8.10b - first impression and questions

[Mark Fraser]

On Friday 10 October 2008 07:07:15 Nigel Ridley wrote:

>
> David, -- it was a joke! An adjustable spanner is just that - adjustable --
> it's neither metric nor imperial.
> When I was an apprentice the older guys used to send us to fetch 'left
> handed screwdrivers', 'a bucket of steam', 'a skirting ladder', 'some
> bubbles for a spirit level', 'sky hooks' and of course 'an adjustable
> metric spanner -- not an imperial one!'.
>
> Just some humor :-)
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel

Reminds me of a comedy album from Mike Harding, in one sketch he told how he 
used to be sent to the stores for items that you listed above and sparks for 
the grinder. With the bubbles for the spirit level, the storeman asked what 
shape he wanted, after he said square ones the reply came back 'we haven't 
got any, someone dropped them so we're going to grind the corners off to make 
round ones'.



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