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ReinMan

Location: Kingston, ONTARIO, CAN

Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:09 am   Reply with quote         


Though many people curse and find fault with the common Canadian Kitchen Stove (mostly found in low-rental housing and run-down cottages by the lake) there is a grand and exciting history to the act of "chopping" these fine pieces of culinary cooking equipment.

Over the past century or so, manipulating images of the Common Canadian Kitchen Stove has become a favorite pasttime for those that enjoy manipulating images of Common Canadian Kitchen Stoves.

In 1923 Albuck Dersticle made the first attempt at one of these manipulations, or "chops" as they are now known in Professional circles. Taking his Aunt Hortense's needlework picture of the family woodstove Dersticle wove pretty ribbons and bits of fishing line through the original needlework to create an image of the 7th circle of hell, as imagined by Dante.

At first, this meant nothing to the world.

But as friends of Albuck started coming by for their regular acquisition of certain fermented fluids (which he quietly sold to them from the shed out back, which coincidentally was where his mother had banished the (to her) now tarnished needlework image) they started commenting on how interesting and exciting it was that Albuck had changed a Common Canadian Kitchen Stove image into something more bloody and hellish. This lead many of them to find their own images of stoves and to attempt "chopping" of them.

Strangely none of these original "chopping of the stove" images have survived to this day. It is well documented in unknown diaries and on pieces of napkin that have since decayed that many many people over the following decades attempted their own creative and time-consuming "choppings" of their beloved and easily available stoves.

It is good to thank God today that this wonderful and entrancing hobby has stayed with us through the years and it is currently reaching a Renaissance in certain circles of creative and bored people at such stunning sites at PhotoshopContest.com. Though there are some that say this is a "dead art" and a "complete waste of my time because I prefer chopping spatulas or cobs of corn", there are still many many others that rejoice that they have the opportunity to continue in this old and somewhat ancient feeling tradition that, in its own way, honours the Common Canadian Kitchen Stove.


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Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:49 am   Reply with quote         


Whaat? Shocked




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Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:26 pm   Reply with quote         


Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

nuf said




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Location: Peaksville, Southeast of Disorder

Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:29 pm   Reply with quote         


I'm really sorry about your kittah




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Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:41 pm   Reply with quote         


Glad you posted this RM. I was wondering the entire time... Laughing




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YerPalAl

Location: On Deck, South by Southeast

Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:15 pm   Reply with quote         


PHOOEY!!

I just think this is another case of . . . .

STOVE CHOP STRESSING!!

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Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:33 pm   Reply with quote         


first i thought u just joking with the name albuck.

I thought that name was formed by c0mbining mr yerpalal and mr bigbuck.
Jk. Laughing




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ReinMan

Location: Kingston, ONTARIO, CAN

Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:57 pm   Reply with quote         


YerPalAl wrote:
PHOOEY!!

I just think this is another case of . . . .

STOVE CHOP STRESSING!!

Twisted Evil


Razz Laughing





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Glad you got that one. Very Happy




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Alex

Location: Montreal

Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:18 pm   Reply with quote         


I have already chopped a stove and found myself pretty happy after.
That chop had WIN written all over it... Such a waste.

Cool

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ReinMan

Location: Kingston, ONTARIO, CAN

Post Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:29 pm   Reply with quote         


that was a true story, y'know? Neutral




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Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

Well said and great story RM. Rolling Eyes




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