Help, Inventory of 21st Century Essentials
Sep 14, 2015 18:19:08 #
drucker
Loc: Oregon
As a woodworker I've always regretted loaning my board stretcher to a neighbor, because he lost it.
My daughter, a nurse, complains that they are always out of neck tourniquets at the emergency room.
An old printer's trick was to get the new printer's devil (assistant) to look close in a dusty type case for type lice. Then bend down and look really close -- just as a blast of air from a bellows caused dust to cover his face.
My daughter, a nurse, complains that they are always out of neck tourniquets at the emergency room.
An old printer's trick was to get the new printer's devil (assistant) to look close in a dusty type case for type lice. Then bend down and look really close -- just as a blast of air from a bellows caused dust to cover his face.
Sep 15, 2015 04:30:00 #
Hi David Taylor
I have never heard of the sky hook which you describe. That is a new one to me! I have always heard them described as "S hooks".
Thought: Is there such a thing as a Y hook?
pc39
I have never heard of the sky hook which you describe. That is a new one to me! I have always heard them described as "S hooks".
Thought: Is there such a thing as a Y hook?
pc39
Sep 15, 2015 05:50:41 #
Seems it was a local thing only although there are some bearing that name nowadays on Google. Y hooks are available too!
pc39 wrote:
Hi David Taylor
I have never heard of the sky hook which you describe. That is a new one to me! I have always heard them described as "S hooks".
Thought: Is there such a thing as a Y hook?
pc39
I have never heard of the sky hook which you describe. That is a new one to me! I have always heard them described as "S hooks".
Thought: Is there such a thing as a Y hook?
pc39
Sep 15, 2015 12:54:51 #
From Scouts we would send newbies after 50 feet of shore line, a smoke shifter for the fire, a skyhook and the keys to the flag pole.
Sep 15, 2015 13:28:31 #
A wise guy came into a hardware store and asked for a left
handed monkey wrench. The clerk replied without hesitation,
"sorry but we have no left handed Monkeys in this town."
handed monkey wrench. The clerk replied without hesitation,
"sorry but we have no left handed Monkeys in this town."
Sep 15, 2015 19:49:06 #
RS
Loc: W Columbia, SC
One day I was looking around Lowe's and a young lady came by and asked if I needed any help.
I sort of sheepishly asked if she could tell me what a 'by-fore' was.
She looked puzzled and said, "No...."
I then told the girl that I had told my wife I was going to stop at the store and my wife said, "Good, don't forget the two 'by-fores'."
- - and I don't know what a 'by-fore' is . . .
I sort of sheepishly asked if she could tell me what a 'by-fore' was.
She looked puzzled and said, "No...."
I then told the girl that I had told my wife I was going to stop at the store and my wife said, "Good, don't forget the two 'by-fores'."
- - and I don't know what a 'by-fore' is . . .
Sep 18, 2015 15:31:54 #
Quite a surprising list here, especially because I always thought a bucket of steam was available only on a railroad at the roundhouse. Not sure what the shape was there though as the errand a greenhorn would be sent on would
always come form the office, so maybe it should be shaped
like a coal hod.
always come form the office, so maybe it should be shaped
like a coal hod.
Sep 18, 2015 19:17:34 #
jenny wrote:
Quite a surprising list here, especially because I always thought a bucket of steam was available only on a railroad at the roundhouse. Not sure what the shape was there though as the errand a greenhorn would be sent on would
always come form the office, so maybe it should be shaped
like a coal hod.
always come form the office, so maybe it should be shaped
like a coal hod.
Jenny, as I stock my merchandise, I will be looking for a miniture coal shuttle with a lI'd to label.
Thank you.
Aug 28, 2016 14:11:00 #
Some 50 years ago, fresh out of college I obtained a position as a lab technician working for a Ph. D. microbiologist in an FDA laboratory. In those days I though all PH.Ds were gods, later I realized that the initials Ph. D. after their name stood for "piled higher and deeper". I digress, anyway after about a week on the job I accidentally broke a 3 ft. long $300 Bureau of Standards certified thermometer in a water bath. To retrieve the broken glass I was sent down the hall to another Ph. D.s lab to borrow a glass magnet.
Aug 28, 2016 15:39:11 #
Aug 28, 2016 16:28:42 #
John_F wrote:
Oh, there is actually a fork for eating tuning.
You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish!
Aug 28, 2016 17:21:58 #
elwynn wrote:
Heard a newly graduated ee ask how long it took the solder to dry.
People say the same thing when using epoxy and cyanoacrylate, neither of which actually dry unless of course you wait a considerable time.
Aug 29, 2016 07:31:30 #
Remus
Loc: Norfolk, UK
A bucket of sparks (welders).
A tub of elbow grease.
A sky hook, for when there is no safe place to lean your ladder.
A bubble for a spirit level.
A tub of elbow grease.
A sky hook, for when there is no safe place to lean your ladder.
A bubble for a spirit level.
Aug 29, 2016 08:28:58 #
An old Navy one was to send a new recruit down to the bilges to get a bucket of boondockers.
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