Excal production

Matthias72 · Post by **Matthias72** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:46 am

Just for curiosity: anyone know how many bows Excalibur produces every year?

thanks
Matthias

ComfyBear · Post by **ComfyBear** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:19 pm

Quello è un segreto riservato mantenuto pozzo. Soltanto quelli privilegiati sanno.

E gli non diranno, queste cose

Grizzly Adam · Post by **Grizzly Adam** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:42 pm

Let me guess ... something about a secret reserved for the privileged and no one's talking?

That's probably not right at all ... but is it something like that

I love to guess.

Are you an actual speaker of the language, ComfyBear?

I know some Latin words, and took some Spanish ... don't remember much of anything except how to say, "Hello. Do you have Coca-Cola?" and "Where is the bathroom, please?"

Oh, well ... at least I'm covered if I'm south of the border and I get dry ... and if I have too many cokes!

mike41 · Post by **mike41** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:50 pm

Posso vedere come una persona potrebbe essere interessata nel conoscere una poca storia circa un'azienda che potrebbero studiare la possibilità di fare il commercio con, nel confronto all'altra azienda in quell'industria. Mike41:

ComfyBear · Post by **ComfyBear** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:00 pm

Grizz, you're good.
You got the gist of what was written.

Personally, after having left the "homeland" almost 2 score and twelve, I'm only a speaker, but not a writer. So I had to use an online translator.

Grizzly Adam · Post by **Grizzly Adam** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:22 pm

The context of Matthias' question was good for 3/4 of a guess, Comfybear!

I love linguistics, and especially regional dialects. Ain't much for math, though. As long as I can calculate arrow speed, I'm satisfied!

So you're Italian?

I'm a mongrel ... Scots / Irish ... and I think there was the blood of an Englishman somewhere in the mix on my mama's side. Shh! Don't tell A.W. ... he already got on me about the Irish thing.

Now Mike41's at it. Ya'll are worse than the Navajo code talkers.

Here's a phonetically spelled sample of some genuine coastal Carolina brogue:

"T' hoigh toide tanna 's maney on ta sine soide."

Yes, some of the old folks still talk this way. Any guesses? (If you're from coastal NC, don't give it away!)

Matthias72 · Post by **Matthias72** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:41 am

Nice translations!

Italian and english have in common 80% of Latin words, so some time is nice to notice how similar they are.

Coming back to the question...secret? Normally every factory shows their production quantity; is that for cars, for wine, for guns etc... why not for excalibur crossbow??? I don't think that my question is strange, not?

Cal · Post by **Cal** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:42 am

Matthias, from what I heard at a few "places', the number of sales of bows only was between 35 and 40,000 a year. Hope that helps.

Matthias72 · Post by **Matthias72** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:59 am

Thanks Cal!
UAU! It's a lot of bows!

ComfyBear · Post by **ComfyBear** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:58 am

"T' hoigh toide tanna 's maney on ta sine soide

If I had to hazzard to guess, with them thar "hoide" and "sine", I'd say that be some "bastardized" Irish brogue, me boy.

Maybe some one can enlighten me on the meaning of:

Sine your pitty on the runny kine!

pdislow · Post by **pdislow** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:53 pm

the high tide tonight is mainly on the sound side?

Grizzly Adam · Post by **Grizzly Adam** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:26 pm

Hey, Pdislow ...

No fair, man! You're from coastal NC!

An exact translation, no less. You must know some "hoigh toiders" yourself! Not a whole lot of them left on this side of the sound. There are a number of "hoigh toider" folks around here who are direct descendants of the original Elizabethan English settlers of this area ... most of them crabbers and fishermen.

Seems like I've heard some Harker's Islanders who also sound a lot like that.

I was down your way last week ... passed by your fair city on Monday and again on Wednesday, via 17N ... always good to see the North Carolina floating there proudly.

Are you a Wilmington native?

Doe Master · Post by **Doe Master** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:57 pm

It`s no where near that many bows ,if it were that many bows I would have no time to be on the forum at home .

Daniele · Post by **Daniele** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:06 pm

Doemaster, that sounded pretty high, over 100 bows a day everyday of the year, i remember your open house and the space you have, mind you Bill & Cath would love those numbers.
Per quelli che parlano Italiano, mi pareva che la cifra quotata qui era un po` alta, vorrebbe dire che l'azienda produce piu` di 100 Balestre al giorno, ogni giorno dell'anno, un numero che Bill e Cath ( I proprietari ) sarebbero felici di vedere.
Best wishes for those production numbers to be met and sales to follow,
if one Canadian Company deserves it, EXCALIBUR is it, we are proud of our Local Canadian Technology and " Best In The Field Customer Service.
Daniele.

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