Two weeks ago I received in the post a new bright and shiny verynear measuring device, my how pleased I was it arrived so quickly from Eileens Emporium.
Yesterday I received in the post a new bright and shiny verynear measuring device from a bloke in China
I can't remember ordering either of them... I already have two !
:worried: :doh: ???
You're not the only one Graham, mine usually happen on a Friday or Saturday night for some strange unknown reason. I have 7 blue/grey Dapol HSTs when I really only need 2 :confused1:
And still no IC-liveried 08... :hmmm:
Just when I thought today was going so well and Squiddy appears from nowhere. Oh well ::)
Quote from: Graham Walters on November 15, 2015, 02:16:56 PM
I can't remember ordering either of them... I already have two !
Stop buying wine :P
Quote from: MikeDunn on November 15, 2015, 04:00:19 PM
Quote from: Graham Walters on November 15, 2015, 02:16:56 PM
I can't remember ordering either of them... I already have two !
Stop buying wine :P
When I do that I get a sense of reality, and that is most unpleasant
I take it "verynear" is auto correct for vernier?
Sounds like an engineering name to me: it gives you verynearly the correct distance between things that are verynear to each other :laugh:
Quote from: Yet_Another on November 15, 2015, 05:03:01 PM
Sounds like an engineering name to me: it gives you verynearly the correct distance between things that are verynear to each other :laugh:
It's a play on the word "Vernier", called a "very near" in engineering circles because it measures better than a rule, which only measures "near"
Those mechanical engineers do like a joke. With us electronics engineers, it usually involves charging a 1000 microfarad capacitor and tossing it to some PUB.
Shocking :no:
Quote from: Graham Walters on November 15, 2015, 05:11:54 PM
Quote from: Yet_Another on November 15, 2015, 05:03:01 PM
Sounds like an engineering name to me: it gives you verynearly the correct distance between things that are verynear to each other :laugh:
It's a play on the word "Vernier", called a "very near" in engineering circles because it measures better than a rule, which only measures "near"
With us it was a "vernie" and a micrometer was a "mike", leading to the technician's interview joke :
Q. "Can you work with mike and vernie?
A. "Sure and I can work with anyone, sir."
Coat, hat, leaving now!
Alex
Don't forget your hard hat on the way out................
Quote from: surfaceman on November 15, 2015, 07:20:25 PM
Quote from: Graham Walters on November 15, 2015, 05:11:54 PM
Quote from: Yet_Another on November 15, 2015, 05:03:01 PM
Sounds like an engineering name to me: it gives you verynearly the correct distance between things that are verynear to each other :laugh:
It's a play on the word "Vernier", called a "very near" in engineering circles because it measures better than a rule, which only measures "near"
With us it was a "vernie" and a micrometer was a "mike", leading to the technician's interview joke :
Q. "Can you work with mike and vernie?
A. "Sure and I can work with anyone, sir."
Coat, hat, leaving now!
Alex
Ah that age old question to the new apprentice in the workshop, "can you go down the stores and get mike for me" many a young appentice has returned with a bemused storeman called "Fred" remarking, "Mike doesn't work in the stores"
We used to send the newbies down to stores for a long weight, a left handed screwdriver etc.
Quotefor a long weight
Or for a long stand.
Quote from: Malc on November 15, 2015, 08:42:14 PM
We used to send the newbies down to stores for a long weight, a left handed screwdriver etc.
Red Steam for the IGEMA's was a favourite, but you have to know a little about Admiralty three drum boilers to understand that one.
I worked in a papermill with the sparkys, One used to go down to the stores with a charged capacitor out of a old flurecent tube and touch the steel topped counter when all the fitters were leaning on it, it stopped all the skiving.
I worked mainly in the motortrade after that, it was commen to send the new apprentice to the stores and ask for spark plug gaps, or a set of tappet gaps.
Tartan paint, sparks for the grinder, sky hooks.....................
I went to get a key (quay) for the harbour once... :doh: :-[ :doh: :-[
Quote from: Zogbert Splod on November 16, 2015, 02:07:28 AM
I went to get a key (quay) for the harbour once... :doh: :-[ :doh: :-[
Presumably an Allan Key (boom boom) :laugh3:
And, yes, I knew someone who went to the stores for a tin of elbow grease ::)
Quote from: Trainfish on November 15, 2015, 11:10:20 PM
Tartan paint, sparks for the grinder, sky hooks.....................
On the other hand I told my buddy buying his first rack of climbing equipment that he would need a couple of sky hooks. He thought it was a joke and didn't bother, but he also didn't bother telling me until we really needed to use them (I know, I should have checked). It lead to a 30m unprotected section of a climb which nearly required tartan paint to cover up the fear stains.
Quote from: Zogbert Splod on November 16, 2015, 02:07:28 AM
I went to get a key (quay) for the harbour once... :doh: :-[ :doh: :-[
Not a Key for the Harbour - but for the Fort at the end of the harbour.
You need to be a weight lifter to handle it! - they don't make keys like that any more.
