Consulting the Metallurgy Oracle

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an seanduine wrote:It´s all good. :D
Try telling my nose that.
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Seriously, this just shows how energetic these copper ions can be when they are freed up. :thumbsup:

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an seanduine wrote:Seriously, this just shows how energetic these copper ions can be when they are freed up. :thumbsup:
No kidding. I assume that the unpleasanter aspects of the aroma had much to do with the scrubbie operating in a soup of hot water, dish soap, and food particles. I know the smell of copper well, but this was rather of a different order.
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If you can find any one thing positive in your response to the smell of your copper scrubbie, it would be this: you still have a sense of smell. . .your olfactory bulb is intact and has not been attacked by the Covid-19 Virus.

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Nanohedron wrote:This pebble wouldn't get out of my shoe...
I don't believe I've heard that one before, but I like it. Considering said pebble's reluctance to leave, you must be wearing lineman's boots.
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Dan A. wrote:you must be wearing lineman's boots
My brain has this annoying habit of immediately playing, internally, songs at the least provocation. No sooner had I read that phrase than Wichita Lineman started up. Great song, so no problem there. Could have been much worse.
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Dan A. wrote:you must be wearing lineman's boots
My brain has this annoying habit of immediately playing, internally, songs at the least provocation. No sooner had I read that phrase than Wichita Lineman started up. Great song, so no problem there. Could have been much worse.
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Dan A. wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:This pebble wouldn't get out of my shoe...
I don't believe I've heard that one before, but I like it.

I thought the metaphor was well known. It's certainly venerable; goes all the way back to the invention of shoes, I believe. A late friend used to colorfully call a persistent annoyance a "raspberry seed in one's cavity". Evocative, but cumbersome to say, so I can't borrow it.
Dan A. wrote:Considering said pebble's reluctance to leave, you must be wearing lineman's boots.
Or I'm not trying hard enough to take them off.
an seanduine wrote:If you can find any one thing positive in your response to the smell of your copper scrubbie, it would be this: you still have a sense of smell. . .your olfactory bulb is intact and has not been attacked by the Covid-19 Virus.
So it has been reduced to this: "Even your dog abandoned you? At least you have your health."

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