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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
It's not. I want to read MRM's link, maybe there is an answer there, but D. isn't stupid. He has a masters in something and taught high school and night classes at the community college. He is great at playing piano, cooks, and raises a garden, is simply inept at the most basic things most of us take for granted. I can't figure it out.
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I don't think common sense is dealt out equally with smarts.
I'll never forget my brother saying he saw a PHd grad student trying to put in a tapped hole in some aluminum. He had a tap mounted in a drill press. Mind you, this was at the Lawrence Livermore Labs up behind UCB. My brother happened to ask him what he was doing. The conversation went something like this:
Putting in a tapped hole so I can screw in a bolt
Don't you think you should drill a hole first?
I thought that's what the tap was for. What size hole should I drill?
(My brother happened to know the tap drill size for the tap he was using and told him)
How do you know that's the right size?
My brother pointed out the big chart hanging on the wall that showed all the different tap drill sizes.
Now mind you, this guy was a PHd student.
So I can easily see where D. is from that standpoint.