[AT] 'farmer' Francis Robinson

Sat Jan 28 23:14:43 PST 2017

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Dean VP
Apache junction, AZ

It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. 

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Subject: Re: [AT] 'farmer' Francis Robinson

I'll venture it's slang for loved or cared for. You can chop wood with a
cold axe but you might damage it but if you take some time and warm it a bit
a fire it won't be as likely to

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017, 9:27 PM <rlgoss at twc.com> wrote:

> Got a question for you guys.  This is VERY OT and I can't think of any 
> way to bring a tractor reference into it.  Have you ever heard the 
> slang expression "warm chopping ax?"  This occurs in a couple of 
> letters that were written just prior to the 20th century by some young 
> people.  These were farm people who understood how to cope with the 
> technology of the day; cook stoves; firewood; butchering chickens; 
> elementary animal husbandry; etc.  I have been unsuccessful at finding 
> a definition for it.  It could be used in all innocence, but I suspect 
> that it has a fairly bawdy connotation.  The whole sentence is: Give 
> your warm chopping ax my love, and your little warm one too.  The 
> writers were in their teens and early 20's.
>
> Oh wait! This writing predates farm tractors by a couple of decades.
> (There's the tractor reference.)
>
> Larry
>
>
> ---- Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Last year I replaced the wood furnace in the house with a new larger 
> > one that also has blower forced firebox air and automatic controls 
> > including
> a
> > remote thermostat. I pushed the old one (still in excellent 
> > condition)
> back
> > in a corner until I could move it to the farm shop. That didn't 
> > happen
> yet
> > so that is what I am doing this week. May need to get Scott to help me.
> > Once it is in place I will be able to heat the shop up fairly 
> > quickly so
> I
> > can work in there the rest of the winter and early spring.
> > Go ahead, ask me how many doctors, specialist and medical 
> > technicians you can see in a day...  :-) I had always hoped that we 
> > would just get old
> and
> > fall over someday without dealing with all of this nonsense.
> > The Coq10 has apparently done a lot to repair some of that muscle 
> > damage done by the Atorvastatin at maximum dose. Now if I could just 
> > find something to deal with my arthritic spine.
> >
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Cecil Bearden 
> > <crbearden at copper.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I deleted my Facebook account 3 days ago and all those calls I 
> > > used to get from solicitors quit!!!!
> > >
> > > Cecil in OKla
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/28/2017 1:09 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> > > > Yeah, I'm still kicking...  :-)  Just not as high or as fast.
> Facebook
> > > has
> > > > gotten kind of out of hand and I no longer accept any friends 
> > > > there
> and
> > > am
> > > > going to cut some and some groups I am on there. More than once 
> > > > I
> have
> > > > considered dropping it completely. I would if it were not for 
> > > > family contact I never otherwise see.
> > > > I still try to keep this list read but sometimes it gets a week
> ahead of
> > > me.
> > > > I have not shown any tractors for some time but would like to again.
> Son
> > > > Scott and I get to about 3 nearby shows a year.
> > > > I have more to post but it's 2:00 AM and my drive belt is 
> > > > starting to slip...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Stephen Offiler 
> > > > <soffiler at gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> robinson46176 at gmail.com
> > > >>
> > > >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Gene Waugh <gwaugh at wowway.com>
> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> Thanks, I will see if I can locate him.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Gene
> > > >>> Elgin, Illinois
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Sent from my iPhone
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> On Jan 25, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Stephen Offiler 
> > > >>>> <soffiler at gmail.com>
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>>> Still around... he posted something on his Facebook page two 
> > > >>>> days
> ago.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> SO
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Kenneth Gene Waugh <
> > > gwaugh at wowway.com
> > > >>>> wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> Does anyone know the status of farmer (Indiana)?  I for one 
> > > >>>>> have
> not
> > > >>> heard
> > > >>>>> from or of him for ages.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Gene Waugh
> > > >>>>> Elgin, Illinois
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> > --
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> >
> > Francis Robinson
> > aka "farmer"
> > Central Indiana USA
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