If your interested it is the Fort at Arrecife, Lanzarote in the Canaries, and which has been now turned into a Naval Museum.
(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo231/Tdmak/Model%20Railway/IMG_6794.jpg) (http://s379.photobucket.com/user/Tdmak/media/Model%20Railway/IMG_6794.jpg.html)
When I was a manager, one of the newbies came to see me. He was complaining that the stores' staff were ignoring him. He had been sent to get a long weight. He asked for the same and stood at the counter waiting. After about 10 mins he asked again. He still hadn't twigged.
Quote from: Tdm on November 16, 2015, 09:58:32 AM
Quote from: Zogbert Splod on November 16, 2015, 02:07:28 AM
I went to get a key (quay) for the harbour once... :doh: :-[ :doh: :-[
Not a Key for the Harbour - but for the Fort at the end of the harbour.
You need to be a weight lifter to handle it! - they don't make keys like that any more.
If your interested it is the Fort at Arrecife, Lanzarote in the Canaries, and which has been now turned into a Naval Museum.
(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo231/Tdmak/Model%20Railway/IMG_6794.jpg) (http://s379.photobucket.com/user/Tdmak/media/Model%20Railway/IMG_6794.jpg.html)
Still, I bet it's harder to lose that one down the back of the sofa.
Quote from: railsquid on November 16, 2015, 11:03:32 AM
Quote from: Tdm on November 16, 2015, 09:58:32 AM
Quote from: Zogbert Splod on November 16, 2015, 02:07:28 AM
I went to get a key (quay) for the harbour once... :doh: :-[ :doh: :-[
Not a Key for the Harbour - but for the Fort at the end of the harbour.
You need to be a weight lifter to handle it! - they don't make keys like that any more.
If your interested it is the Fort at Arrecife, Lanzarote in the Canaries, and which has been now turned into a Naval Museum.
(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo231/Tdmak/Model%20Railway/IMG_6794.jpg) (http://s379.photobucket.com/user/Tdmak/media/Model%20Railway/IMG_6794.jpg.html)
Still, I bet it's harder to lose that one down the back of the sofa.
Come to think of it - it looks similar to the key to one of the 1st Triang Clockwork Trains.
I remember the track for it went round the whole room.
Quote from: Tdm on November 16, 2015, 09:58:32 AM
Quote from: Zogbert Splod on November 16, 2015, 02:07:28 AM
I went to get a key (quay) for the harbour once... :doh: :-[ :doh: :-[
Not a Key for the Harbour - but for the Fort at the end of the harbour.
You need to be a weight lifter to handle it! - they don't make keys like that any more.
If your interested it is the Fort at Arrecife, Lanzarote in the Canaries, and which has been now turned into a Naval Museum.
(http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo231/Tdmak/Model%20Railway/IMG_6794.jpg) (http://s379.photobucket.com/user/Tdmak/media/Model%20Railway/IMG_6794.jpg.html)
The question has to be asked. Do they have both innies and outties in the museum? :doh:
A long time ago, we used to send new recruits 'on the beat' back to the nick to get a pair of left handed handcuffs from the Sergeant. :confused2: That was in the days when they looked like shackles, not these modern one piece contraptions - having said that, the ratchet type of handcuffs are a lot easier, and safer, to use. David.
Quote from: Trainfish on November 16, 2015, 09:05:45 PM
The question has to be asked. Do they have both innies and outties in the museum? :doh:
At least I'm on the same wavelength, John :-X
Quote from: dannyboy on November 16, 2015, 09:22:45 PM
That was in the days when they looked like shackles, not these modern one piece contraptions - having said that, the ratchet type of handcuffs are a lot easier, and safer, to use. David.
The one-piece ones are very difficult to get through the bed frame though. . .
Paul
Quote from: Sprintex on November 16, 2015, 09:32:36 PM
Quote from: dannyboy on November 16, 2015, 09:22:45 PM
That was in the days when they looked like shackles, not these modern one piece contraptions - having said that, the ratchet type of handcuffs are a lot easier, and safer, to use. David.
The one-piece ones are very difficult to get through the bed frame though. . .
Paul
Sounds like the voice of experience talking :o
:oopssign:
The one-piece ones are very difficult to get through the bed frame though. . .
I can't imagine what you are thinking about :hmmm: (oh yes he can :drool:)
Quote from: newportnobby on November 16, 2015, 09:31:35 PM
Quote from: Trainfish on November 16, 2015, 09:05:45 PM
The question has to be asked. Do they have both innies and outties in the museum? :doh:
At least I'm on the same wavelength, John :-X
Thanks Mick, I thought it was wasted for a while but should have guessed you'd be along soon :thumbsup: I did toy with the idea of leaving the word naval in but decided against it :-[
Quote from: dannyboy on November 16, 2015, 09:39:38 PM
The one-piece ones are very difficult to get through the bed frame though. . .
I can't imagine what you are thinking about :hmmm: (oh yes he can :drool:)
They also don't come with the fur lining unfortunately so I find it hard to believe they are safer :-[