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Date: 2008-10-17 10:45
Subject: Some things stay the same, thank goodness
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This is Tony Del Ciello, from the Italian town of that  name, who lives mostly in Chicago these days and blesses us with a little chunk of life the way it could be.  Once a year he pedals this wagon through my neighborhood, ringing his bells, and people come out of their houses with armloads of knives, which he sharpens by hand on this stone wheel.  Dirt cheap, may I add.  I must have had twenty knives sharpened by him today.
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the laughing leaping water
User: minnehaha
Date: 2008-10-17 21:54 (UTC)
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I have only ever seen a tinker like that in Toronto. We bring our knives to France, where we know a guy with a stone wheel.

K.
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smokingpigeon
User: smokingpigeon
Date: 2008-10-18 00:52 (UTC)
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Holy moley. "We bring our knives to France." This is by far the schmantziest thing I have EVER HEARD OF!
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Jae Leslie, aka MaryRead the Pirate Queen
User: maryread
Date: 2008-10-18 03:40 (UTC)
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Mr S wonders where he goes the rest of the year, back to the old country for the winter? very old country machine. I give my knives to Mr S who takes them to the basement. In the off season he sharpens the push mower blades... sharpening chainsaws seem to be a continual work in progress...

(and how do you get yr knives through the airports?)
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