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Old 03-15-2007, 11:20 PM   #10 (permalink)
dizzyizzy
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Re: Tech Advice - Leadpipe "coating"

Thanks.

I KNEW there were reasons NOT to do this, but you know "how" your mind wanders on long drives...and it was a thought.

I'll check into the silver though in future rebuilds.

Since some of you were enjoying my screen name...it was HONORABLY earned and given to me. Last name begins with "Is..." How earned?

Former law enforcement type, in which everyone "earns" a nickname. Ancient years ago I responded to a postal burglary and the bad guys had cut thru the roof to get in. I was young, dumb and a newbie...so while my Training mentor did the crime scene below...I went out..figured out "how" they did it...and...shimmied UP a gutter pipe to access the roof to check out that part of the crime scene.

Now...back then...we all wore suits. So I had on a very good 3-piece suit, in which I went climbing up a nasty gutter to get to the hole that had been bashed through the roof/ceiling. When my training mentor came out...he was standing in the alley below...and I was standing on roof, explaining all the stuff I had found...and (without thinking), I enjoined him to "Come on up!". While I was watching...he slowly looked up and down at his own impeccible suit...raised his head to me...and just said..."Izzy...You're dizzy...ain't no way I'm climbing up a gutter..." etc. And the name stuck...30-some years later. The mentor and his partner were actually known in WNY law enforcement circles as Batman & Robin...and I ain't makin that up. So...unfortunately, it has nothing to do with honoring Mr. Gillespie, (don't I WISH I could play like that!)
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