Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 20, 2018

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    whahoppened  about 6 years ago

    ’Twould be useless to tell me to suck it up if I was hung like Steve. If that rope slips, Steve is going to get a tonsill..tonsele….sore throat.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Different ideas, is it? Not different opinions, or tastes, or even approaches, but ideas? Steve is obviously a member in good standing of the Ballard Street Pulley Club. Word has it that he’s angling, and I use that word advisedly, to be the new Club Veep. And you know that traditionally, this year’s Veep is next year’s Pres.

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    DennisinSeattle  about 6 years ago

    Sandy appears to have become accustomed to Steve hanging around. But she is making chicken noodle soup tomorrow. Let’s see Steve get that up his straw.

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    DennisinSeattle  about 6 years ago

    Is that an extra eye-bolt in his pocket? Pulley Club members have their own way of accessorizing.

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    Superfrog  about 6 years ago

    Sandy gets most of her points for style while Steve gets his for degree of difficulty.

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    Kind&Kinder  about 6 years ago

    It’ll put hair on his chest, and then he will be Wooly-Pulley. Alert Sam the Sham!

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    GROG Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Nobody ever advertises about the soup you can eat with a straw.

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    the lost wizard  about 6 years ago

    Just hang in there long enough and she may come around to your way of thinking.

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    Farside99  about 6 years ago

    I like Steve’s thinking, I may have to try it myself. Maybe set it up at a formal dinner party so we can all try it. Nothing like it to break the ice — I’m sure the party will be the talk of the year.

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    J Short  about 6 years ago

    Steve is having the Alley-Oop soup.

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    whiteheron  about 6 years ago

    I am back Ballard. Florence has gone on her way…Thank goodness. Cleanup to do. No major repars though

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Pulley Club members can think of a reason to use their pulleys and harnesses… as they like to say… “Every Day in Every Way.”

     

    In fact, along with the official club logbook, there are several other books and documents kept by the current Club Secretary,

    and passed, annually, to the new Secretary, if one is elected, at his (or perhaps one day, her ) inauguration ceremony.

     

    There’s a scrapbook of photos, of course, an equipment guide, and several well known books on the uses, repair, and safety aspects of pulleys and pulleying….

    Plus a hand written book of pulley advice and lore….

    added to with great ceremony when a member comes up with something the other members decree “Lore-worthy.”

    Such an addition is usually proposed for inclusion by a fellow member who was not the author of it….

    and voted upon by the chapter.

     

    Steve…. and even Sandy…. were very proud when, two years ago, Steve’s bit of wisdom about soup was ceremoniously added to the Book of Pulley Lore.

    He wrote….

    “The eating of SOUP is a naturally suitable occasion for the use of pulley gear,

    and is to be approached from a position above the table….

    because, as any student of pulleys can easily see….

    the name of the dish is actually a command to rise:

     

    So UP!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 6 years ago

    And that’s why she makes the soup: great entertainment on an otherwise boring evening.

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    comixbomix  about 6 years ago

    It appears that Steve prefers to think of it as “swoup”…

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    ChessPirate  about 6 years ago

    Pulley? I don’t even know he…

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    marilynnbyerly  about 6 years ago

    Steve must have strong lungs. Using a straw on a hot liquid is just about impossible.

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    WCraft Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Tom Cruise in his later years…

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    Perkycat  about 6 years ago

    This has got to be more preferable than picking the dish up and slurping the soup….quieter, too.

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    DCBakerEsq  about 6 years ago

    You should see him eat gumbo.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Steve is doing a scientific experiment to see how much he can suck.. a project every man needs to do at least once.

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    chromosome Premium Member about 6 years ago

    I would like to see how different languages handle the consumption of soup: drinking, eating, or some other verb?

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    Iwa Iniki  about 6 years ago

    Hope his straw is paper and not plastic. Save our ocean life.

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    Coyoty Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Steve’s ideas are very different.

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    dixlog42  about 6 years ago

    That rope lift system can’t possibly work. It is missing a fixative.

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