New to Flats

[willie]

Now don't get up set with the guys.  Most of them are nice and very good artist. Each one of us brings a great deal of knowledge to this club and that's the way it should be. We live all over the world yet we have a common bond we all love flats and painting them. Yes we joke and that's good for the club. Like I have said in the past this is a hobby and not  a foot race.  So I say to my fellow Flat Brothers across the Pond and here don't change. Is it true that Nick is from Digby and knows that Vicar I my self are heading to my paint table with a large Brandy Willie

[Larry Lee]

Hey Nick: Please don't invite me to your house for chili and beers   

[marko]

Sadly I think this our most active post area...


I guess that indicates something deep about our membership.

[Nicholas Ball]

Our new house is so badly built most of the toilets get blocked!! 

Do I get extra marks for originality and inganuity  ( certainly not for my spelling!!)

[willie]

First of all you boys have to much time on your hands As for nipples, I like them when they are hard but that's another subject. For eating paint you must have munch the paint on you lead soldiers when you where young this would explain a lot about you guys. Now fellow rocket scientist I have a physics college question ?  Since we are trying to see what way to twist off the cap of paint tubes. This my help you. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere how does your toilet water go down when flushed . This was a question asked in one of my college Physic class for my final exam Willie

[Nicholas Ball]

Touchez   J     Nice one 

[Joerg]

Well, in Australia, a paint's tube is opened clockwise (see "Alice in Wonderland, chapt.24, line 117)

J.

[Nicholas Ball]

Ah, but the first clocks were sun dials, and although they go clockwise to the sun in the northern hemisphere, they go anti clockwise in the southern hemisphere, so again in Australia it all goes backwards. Well they are really arn't they   

[PJDeluhery]

I wonder how artists knew which way to twist caps before there were clocks?  .

And now - something of my dangerous half-knowledge:

According to Sennelier's advertisment (spelled correctly ?)  there were first the clocks

Paints in tubes were invented only in second half of 19th century.

So - every painter, who owned a clock, had this knowledge when buying his first tube of paint.

Hope this helps.
Joerg

Thanks for the history lesson, Joerg.  That answers my question nicely.   

[Brian]

I didn't say I did not know what he's singing, I said don't ask me   

[Chris Seeley]

That's what he told us " my computer can translate anything because it better then yours" were his words.
Chris

[Nicholas Ball]

And I thought your computer could translate everything

[Chris Seeley]

thought you had the song off by hart Brian.
 
Chris

[Brian]

Now just don't ask me what he's singing 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOympMtG5Dk

[böckchen]

You just have Dart around the nipple by the tongue,
and with the small crank Bump up to the top;
there immediately appears an arrow
and as they press on it then,
and you're on the tube!

But only Dart around the nipple by the tongue,
and with the small crank Bump up to the top;
there immediately appears an arrow
and as they press on it then,
and already is on the Tube!
 
Mike Krüger Song