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[Gossamer]

Don Jose, you haven't answered the question I posed a week or so ago... I told you I could/would be out to where you live within 24hrs to see the cave paintings you spoke of.. so what's up with that.

Janiece

 

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[Oroblanco]

Don Jose', Dueno de Real y Minas de Tayopa wrote:

I N L E V I S !!!!

Levi's are made of canvas, Levi Strauss was a tent-maker who saw an opening for his skills so used the canvas normally used for prospectors' tents to make up some pants, and the rest is history. However the jeans are still made of tent canvas. People just don't usually think of BLUE tents today.

Don Jose' a la Mancha wrote:

Odd, but I would think that it would be the other way around (* heheh, you narcissistic, sheep lover)

Con-sarn it now how do you expect me to even know what these big words even mean? Narcissitic? Excessive self-love? At what point would it become "excessive"?

Gossamer wrote:

OK, this is for everyone.
What is the best (in your opinion) book on the LDM legend?

I second Cubfan's recommendation, but my personal favorite was "Curse of the Dutchman's Gold" by Helen Corbin. (Still haven't gotten a copy of her latest.) I would add a second book, for a completely different (and arguably the most misleading version) "Thunder God's Gold" by Barry Storm. BTW Janiece you have certainly not been "bugging" me!
Oroblanco

 

[Gossamer]

AH thank you Oro... I've been so distracted by research that I've not contributed much here.
On Sunday I'm heading up to Williams, AZ to visit my uncle, and hopefully will be able to scout around.
Janiece

 

[Oroblanco]

I hope you will keep us posted if you should find anything interesting, Janiece? I won't be here pestering (irritating) folks for a week or so starting Tuesday (a wedding to go to) so will have to catch up with things after we get back.
Roy

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

MI ORO: you posted -->

Narcissitic? Excessive self-love? At what point would it become "excessive"?
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I don't really know, ask our mutual friend BB. Excessive and obsessive are mutually tied together.
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You also posted -->

Levi's are made of canvas, Levi Strauss was a tent-maker who saw an opening for his skills so used the canvas normally used for prospectors' tents to make up some pants, and the rest is history.
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A slight addition to your post. He used the "sails" from the hundreds of abandoned ships in the San Francisco harbour in the 1850's to make them and the tents. They were free for the taking.

Don Jose de La Mancha

p.s. no boozing, just the toast.

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Gossi mi linda amor: right now would be a bit err ah inconvenient. The Drug groups are fighting for control in that area. many many dead so far, so relax.

For a nice "treasure"I could see risking a pretty gal like yourself as a "trade off, bribery item", but for the cave? rather keep you for myself.

I wonder if they would cnsider some of ORO's sheep?

Don Jose de La Mancha (twirling my handle bar moustache)

 

[Old Dog]

Gossi mi linda amor: right now would be a bit err ah inconvenient. The Drug groups are fighting for control in that area. many many dead so far, so relax.

For a nice "treasure"I could see risking a pretty gal like yourself as a "trade off, bribery item", but for the cave? rather keep you for myself.

I wonder if they would cnsider some of ORO's sheep?

Don Jose de La Mancha (twirling my handle bar moustache)

And you call yourself a saint....(snicker)

 

[Oroblanco]

Real de Tayopa wrote:

I wonder if they would consider some of ORO's sheep?

Sheep? I don't own any sheep, sorry to say. My boss has sixty or so, but hundreds of cattle. I would think a beef cow would be worth more in barter than a sheep, wouldn't it? It might even be possible to arrange so that no cowboy would be in the area for a few hours, allowing the roundup and loading of said livestock without risk of flying lead - for a reasonable price..... Shall we discuss what is reasonable?

Oroblanco

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

RT,

Excessive is "just until you need glasses"

B

 

[cactusjumper]

B,

Excessive is actually not taking time out for food, drink or sleep.

Take care, and get a bite to eat now and again.

Joe

 

[Gossamer]

Ah Don Jose... I can talk myself out of most anything... including Federales stopping the train I was traveling on with a group and storming it. I know the ways of bribery and I'm well versed in that art.

I'm also adept in dealing other kinds of 'treasure seekers.'

Life is full of negotiations.

As for the history of Levis... President 'Teddy' Roosevelt was instrumental in a certain change in the way they were made... the first of the design had a 'stud' right at the seam in the crotch (below the zipper). He was sitting around the campfire when he suddenly felt a searing heat just where ya' don't want to.

He spoke to Levi and spainled' his discomfort... thus changing the design.
Cowboy's rejoiced everywhere. LOL

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Hi Gossi LUV: Please clarify -->

the first of the design had a 'stud' right at the seam in the crotch (below the zipper). He was sitting around the campfire when he suddenly felt a searing heat just where ya' don't want to
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??

Side thingie, they put the rivets on the backside for the pockets. When one backs up to the camp fire to warm the lower, posterior section of their anatomy ---- sheesh try pulling tight levis with hot rivets away from yer tender err ah butt !!!!!!!!

Don Jose de La Mancha

 

[Gossamer]

I heard the story wrong... here is the real one... LOL

The story of the copper crotch rivet on the 501 jeans is a case in point. According to company lore, copper rivets were added to the Levi jeans pockets and seams in 1873 to protect the pants from ripping under the weight of a miner's tools or, in the words of a Virginia City prospector, ''nuggets bigger than your thumb.'' But when jeans became fashionable in the 1930s, the denim-clad smart set discovered that the rivets on the back pockets scratched chair backs, the paint on the hood of a car, and anything else the wearer sat on. The back-pocket rivets were removed, but despite occasional complaints from cowboys, the crotch rivet remained. In the late 1930s, Walter Haas Sr., the company president, went on a fly-fishing trip wearing a pair of 501s. One night he squatted close to the campfire, which heated the rivet. In the whooping war dance that followed, Haas the president met Haas the customer. A week later the board of directors abolished the copper crotch rivet by unanimous vote. As the copper rivet anecdote suggests, the achievement and preservation of product excellence take common sense, diligence, and attention to details -- as they always have. What is different today is that the pursuit of quality, whether in planes, pacemakers, percales, or pianos, is no longer voluntary. If U.S. industry expects to win still more customers and market share, it has no choice but to improve its products. For the customer, quality is irresistible. For industry, it is essential.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/03/28/70366/index.htm
LOL... keep breathing, laugh a lot
Janiece

 

[Gossamer]

aaaahhhrrrggggghhhh.... where is everybody?
Janiece

 

[Oroblanco]

Well to borrow a phrase from the movie Poltergeist,...."They're heeeere!" ( heh heh - couldn't resist that one.) For some reason our fellow T-netters are being awfully quiet.
Oroblanco

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Here Gossi Luv, Oro: Just got power and water bk today. Have been off since Sunday night at midnight. No of dead still unknown.

Don Jose de La Mancha

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

As promised: Da Da!!!!

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Sheesh BETH, a typical sheep herder, needs his hair cut, etc.

Dopn Jose de La Mancha

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

(cough, cough)

That IS with his hair cut


B

 

[Oroblanco]

I hereby PROTEST that clearly OFF-topic post!

Sheepherder? If only that were the main job, or better yet the ONLY job. Sheep are not that big and not likely to kill you and/or break bones. Unfortunately, the sheep are very much a sideline on the ranch, the larger and more dangerous critters take up the vast majority of the time. So far, the sheep have taken up a total of three days of work in the past year, the other critters - well I lost count. Oh well, I am only filling in until a real cowboy can be found. (Hopefully some time soon. ) I am beginning to wonder about our resident Saint......

Oroblanco