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sdsollod
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This is the fortune from my cookie today at lunch...

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly" [:Y:]

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Pat Foster
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Wise words indeed!

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Colin North
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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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SteveSmith
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Wise advice, especially to those of us that are prone to analysis paralysis. Doesn't matter how good you are, everything we do will have some imperfections, it's just a matter of degree.

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Brad Goodman
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Some newbie on another forum asked" do you guys ever make a guitar without making a mistake ?"...

I had to laugh!

I thought -My guitars are just a compilation of mistakes...and yet at the same time, they are perfect...
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My fortune cookie said; "Don't worry about a thing, nothing's going to be alright".
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[quote="a compilation of mistakes...[/quote]

I like that! Seems fitting somehow, at least for me.

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Ken Nagy
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There was a fortune in the drawer holding boxes of carbide inserts by the machine I run at work. Just laying there way in the back. It said I would make a decision that was long overdue. I was thinking about retirement. Finally, a few months later, they pushed me by wanting us to work 12 hour shifts. I'm done the end of June.

I make mistakes too. My wife buys the pink eraser tips for pencils because I wear them all out. I have a couple big pink ones too. Ever do jigsaw Sudoku's?

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Ruby50
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"It's only a mistake if you can't fix it"

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rlrhett
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Hanging on my shop wall:

"It's only a mistake if you can't fix it"

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Hmmm... I thought the saying was,

“It’s only a mistake if you can’t SELL it”.

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Clay S.
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A friend's Grandmother used to tell him "don't worry about tomorrow, you can't imagine how bad it's going to be".

The beauty of doing something imperfectly today, is it gives you something to redo tomorrow.
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Steve?

OMG... was that you? :D

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-wins-344 ... ie-numbers

I mean the guy is even in NC
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Unfortunately not me... all I got was a lousy fortune.

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Tai Fu
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sdsollod wrote:
This is the fortune from my cookie today at lunch...

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly" [:Y:]


We don't have fortune cookies in Taiwan, in fact nobody here heard of it

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

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Tai Fu wrote:
sdsollod wrote:
This is the fortune from my cookie today at lunch...

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly" [:Y:]


We don't have fortune cookies in Taiwan, in fact nobody here heard of it


No. They were invented in California.

It’s like when I took a Mexican friend for a burrito. He kept asking me, “what are these called? These a great! I bet I could sell these in Mexico. What did you say these were called?”


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