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2008-08-06, 8:36pm
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Borovangelist
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...you might be a boro glass ho.
If you go weak in the knees at the announcement of a 30% off sale for any of your favorite boro manufacturers.....
If you can tell the difference between two nearly identical but different colored rods by the way the sunlight glints off of 'em......
If you can tell the difference between Raven and Onyx without even putting rod to flame.....
....you might be a boro glass ho.
What are yours?
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2008-08-06, 8:59pm
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Know-it-all Megalomaniac
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Here's mine, based on watching Brent work with soft glass
at the last Glass Stock:
"if you're making a bead out of soft glass, and you take it OUT OF
THE FLAME, look at it, think a while....paw around through some
other rods looking for a particular color, and hear voices in the
background saying "OMG - what the hell is he doing...he forgot he's
using soft glass....holy crap....he needs to flash that back in the flame...."
...and then you hear the unmistakable "CLINK" of a bead that has gotten too
cold.
...and then you realize that you're a boro ho.
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2008-08-07, 4:17am
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boro color bender
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Yeah... I'm a boro ho. How many soft glass "coaches" did I have behind me? Then We had to switch beads with our partner... that was a fun event. I so wish I was able to make it back this year. Give everybody my very best.
You might be a boro ho if the vases in your house all have color rods in them, instead of flowers.
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2008-08-07, 4:18am
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boro color bender
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oh and most of the pencil holders have a short rod or two as well.
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2008-08-07, 4:49am
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Gimme that silver glass!
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Join Date: Oct 12, 2007
Location: The Netherlands
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I went all crazy with a 50% sale on momka glass... I'm a beginning boro ho and an advanced glass ho . No empty vases here anymore .
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2008-08-07, 6:16am
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50% off on Momka?????!!!!!!
That's when you know you're a boro ho. When a statement like that makes you feel dizzy and weak.
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2008-08-07, 6:49am
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Gimme that silver glass!
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Join Date: Oct 12, 2007
Location: The Netherlands
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Originally Posted by teachertracey
50% off on Momka?????!!!!!!
That's when you know you're a boro ho. When a statement like that makes you feel dizzy and weak.
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Yep, but I think it's a bit more expensive here in Holland than in the USA. www.fritenglas.nl (choose Englisch language ).
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2008-08-07, 6:53am
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In search of her path....
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holy crap i havnt been able to torch for over a year now (with exception of visit to a studio here or there) and seeing that 50% off momka made me go weak in the knees and start for the search engine to see if it was still going on! I guess yes I am STILL a boro ho.
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2008-08-07, 7:39am
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Borovangelist
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Once you go 33 you're never free?
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2008-08-07, 10:06am
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Button Queen
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Join Date: Jun 13, 2005
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oh and most of the pencil holders have a short rod or two as well.
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Or you dig in your purse for a pen and fish out a glass rod or 2...
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2008-08-07, 10:25am
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Boro newb
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Join Date: Jun 26, 2005
Location: Havendale, FL
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Oh, y'all are amatuers.
Come back when you've donated $1,400 worth of clutter... er... priceless treasures... to get $200 back on your taxes to buy glass... next year LOL!
Yes... I did LOL!!!!!
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Mom's silver store...
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~Anything you can do I can do... kinda.
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2008-08-18, 8:04pm
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Mandrel Slayer
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Join Date: Jul 27, 2006
Location: The Third Coast
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I'm your understudy. I sold my 104 COE so I could buy more boro at the Gathering. I still have 90 & 96 as a savings plan.
Bonny
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Oh, y'all are amatuers.
Come back when you've donated $1,400 worth of clutter... er... priceless treasures... to get $200 back on your taxes to buy glass... next year LOL!
Yes... I did LOL!!!!!
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What happens in Rockland, stays in Rockland.....
Hellcat, Two M-15s, propane and finally no tanked oxy.
