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5axis 10-04-2003 03:01 PM

favorite sayings
 
From a machinists web site.

http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net//Forum3/HTML/001112.html

One of my personal faves.
"close enough for a shop this size" Borrowed from a old krusty German grinder hand. It usually ment less than .0002


Being in CNC's "ramming speed" is often heard when hitting the cycle start button.

Schrup 10-04-2003 03:32 PM

I was in a bar-b-cue once that had a sign stating " We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone".

Drago 10-05-2003 09:14 AM

Posted at the desk of my first boss at Boeing:

"The floggings will continue until moral improves."

Little did I know at the time how appropirate that was....

TSNAPCRACKLEPOP 10-05-2003 11:27 AM

a hand in the bush is worth two on the bird.

DonDavis 10-05-2003 12:13 PM

This one kind of needs a set-up. While attempting a difficult task, after many problems, you finally get a resolution. Not the best possible, but will work. Bear in mind it was frustrating. You stand back and say....

"That works about like a windsheild wiper on a goat a$$, all we need is a switch."

Moses 10-05-2003 04:01 PM

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-*****." -Jack Nicholson

rcecale 10-05-2003 05:16 PM

"Tighter than a gnat's a$$ stretched around a 55 gallon drum."

nostatic 10-05-2003 05:18 PM

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Nietzsche

"Without music life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." -Beethoven

"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously._ Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic." -Leibniz

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings." - Gardner

"you're not useless...you can always serve as a bad example."

DonDavis 10-06-2003 06:25 AM

Oh yeah,

"I didn't say I fixed it, I said I worked on it."

"That's going to leave a red mark."

BlueSkyJaunte 10-06-2003 06:42 AM

"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." -- unknown

"History would be more instructive a teacher if it were not so stupefyingly repetitious." -- James Blish

RickM 10-06-2003 07:11 AM

If you didn't vote don't complain - Me

Rando 10-06-2003 09:30 AM

Lower than a snake's belly in a wagon's rut

arcsine 10-06-2003 12:02 PM

"Be Quiet, Consume, Die" - Bathroom Wall at Engine House, Tacoma

"Steak and Acid '78" - Bathroom Wall, Chandlier Lodge on the way to Mt . Baker


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