I have an idea...let's gather them all together and have a pincushion hunt...we could go to the White House lawn and have a pincushion roll...or I suppose we could dye them different spring colors and consider them the new symbol of spring...after all - isn't the tomato an ovum? Or does that introduce a whole other argument about whether the tomato is actually a fruit?
Sozobe - please forgive me - here is your pincushion...can I keep the pins?
Noddy24 wrote:A proper pincushion should be filled with emory--or at least sand--to take the rust off the pin shafts.
Emory is a given name, and should be capitalized. Emery is a fine-grained impure corundum used for grinding and polishing.
ok everyone, back away....noddy and set are gonna go at it.
anyone got any popcorn?
Chai wrote:Linkat wrote:I have some needles and a few safety pins, I keep in an old baby jar.
First of all, isn't "old baby" an oxymoron?
Second, that sounds none too safe for the old baby.
Well where else do you keep your old babies?
I once had a tomato pincushion. I think I thought it was too much trouble and then kept pins in a box. And then, and then, my friend Krista gave me a round wood 'box' that she had decoratively painted. Still have that. It looks particularly fine with those pins with the little colored balls at the end, specially since the inside of the wood box is a nice dark turquoise blue.
That Krista sounds like a very nice person.
I'll bet she doesn't put old babies in a jar.
Oh, noooooooo, she'd never do that...
she's a children's book illustrator among other things.
Would a children's book illustrator put old babies in jars?
Does that mean I'll never get to be a children's book illustrator, since I WOULD put old babies in jars?
I have one. A box of pins might be more interesting, though. Just poke your finger in, and see how many pins come back stuck in the end of your finger.
I think you're fibbing, cyphercat.
Roger, that's why you buy pins with little colored balls on the ends..
yeah roger, don't you know anything?
ossobuco wrote:Roger, that's why you buy pins with little colored balls on the ends..
Aaah, thanks! I'd thaught until now that was because you can hold them better on your mouth with those little balls. (I wondered about the various colours, though - but knows why women ....)
The colors help the surgeon find them after someone slaps you on the back, and you swallow a handful of pins.
Thanks, Walter, that really must be the reason. I just made that up about the little balls being so you wouldn't stab yourself with more ordinary pins...
also I figure it's easier, fractionally, to pick them up if you drop a giant box full on the floor.
If you spill them on the floor, they're easier to pick up if they're in a tomato
roger wrote:If you spill them on the floor, they're easier to pick up if they're in a tomato
Ha!
Yep, I've got one I inherited from my Mom. It's probably an antique!
Here is my old babies in jars - they don't quite look the same when babies get old...
And here is the baby when its new....
Set and Google agree and who am I....
