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Mike Hankey wrote: why isn't Bob pictured with a sewing machine?
Because he isn't a 75 year-old grandmother...
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Nor am I, but I can run a sewing machine, at least the basics. Enough to make replacement curtain liners for the house, and to put a new zipper in Herself's favourite raincoat.
They are complicated machines them: have a look at how they sew and it's amazing that anyone came up with it. Poetry in motion that bottom shuttle (or whatever it's called).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Your many talents never ceases to amaze me!!
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And you've never heard me sing!
For which you should be extremely grateful: People will walk hundreds of miles to get away from it! Indeed, most will run, with their fingers firmly in their ears, screaming "LA LA LA LA" at the top of their voices. Some will need counseling.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You're as good as me then.
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I bought a machine and make all my own backpacking gear. Very basic stuff but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than buying it.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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And probably a whole load better quality these days... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Absolutely. I sleep in a hammock and the tarps they sell barely cover the hammock and unless the rain is straight down you're going to get wet. So I made one that will not only cover well but I can cook and sit under it if a good rain comes...and it does rain in Florida. Also it's very light weight.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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The last three years BBC has run a competitive sewing programme (The Great British Sewing Bee). The vast majority of contestants have been under 35 with the youngest just 19. Sewing's big in Britain!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Although the winner of one season was 81 years old!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Aha! So you admit she wasn't 75! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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No, that was the runner up in the next season. She was 75. She died later that year, I believe. At least she got to do the competition.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Now you're just making stuff up!  You should know that I am a big fan so you'll not get these things past me ...
2013 Winner F81, Runners-Up F27, F48
2014 Winner F56, Runners-Up F26, F40
2015 Winner M37, Runners-Up F59, M46
There has actually never been a 75 year old contestant. I should however correct my previous statement about the youngest competitor who is in the current competition and is 18, not 19 as I typoed!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Aha! You passed the test!
I believe it was Lorna who was the runner up on season 3 who died later. She was actually 69, not 59.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Because sewing machines are all computerised, these days, so they're too technical for him.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So William Newton Wilson found the 1790 paintings of Thomas Saint in 1874 and built a working model.
But Walter Hunt invented the first American lockstitch sewing machine in 1832 and John Greenough patented the first sewing machine in the United States in 1842?
Then how was William Newton Wilson the first in 1874? 
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Maybe the key is "built a working model" v. invented / patented.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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No clothes, so he never learned to sew?
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Never thought of him as a...
sewer.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Single threaded or multi threaded sewing machine?
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Sew tell me; how long will this thread run?
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I resemble that remark!
Yes I'm a Bob with a sewing machine!
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The popularity of various forms of cosplay, steampunk, dieselpunk, etc. add up to a lot of people who want clothes they can't just buy. There are quite a few DIY and maker sites like threadbangers that show how to adjust and use sewing machines. At least one fabric store in the US has been marketing a line of "cosplay fabrics" recently.
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