As I sit here I am watching the Red Green on the television. As always there are tools and men who do not know how to use them. Remember the right tool for the job may be efficient. But beating something to death with a hammer is more fun. By the way if you are from Canada you have a great country. I loved living there and had much fun. As David Foley once said Canadians are just like American just with fewer guns. By the way I have spent some time in rural Manitoba so that is not entirely true. And you know who you are.I wanted to take some time to answer some question from emails.
Yes, No, No, Blue, 12, large Mouth Bass. Well I hope you remembered your questions.
I am sorry, just kidding. Someone wanted to know what my sign off meant at the end of my entries. Well, “Keep your Stick on the Ice” is something that little kids are told in hockey all the time. It is against the rules so making people do it is telling them to be fair. Also it is the sign off from the Red Green Show. Before the Red Green show an old clown I know used to tell his apprentices to keep their stick on the Ice. This is also super Canadian. The first part of it is from Sgt. Phil Esterhaus from Hill Street Blue. Possible my favorite television show. He would also finish the morning briefing with “Let’s be safe out there.”The second question was what makes me so great. Actually it was not that flattering. They were referring to my email and instant messenger names Zeeppo_the_great. Well as a Master Clown my rank is Master. Well Master Zeeppo just does not sound right. And there is also the obvious white guy going around with the title Master. Any way when I had my Troop rather then call our Masters, Master on paper we put the great after their names. It has a show biz ring and does not offend anyone.
Some one also asked what my church is. Well I am a member of The Salvation Army. My individual church is The Salvation Army Steel Valley Corps. By the way being an Army we do not call our churches churches was call them Corps like in an Army.
If you have questions feel free to email me. Some months it is the only contact with the outside world I have.
As for actual knitting stuff I have a picture of the Black bag creeping along.
Be safe out there and keep you stick on the ice.
4 comments:
welcome to the army Zeppo
Greetings from the shellharbour Corps NSW australia. I am sure if you have been to my blog in the last week or so some things may have seemed real to you, andyes explaining the Army to some is hard.
i knew what "keep your sticks on the ice" meant. what i didn't know whas that readers would have the stones to ask you about your church. how brazen. thanks for sharing.
Well thank you for the welcome to the Army. I have been in it for ten years. It was the only consistantly welcomeing church when I was in the Circus. And I really like blue suits.
And Velma i don't really care if people are curious about my church. i gives me a chance to remind people we are church first and a thrift store second. We do have a bit of a pr problem in that regaurd in the States.
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