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Jim Smutek 2010 Aug 08 2 HAHL

Hi I have Two HAHL school wall clocks. NO bellows . VERY COOL CLOCKS brass movements work when you push down on plunger. Brass ring holds glass dome in place. Oak case. Metal face cracked like old painting LOOKS VERY COOL. What mite they go for?&bnsp; Jim       Can send pic.

Oh man I don't even know these things' worth.

 
Norm Karde 2010 Jan 02 clock

I have a very large Hahl Master Phne clock. I need information on the clock as to who can fix them and or make it run I live just outside of Sacramento Thanks again. Norm Karde 916 XXX XXXX

If you fix pneumatic clocks, you might get in touch with Mr. Karde. If you find someone called "rustyjnk", you probably found the right guy.

 
Liz Forletta-Williams 2007 Dec 02 forletta

Hi I'm a Forletta I was born & raised in Birmingham UK. My great grandparents came to UK from Southern Italy & we have carried on from there. Where are you from? I see all Forletta's are from S Italy.

Liz Forletta-Williams

Thanks to this email, I now know about as much about the origins of the Forlettas as I do about the Hoskens.

 
Jonathan Hoffberg 2007 Sep 28 I also was wondering what happened to Josh Putnam, fellow Berkeley alum

and was curious to see if J.Heath was indeed one and the same. I was able to locate a pic of J Heath, which looked a lot like how I would guess Josh might look now. He appears to be engaged in the breeding of exceptionally tasty pigs in Spokane, WA.

I wonder if anyone would have predicted this.

See www.woolypigs.com for more info.

Pork borker? Broker?

 
David Ing 2007 Jul 29 Last referrers onto coevolving.com blog

Larry,

This probably doesn't require any action on your part, but I thought you might like to know. 

It seems like a spambot likes coming from the trackback you created at  http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/comment/big.html follows through to attempt to leave a spam comment via [the coevolving.com comment-post page], at the rate of about every 30 minutes.

This appears to be a well-known problem at http://www.theblog.ca/?p=64 .

I'm not experiencing any issues from the activity on my web site, because I've got anti-spam (Akismet) working ... but this explains how the blog comment spam comes onto my site.

For your interest, here's what I see on WP-Shortstat:

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Here is my site's new advertising slogan: "The robots trust lahosken. So should you."
  Ian Hosken 2007 May 28 RE your web page

You mention "My father Leonard Hosken was born in Hayle Cornwall England." and "Is anyone reading this related to William Hosken who emigrated to South Africa in 1874?He was my Great Grandfather's brother".

Unless I am mistaken, based upon knowledge of my research, I am indirectly related to the William Hosken through a brother whose decendants migrated to Australia, where I live.

Ian Hosken

I guess I don't know how to make it clear which words on this web site are mine and which ones are written by other people. Oh well.
  Renee Blake 2006 May 08 Can I speak with you?

Ms. Pastrick,

I am working on a story for KUNM concerning your former boss being ousted from the International Space Hall of Fame.

I am looking for someone who will speak up for him. You seem supportive based on the comments on your site. Would you be willing to take a short call that I could record?

Thank you,
Renée Blake

Wow, a former Nazi can't catch a break these days.
  Renee Blake 2006 May 08 Can I speak with you?

Ms. Pastrick,

I am working on a story for KUNM concerning your former boss being ousted from the International Space Hall of Fame.

I am looking for someone who will speak up for him. You seem supportive based on the comments on your site. Would you be willing to take a short call that I could record?

Thank you,
Renée Blake

Wow, a former Nazi can't catch a break these days.
  Rob Pfile 2003 Nov 09 comment

doesnt this guy know about realultimatepower.net?

Your search for "ninjas +are" retrieved the following items:
Ninjas are Forever. By: Turtleninja.
Ninjas are SUPER saucy
ninjas are good
Ninjas are Every Where!
Ninjas are so much better than pirates it's no longer funny.
Ninjas are really quiet and run on the tips of their toes some times.
ninjas are a sneaky lot.
NINJAS are tried to defeat me but it will not have been happened!!
  Fredrik Astrom 2003 Jan 11 ???

I went to your page looking for info about the proximity fuse

it sickens me how disrespectful you speak of soldiers who died in war. Men with families and children..

When I asked him to point out the disrespectful remark, he replied:

the meatball analogy for instance when you spoke of the effectiveness of the proximity fuse.

...so he was probably talking about someone else's comment, not anything that I wrote. That's the second set of comments in just a few weeks from someone confused about who wrote what in these Comment pages. What layout would make the context clear?

Then again, I don't think the so-called "meatball analogy" is disrespectful if you read it in context. Maybe Mr Astrom and I read things differently.
  Merilly Maddux 2002 Jun 17 comment from Brazil

Hi!! do you have the address for the Hosken in Brazil? I wrote to him over 4 years ago, and lost touch when we quit using the web for awhile. I am Merilly Hosken, and was glad to find out I had a distant relative in Brazil, and would like to get back in touch with him.

And you?? Are we related too? My grandmother swears that all Hosken's are related, since few of us still spell it that way. Are you from a hispanic origin? I grew up in Mexico, and wondered if you were from Mexico too, or maybe your parents just like the name Luis Eduardo! Never know, I married a guy from Brazil, and we made up one of our kids' name, so you can't always tell, right?

I'd like to hear from you, see if we can figure out whose great uncle married whose great gramma or whatever! Take care, and thanx.

If my last name was "Chan," I'd get mail like this every day.

  Cesar Forletta 2002 Feb 24 forletta

je vous ecrit pour avoir l'adresse e mail de querquemon forletta car q'elle fut ma surprise en voyant le message dans ma boite au lettre au sujet de sa fille rhonda forletta dans la page NM99partH de plus je n'ait jamais ecrit cela ce qui m'a fait plaisir c'est que m querquemon forletta a ecrit ca le jour de mon anniversaire ouff mon nom est forletta cesar

merci de me repondre
ps je ne parle pas anglais

I previously made a pun "Forletta word". I would now like to follow up by saying "Pardon my French." Thank you very much.
  Rob Shields 2001 Jun 30 dickhead?

I was searching the web for the string 'you're a dickhead' and, interestingly, your page came up first in all search engines. I assume that you are from the US (judging by the email address) but the term 'dickhead' is most widely used in england - more so than in the US. I think we have a case of net induced globalisation here.

Nice hair, by the way :-)

Later that day, he wrote:

I love the poem about winzip - very original concept :-)

When I first set up these web pages, I didn't dream that I could achieve the honor of being the web's most widely-acknowledged dickhead. Do I get a trophy? Do I even want to see the trophy?
  Tom Manshreck 2001 Jun 22 ???

> I don't think Chris hooked up with [Tom].
> I think Tom had moved to Brooklyn.

Indeed. Too bad for Chris.

-Tom

P.S. Rather distressing that approximately 50% of the hits for "(Tom | Thomas) & Manshreck" are on your site.

I suspect the real reason that Tom wrote me was to subtly point out that I'd spelled his name wrong. I fixed that. But only you can fix the situation regarding "Manshreck" web hits. More of you people need to write stuff about Tom.
  Matt Armstrong 1999 Jun 18 ???

I couldn't help but notice that the Adam Rich picture on your site's comment page really sucks. The ones on stargalaxy.com rock.

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