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<blockquote data-quote="MacFromOK" data-source="post: 3639318" data-attributes="member: 40864"><p>Lol, yeah... I tried cutting a circle around one of those at the Texas state fair when I was 16, and almost got it done. So I tried again, and guess what... there weren't near so many BBs loaded into that one. <img src="/images/smilies/biggrin.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>My oldest brother taught me to "never play the other man's game" when I was 17. He was foreman at the shop where I was tire-man for a small trucking company (we had a dozen or so tractor-trailer rigs leased to Pillsbury).</p><p></p><p>Someone had left a mule shoe in the break room (lol, this was in the '70s). We were passing it around (mule shoes are a good bit different from horse shoes), and I commented how thick/heavy it was.</p><p></p><p>He said, "I bet I can bend it with my bare hands."</p><p></p><p>I popped off and said, "I bet 5 bucks you can't."</p><p></p><p>So we went out into the shop. He laid the shoe on a metal bench with just the curve hanging off, and heated the curve red-hot with the torch. He then picked it up by the ends and proceeded to bend it open an inch or two (the steel table had absorbed most of the heat from the ends).</p><p></p><p>Being the big brother he was, he refused my $5 bill, then told me to never bet on another man's game.</p><p></p><p>He passed the day after Christmas in 2012. I still miss him.</p><p><img src="/images/smilies/new/drunk.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":drunk2:" title="Drunk 2 :drunk2:" data-shortname=":drunk2:" /></p><p>___</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacFromOK, post: 3639318, member: 40864"] Lol, yeah... I tried cutting a circle around one of those at the Texas state fair when I was 16, and almost got it done. So I tried again, and guess what... there weren't near so many BBs loaded into that one. :D My oldest brother taught me to "never play the other man's game" when I was 17. He was foreman at the shop where I was tire-man for a small trucking company (we had a dozen or so tractor-trailer rigs leased to Pillsbury). Someone had left a mule shoe in the break room (lol, this was in the '70s). We were passing it around (mule shoes are a good bit different from horse shoes), and I commented how thick/heavy it was. He said, "I bet I can bend it with my bare hands." I popped off and said, "I bet 5 bucks you can't." So we went out into the shop. He laid the shoe on a metal bench with just the curve hanging off, and heated the curve red-hot with the torch. He then picked it up by the ends and proceeded to bend it open an inch or two (the steel table had absorbed most of the heat from the ends). Being the big brother he was, he refused my $5 bill, then told me to never bet on another man's game. He passed the day after Christmas in 2012. I still miss him. :drunk2: ___ [/QUOTE]
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