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briandg · July 17, 2017, 01:52 PM

You left out a very important Smith. The tinsmith. The guy who kept all of the cookware holding water. It also involved the tinkers, very few of whom were named Smith, who kept iron pots fixed before tin became common. As the world moved from iron, to tin, to steel, the thinkers were left behind, generation after generation. Despite common phraseology, their livelihoods were being eroded, and they actually did give a damn.

In fact, a little known event took place near allenville (later to be known as Allentown.) It's known as "the tinker's rebellion". Over a thousand unemployed tinkers took up their tiny tinker hammers and marched on a large group of steel workers. The steel workers were better armed and the uprising was quickly squelched. The thinkers "picked up their tinkertoys" and went home in disgrace. Many of the surviving tinkers relocated to wheeling, putting their tiny little hands to work at cigar factories, making the famous "wheeling stogies".

You don't have to take my word for it. We have the internet and the truth is out there.

July 17, 2017, 01:52 PM	#48
briandg Senior Member Join Date: May 4, 2010 Posts: 5,468	You left out a very important Smith. The tinsmith. The guy who kept all of the cookware holding water. It also involved the tinkers, very few of whom were named Smith, who kept iron pots fixed before tin became common. As the world moved from iron, to tin, to steel, the thinkers were left behind, generation after generation. Despite common phraseology, their livelihoods were being eroded, and they actually did give a damn. In fact, a little known event took place near allenville (later to be known as Allentown.) It's known as "the tinker's rebellion". Over a thousand unemployed tinkers took up their tiny tinker hammers and marched on a large group of steel workers. The steel workers were better armed and the uprising was quickly squelched. The thinkers "picked up their tinkertoys" and went home in disgrace. Many of the surviving tinkers relocated to wheeling, putting their tiny little hands to work at cigar factories, making the famous "wheeling stogies". You don't have to take my word for it. We have the internet and the truth is out there. __________________ None.