quiltinglady-1

Manalto, have you never heard the use of "plug it up" before? I have used it and "plug it in". Different areas of the country and world uses different terminology to describe it.

LilRedRocker, please post a picture of your new-found toy. I have never been lucky enough to find a sewing machine for free. Happy sewing.

maviskw

Would love a picture of the machine. You're sooooo lucky.

Rodney

LilRedRocker congrats on your find!
Don't let one ill considered comment ruin your day.
Rodney

Manalto

Sure, but usually in reference to stopping a leak. Also meaning something jammed with foreign material, which was the source of my little joke ("You don't want to jam it up right after you've just cleaned it!"), which appears to have fallen flat, to say the least.

Macybaby

It's always risky to try to joke on a forum - no one can tell that you are chuckling while you say it. And then it makes it risky to post at all - because people start getting easily offended.

ThayerRags

I got the joke, and thought it was a friendly and innocent bit of humor and wit. It was the type that used to make visiting on the internet lots of fun. Unfortunately, we’re getting to be such a politically correct world now that kidding and joking is one of the things that is no longer allowed. That’s why I have almost quit posting.

CD in Oklahoma

miriam

Did I miss out on a new rule? Oh dear I'll have to for sure quit joking or quit the forum.

ThayerRags

Joking isn’t quite as bad as pointing out when someone is wrong, yet, but it appears to be gaining on it.

CD in Oklahoma

maviskw

That's why we say LOL a lot. Then people know we're just kidding. I guess the new thing to do is say Ha, ha.

tucsonquilter

Waiting waiting waiting to see if it works......