>Previous episodes (not broadcasted yet):
>- we tried to buy ethanol; needed it as a solvent. Can't find it anywhere in retail, unless it's the technical dirty 70% ethanol, which I wouldn't trust as a disinfectant, let alone solvent for something to be ingested. We ended buying 50% (aka 100 proof) vodka. At least it didn't add anything to the taste. OK... let's assume that if ethanol was widely available, we'd have any Dick and Harry mixing their own extracts with it and generally get drunk on the cheap. So that would make some sense, with the nanny government micromanaging the retail.
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>- we wanted to make soap. Many people do it. Well, the trouble is - how does one find lye? Almost impossible to find. It just vanished. We found one guy at Lowe's who remembers that it was a commonplace thing on his shelves once upon a time when he wasn't so close to retirement. Another guy at Home Depot thought we were speaking Southern, and assumed that I actually said "lide" and swallowed the d - that would mean "light" with the ending t becoming a subdued d, southern style. I seem to have confirmed this assumption when I said "sodium hydroxide", ah it's a chemical, it must be one of those bulbs with some funny stuff inside, and pointed us to the aisle with CFLs. We found it, eventually, among household drain clog solvents. Now there are no known lye addicts, and any safety concerns sound ridiculous in the face of amount of poison being stored in any gardening section of such shops, which would suffice to kill a battalion.
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>Now I'm looking for a scythe. Simple, classical scythe. I don't want my lawn shaved into a monolithic slab of green; there are also bumps and there's slope. I don't want the space to be shaped to accommodate the tool; I want a tool which fits the space, and scythe is that tool. Except that the common places where I was looking don't carry it. I then tried to google it out - http://www.google.com/search?q=scythe+price and here's what I got on first page:
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>- Scythe Hard Disk Stabilizer 2 SCY-HDS2, and a bunch of Scythe {something} processor cooling products
>- msn.com found four blades... on amazon.com :) at $40-60, no handle
>- six more links to various resellers of coolers
>- one about a real scythe... featured in Final Fantasy XI
>- album of such a name on amazon.com
>- two more processor gadgets
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>So... does anyone know where to find these, and is there a market for them? Does anyone know how to mow with it, or should I just look for a good place in the museum where to be hung as The Last Programmer Who Knew How To Use a Scythe?


http://www.hardware-ironmongers.com/details.aspx?code=6820048

http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/pd2_01491_SCYTHETTE-13BLADE36HANDLE.htm

http://www.gardentoolsforallseasons.com/garden%20tools/scythe.php

As I've told you before. You're living in the wrong country.

And a late update from those crazy Austrians

http://www.thescytheshop.co.uk/product%20list.html