Panache and the Great Hunt for the Acryli-Beast

[Splash_4]

A pink kilt and a red shirt.... Hmmm, he did SAY that it was maroon!

[starbkjrus]

A pink kilt and a red shirt.... Hmmm, he did SAY that it was maroon!

But....but.....but...a red shirt and a maroon kilt?!?!? My eyes, my eyes!

I won't go in the other direction. :blue_ban:

[BEEDEE]

But....but.....but...a red shirt and a maroon kilt?!?!? My eyes, my eyes!

I won't go in the other direction. :blue_ban:

Quite simply, the red shirt and pink kilt will make it easy to pick any of us out if we happen to get lost in the great white wilderness that is the Arctic. Panache is obviously a leader who cares about the safety of his companions before minor issues of color.

Brian

[davedove]

Quite simply, the red shirt and pink kilt will make it easy to pick any of us out if we happen to get lost in the great white wilderness that is the Arctic. Panache is obviously a leader who cares about the safety of his companions before minor issues of color.

Brian

Hmmm, could be, but if Panache dons a white parka while you're wearing the red shirt, it's because he needs a well seen decoy when encountering the great beasties of the north.

[Splash_4]

And let's not forget that a red shirt and a maroon (pink?) kilt will hide the blood stains easier. After all, skinning that great beast has GOT to be messy.

[starbkjrus]

And let's not forget that a red shirt and a maroon (pink?) kilt will hide the blood stains easier. ...snip

Ahhhh. But who's blood are we talking about?

[irishrob]

Methinks that the "red-ness" expressed by Panache, be it puce, carmine, titian, pink or maroon, may portend of dangerous things to come. Or is it just a red flag? Not to be confused with the red scarves worn when running with the bulls. Which of course has nothing to do with shooting the bull. Will he shoot an A-Beast or is more bull required?

Or could the "maroon" refer to a state of abandonment by the League of Moderators???

I, for one am bating my breath to see what Panache uses for bait.

Rob

[starbkjrus]

Methinks that the "red-ness" expressed by Panache, be it puce, carmine, titian, pink or maroon, may portend of dangerous things to come. Or is it just a red flad flag? Not to be confused with the red scarves worn when running with the bulls. Which of course has nothing to do with shooting the bull. Will he shoot an A-Beast or is more bull required?

Or could the "maroon" refer to a state of abandonment by the League of Moderators???

I, for one am bating my breath to see what Panache uses for bait.

Rob

Hmmm. Well Rob I'm not sure what to say about your batted breath. Does that mean you are hitting yourself in the mouth with a bat? Or eating one. Hmmm. Shades of Ozzy Ozbourn.

I just hate it when the red flad is raised and I have no idea what it means.

I guess the last question is whether the state of abandonment is permanent.

[way2fractious]

...bating my breath to see what Panache uses for bait.

Cute. This sort of wordplay (only one letter away from swordplay) just gets Panache going (or keeps him going. )

[BEEDEE]

I, for one am bating my breath to see what Panache uses for bait.

Rob

Rob's use of the term bating lead me to google the word. And I find that it is actually a tanning term and may, in fact, be useful to us should we find an acryli-beast and need to preserve the skin.

Bating
A process which is usually defined as "reducing" or "removing." The basic purposes of DELIMING and bating are to remove calcium hydroxide (or other alkali) from the skin, to lower pH, and, of great importance, to treat the skin substance with proteolytic enzymes so as to obtain desired grain appearance in the finished leather. Bating also serves to impart softness, stretch, and flexibility to the leather, while at the same time providing the basis for a clean, smooth grain by loosening scud consisting of hair roots, pigment materials and grease. It also eliminates all traces of the firm, plumped, and swollen state of the skin induced by the alkaline unhairing liquors by bringing the skin into a soft, fallen condition. Today bating is employed mainly in tanning light leathers, such as those used in bookbinding, where drape, flexibility, and softness of handle are of primary importance.

The origin of bating is somewhat obscure but probably dates back to the time when LIMING was not a common practice. It may have been originated by a tanner who noticed that skins badly soiled with dung often produced a softer, stretchier, silkier leather.

As recently as the early years of the present century, the process of bating consisted of immersing the delimed skins in water at a temperature of 35-40° C., and then adding a liquid paste of pigeon or hen dung. The skins were run in this liquor until they acquired a particularly soft, flaccid and silky handle. The finished leather was found to have a very smooth, clean flat, flexible grain and was very soft and stretchy. Considerable variations in time, temperature and quantities were used for various types of leather. The effect of bating was produced by enzymes, which, under appropriate conditions of temperature and pH, are capable of dissolving and digesting some of the protein constituents of the skin. In a properly controlled process they are given only sufficient time for further removal of undesirable interfibrillary proteins, or to modify or weaken those fiber structures which, by binding the collagen fibers tightly together, would cause the grain to be wrinkled and the resultant leather to have no stretch.

Today bating is accomplished by the the use of enzymes extracted from animal tissue, e.g., the pancreas of swine or sheep, or from microorganisms such as molds and bacteria, called respectively pancreatic and bacterial bates.

Perhaps we will be able to substitute penguin or other artic bird dung for the recommended pigeon or hen dung.

Brian