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2008-08-19, 4:47am
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funny mofo
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Join Date: Nov 25, 2007
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Or if you spend uncounted hours at the studio -- for which you pay by the hour -- and you don't actually make anything, you just play with your new striking colors to see how they strike. And you play games like the one in which you cut 3 rods of the same color in half and see if you can flame strike them to six different shades. And everyone else around the table is talking about how many beads or pendants or whatever they've made, and you look down and realize that for the same amount of time your output has been a whole bunch of rods with slightly different colors at the ends. And yet you really don't think you've wasted your time.
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2008-08-19, 5:01am
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Pyromaniac
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Join Date: Aug 12, 2006
Location: Memphis, TN
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You're a boro ho when you look up at your car and think, "Hmmm, that color is exactly the color of Unobtainium."
You're a boro ho when you are turned on by the thought of liquid oxygen and fantasize about having it!
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Sexy Barracuda and Mirage
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2008-08-19, 5:23am
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Dead man walking
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Join Date: May 07, 2007
Location: In my pants
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ginkgoglass
You're a boro ho when you are turned on by the thought of liquid oxygen and fantasize about having it!
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That's the truth!!
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Burning anything that moves and doesn't on a GTT Kobuki & Herbie 50mm/Smut Pedal/Tanked O2
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2008-08-19, 5:50am
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traumaqueen
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ginkgoglass
You're a boro ho when you look up at your car and think, "Hmmm, that color is exactly the color of Unobtainium."
You're a boro ho when you are turned on by the thought of liquid oxygen and fantasize about having it!
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So true!!!
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2008-08-19, 6:41am
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Senior Member
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ginkgoglass
You're a boro ho when you look up at your car and think, "Hmmm, that color is exactly the color of Unobtainium."
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Never done anything like that....
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2008-08-19, 6:58am
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yukue fumei
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Quote:
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You're a boro ho when you are turned on by the thought of liquid oxygen and fantasize about having it!
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yeah! One day.....
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2008-08-19, 2:16pm
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yeah! One day.....
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Yep, all that and a big 'ol kickass shiny new torch too!
Vanessa
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2008-08-19, 4:55pm
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Boro Brat
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When you collect GTT torches even though you don't have a space for each of them in your studio...
When every schedule in your kiln goes to 1050 or more...
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2008-08-19, 5:56pm
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yukue fumei
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2008-08-20, 8:21am
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traumaqueen
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sexiest in glassland
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2008-08-20, 11:28am
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yukue fumei
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Hi Suzanne!!
OMG! Your Etsy store is dangerous!! I LOVE it! All the different styles you have in there and all the selection!! I couldn't resist!!!
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2008-08-21, 1:31am
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traumaqueen
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Denise how sweet!!!! Thank you ever so much
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2008-08-21, 6:22am
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Dead man walking
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When you collect GTT torches even though you don't have a space for each of them in your studio...
When every schedule in your kiln goes to 1050 or more...
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ROFL......Lynx, Mirage, Kobuki and a Herbie in a year, oh yeah I'm a Bo Ho...
(Brent at Blue Fire Beads during a demo) "If I had Elvis I could show you all something"
(me - student) "I have it, which one do you want light or dark?" Yeah I'm a bo ho....
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2008-08-21, 8:42am
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"Bo Ho"! That is so funny- I like it!
Vanessa
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2008-08-21, 9:06am
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yukue fumei
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ROFL......Lynx, Mirage, Kobuki and a Herbie in a year, oh yeah I'm a Bo Ho...
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That's a serious BoHoHoHoHo!
I want a Kobuki torch tooooooo!!
(I'll be a Boohoooohooohooo until then LOL!!)
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2008-08-21, 10:19am
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You might be a boro HO if the HO you thought of had nothing to do with Hostess HO HO's! lol
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2008-08-21, 10:51am
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Dead man walking
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If you come to Chicago some day Nagi you're welcome to come over and play. I've got tubing 50mm down to capilary clear up to 30mm and most of the colors from GA, NS and Momka. Got a bunch of frit, powder, dichro, silver, gold....damn i have a lot of sh*t lol
I'm just getting into custom tube pulls.....man I love glass!
Oh yeah I have a lot of Moretti, the artist pack from BE, and a lot of the silver glass including 2 lbs of original Terra....*gasp*
I guess I'm just a Ho lol
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2008-08-21, 11:07am
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yukue fumei
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