> Quite a picture - tall hairy guy whacking away at >on the top of someone's keys. (I'm not sure he realizes that you may elect >to pound them out of the piano - let's keep him going on this one!) > >Terry Farrell --------whack------------------------ >> >> Why so squemish about wacking a balance rail punching.? <g> >> >> Roger Jolly --------whack------------------------ All right you guys. Given the difficulties inherent in maintaining uniformity of swing, placement, and angle of impact with eighty eight consecutive whacks, it (ahem) strikes me as a somewhat less than optimal approach. That's not even taking into account that some folks probably shouldn't even be handling sharp objects - like hammers, in the first place. <G> Consider too, the necessity of working on a suitably solid surface so you aren't chasing a handful of leaping punchings around the bench top immediately losing track of who's been whacked, and who has not. Not a pretty sight. The future revenge of the return of the unwhacked will likely be as severe as it will be inconvenient. Whacking on the floor carries it's own peculiar requirements and hazards. To get down there where you can work requires either hunkering, or outright sitting on the floor. Since sitting requires sweeping a much larger area than is required for hunkering, it's the less attractive of the two options. Hunkering, on the other hand, carries with it the hazards of loss of balance (and resultant falling into unswept regions), or losing all feeling in your legs from the knees down, rendering self elevation to standing height somewhere between painful and impossible, and the likelihood of stumbling into possibly severely unswept areas much greater. The risk is too great. Just say no to whacking. Ron N
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