Farking bastidges wouldn't let me take shop, it was enforced home ec for a year until I was able to escape its clutches. What a complete waste of time that was. I have no intention whatsoever of making jello salads with fruit and marshmallows or EVER sewing sleeves onto a dress.
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March 28, 2010 11:42 a.m. Lesley SuperDork
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March 28, 2010 12:06 p.m. Trans_Maro Dork
[homer]
"Girls should stick to girl sports. Like hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing and such and such"
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When I was fixing airplanes, one of the bush airlines we dealt with had a girl there who was a damn good mechanic. She had a Mustang (car) that she had restored as well.
Could that have been you Lesley?
Shawn
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March 28, 2010 12:15 p.m. Lesley SuperDork
I wish. I learned the basics in my early thirties - brakes, shocks, tuneups that kind of thing. Graduated to wheel bearings and that kind of stuff, but to be honest, I have great mechanic and I'd rather pay him to do it than have me berkley it up.
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March 28, 2010 1:01 p.m. shadetree30 New Reader
sachilles wrote:
I do think they should make basic auto shop a compulsory class across the country.
Agreed. Take it one step further, basic auto survival skills should be part of drivers' ed*, and that part (not the driving part) should be peer-taught, by the seniors in the regular AVTS curriculum with adult instructor supervision...
*which unfortunately is being axed from many schools' budgets. Imagine, so much of the economy is automotive/transportation related and this isn't deemed worth teaching.
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March 28, 2010 5:33 p.m. Lesley SuperDork
Accident avoidance and car control should also be compulsory, long before new drivers are turned loose upon the roadways.
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March 28, 2010 7:08 p.m. Knurled New Reader
GlennS wrote:
A friend of mine warned some idiot with a blow torch that cutting through a shock absorber was a bad idea and after being ignored he offered one final suggestion. He said "at least cut the other side of the shock so that the hole you put in it wont be pointed at you." The idiot thought that was a good idea so he only lit the wall across the room on fire and not himself and the 10 people huddled around him.
Dude. Duuuuuuuuuude.
I need to find a shock absorber...
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March 28, 2010 9:21 p.m. Appleseed Dork
chaparral wrote:
Uh, use a window removal tool? Gotta be faster than cleaning up the glass and the channels after you break it.
If you haven't smash a window or two, you have no idea what you've missed.
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March 28, 2010 9:22 p.m. Appleseed Dork
Trans_Maro wrote:
When I was fixing airplanes, one of the bush airlines we dealt with had a girl there who was a damn good mechanic. She had a Mustang (car) that she had restored as well.
And you didn't marry her? Fool!
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March 28, 2010 9:29 p.m. RossD Dork
Didn't Maggie on "Northern Exposure" fit that description?
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March 28, 2010 10:13 p.m. Trans_Maro Dork
Nope, already had Mrs 'Maro on board.
What's "Northern Exposure"?
Shawn
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March 28, 2010 10:38 p.m. Appleseed Dork
It was a show about a moose, or something.
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March 29, 2010 7:12 a.m. chaparral Reader
In reply to Appleseed:
I have. I'm still removing little pieces of glass a year later. This is in a car with no interior left at all (LeMons). I'll take the knife on a string.
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March 29, 2010 8:02 a.m. JoeyM Reader
Trans_Maro wrote: What's "Northern Exposure"?
Northern Exposure was a fish-out-of-water comedy about "the cultural clash between a transplanted New York doctor and the townspeople of fictional Cicely, Alaska"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Exposure
The character Maggie was a fiercely independent bush pilot. She was played by actress Janine Turner.
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March 29, 2010 9:15 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
Lesley wrote:
Farking bastidges wouldn't let me take shop, it was enforced home ec for a year until I was able to escape its clutches.
Hey, I took homec, actually it was a BOCES class called restaraunt something. I was the only guy in the class with a bunch of low self-esteem hormonal girls. I don't remember passing.
Teach the chilluns how to properly remove the windshield on one swell foop, sell it on ebay and buy the class pizza.
They learn two things that day.
Dan
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March 29, 2010 2:54 p.m. Jake HalfDork
Northern Exposure was a funny show. Wife and I got caught up in it a year or two back when A&E was rerunning it at 3AM or somesuch. Tivo decided we'd like it, so we tried it, it was good.
I WISH my high school had had a shop class. You had to go off to the vocational school to take any of that, and I don't even know if that was something that could be done by kids that weren't on the "remedial track."
Youth wasted on the young, etc.- if I could go back, high school would be way different.
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March 29, 2010 2:57 p.m. BoxheadTim Dork
Jake wrote:
Youth wasted on the young, etc.- if I could go back, high school would be way different.
Oh yes. Although I seriously doubt my grades would be any better.
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March 29, 2010 3:11 p.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
Who uses a tire iron to remove a window? You wrap a chain around your hand and smash it right thru. Its dramatic and impresses the hell out of the other 14yr olds in the shop not man enough to try it. Later you impress them more by having cigarette races on your forearm.
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March 29, 2010 3:16 p.m. John Brown SuperDork
BoxheadTim wrote:
Jake wrote:
Youth wasted on the young, etc.- if I could go back, high school would be way different.
Oh yes. Although I seriously doubt my grades would be any better.
But oh man the chicks would line right the hell up!
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March 29, 2010 3:28 p.m. BoxheadTim Dork
John Brown wrote:
BoxheadTim wrote:
Jake wrote:
Youth wasted on the young, etc.- if I could go back, high school would be way different.
Oh yes. Although I seriously doubt my grades would be any better.
But oh man the chicks would line right the hell up!
Great minds think alike...
