Today in class, helping kids with the lathe:
Student: "Who is next?"
Me: "Who's on first"
Student: "What?"
Me: "No. What's on second."
Student: "No! Who is next?!"
Me: "Who's on first!"
Student: "I don't know!"
Me: (can't keep a straight face any longer) "I don't know's on third."
Kept me smiling all the way home. Nobody got it but me.
That's pretty awesome. 
It sucks that they don't get the reference--a reference that survived so many generations but finally seems to have stalled out.
My 10 and 12 year olds can do almost the entire routine.
I missed Tales from the Highschool Shop one through five. Link please?
Don't know if I mentioned this the last time you posted SkinnyG..
The thing that has stuck with me the most since junior high metal shop class was my teacher's safety lesson:
(in a thick Scots accent)
"Right lads, remember this! Never stick your finger anywhere you wouldn't stick your dink!"
Still have all my fingers.
SkinnyG wrote:Tales from the Highschool Shop I
Tales from the Highschool Shop II
Tales from the Highschool Shop III
Epic. Simply epic.
There is a book in there somewhere.
Gotta love them Cannucks....
Well,that started my day with a good laugh,especially the one about licking the spark plug !
SkinnyG wrote:Nobody got it but me.
I was painting a ceiling on Saturday and yelled at my wife and kid to NOT step into the paint tray I had on the floor since I didn't want an "Abbott and Costello" routine on my hands.
Then I realized very few people know much about Abbott and Costello.....
gamby wrote:SkinnyG wrote:Tales from the Highschool Shop I
Tales from the Highschool Shop II
Tales from the Highschool Shop III
Epic. Simply epic.
There is a book in there somewhere.
Yeah, a short story book for sure.
Keep em coming, these are great.
Did you know that a sphere is the strongest geometrical shape? I didn't, but I learned quickly during my sophomore year when I put a stainless steel ball in the hydraulic press in metal shop. It didn't dawn on me to stop when I had to add a "muscle bar" because I couldn't pump the handle any more... (heck, I was sure I was gonna squash the durned thing plum flat)
It ended in a loud "bang"! The steel ball was found a year later in the ceiling, across the shop. We could tell which direction the ball went by the gouges in the press (it blew out about a 1/2 inch deep gouge 180deg from where I was standing). We did get the ball down one day when the teacher wasn't looking, there wasn't any damage to it...
The "bang" brought my brain up to speed with what I was doing REALLY quick, albeit a bit late had disaster struck. Oh to be that stupid again...
Im still in high school. I do radio broadcasts, morning news etc. for out tv channel. My radio teacher got me with that a while back, but I know at least everybody I work with knows that skit thanks to him haha. I don't think its completely stalled out yet. We all thought it was hilarious when we finally sat down to watch it.
SkinnyG wrote:Me: "Who's on first!"
Student: "I don't know!"
It might be mixing your reference material, but levitating the kid into the nearest chasm would also have been acceptable...
After reading tales I through V, it appears your students are reincarnated from The Three Stooges.
Trans_Maro wrote:Don't know if I mentioned this the last time you posted SkinnyG..
The thing that has stuck with me the most since junior high metal shop class was my teacher's safety lesson:
(in a thick Scots accent)
"Right lads, remember this! Never stick your finger anywhere you wouldn't stick your dink!"
Still have all my fingers.
That is possibly the most valuable shop quote/safety advice possible.
