Cracked my ball

From: Gobfounded (YVE)26 Mar 2009 19:20
To: TheCelticScribe 2407 of 2579
I found that last year and most of the links were dead :/
From: milko26 Mar 2009 20:50
To: TheCelticScribe 2408 of 2579
I remember one me and Xen and Andy and possibly others did, I got banned for a bit over it. Since this happened around the time of the 'milko imposters' it was quite amusingly hard trying to convince anyone I was me under a new ID. Ah, what a thread though. And it'd been done at least twice before as well.

IS THE CAT OK??????????
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)26 Mar 2009 22:24
To: william 2409 of 2579
Oh dear, Delphi wants me to register :(
From: koswix26 Mar 2009 23:12
To: milko 2410 of 2579
Hmm. How do we know that this /is/ the real you? Allwe have is your word for it.
From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)27 Mar 2009 01:42
To: milko 2411 of 2579
I'd forgotten about the milko impostering. That was funny.
From: milko27 Mar 2009 02:50
To: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 2412 of 2579
Yeah. Do it again, saves me having to express opinions on things!
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)28 Mar 2009 00:03
To: milko 2413 of 2579
B-b-but you're so good at ummm ahhhh whatever you think's best! :((
From: william 9 Sep 2009 13:17
To: Mouse 2414 of 2579
When you say a Manthorp's ball type crack do you mean as in this thread?
From: Mouse 9 Sep 2009 13:59
To: william 2415 of 2579
The very same.
From: william 9 Sep 2009 18:23
To: Mouse 2416 of 2579
I wonder if he's whittled anything lately - other than his whittling fingers?
From: Mouse 9 Sep 2009 18:30
To: Manthorp 2417 of 2579
Hello, I'd like to commission you to whittle me a pair of buttocks.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 9 Sep 2009 19:49
To: Mouse 2418 of 2579
For a moment there my eyes saw 'll' until they focussed properly. Either way, you'll sound like you're playing the castanets when you walk.
From: Mouse 9 Sep 2009 20:37
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 2419 of 2579
That would be awesome.
From: Manthorp 9 Sep 2009 22:21
To: william 2420 of 2579
I am whittling a snail in horn and Tagua nut on an African Blackwood stand. Just got the snail's body to go. I'll post pix when it's finished.

But mostly I whittle multimedia installations with GreyHair now. We're in the process of filling a bus shelter near Ricard00's gaff with CGI mermaids.
From: Manthorp 9 Sep 2009 22:23
To: Mouse 2421 of 2579
Everybody at the Meat will get splinters.
From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 8 Oct 2009 15:09
To: Manthorp 2422 of 2579

Can you whittle me a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma?

 

I would prefer persimmon, on a rosewood plinth.

 

Also, my religious observances prohibit me from paying for materials or labour.

EDITED: 8 Oct 2009 15:10 by RENDLE
From: Manthorp 8 Oct 2009 17:57
To: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 2423 of 2579
I have knocked up a maquette in sculptor's wax and posted it into your sense of the ineffable for approval and amendments.
From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 8 Oct 2009 19:00
To: Manthorp 2424 of 2579
Ew, that's not sculptor's wax!
From: Gobfounded (YVE)12 Nov 2009 19:33
To: ALL2425 of 2579
Just sticking this thingumy from the crafts council here for people wot likes breaking balls. (or any other "crafty" stuff.)
From: Manthorp12 Nov 2009 22:56
To: Gobfounded (YVE) 2426 of 2579
Good one Yve. I went all political on their basket-woven arses:

quote:
Craft matters to me - but the Crafts Council took a philosophically and tactically indefensible decision years back when it chose to nail all its colours to the mast of a contemporary art-inspired model of avant gardism.

If the Crafts Council wishes to survive (and in so doing, support the craft pathfinders) it should look to the Japanese model of a balanced approach that enshrines and celebritises masters of traditional craft forms, whilst playing the avant garde against them.

It's not a particularly taxing concept: It's a spurious Coke Vs. Pepsi deathmatch, with the avant garde defended by the young and self-consciously trendy and the traditional by the older and crustier. It doesn't matter a damn who is higher in the ratings; what matters is that the Craft Council annexes both camps. Once it holds that position it doesn't have to defend the one against the other: it owns both.