Ever get tired of being called a McGyver?

Hey Steve, You live anywhere near Yonkers? :)

Hey, I *look* like McGyver!

My full name, I think, is "Dave... MacGuyver it!"

Dave

I've been called both "McGyver" and "Professor" (as in Gilligan's Island, build anything from coconuts and bamboo) many times by many different people. I would imagine this is a common occurrence for most of the folks who frequent this group.

Pete C.

I got that reputation after fixing a microphone using a nail in a piece of wood as a soldering iron )matches for heat), with a splash of solder scraped off the high schools electronics lab floor.

miker

With what sort of flux?

LLoyd

Borax hand soap, of course.

Yer out of the club...

Dave

OH, NOOOOO! You have the KNACK! Your life is ruined!

The guys who said it couldn't be fixed don't usually call me anything NEAR "McGuyver" when the customer tells them it was fixed by whom and how.......

Heck, they just want to know why it took more than 5 minutes....

Beats some alternatives! Shop I used to work in years ago, there was a guy that was just king s*it in the boss's eyes, always got the job done on time no matter what.

What the boss never seemed to notice, was the trail of death and destruction this guy would leave in his wake, damaged or destroyed tooling and machinery. His last name was Kolfer, and it became a verb, as in, to Kolferize something.

McGyver is a very respectable moniker by comparison!

Jon

oooh, very nice. I fixed a production webserver (on horribly obsolete hardware) a couple months back - the circuit board for the hard drive _caught fire_. Backups turned out to have been, um, wups, forgotten about since 2003. The solution involved eBay, "buy it now", sending a tech to drive a couple hours to the west and back, a bit of luck, and a _very_ happy group of people. And then the "OK, don't expect this level of service on a regular basis please..." speech.

Short answer - No

Just don't call me late for dinner

Big Grins

Jim Vrzal Holiday, Fl.

P.S. Worry more when they stop calling. Their up to something expensive.

Steve B wrote:

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:41:39 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, "Tom Gardner" quickly quoth:

Ruined, HELL! "Working with machines is far superior than having to work with people." quoth Larry the Recluse. Why, just yesterday a woman client tried to help me find Jesus and SAVE me. Machines don't have religion to spew at you and I respect them for that alone.

-- Love the moment, and energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. -- Corita Kent

"Larry Jaques" wrote

I much prefer working with things than people. Things don't talk all the time.

Steve

The KNACK? see this:

But she didnt spritz nastly stuff on two axis of your t-shirt.

Unless you got her drunk....

Gunner, who once nailed an attractive door knocker, on his couch. Seems some women take to religion if their sex drives are repressed too much....once you find the key.....WOW...

"Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide"

- James Burnham

And as Nick is likely to post, "They don't keep going OFF TOPIC" :-) ...lew...

Yeah, let's call "..." he can fix anything. And when was the last time anybody paid "..." with anything other than dinner and a handshake?

It's ok once in a while, but you feel like you're being taken advantage of particularly when your "friends" drive Cadillacs and German luxury cars, live in huge houses when you drive a fifteen year old Japanese pickup and rent.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:25:04 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

Nope, and I don't get 80 y/o women drunk anyway.

What'd you do, bet her that you could have her screaming "Jesus!" within 10 minutes if given the chance?

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