A small town. The local Legion has live music on Friday evenings. I play there maybe 6 to 8 times a year. Friday night there were a couple of guys in the crowd who also play there from time to time and their musical interests overlap with mine. As I said, the requests for particular artists or songs were popping up and with a lot of the songs they were singing along. I grew up learning to play Gordon Lightfoot, came to Stan Rogers later, but have a catalog of Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens and Jim Croce. We finally closed the place

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Nice Les. Were you named in honor of Mr Paul? SmileWavy

Hopefully not Lester Moore! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/chix.gif

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Nope. My competence with the guitar doesn't run that far. I play enough to back up my voice.
Being the 7th son, they were running out of family names, so I got named for one of my father's cousins. ;) Middle name from one of Dad's uncles.

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The child actor with the shark fin (appears at 1:14 in this clip) was just made Police Chief on the island in Martha's Vineyard where Jaws was set. What a great movie!

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https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2022/05/16/oak-bluffs-names-jonathan-searle-new-police-chief

im 3 pages in and dig it. we in the MPF have a random junk thread that the regulars participate in and it rules.

may i participate?

Why not. I started this to cut down on the number of threads that go nowhere. It's like the island of lost topics.

To keep the thread "Island of the tropics" style...

Do you like my new fingernail polish. I like it, but I don't think I'll do the others.

It's not a good look, a grown man nearly crying.

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Bill, I think you have a hit on your hands!

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Les

That's some bad hat, Harry.

You probably saw it coming about a nanosecond before the hammer fell. At least it's better than catching your sack in a zipper.

I remember hitting my thumb with a hammer as a kid. Went to the doctor and he took a very small drill bit and by hand drilled a tiny hole into the top of my nail, over the bloody area. As soon as he pierced the nail it was like a fountain as the blood squirted out. Immediate relief. Put some antibiotic on it and a bandage and I was good to go.

cat helping out with vole eradication....


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still a losing battle currently.

As a kid I smashed my big toe and broke it in 11 places. The nail was black in no time, and it hurt like hell. My mom took me to Tripler Army Hospital. I knew I was in trouble when 4 LARGE orderlies walked in. The doc heated up a needle in a Bunsen burner to glowing red, and the four orderlies split up to hold either a leg or an arm and pin me down to the table and told me not to move. The doc pressed the glowing hot needle into my toe nail, and it squirted blood almost to my knee, and it was almost organismic at the instant relief from throbbing pain.

They put me in a cast up to my knee.

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This is me in my cast receiving a Tortured Toe award in the spring of 1969.

Thanks Cairo and Glenn. A friend told me about the hole in the fingernail trick yesterday. I wish I'd known it at the time. I dropped a big steel beam on it :eek: The bone must be OK or it would be still hurting now.

Every time I have smashed a finger, I use a sharp knife to dig a tiny hole through the nail. Instant relief.

Thanks guys. Good information for next time.

Steve, that looks like a modern day version of medieval torture LOL

Had a similar experience with the bunsen burner thing…finger was throbbing so bad my hand was bouncing off the bed that night so went to ER and got that treatment. As you said, instant relief. The next time the ER guy had a thing that looked like a ball point pen and with a little click it poked a hole in the nail and no more pressure. Finally graduated to using carburetor jet drill bits and doing it myself.

Another way it can be done....
As a kid, the Dr. used a small alcohol lamp and a sewing needle on my toe nail.
Heated the needle up good and it melted thru the nail easily. Felt no heat and it was fast.