the smell probably it was treated afterwards, but when one reads what it was made it makes one think.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 27, 2012 at 11:05 PM
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Justi according to the blurb it was an early form of plastic, some of it retained a strange smell yes I remember seeing it as decoration, but mostly radios etc.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 27, 2012 at 10:59 PM
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Re: CCT
Wiley I might have need of you them if this little chap has a tummy ache.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 27, 2012 at 10:54 PM
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Re: I think I just took a read through the parallel world which is most
Kabu I guess so, but Arthur never looks in my cupboards I have given him two of his own. It has been so hot for here for March everyone thinks summer has come, but I think that is wishful thinking.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 27, 2012 at 10:53 PM
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Re: CCT
Well Bill I have got this space between my ears.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 27, 2012 at 10:47 PM
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CCT
A nice play on time and space sir. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on March 27, 2012 at 10:32 PM
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I think I just took a read through the parallel world which is most
interesting, exciting even. No don't let Arthur know, he may have trouble understanding. Gnome life here is showing a restlessness to be outside.
posted by
Kabu
on March 27, 2012 at 6:00 PM
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CCT
Bakelite used to be used for holding electronic parts like diodes and resistors a long time ago.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 27, 2012 at 5:54 PM
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Oh I had no idea Bake-Lite had so many industrial uses. It is very collectible in costume jewerly, hair brushes, combs, dresser sets etc.. Write some more about your half-breed spirit and Bake-Lite.
posted by
Justi
on March 27, 2012 at 1:39 PM
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Sometimes if you go junque shopping in thrift stores and
country barns, you'll find Bakelite handles on heavy aluminum pots, or electric cords that are covered with a stretchy kind of snake-patterned weave that have Bakelite plugs holding the two prongs that go into the wall. I remember a waffle-iron like that, something mother bought out of spite because father brought home a radio from the ship's store, even though she'd expressly told him she wanted to make Danish waffles. It was war time, and a gunner's mate can lose his focus when he's on manuevers.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 27, 2012 at 12:08 PM
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It's a world unto itself in your entertaining writing! I so enjoy these tales! sam 
posted by
sam444
on March 27, 2012 at 12:06 PM
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Sprites, trolls and gnomes oh my, lol!
Such a fun and informative read, CCT; I had never heard of Bakelite, sounds as though it is indestructible.
posted by
Katray2
on March 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM
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