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    Default WOODWORKING QUIZ for the 31st of Jan. 2005

    Good evening gentlepersons all.

    Another simple one but the NOD shall be given to the most illuminating reply.

    Please describe the application of a Chalk Line

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    Aha! You've been watching Lleyton for inspiration haven't you NotRalph.

    This is a very simple question!!

    Chalk lines are used to mark tennis courts on clay or grass, from memory, due to a distinct shortage of chalk on the old homestead we used lime and just pretended. Never mind, it looks like chalk.

    Today's synthetic courts have given rise to a lot of confusion for the kiddies though, as they are marked with paint, so the phrase "bringing up the chalk", once used to describe a ball which was hit on the line, will soon be lost.

    Of course if Beer were to be renamed Chalk, the phrase could be saved for posterity, albeit with a slightly different complexion.

    Not Ralph I thought this was a building quiz?

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    Chalk lines are a successful bus company founded in the Cobb & Co era when they started out with coaches and horses.

    Currently the great grandson "Young Chalky" runs the company in the family tradition of reasonable service. They use diesel buses now because the bitumen roads are hard on horse shoes.

    An application of Chalk Lines would be to use them if you didn't want to drive or fly interstate.
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    Sorry, but I thought the chalk lines were the lines that formed outside the dole office when the chalk mines closed down last century?
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    Gentlepersons all, please feel free to ignore the pathetic efforts of messrs Midge, C and Borer. Not only are their suggestions, dare I say "guesses", nowhere near the mark (pun intended) but their efforts are getting a bit over the line.

    In all seriousness, a chalk line is a very handy tool. Please some of you make an effort!

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    1. Here, hold this on the mark.
    2. Walk walk walk.
    3. Stretch.
    4. ##%**^ I said hold it on the bloody mark, OK?
    5. Stretch.
    6. Twang. , have you got any chalk?
    7. Walk walk walk. Thanks mate.
    8. Rub rub rub. (Stop sniggering)
    9. Walk walk walk.
    10. You on the mark?
    11. Stretch.
    12. Twang.

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    Interesting Mr. Mite, very interesting. I wasn't aware that we had worked together. Please elaborate!

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    Please accept my humble apologies NotRalph, I don't why I am so easily influenced by the others. I confess that my explanation of the chalk line was hatched in my feeble pathetic mind and that upon reflection it is not really that amusing.

    Thanks for pointing out to me my inadequate response.

    Chalk Line - it is like a Japanese ink line except they use chalk dust instead of ink and twang it like Termite explained. It is particularly handy trying to make a straight line on an irregular surface such as a log when you are milling it.

    It has nothing to do with bus companies or dole queues or tennis games.

    Can you please suggest a self inflicted punishment I can give myself to prove my remorse.
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    The first thing you need when tackling a "chalk" line is a large denomination bank note rolled up to a diameter slightly smaller than your nostril and then you work along the line sniffing up the "chalk" until all "chalk" is gone.

    HH.
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    Can I have the nod, can I, can I. Does the nod come with loosely pursed lips?

    HH.
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    Strewth you lot, put the poor old bloke out of his misery won't youses!!!

    A chalk line is a long line or stringused for setting out long straight lines. When coated with chalk the ends are held taut. While the centre is lifted away from the surface and allowed to spring back leaving a chalked , straight line on the surface. End of story!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopha
    Strewth you lot, put the poor old bloke out of his misery won't youses!!!

    A chalk line is a long line or stringused for setting out long straight lines. When coated with chalk the ends are held taut. While the centre is lifted away from the surface and allowed to spring back leaving a chalked , straight line on the surface. End of story!
    You stole my nod job :eek:

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    Quote Originally Posted by NotRalph
    Please describe the application of a Chalk Line
    All please note the original request "Please describe the application of a chalk line".
    So I reckon the nod is mine. So now you can address me as "That wood chewing NODDY bloody smart a#se".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopha
    End of story!
    Well no actually it's not.

    Prior to the first set of Nuptuals to be held at the Home of the Biting Midge, we decided to make a few Balinese style flags to cheer the place up a bit and make it look a bit more weddingy.

    My beloved sews a bit, and wasn't daunted by the 6m long 500 base triangles, but getting a straight edge over that length wasn't ever going to be easy.



    Tape the fabric to the floor in the hallway, bring out trusty chalkline, ping!

    Lovely red line exactly where she wanted it. Except that it went through the fabric onto the floor, rubbed off onto the sewing machine, smudged into all the white fabric and generally turned our whole house pink.

    Don't use construction chalklines on fabric. Stick to French Chalk, don't know what that is, maybe they use it to write their letters??

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    Quote Originally Posted by bitingmidge
    Stick to French Chalk, don't know what that is, maybe they use it to write their letters??

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