Comments on: This Was Just Wrong

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:10:10 +0000

Of course you go to the hardware store, Whig. If you don’t you will be plagued by Home Depots and Lowes being built in your neighborhood. You would be required to buy tools from people who think you only need a single type of nail set, or don’t know the difference between a try square and a T-square. In no time you would be putting up bookcases that weren’t plumb or level.

Actually, Hipparchia, the roofer’s hatchet [needed for installing shake shingle roofs] would be more impressive, but it is a hatchet and the police would probably taser you over than one.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:37:41 +0000

yeah, like everybody’s got a pterodactyl [f]lying around the house. i do like the look, though.

By: whig

whig — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:23:03 +0000

Like, what if all she had was the claw hammer? Should she go to the hardware store?

By: whig

whig — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:22:15 +0000

I always figure whatever tool gets the job done is the right one, and this seems just fine.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:17:46 +0000

Claw hammers are the most abused tool in the box. They are a specialty tool and using them on anything except nails or wood requires face resurfacing and not many people know how to do that properly, ending up with a face that slips.

If you you want visual presentation you might go to a brick hammer, but not a claw hammer. It’s totally inappropriate.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:32:55 +0000

no, no, no. mona was right to use the claw hammer. it’s a more impressive hammer visually, and visual impact, as well as physical impact, counts in the selection of the proper tool for this job.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:23:34 +0000

When all you’ve got is a Plumb model 11406 claw hammer, all of your problems begin to look a lot like computer keyboards, monitors and telephones.

(Thanks to the song link from that post, now I have PP&M’s famous rendition of Pete Seeger’s famous tune as an earworm. That’s going to be difficult to shake!)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:15:36 +0000

But I have confidence that you would have used the proper tool for the job.

I would have asked for a jury trial. How likely is it that you can find six people in a jury pool that don’t have a complaint about the cable company?

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:43:24 +0000

Y’know, a $345 fine plus three months probation is a small price to pay for that sort of satisfaction. Alas, I think you have to be a 75 year old woman to get that kind of treatment. Someone younger would have ended up tasered to a fare-thee-well and spent a couple of weeks in jail. So I’ll just resist the urge to take a hammer to the local Comcast office… the local jail simply doesn’t have the proper facilities to keep a penguin properly refrigerated, y’know?