The perils of toolboxes...

Gol Durn, Tom. Between the toolboxes and the turbine engines, it's a miracle that anyone is living to type about it.

I'm afraid it's been a very long time since the Americans lost the right balance between common sense, litigious lawyers and the benefits of Darwinian natural selection actually weeding idiots out of the gene pool.

I think Douglas Adams summed it up very well many years ago when he described how Wonko the Sane was affected by the instructions on a packet of tooth picks.

The sign said: Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion. 'It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.'

shows what lawyers have done over here. we bury them 12 feet deep because "deep down, they're nice people" sammm

I knew there was a reason I don't get involved with any of those nast

tool box thingys ;)

Valeri

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I think the US has more lawyers per capita than any other nation.

I wish we could deport some but the recieving country would consider in a act of war.

Wes S

Nice

Regards, Tony

I suppose the natural progression of this thought process is for us to have to prove our "competence" to use one of these before they allow us to buy one. Of course that will also be the case for the hammers, spanners, sockets, files, hacksaws ...........................etc, that we might be silly enough to try and put in it. If in the USA it needs all this warning to buy a toolbox how long is the warning statement included when they buy a gun? I'll bet it is a lot shorter......crazy world.

Keith

Seeing as you mentioned turbines again, there was a small turbine running on a trailer at Ellenroad mill near Rochdale on Sunday, didn't see any protection round it though and not taped off to prevent a close approach. I don't know what it was but it had dual exhausts in a Y formation one each side.

Oily

Pegasus?

:-)

Mark Rand RTFM

In article , Mark Rand writes

"Please take care when using our "Pegasus" model flying horse - bystanders underneath may be injured by horseshit ejected without warning."

"Please take care when reading the instructions for our product. Bystanders may be injured by involuntary object projection brought about by the horseshit issuing therefrom without warning."

David

Peggy eh? That'd be fun, especially when the nozzles vectored downwards & both engine, the trailer bearing it and the Land Rover towing it made a bid for freedom ;o))

Probably a helicopter engine like a Palouste.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

Does the lawyer have to be dead before burial ???

Joules

I thought ther were taken from the ranks of the undead to start with

Regards, Tony

not in my book! sammm

Probably a helicopter engine like a Palouste.

Palouste is a genuine Stationary engine used for air delivery. Noisy sods, idle at 24000rpm ,air delivery 34000rpm Mike.H.

uninformed!

Wasn't that the Artouste? The Palouste was the helicopter engine, the Artouste the air starter engine?

"Kim Siddorn" wrote ....

No, the van towing it was parked at the side which said something about coffee roasting machinery on it. The engine was fastened in a yellow painted tubular framework which was ratchet strapped to the trailer and there was a jerry can full of kerosene fuel high up above it on a pallet on a stacker truck. The exhausts were pointing straight back so it might have departed with the trailer, couldn't see anything tying the trailer down.

Oily

So what was the Brittania Coconut dancers like then? I notice the web site said that they should have been on as an added attraction but says nothing about the engine.

Cheers

Adrian