Techie sayings

[Van]

Originally Posted by cdub260

Here's one from my scenic carpentry days:

No matter how many times I cut it, its still too short!

Sounds like you need to get a "pink wood strecther"
one of the things we used to send noobs to the tool room to find.
I actually sent a guy to the hardware store once with a shopping list, in the middle of the list was " spirit level fluid" he was there for hours.

[philhaney]

When anyone asks me how long something is going to take, my standard response is:

"Off hand I'd say it'll be done when it's done. But that's just an approximation, so don't hold me to it."

[AYT93]

this isn't really a quote but something my group does before each show. we get into a huddle, and prey to a random person place or thing. we have prayed to things like the theater god, etc. We usually like to try to find something that relates to something that happened to us that day. we make it funny all of the things we thank that god for.

[philhaney]

Originally Posted by Van

Sounds like you need to get a "pink wood strecther"
one of the things we used to send noobs to the tool room to find.
I actually sent a guy to the hardware store once with a shopping list, in the middle of the list was " spirit level fluid" he was there for hours.

Yah, when I was in the Navy we would send guys for relative bearing grease, ten feet of chow line, and a bucket of steam.

My favorite was when they gave me a wire brush and told me to go to the electrical shop to have it rewired, so I went. The guy in the shop mixed a packet of Bug Juice* in a gallon bucket of hot water, dropped the brush in, and said come back in an hour. When I came back, he took the brush out and rinsed it off in fresh water. It was shinier than it had been the day it left the factory!

*Bug Juice: A Cool-Aid like drink served aboard ships in the Navy. It comes in powdered form in these little drab-brown packets with your typical military designation on them ("Mix, Beverage, Fruit, Powdered" - or something like that.) We would mix 14 or 15 packets of Bug Juice and 20 or 25 pounds of sugar with water in a 55-gallon toureen in the galley. It made pretty good tasting Cool-Aid.

The real use for Bug Juice was cleaning anything metal, especially anything intricate. Just mix and proceed as described above. Hey, it beat cleaning a three-way all-purpose fire hose nozzle by hand!

Oh yeah. If you mix your Bug Juice in a galvanized bucket, the submerged part won't be when you're done (galvanized, that is).

[Van]

Originally Posted by philhaney

....Oh yeah. If you mix your Bug Juice in a galvanized bucket, the submerged part won't be when you're done (galvanized, that is).

Further proof that Citric Acid is, after all, acid.

[philhaney]

One thrater I worked in had a big triangle painted on the wall of the shop. At the three points were the words "Good", "Fast", and "Cheap." In the middle it said, "You can have any two."

[cdub260]

Here are few I came across in a catalog today:

Welcome to the Chaos

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

I know I'm in my own little world but it's okay, they know me here.

Sarcasm,just one of the many services we provide.

[philhaney]

Originally Posted by Van

I actually sent a guy to the hardware store once with a shopping list, in the middle of the list was " spirit level fluid" he was there for hours.

He didn't know where the kerosene was? (although they probably use something different now for spirit levels, but it is still used in the magnetic compasses that get installed in airplanes - so they won't freeze at altitude )

[wadeace]

My TD goes over headset and says to staff, "and Remember don't f*** this one up"
its not much, but its something

[SteveB]

As posted in a number of locations and a favorite of our Producrion Manager

"You can do it MY way now, or you can do it MY WAY WHEN I'M REALLY PISSED OFF !.

SB