Forget about the previous notion for writing a constitution and declaring war. It's too late— we have a 14th member, anonos who has this suggestion: "Hi...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 25, 2006 3:29 pm
There are fifteen of us now on the good ship lollypop-pop-steamboats. Our newest member is a model builder and an artist. I won't tell you his name, but have...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 26, 2006 5:22 pm
We have another member, grumpygrady, by name at least. Now we are sixteen and never been missed—pissed— how does that go? Old Frank...
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jamesgardiner516
jamesgardine...
Jun 26, 2006 10:08 pm
Hella folks Lee Valley Tools in Ottawa Ontario Canada, sell pop up boats at christmas time for many years. Jim G...
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Charles Duggie
mineadmiral
Jun 26, 2006 10:16 pm
Hi; I went to the informational links and read up on pop-pop boats. I don't know if these boats could be made large enough to carry radio control gear. How big...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 26, 2006 10:37 pm
Hi Jim, I checked it out and found this at http://tinyurl.com/pyrtv Bargain price too! Best wishes, Frank McNeill ... ...
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grumpygrady
Jun 26, 2006 10:52 pm
just wanted to say hello i think the group will take off soon i have built one or two pop pop boats and most people can...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 26, 2006 11:03 pm
Hi Chuck, I will field that one because I think I know the answers. The late Peter R. Payne, mentioned in the pop-pop pages, is reported to have experimented...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 28, 2006 3:08 am
Our seventeenth member is Dr. Cherla Sastry, founding Director General of The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Dr. Sastry retired from that...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 28, 2006 4:02 pm
Our eighteenth member is Mr. Arun Kumar, a former associate of Dr. Sastry at INBAR, and now the Information Coordinator for the Centre (an English word meaning...
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james gardiner
jamesgardine...
Jun 29, 2006 1:02 am
Hi Uof T is in Toronto ontario Canada, I live just out side JG From: "Frank McNeill" <frankmcneilll@...> Reply-To: pop-pop-steamboats@yahoogroups.com To:...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 2:04 am
Thanks for the information. Best wishes, Frank ... Hi Uof T is in Toronto ontario Canada, I live just out side JG ... From: "Frank McNeill"...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 2:31 am
k1hop is our nineteenth member, scared me at first because I thought it had something to to with the International House of Pancakes where Charles Manson and...
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Russ R
k1hop
Jun 29, 2006 5:02 am
Nice touch to welcome members, Frank! I might point out that K1HOP are my "ham radio" call letters... which I've had since 1958. There are many "hams" in...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 8:18 am
Thanks Russ, We have another crew member on the good ship lollypop-pop- steamboats who uses his call sign as a Yahoo ID, Dale Hayes, also known as kd7lyn. We...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 10:57 am
bigswede073 is our Our twentieth member, a juvenile type who plays with trains. According to my friend Google, bigswede073 is a professor of mathematics who ...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 6:02 pm
Buzz McMillian is our twenty first— or twenty oneth— member. Buzz is the proprietor of "Buzz's Boatyard" and the only guy I know of who is doing...
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Art Port
artp10306
Jun 29, 2006 9:07 pm
AHA! I have found a crossover interest! I belong to the Bamboo Rodmakers' Listserver and we often have questions with respect to the physical aspects of bamboo...
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cherla sastry
cherlasastry
Jun 29, 2006 9:19 pm
Dear Friends, Presently, I am on a holiday in California and do not have ready access to a computer or my library. I will be happy to answer queries.. if I...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 9:32 pm
Hi Art, Based on what I know about Dr. Sastry, I am certain that he would be interested in replying to questions about bamboo. I don't know if he monitors...
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Art Port
artp10306
Jun 29, 2006 9:39 pm
Thanks Frank, We're a pretty esoteric group. We know what we're doing and how to do it, but not always WHY it works. That depends on the structure of the grass...
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buzzsboatyard
Jun 29, 2006 9:43 pm
Hi Frank, et al. I'm Buzz from Buzz's BoatYard and I can help you find a lot of information on pop pop boats. Chuck, you are quite right about that huge pop...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 9:43 pm
A friend who has inside information about emerging technologies has told me about a small company that plans to go public in a few days. The company has ...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 9:49 pm
Hi Art, Apparently Dr. Sastry does monitor our chatter because he was faster off the mark than I was. Flyrod construction is probably more of a domestic...
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buzzsboatyard
Jun 29, 2006 10:20 pm
Hi Chuck, This is Buzz from Buzz's BoatYard. I posted a few minutes ago but I don't see it anywhere now. You can certainly put r/c equipment in a pop pop...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 10:50 pm
Hi Buzz, That report that I et al isn't true, I got out of the cannibalism scene several months ago and never ate anybody named al that I can recall. Thanks...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 29, 2006 11:30 pm
Sorry about this Buzz, but I zipped past the reference to the "cheaprc.com" you're working on. Please post a link to it in our links section when it's ready...
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Art Port
artp10306
Jun 30, 2006 1:59 am
Thanks again, Frank, To give you an idea of what's already out there, you might take a look at: http://www.bamboorodmaking.com/ to see how we do such magic. ...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jun 30, 2006 4:42 am
Thank you Art for this URL, I added a link "Bamboo Rod Making Tips" so it can be found after this string has passed out of sight, and as the saying goes, "out...
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Frank McNeill
frankmcneilll
Jul 1, 2006 3:15 am
Our twenty-second crew member is np2153, a. k. a. Richard Jenkins. His cool links indicate that we have one more fan of anachronistic technology among us. Some...
