Sniggers for the day

Sound familiar?
Sounds plausible...
And speaking of sounds, what is most likely to cause a radio to skip stations or at least end up with a bunch of radio stations migrating in and out? Dial, rather than digital. Would like to know if it is location specific (the kitchen) or radio specific. Clock radio in the bedroom doesn't have this issue.

The things one reads while searching for smelter stuff...

Smelting thus takes place not only in a context of rich sexual metaphorizations; it is also surrounded by taboos imposing constraints on mixing the fertility of women with the fertility of the kilm. The blacksmith is prohibited from having sex during the smelting process. The compulsory celibacy for the smelters makes sense against the background of symbolic identification of the furnace as the wife of the smelters and the metaphoric association of smelting with sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse with "real" women is looked upon as committing adultery towards the metaphoric furnace wife.

At least this is refering to the Fipa people of Tanzania...
(Harland, R., "Technology, transformation and symbolism: Ethnographic perspectives on European Iron Working", Norwegian Archeological Review, 2004, Vol 37, No 1)

I really miss Uni journal access and subscriptions...